L&T Signs Contract for High Power Radars

The Ministry of Defence, Government of India, has awarded a major contract to Larsen & Toubro (L&T), for the supply of High Power Radars (HPR) to the Indian Air Force (IAF).

HPR is a static sensor for long range aerial surveillance with higher uptime. Equipped with multiple Next- Gen features and capable of remote operations, they will augment IAF’s capabilities for monitoring special zones of interest, designating and tracking adversaries with optimal accuracy. The project is turnkey in nature and is to be executed across multiple locations.

Balakot Strike – Was Mirage 2000 the best option?

On February 26, India celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Balakot Air Strike where Indian Air Force (IAF) Mirage 2000 destroyed a major terrorist training centre of Jaish-e-Mohammed(JeM) at Balakot in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province some 50 km from the line of control(LoC) and 80 km from the Uri town in Jammu and Kashmir. The strike was carried out by the French-made multi-role fighter jet using five SPICE 2000, a 900 kg/2000 lbs, Israeli precision guided bomb.