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| Civilian aviation |
| Airlines should save themselves |
| The problems of the Indian airline industry are all their own making, the result of excess capacity and faulty business models. They don’t deserve any government support. By Shivshanker Verma |
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| Saving Air India |
| Before agreeing to a bailout, the government should insist on a complete restructuring of Air India to ensure that the airline will survive and will not seek another handout. By Vivek Sharma |
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| Military aviation & aerospace |
| Lockheed’s F-22 Raptor – a maintenance nightmare |
| Defence secretary Robert Gates may be on firm ground seeking to scrap the controversial F-22 Raptor programme with the aircraft requiring more than 30 hours of maintenance for every hour that it spends in the skies, easily outstripping the cost of keeping other fighters in the skies. |
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| Ballistic missile defence |
| Seeking scandals – on the sly |
| Reports casting doubts over the validity of defence deals struck in the near past by the UPA government may only be the first shots fired in the gradually heating atmosphere of parliamentary elections, writes Rajiv Singh. |
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| Aerospace |
| US export curbs driving away business |
| Extensive and irritating export regulations are pushing the US space and defence-related industries to the wall in a time of recession. When will the Americans learn, asks Radhakrishna Rao |
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| Ballistic missile defence |
| AeroIndia 2009: DRDO has developed extreme technologies, says Dr Prahalad |
| In a wide ranging,comprehensive interview on DRDO's capabilties and development programme, Dr Prahalad, chief controller R&D (SI), points out that the gap between users needs and DRDO's capabilities is reducing. The organisation is now fully capable of working out a road map with the army, navy and air force to develop weapon systems needed over the next 5-7 years. View video |
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| Military aviation & aerospace |
| Chinese threat to Indian space assets |
| Chinese attempts to militarize space are being taken note of by an alarmed Indian defence establishment. By Radhakrishna Rao |
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| Space & technology |
| The great junkyard in outer space |
| If we don't take steps to clean up space debris now, the consequences could be disastrous, says Radhakrishna Rao |
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