London: The UK-based defence major BAE Systems is considering lowering the price of its Eurofighter Typhoon to win back the $ 11 billion Indian contract for 126 combat jets from France's Dassault Rafale. Quoting BAE's Chief Executive Ian King, the Daily Telegraph said the company was considering a range of options to secure the deal to supply the fighter jets, which could prevent a major industrial setback for Britain. BAE...
02:22 AM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Days after four-nation European consortium EADS including UK lost the bid for 126 fighter deal with India, Britain on Monday took up the matter with authorities in New Delhi insisting that its combat aircraft Eurofighter was better than the selected one - Rafale. UK's Minister for International Security Strategy Gerald Howarth took up the issue of India's decision to select the French Rafale aircraft during delegation-level meeting with...
12:15 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Pune: The flight data recorder (FDR), commonly known as blackbox, of the Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft which crashed in Pune earlier this week, has been retrieved. "The FDR of the aircraft has been retrieved and the data is being analysed," an Indian Air Force (IAF) spokesman from the Lohegaon base said on Friday. The Lohegaon air base, which is home to the squadrons of the Russian made aircraft will continue...
06:27 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Mau: A single-seater Jaguar fighter aircraft crashed on Thursday afternoon, killing its pilot and a girl working in an agricultural field, the second IAF plane to meet with an accident this week. The deep penetration strike aircraft, which had taken off from Gorakhpur airbase at 12:10 pm, crashed in the field in Dilahi Firozpur village, about 50 kms from the district headquarters, DIG Azamgarh L Ravi Kumar said. It burst...
03:41 PM, Aug 04, 2011
New Delhi: New Delhi seems to be bending backwards to explain why two iconic US Fighter aircraft have been left out of the Multi-Role Combat Aircraft Competition to supply fighter jets to India. However, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to push for the fifth generation F-35 on her visit to India. There could be some American sour grapes over the elimination of two iconic American fighter aircraft...
07:56 AM, Jul 19, 2011
Indian version is a variant of the just rolled out P-8A Poseidon. ...
02:20 PM, Jul 31, 2009
Indian version is a variant of the just rolled out P-8A Poseidon. ...
01:59 PM, Jul 31, 2009
This was Bindra's maiden one hour sortie in a fighter aircraft. ...
10:43 PM, Feb 12, 2009
The F-16 is one of the most powerful symbols of American military might. ...
09:27 PM, Feb 10, 2009
Johannesburg: South Africa skipper Johan Botha conceded that the one-off Twenty20 match against India was evenly poised before rain stopped play, helping the hosts to emerge as winners by 11 runs via the Duckworth-Lewis method at the Wanderers on Friday. Chasing 220 to win, openers Gautam Gambhir (49) and Robin Uthappa (18) gave India a blistering start, putting on 71 in just 7.5 overs when the heavens opened up. After...
12:06 AM, May 08, 2008
New Delhi: At a time when a majority of the sports fraternity is gunning for Virender Sehwag's head, his Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Delhi Daredevils has come out in support of him. Speaking at the launch of Daredevils 'Superfans' here, the team's mentor TA Sekar said: Everybody goes through a bad patch, he will come back to India and score. He is a seasoned campaigner and I am sure...
03:57 PM, Apr 28, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan's allrounder Sohail Tanvir said that the Bangladesh Premier League is not in the same class as the Indian Premier League. Tanvir who featured for the Rajasthan Royals in the inaugural edition of the IPL, said while he was enjoying playing in the first BPL, the two could not be compared. I don't think one can compare the two right now. The IPL was held on a much bigger...
09:54 AM, Apr 24, 2008
Visakhapatnam: Virat Kohli hit an excellent 118 off 121 balls while Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh contributed with solid fifties as India successfully chased down a target of 290 to take a 1-0 lead in three match ODI series at the floodlit Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy ADA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, here on Wednesday. Chasing a stiff target of 290, India got off to a disastrous start by losing debutant Shikhar...
08:27 PM, Oct 25, 2007
Sukhoi 30 MKI is a multi-role air dominance fighter, a generation ahead of others. ...
11:44 AM, Sep 30, 2007
The deal for all the Sukhois will be signed with Russia and is likely to come through by March 2007. ...
01:09 PM, Feb 08, 2007
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