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India scraps major Eurocopter deal |
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Eurocopter is the world's largest maker of helicopters. The Indian Army throws into doubt a USD 600m deal for 197 helicopters with Eurocopter, after complaints about the bidding process. After ending exclusive negotiations with Eurocopter, a subsidiary of EADS, Indian officials said they would issue a new tender and the contract is to be opened to other bidders.
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Shedding Skin
Gen Mush casts off his ‘second skin’ and its consequence on India |
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| By Kriti Singh Kataria and Priyanka Charan |
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Finally the general kept his word. Pakistan's beleaguered chief General Pervez Musharraf at last cast off his "second skin" and stepped down from Pakistan Army’s top position.
After reigning as the supreme commander of the Pakistan armed forces for nine long years since 1999, General Pervez Musharraf passed over the baton to the new Chief of Army Staff, Gen Ashfaq Kiyani. |
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Comments over Md. Afzal's death sentence |
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DefenceIndia spoke to former soldiers on press reports, on the matter of a certain section of the press/political parties and organizations demanding Mohammad Afzal's death sentence be reduced to life imprisonment. |
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Corruption in the forces |
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Recent News in the week gone by, have been filled with stories on the, ‘Navy War Room Leak’, and ‘A Court-martial over DAL controversy’.
DefenceIndia queried a few ex-soldiers and took their views. Here is what they said: |
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'Reminescences - 1965' |
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| 'The Indo-Pak 1965 WAR |
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Air Cmde Raghubir Singh (Retd), On Phone from Pune': Definitely we were caught unawares & got bombed throughout the night on 06 Sep 65 at a forward AF base in the Western sector. The 1965 war was baptism by fire for most of us & looked great. It was all together a new experience & good that it happened. Inspite of an initial setback of losing old Vampires in ground support ops - the IAF proved a winner eventually. However we must keep our powder dry & remain fully prepared. Future wars would be technology dominated -where a missile fired from much beyond visual range could destroy an intruding aircraft or sink a ship. It would be imperative to have modern aircraft & states of the missiles instead of keep on extending the fatigue life of already fatigued MiG's? |
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Read more what the ex-soldiers have to say on the present state of affairs: |
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