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From Choppy to Chipper: IAF replaces Russian Mi-26 with American ChinookWith 15 on order at a cost of $ 1.1 billion, the American Chinook will replace the haloed Russian Mi-26, the last of which is currently lim...
Here is why Apache and Chinook helicopters are game changers for IndiaAfter a three-year delay, the government has finally cleared the purchase of new attack and heavy lift helicopters from the US.
Reconstruction work in Kedarnath to be completed in 2 years: Uttarakhand CM Harish RawatThe IAF's biggest load carrier Mi-26 helicopter landed at Kedarnath to give a push to restoration works at the Himalayan shrine.
Jammu and Kashmir floods: IAF contributes Rs 8.43 crore to PM's relief fundA cheque of Rs 8.43 cr was handed over by IAF Chief Arup Raha to PM Narendra Modi at the 'At Home' function on the occasion of 82nd Air For...
Vijay Bahuguna, EIPL team visits KedarnathASI and GSI experts have also been roped in to provide technical advice to the EIPL team in the rubble clearing operations to prevent furth...
IAF choppers fly 70 people to clean Kedarnath temple premisesThe IAF today flew 70 civil administration personnel to the Kedarnath temple premises to clean the surroundings there after the area was ra...
Uttarakhand: It's a race against time as weather, hunger threaten thousands of livesTo ensure quick rescue armed forces too have conducted some daring operations with IAF's MI-26 choppers lifting entire fuel tankers to resc...
IAF deploys 13 more aircraft for Uttarakhand rescue opsThe Defence Ministry today stepped up its efforts in the relief and rescue operations in flood-hit Uttarakhand where it deployed over 40 ai...
- US defence major Boeing wins IAF heavy-lift chopper deal
US defence major Boeing has won the deal to supply 15 heavy-lift helicopters to the Indian Air Force defeating its rival Russian Mi-26 in t...
- US pips Russia as 'lowest bidder' for heavy-lift 15-chopper deal
The US is now all set to bag yet another mega Indian defence deal, with the iconic Boeing-manufactured Chinook heavy-lift helicopters.
India gears up to order 22 Apache helicopters for $1.4 bnIndia is getting ready to order 22 heavy-duty Apache helicopters for around $1.4 billion, in what will be yet another big defence deal to b...
- Pak Talibanization threatens Wagah, says IAF chief
The threat of Talibanlization of Pakistan could even reach the Wagah border if the situation in both Afghanistan and Pakistan worsens, Brow...
- India set to order 59 more Russian Mi-17-V5 helicopters
After some setbacks, the armed forces are again pressing the throttle to achieve their aim of inducting around 900 helicopters in the comin...
- IAF to induct first batch of Russian choppers by mid-October
India had in 2008 signed a deal with Russia to induct 80 Mi-17 V5 helicopters for strengthening its chopper fleet for relief ops.
- Arunachal CM missing: Third day passes no trace Dorjee Khandu's missing 'copter
There was no trace of the missing chopper carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others for the third day today.
- Now, race begins for IAF's 22-copter deal
Even as the six foreign contenders in the race to bag the lucrative $10.4 billion project to supply 126 multi-role combat aircraft to IAF j...
- No slowdown in India's arms business
There is simply no business like the arms business, murky and timeconsuming it might be. India says the global economic meltdown will not a...