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Comments: I believe cooperation between India & UAE can be mutually beneficial in the space sector. India may be able to provide UAE what it needs to quickly acquire & set up a domestic launch industry (note, quickly is in rocket science terms) by making UAE a partner in the SSLV program. The...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) could use low-cost launch vehicles developed by the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) for lifting off small satellites from within the country. In an exclusive conversation with indiatoday.in, Sarah Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Technology...

@Gautam is saying that these 3 vents/slits on the airframe are part of an effusive cooling system. They collect cool air from above the body and mix it with the exhaust plume of the engine, reducing the IR signature. Lot of people on other forums are wondering why there needs to be a...

More images from the exercise:

Pics via their IAF's twitter: Pics from our IAF's twitter:

To gather airspeed data. It's best to get the process of determining where each sensor & fitment goes done with at the earliest. Because sooner or later this same prototype will conduct flight tests as well. SWiFT in of itself will likely never see operational service. It's too small to...

Snaps: Must say...they really nailed the airframe shape. All that investment into RCS test facilities is paying off.

All three Services from the Indian & UK Armed Forces are exercising simultaneously during Konkan Shakti 21, the most ambitious exercise conducted by the two countries to date. Indian MoD press release The maiden India – UK Joint Tri-Service exercise Ex KONKAN SHAKTI is scheduled in India...

The IAC-1 is heading out to sea again! Last month, the ship conducted its first set of sea trials lasting 5 days at sea, it returned & spent about a month at port, going over any observations & unexpected results from that first voyage, fixed them, and now heading out again for the 2nd set of...

The airframe is sub-scale but the landing gear doesn't seem to be. These tests are purely to validate the airframe shape & control surfaces so it probably doesn't matter.

The MANIK turbofan engine developed by GTRE. The 400kgf (~4 kN) turbofan is meant to power long-range subsonic cruise missiles and was recently test-flown for the first time on a ITCM (version of Nirbhay with indigenous engine) LACM.

Now scheduled for October 27-28

I can only speculate as to the US perspective in this, the others will work with it if they see common cause: Keep strategic Chinese investments & facilities out of Israel & UAE/GCC (like the terminal at Port of Haifa owned by CCP that's causing heartburn in DC) Keep China from supplanting the...

Hi, can anyone tell me about the status of Indonesia's submarine acquisition program? A while ago I heard that Indonesia was looking to acquire 4 Scorpene-class boats (alongside Rafale aircraft), what is the status of this deal?

Not really - all you need to understand the characteristics of stealth aircraft is a good RCS test facility, both of an indoor variety where you can place both sub-scale as well as full-scale aircraft model inside an anechoic chamber to study the return from all angles & measuring how well the...

The "Anti-Stealth" part. Radars are not pro-stealth or anti-stealth. The particular frequency & wavelength of a radar depends on distance/range that its required to scan. If you wish for a long-range radar, you will automatically have to go with a low-frequency, long-wavelength as...

Space is always hard. But try, try & you will succeed.

Anybody can detect stealth jets. The Chain Home radar system used in WW2 can detect stealth jets. Yugoslav systems could detect F-117. Detecting stealth aircraft is not the point. Any long-wavelength, low-frequency system can manage that. India has several radars of that sort. The current crop...

I have a good laugh whenever China claims it has defeated stealth, but then builds stealth aircraft. Claims to has defeated carriers with ASBMs, but then builds carriers.