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Indian Sukhoi-30 shoots down Pakistani drone in Bikaner sector
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Mar 4 (ANI) Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft on Monday shot down Pakistani drone opposite the Bikaner-Nal sector in Rajasthan using its air-to-air missile.
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Indigenous LCA Tejas better than Pak-Chinese joint venture JF-17 fighter j
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Feb 23 (ANI): Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said the indigenous LCA Tejas combat aircraft was better than the Chinese-Pakistani joint venture JF-17 Thunder in terms of performance and far more superior than the MiG-21 planes that it is going to replace in the A
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PV Sindhu flies Tejas at Bengaluru Air Show
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Feb 23 (ANI): Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu took a flight in HAL’s indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas at the Bengaluru Air Show on Saturday.
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LAC Tejas is now combat ready
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Feb 20 (ANI): After over three and a half decades, the Indian Air Force on Wednesday finally agreed that the indigenously developed and built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas was combat ready, and received the ‘release to service document’ certificate.
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CAG report says NDA deal cheaper by 2.86 per cent from UPA deal
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Feb 13 (ANI) The deal for 36 Rafale combat aircraft reached by the Narendra Modi government with French company Dassault Aviation is 2.86 per cent cheaper than the 126 Rafale deal which was being negotiated by the UPA government in 2007, the CAG said in a much-awaited r
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CAG relief to govt, Report says 17.08% of money saved on India-specific en
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi, Feb 13 (ANI) In a major relief to the Modi government which has been under sustained Congress attack, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on Wednesday said the country had managed to save 17.08 per cent of money in the India-specific enhancements in deal for 36 Rafale fig
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HAL’s 83 LCA Tejas proposal non-compliant with tender requirements, IAF to
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 28 (ANI): In the already long-delayed Light Combat Aircraft Tejas fighter programme, the HAL proposal for supplying 83 jets to the Air Force has been repeatedly found non-compliant with its requirements and the matter would now be taken to the Defence Ministry for deci
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Opposition parties trying to sabotage Rafale deal, says Nirmala Sitharaman
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 19 (ANI): Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday attacked the opposition parties for allegedly trying to sabotage the high profile Rafale combat aircraft deal questioning whether these parties were becoming pawns in the hands of international corporate riva
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IAF planning to order 8 new Su-30MKI combat aircraft from HAL
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 19 (ANI): Seeking to make up for the losses in different crashes, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is planning to place an order for eight new Su-30MKI combat aircraft from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), likely to be worth over Rs 3,000 crore.
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Rafale's range is 2.5 times more than a Sukhoi: Top IAF sources
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 17 (ANI): At a time when critics are questioning the operational capabilities of the Rafale combat aircraft, top IAF sources said the range of the French-origin aircraft is 2.5 times more than that of the Russian Sukhoi-30.
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Biofuel powered An-32, home grown platforms to be IAF main attractions at
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 16 (ANI): The home grown Light Combat aircraft Tejas and the Akash air defence missile system would be the main attraction of the Indian Air Force (IAF) tableaux at the Republic Day parade along with the 'Sutlej' An-32 aircraft which will for the first time take part i
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Indian Air Force to deploy Rafale jets in Ambala, Hashimara
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 04 (ANI): With a view to positioning its most modern fighter jets on both the fronts, the Indian Air Force (IAF) will deploy one each squadron of the Rafale combat aircraft at its airbases in Ambala in Haryana and Hashimara in West Bengal.
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