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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.

The full spectrum of anti-satellite capabilities are likely to be developed. That includes direct-ascent (already tested) & co-orbital weapons. All in due time.

"Turkish president Erdogan’s overweening ambitions, alienation of Israel and moderate Arabs, growing conflict with Greece and alignment with Pakistan presents India with opportunity to widen outreach to west of the Subcontinent."...

Replying here with regard to something I referenced in the QUAD thread, specifically: "...Any further tests that seek to validate new technologies (such as a Multi-Kill Vehicle rumored to be in development by DRDO) can be done so using Point-In-Space testing..." The original post is available...