Air Commodore KB Menon

The collateral damage in the drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan are a constant reminder that the use of precision air-to-ground weapons is still beset...

Reports of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) being used for private and commercial use are a regular feature in the media. Does it mean that there...

Indian military aviation went through its first phase of modernisation during the mid sixties and the second phase was in the late seventies to early...

Inter-service rivalry is as old as the services themselves. Competition amongst the services and within the individual service is a good thing if it develops...

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is not new and dates back to World War II, when the Germans used a remotely controlled 2300-lb...

The Helicopter in Battle The two widely disparate views cited above on the utility of the helicopter have influenced the use of this versatile platform...

An ambitious project like the LCA is fraught with risks, more so when the design and development teams are venturing into uncharted waters driven by...

Cannons once again found their way into the design of fighter planes. The problem with cannons is that they had to be fired at aerial...

On September 29, 2011, China launched the Tiangong-1 unmanned module from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in North-West China. The unmanned module was launched by...