Lca – Tejas to be part of ‘Vayu-Shakti’ event in February next year

India’s Home Grown Fighter aircraft Tejas will be part of Indian air force’s  ’Vayu-Shakti’ Fire Power Demonstration .  ’Vayu Shakti’ will be unleashed at the Pokhran firing ranges (Jaisalmer district) in the deserts of Rajasthan in the third week of February next year.

Air Marshal Anjan Kumar Gogoi told media in recently held  press conference that “Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas will display its capabilities for the first time in Pokhran firing ranges” . About 100 planes of different variety like the Sukhoi 30s, Mirage 2000, Jaguars, MIG 21, attack helicopters, transport aircrafts including AN-32 and IL-78 MKI will display their full power.

Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) will be used to monitor the mammoth exercise, while an unmanned aerial vehicle will stream live video images of the target destruction.

According to sources close to idrw.org , Tejas also successfully completed 2000 Accident free Test flights recently and is inching to getting IOC-2 which will be done by end of 2012 .

Participation of Tejas in  ’Vayu-Shakti’ shows the level of confidence Which Tejas aircraft has earned in Indian air force to be part of largest Fire Power Demonstration to be conducted by Indian air force .

SOURCE: IDRW NEWS NETWORK

India to launch two foreign satellites mid September

he Indian space agency is gearing up for the launch of two foreign satellites next month, said a top official on Wednesday.

“The PSLV-C21 (the polar satellite launch vehicle) will launch a remote-sensing satellite from France and a small Japanese satellite as co-passenger during the second week of September,” K Radhakrishnan, chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told reporters in Chennai.

The 800-kg French satellite is called SPOT-6 and is built by Astrium SAS. The Japanese satellite Protiers weighs 15 kg.

nterestingly, the PSLV rocket will be carrying the heaviest foreign satellite (SPOT-6) for a fee after the 350-kg Italian satellite Agile.

As the total luggage will be around 815 kg, ISRO will be using its Core Alone variant of PSLV (rocket without its six strap on motors).

The mission will take ISRO’s total tally of ferrying foreign satellites to 29.

Source:IANS

INS Arihant India’s first nuclear submarine set for Sea trials

India on Tuesday said its first home-built nuclear submarine was set for sea trials, as it detailed billion-dollar projects to arm its navy with warships, aircraft and modern weaponry.

The indigenous 6,000-ton INS Arihant (Destroyer of Enemies) was unveiled in 2009 as part of a project to construct five such vessels which would be armed with nuclear-tipped missiles and torpedoes.

“Arihant is steadily progressing towards operationalisation, and we hope to commence sea trials in the coming months,” Indian navy chief Admiral Nirmal Verma told reporters.

“Our maritime and nuclear doctrine will then be aligned to ensure that our nuclear insurance comes from the sea,” Verma said,

Arihant is powered by an 85-megawatt nuclear reactor and can reach 44 kilometres an hour (24 knots), according to defence officials. It will carry a 95-member crew.

The Indian navy inducted a Russian-leased nuclear submarine into service in April this year, joining China, France, the United States, Britain and Russia in the elite club of countries with nuclear-powered vessels.

Verma said 43 warships were currently under construction at local shipyards while the first of six Franco-Spanish Scorpene submarines under contract would join the Indian navy in 2015 and the sixth by 2018.

The admiral said the navy was also poised to induct eight Boeing long-range maritime reconnaissance P-8I aircraft next year.

Source:AFP