New Delhi: Concerned over recurring problems in MiG-27 combat aircraft engines, Indian Air Force is planning to phase out these Russian-origin planes by 2017. IAF operates about 80 (four squadrons) of these aircraft in its fleet and due to the recurring problems in their engines, it had to ground all of them after a crash about two years ago.
"We are planning to phase out the MiG-27s, of which around 80 are still in service, by the year 2017," senior IAF officials said. IAF has deployed two squadrons each of the aircraft in Jodhpur in Rajasthan and Kalaikunda in West Bengal at present.
About two years, a study was conducted to check the problems in the engines of the aircraft and it was found that the R-29s engines have developed some defect which was very difficult to be corrected, they said....
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04:02 AM, Oct 03, 2012
Exactly on April 3, 28 years back, IAF Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma strapped himself inside a Soyuz T-11 mission capsule. As the rocket, essentially a gigantic intercontinental ballistic missile, carrying the 6850-kg spacecraft, blasted off from its launch pad in Baikonur in Kazakhstan, Sharma became the first Indian cosmonaut, the first Indian in space. Born on January 13, 1949, in Patiala, Punjab, to Hindu Gaur parents, Sharma joined the Indian...
12:22 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Bangalore: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Chief Test Pilot and Director (Corporate Planning and Marketing) Squadron Leader (Rtd) Baldev Singh was found dead in Bangalore on Tuesday. His was body found at tourist spot Nandi Hills at 11 am. The reasons behind his death are still not known, but police said Singh has allegedly committed suicide. Sqn Ldr (Retd) Baldev Singh, Director (Corporate Planning & Marketing) of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, hanged...
03:46 PM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: The Defence Ministry has given approval for disinvestment of 10 per cent of its stake in the country's only aerospace company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the next five years. In a Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) meeting held last week, the Ministry gave "in-principle" nod to allow 10 per cent disinvestment in the aerospace PSU which will help in modernising HAL and reducing the burden on the government in...
06:55 PM, Sep 12, 2011
Bangalore: This is the light combat helicopter, India's first indigenously made attack gunship. This Aero Show is the first time it's been shown off to the world media. It's a rare machine, one that can fly and attack even at the heights of Siachen Glacier. Wing Commander Unni Pillai, Chief Test Pilot, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited said, "The need for such a craft was first felt in Kargil. None of the...
10:43 AM, Feb 13, 2011
The maiden test flight of the Light Combat Helicopter lasted for 20 minutes on Monday. ...
05:03 PM, Mar 30, 2010
The gap in providing air support to infantry troops fighting in high-altitude battlefields is now being addressed. ...
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