Monthly Archives: November 2017

Litigating Tejas LCA’s quality & utility

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

(Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa in the Tejas) No pilot who has actually flown the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft has had anything but the highest praise for the fighter plane. This includes two recent … Continue reading →

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Spiking Spike is good, now start incentivising DRDO & making it accountable

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

(Firing Spike) On the eve of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Israel a column of mine published July 1, 2017 in BloomberyQuint and posted on this blog (https://bharatkarnad.com/2017/07/01/modi-in-israel-need-for-more-equitable-defence-collaboration/ ) had argued for a more fair and equitable arrangement with Israel … Continue reading →

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Defence Manufacturing — Dawn of a New Era?

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

Panel discussion on the subject with Air Marshal NV Tyagi, former Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Behera of IDSA and self, broadcast on Thursday, Nov 16

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Strategic Importance of the Quadrilateral

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Bharat Karnad
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Stop the vilification campaign against Tejas

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

(Tejas LCAs lined up on tarmac) A planned vilification campaign is now underway against the indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft programme. It has been initiated in newspapers and internet sites. Next one can see television — with TV channel reporters … Continue reading →

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Ballsy Kim & his doings

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

(Aegis CS firing a missile from a US warship) Just been told (by a source) that North Korea has hacked into and made vulnerable the “open architecture” of the Aegis combat system (Baseline 7, Phase 1) equipping the three ‘Sejong … Continue reading →

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