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If the plane is out, what would be the point in doing CGIs? We'd just get actual photos instead. :p Now is actually the best time to create CGIs like this - when there's no other way to visualize the aircraft outside of official releases. Keeping in mind that this isn't just time-pass stuff...

Kuntal Biswas has outdone himself this time:

A consortium led by India's Larsen & Toubro (L&T) together with UK company Leidos Innovations (owns Gibbs & Cox naval architecture firm) is among the 4 consortiums awarded Competitive Procurement Phase (CPP) design contracts for the Royal Navy/Fleet Auxiliary's FSS (fleet solid support) ships by...

NP1 - the first Naval prototype (twin-seater)

Apparently, Bangalore-based electro-optics maker Tonbo Imaging (which also supplies Indian forces) has exported BNVD-P PANODS to an unnamed Israeli SOF unit: "Tonbo has done thermal imaging-based upgrades for CRV (cavalry reconnaissance vehicles) in Jordan, advanced electro-optical targeting...

Successful hot Test of Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System – System Demonstration Model (SDM) On August 28, 2021, ISRO successfully conducted the first hot test of the System Demonstration Model (SDM) of the Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System for a duration of 450 s at the test...

Overview of the launch vehicles being developed by Private-sector companies: Left to Right: Agnibaan - Agnikul Cosmos, Chennai Vikram I - Skyroot Aerospace, Hyderabad Kalam - STARLab, Surat Chetak - Bellatrix Aerospace, Bangalore Phoenix - STARLab, Surat As I mentioned in my article...

New CGI by Harshal Pal - in A2A configuration with 8 x NG-CCM (ASRAAM) and 6 x Astra Mk-3 Ramjet BVRAAM

While these 16 vessels are referred to as 'craft' rather than corvettes as they are pretty small (700-900 tons), I think this is a good thread to put this in. 16 Shallow-Water Anti-Submarine Warfare Craft (SW-ASWC) vessels of 2 different designs will be built by CSL & GRSE (8 each), CSL seems...

I believe the slowdown is to facilitate a greater degree of terminal maneuvering.

Since there's no naval aviation thread I'm posting here... ...the exact moment before an NLCA touches down on the INS Vikramaditya

Felt like writing a little passage on the occasion... Today, Independent India is 75 years old. As a Union of several cultures, ethnicities & languages, our country's remarkable journey through the decades has been one of perseverance & of overcoming all odds. Building a robust State mechanism...

From the NDTV piece:

A closer look at the island: ...and the Lift(s): Some more shots via Vishnu Som's Twitter handle: By he way, the embargo on publishing of video content from the media tour conducted during the ship's first 5-day voyage will lift on August 14 - looking forward to some great onboard...

Unfortunate loss. Well, space is always hard. First failure of ISRO rocket since 2017, breaking the run of 14 consecutive successful missions. There is a GISAT-2 lined up, which I'm guessing is a repeat mission. Guess there will be another now.

Getting reports that the Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile (ITCM), derived from Nirbhay LACM has been tested today off Odisha coast. ITCM is basically Nirbhay with some modifications - biggest being the Russian NPO Saturn 36MT is replaced with indigenous Manik turbofan (previously called...

A good 1-hr primer on the ITER program:

Propellent filling has started - launch scheduled for 0543hrs IST tomorrow. If you noticed, on this mission we're flying the new larger Ogive fairing on the GSLV Mk-2. If successful, the same fairing could also be used for the upcoming Indo-US NISAR mission.

What they're not talking about is the capabilities of the IR-spectrum sensors on the satellite in particular. GISAT-1/EOS-03 will be the first of a series of imaging sats that are designed to provide a capability set along the lines of the US SBIRS system...

Agreed. There is pretty obviously some understanding in place not to exceed the 5,500-km mark for land-based missiles (which would officially make them ICBMs) so its very unlikely A6 would be advertised as anything more than a 5,000-km 'LRBM' on paper. Technology-wise its going to be an...