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Just for fun....on the lighter note...ENJOY....
That image of the F-16 crash with the pilot safely ejected actually happened at Ellington Field in Houston, TX.
I'd love to see the Indians get a plant to make the latest greatest F-16s there in India.
it would be a shot in the arm for them and the US.
Face it, the F-16, even the modernized, best ones, are now going to have to make way in the US for the F-35...but the F-16 is still a potent and capable system...far better than all of those Soviet era aircraft that the Indians need to replace.
So, instead of ultimatly losing all of the F-16 jbs, the US will continue to have to have hundreds of engineers and draftmen and project people working with India to support a HUGE building program for them.
I call that a win-win.
it would be a shot in the arm for them and the US.
Face it, the F-16, even the modernized, best ones, are now going to have to make way in the US for the F-35...but the F-16 is still a potent and capable system...far better than all of those Soviet era aircraft that the Indians need to replace.
So, instead of ultimatly losing all of the F-16 jbs, the US will continue to have to have hundreds of engineers and draftmen and project people working with India to support a HUGE building program for them.
I call that a win-win.
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Brigadier
>> Yet another failure for Indian Nirbhay Cruise Missile in recent times and its reason . . .
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Nirbhay Cruise Missile failure caused due to recycled material for critical component.
As per the statement from the chairman of DRDO, a subcontractor in the Nirbhay cruise missile program had manufactured a component using recycled material
“The fourth test of the missile took place from the Launch Complex-III of Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Balasore in Odisha and after lift-off the missile developed snags over one of its wings, started to bank on one side and veered dangerously. We had to activate the ‘self-destruct’ mechanism to kill it mid-air. On investigation, it was found out that the vendor who manufactured it used recycled material for one of the key components that operates the wings of the missile and that was the reason why it failed. The strength of the recycled material was not sufficient to operate the parameters. Though the vendor followed all specifications, the use of re-cycle material was not disclosed,” said S. Chirstopher.
The vendor is to produce a another part free of cost without any compromise on the integrity of the material before a fifth validation test of the subsonic cruise missile in Late July or Early August.
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Brigadier
>> Breaking In. . !
IAF helicopter goes missing in Arunachal Pradesh.
An Indian Air Force helicopter with three on board has gone missing near Sagalee in Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh.
The incident comes a little more than a month after an IAF Sukhoi fighter jet went missing with two crew members on board on 23 May.
The wreckage was found three days later. The Sukhoi jet had gone missing after taking off from the Tezpur Salonibari Air Force station in Assam at 10.30 am on 23 may Tuesday on a routine training sortie.
Yet they are instigating a fight in the India-China-Bhutan area.