According to Shiv Aroor

It has been confirmed that the US-chartered An-124 which was intercepted and grounded in Mumbai last night has on board the following items: Two Stryker armoured combat vehicles, an uncomfirmed number of BGM-71 TOW anti-tank munitions, M242 gun ammunition, a consignment of explosive reactive armour tiles for US armoured vehicles and a large consignment of helicopter/aircraft spares, ancillaries and aggregates.

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2009/06/flash.html

In the civillian space, Tata motors was not able to compete with Korean and Japanese assembly units in India. It’s own Tata Indica was an Italian licence design, complete with a foreign engine. It had to innovate with the Nano.

All of Tatas early models were Mecedez rip offs.

Bajaj Tempos Trax was a G class rip off 🙂

Indica actually had an Indian engine. It was designed with the help of an Italian firm.

Also what does ‘Precise bombs’ mean Laser guided bombs ? 😐 its a pity the thing is still testing dumb bombs and all that instead of radar guided missiles.

The only thing that makes apple good is the ‘exclusivity’ factor. This is why Apple cannot afford to lower prices of their products, when everyone has an i phone its not a style statement anymore !

Ok what I believe in 2025

MMRCA – 160+ 50-60 to be delivered (follow own orders)

MKI – 225+

LCA – 150-200

PAK FA- 50+ (deliveries ongoing)

Mig 29/M2K – 90+

JAG – 80+

The worst dogfights I have seen are in Battlefield 2 :|. The J 10 is almost invulnerable in that.

🙂

Abhimanyu.. IAF is CONTEMPLATING enhancing the 126 MMRCA to 189.. 😀

I won’t be surprised if about 200-300 would be inducted eventually. This is why I believe we would go for the cheaper options (F 16 IN, Gripen NG Super Hornet) and not Rafale or EF.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200906121312.htm

India-Britain naval games in the Atlantic Ocean from June 20

New Delhi (PTI): A task group of the Navy will hold the Konkan naval war games with the Royal Navy off Portsmouth in southern Britain next week.

The Navy task group, led by the Guided Missile Destroyer INS Delhi and comprising stealth Frigates INS Beas and INS Brahmaputra, and the tanker INS Aditya, will reach Portsmouth on June 17, Navy officers said here on Friday.

Konkan, an annual exercise, will take place from June 20 to 25 and will focus on anti-submarine warfare manoeuvres, apart from anti-air and anti-surface skills including specialist boarding operations, officers said.

Since 2004, four such Konkan Indo-British exercises have been held and this will be the first in the series to be conducted in UK waters.

The Royal Navy contingent, commanded by Commodore Simon Ancona, would include frigates HMS Westminster and HMS Lancaster, the nuclear powered submarine HMS Trafalgar, the auxiliaries RFA Mounts Bay and RFA Fort Rosalie and an RAF Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft.

A team of Indian Navy divers will also be conducting Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) training with the Plymouth-based Southern Diving Group.

The task group, under the command of Western Fleet Flag Officer Commanding Rear Admiral Surinder Pal Singh, is currently on a four-month long deployment in the Arabian Sea, Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean since April and will return to India only in the first week of August.