Defense News: India to Build Export T-50 Stealth Fighter by 2020
India will begin production of an export variant of Russian plane-maker Sukhoi’s T-50 stealth fighter from 2020, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday during a visit to Delhi. “The technical characteristics have been confirmed to our (Russia and India) defense ministries. We propose serial production of the plane should start by 2020,” he said, following the meeting of an Indian-Russian intergovernmental commission. T-50 is a prototype of a multirole stealth fighter jet currently undergoing flight testing by the R…
BrahMos Mini has planned for Indian Navy and Indian Air Force
A new, lighter version of the Indian supersonic cruise missile BrahMos called BrahMos-M (Mini) weighing around 1.5 tonnes is being planned for Indian Navy and Indian Air Force. “BrahMos Aerospace is currently getting the user requirements to finalise the configuration,” said Sudhir Mishra, CEO and MD of BrahMos Corporation (BA). Once inducted Navy, the Mini can be launched from submarine's torpedo tubes as well. For the Air Force a mini version means a Beyond Visual Range (BVR) missile, the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft…
Hypersonic missiles are the future for India and Russia
In his first interview after being appointed chief executive of BrahMos Aerospace, Sudhir Kumar Mishra talks to RIR about the joint development of hypersonic missiles and export potential of BrahMos systems. BrahMos Aerospace has already signed an MoU with the Moscow Aviation Institute on the development of hypersonic missiles There is need to sign some more agreements between India and Russia, isn't it? Can you elaborate on this? Both India and Russia have successfully demonstrated that if they work together they can create…
"BrahMos-M" set for a debut in 2017
Russia and India are currently working on the development of a smaller version of the supersonic cruise missile "BrahMos", which could be commissioned in the Indian army by 2017, said Sivathanu Pillai, President of "BrahMos Aerospace, talking to ITAR-Tass. In order to mount the missiles on fighter jets, the weight of the warheads needed to be reduced, and the mini version called “BrahMos-M” will be suitable for the same. The new BrahMos-M will be modified to be used on IAF’s upgraded Mig-29 and Mig-29k. There are plans …
IAF decides on Sukhoi-30 for BrahMos, final tests from end-2014
The Indian Air Force has chosen its frontline Sukhoi-30 fighter jets as the platform to mount the supersonic BrahMos missiles, whose first test launch will be carried out by the end of 2014, a top official said on Thursday. "We have chosen Sukhoi-30. That is a deep penetration aircraft which is being produced at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's Nashik facility in collaboration with the Russians," BrahMos Aerospace managing director and chief executive AS Pillai told reporters here. He said an air version of t…
Indian Air Force will get BrahMos missiles in 2015
Brahmos Aerospace is on track to supply cruise missiles to the Indian Air Force by 2015, the company's managing director A S Pillai has said. The BrahMos cruise missile which is jointly designed and developed by India and Russia has been inducted in the army and navy but its variant for the air force is undergoing trials. Pillai spoke to media after receiving the first batch of 40 missile airframes from Godrej & Boyce today. The BrahMos missile's air version will be mounted on Su-30 aircraft. The air force version …
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