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Indian military the only AH-64 Apache operator now with airframes that sport two different skins?
She’s off! After 38 days grounded at Thiruvananthapuram airport with an engineering/hydraulic issue, @RoyalNavy F-35B airborne, headed to Australia next
Months after a terrific showing during Operation Sindoor, an improved version of the Akash SAM — Akash Prime tested in Ladakh today.
The fierce, polarising views on the Tejas fighter program needs what @VishnuNDTV & I brought to it on Episode 11 of the #CtrlAltDefence podcast. Listen on all 🎙️platforms or watch here: youtu.be/sJZZn8Qvd9E?si…
Wishing my pal @VishnuNDTV the best of health after this episode of #CtrlAltDefence, where he speaks some indigestible home-truths about the Tejas program. See if you agree: youtu.be/sJZZn8Qvd9E?fe…
Day 25 of the @RoyalNavy F-35 at Thiruvananthapuram. Video from its movement to a hangar on Monday.
Sub Lt Aastha Poonia will soon be the @IndianNavy’s first woman fighter pilot. She will be flying MiG-29K jets soon. Happy hunting & happy landings, Sub Lt Poonia! 🫡
Makes sense with HAL already bitten multiple times being the public face of DRDO delays. This is not news tho — they contracted the full complement of Israeli radar and EW ages ago.
😑 Over a year late, India’s Tejas Mk1A fighters will sport an Israeli radar & electronic warfare suite, reports @pradiprsagar. HAL jettisons DRDO's radar/EW citing testing/certification delays. indiatoday.in/magazine/up-fr…
😑 Over a year late, India’s Tejas Mk1A fighters will sport an Israeli radar & electronic warfare suite, reports @pradiprsagar. HAL jettisons DRDO's radar/EW citing testing/certification delays. indiatoday.in/magazine/up-fr…
Six months on ground, fix for Dhruv still elusive, reports @rahulsinghx.
British F-35 stealth fighter still stranded in Kerala for 12 days and counting, first official word from British High Commission to @dpkBopanna in this newsbreak today.
Amazing. There’s nearly ZERO mention in British media of the @RoyalNavy F-35 stranded in Kerala because the 🇬🇧@DefenceHQ has likely told UK journalists not to report on what it sees as “embarrassing”, @GuyG_Boffin tells me on my show today.
BREAKING ⚠️ Air India offers hangar space for British F-35 stealth fighter stranded at Thiruvananthapuram airport for 6 days & counting with major technical fault. Sources tell me @RoyalNavy has so far declined, contemplating offer. I report details:
Day 5 of @RoyalNavy F-35 still on ground at Thiruvananthapuram airport. My show last night: youtu.be/BQMsZdKvCME?si…
Big day: India's first indigenously designed and built anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft ARNALA will be commissioned today.
Indian @CISFHQrs personnel guarding the @RoyalNavy F-35B at Trivandrum airport. Tomorrow morning, the stealth jump-jet marks 3 days grounded. Seems to be a serious technical issue.
BREAKING ⚠️ A @RoyalNavy F-35B made an emergency landing this morning at the Thiruvananthapuram airport. The F-35 is from the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier that’s in the Arabian Sea on deployment. (Photo/@the_hindu)