BY :THE HINDU

Scientists of Indian origin at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have evinced interest in moving to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) after the Chandrayaan – 1 success, Mylswamy Annadurai, Project Director, Chandrayaan 1 & 2, said here.

“Scientists have begun to approach the ISRO. Their requests will be considered on a case to case basis in keeping with our requirements.” Read the rest of this entry »

BY:DAWN

A military transport helicopter went down on the border between Khyber and Orakzai tribal region on Friday afternoon, killing all the twenty-six security personnel on board, a government official said.

The official said the helicopter crashed due to a technical fault. Read the rest of this entry »

BY: Pakistan News Service

Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman was the chief guest at the project-launching ceremony. Start of final assembly and the FTS today would, Insha Allah, lead us to the much-awaited roll out of the first JF-17 from the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, Kamra, in October timeframe this year.

As per plan, six aircraft would roll out of the PAC by the end of 2009, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman said in an address on the occasion. He said: The JF-17 is a light combat aircraft, developed to meet the PAFs specific Read the rest of this entry »

BY :Barentsobserver

BY:ANI

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today said that modernisation of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier should be completed as soon as possible so that it can be delivered to India in 2012, as the project had become the sole irritant in Russian-Indian relations.

“This is the first, very difficult experience. The ship must be finished. Otherwise there will be serious consequences,” Medvedev said. Read the rest of this entry »

BY: cqpolitics

The Navy’s top officer said Tuesday he opposes the continued development of an alternative engine for the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet, a program at the center of a veto clash between the White House and Congress.

At issue is whether to buy only Pratt & Whitney engines for the F-35, a jet to be flown by all U.S. military services and several allies, or to continue developing and ultimately purchase an additional back-up engine made by General Electric Company and Rolls Royce. Read the rest of this entry »

BY: Army Times Publishing Company

The U.S. has released a $45.3 million sale of 171 Stinger air-to-air missiles to Taiwan. Raytheon’s Missile Systems won the contract under the Foreign Military Sales program.

The missiles will be outfitted on new AH-64D Apache attack helicopters released to Taiwan in October. Read the rest of this entry »

BY:TNN

It’s indeed rocket science. And Tessy Thomas is going great guns atunravelling all its complexities. Though women and nuclear-capable

ballistic missiles usually don’t go together, Thomas is systematically breaking all glass ceilings in the avowedly male bastion of `strategic weapons’.

Thomas has now been appointed the project director (mission) of India’s

most ambitious missile, Agni-V, with a strike range of 5,000-km, which is slated to be tested for the first time next year. Read the rest of this entry »

BY:SIFY.COM

Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley Monday categorically ruled out the existence of any anti- India insurgent group in his country ever since the Royal Bhutan Army conducted a successful operation in 2003 to flush out ultras from within its territory.

‘There are no such elements or individuals in Bhutan. We have flushed them out. Since the operation flushout was launched in 2003 there is no such single individual or element in our territory,’ Thinley, who arrived here on his four-day to India, told reporters in the evening. Read the rest of this entry »

BY: IANS

A soldier was killed while foiling an infiltration bid by a group of militants from Pakistan in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir,

army officials said Monday. Read the rest of this entry »