Igla-S is in rough waters for triservice VSHORADS procurement.
http://www.stratpost.com/russian-no-show-at-vshorad-trials

Several rounds of trials have been carried out, so far. In May 2012, trials were held at the Mahajan range, in which the Russians managed to score only a single hit out of four. Again during sea trials, the Russian system managed only a single hit out of two. Rosoboronexport was allowed to repeat the Mahajan trials in winter of 2012, in which it managed all four hits. But its sight failed during high altitude trials, following which they were asked to modify their sight’s lens, receiver metrics and software.

Having persisted in the competition, they were invited to try again this summer at the Mahajan range.

Indian evaluators asked them to demonstrate firing of their system in high temperatures at Mahajan by August 15 this year, to demonstrate the functionality of the modified sight. As it turned out, everybody except the Russians showed up.

Instead, Rosoboronexport wrote to the Indian evaluators saying that they did not feel it necessary to conduct another demonstration of their system.

Looks like Airbus has bitten the bullet and is going with Tata group to manufacture C295 for Avro replacement.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Airbus-may-partner-Tatas-for-manufacturing-defence-transport-aircraft/articleshow/44935927.cms

That service ceiling of 46000 ft is awfully low. Any reason for it?

The slides in the video were very blurry. Could be higher.

as per Ajai Shukla, due to MTCR constraints, the Russian turbojet wasn’t used but rather an indigenous turbojet was designed by GTRE, the same design house that developed the Kaveri turbofan.

link to article

Some sources claim that the engine is indeed Russian, but there is a great deal of ambiguity on this topic. Other Indian posters with more knowledge on this topic may be able to shed more light.

I talked to a reliable chai-wallah, all he mentioned was that “certain components” are “reverse engineered”.

Nirbhay was successfully tested on friday. The missile covered 1000Km+ over 14 waypoints.

As per the DRDO chief, the missile’s range is “1000-2000Km”.
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Information about A5, A6 and K5 ballistic missiles:-

Agni 5 and Agni 6(MIRV).

K-5 SLBM
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As per MoD report, the NGARM is supposed to have a range of about 100 Km and Nag has demonstrated LOBL capabilities at 7km range.

GAGAN based system will provide as low as 10 cm positional error. If properly implemented, the PGMs using GAGAN will provide devastating accuracy. Rustom-1 is being equipped with GAGAN based navigation system.
http://thumkar.blogspot.in/2014/10/drdo-developing-gagan-dgps-based.html

India may not order Spike/PARS3 for Rudra helicopters if the current HeliNa trials are successful.
http://i.imgur.com/zJQ4jsc.jpg

India’s BMD program:-
http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/sauravjha/2976/65373/some-notes-on-drdos-pdv-ballistic-missile-defence-interceptor.html

Updates on Indian Missile Programs Interview with AC, part 1 and 2:-
http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/sauravjha/2976/65363/interview-with-dr-avinash-chander-drdo-chief-and-scientific-adviser-to-defence-minister.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/sauravjha/2976/65363/interview-with-dr-avinash-chander-drdo-chief-and-scientific-adviser-to-defence-minister.html

Man portable Nag entering prototype stage.
Anti radiation missile progressing well, entering prototype stage
VLR-SAM project underway (200-250 Km range)
Indian DF-21D equivalent (probably based on Shaurya/Sagarika/K-15/B-05 platform)
A new QR-SAM (ab-initio effort, different from VL-MICA based Maitri)
Akash 2 still in works (status unclear), might feature a semi active seeker.
Barak-8/LRSAM heading for trials in September
Complete range of domestic RF missile seekers in the next 3 years or so.

In continuation to the above:
The proposed QR-SAM will have a stabilised EO tracking device in conjunction with radar guidance.
A Ka Band seeker for an unknown missile and an X-band seeker for anti shipping role is also in the works.
Astra’s Ku band seeker (indigenous) will be a scaled down version of an existing seeker (probably from the BMD program), it starts testing next year.
In a surprise move, there will be no mm wave Nag. A new mm wave PGM (?) has been tested from a UAV (Rustom 1?). This mystery PGM can be fired from UAVs, fixed wing aircraft and clustered up in a missile like Prithvi.
The seeker as on this PGM will go on the anti radiation missile NGARM.
A two tone seeker for a short range missile (Astra-SR ?) is in works.
NAG missile gets a new IIR seeker for 6-7 km range and now will remain IIR only. The fab facility for manufacturing IIR seekers is on the way.
http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/india/sauravjha/2976/65382/seeking-the-future-an-interview-with-dr-g-satheesh-reddy-director-research-centre-imarat.html