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Source:- Thanks to MTCR Membership, India can arm all its Fighters with the World’s Best Missiles Leveraging its status as a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), India is very keen on arming its Mirage 2000 aircraft with the best-in-their-class long- range meteor missiles, claims reports. After Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman chased the F-16s of Pakistan on his MiG 21 Bison, and shot one down with his R-73 and R-77 missiles, during the dogfight on 27 February soon after IAF attacked the Balakot terror camps, the necessity to equip more of our fighter jets with long-range missiles is being felt. Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi promptly went on to say, “The whole nation is feeling the need to have Rafales at the moment. Had we possessed Rafales in our inventory, the result would have been different” at an event organised soon after the unfolding of hostilities between the two countries. In a move to maintain absolute air superiority over its hostile western

GROZNY, Russia – Chechnya will repatriate all children taken to live under the Islamic State group (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, the controversial Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has confirmed. He did not however mention the fate of Chechen women who joined the group.  “We’ll solve this problem. We work every day and every hour. We won’t stop until we repatriate all those children,” Kadyrov told Rudaw in the Chechen capital Grozny. Chechnya is a federal subject of Russia. Around 400 Chechen women and girls are believed to have joined ISIS, many of them dying in fighting and in coalition airstrikes. Many of those who survived are now in prisons in Iraq and Syria.  “Some of the girls who are now in a Baghdad prison were previously incarcerated by the Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi),” Malika, whose daughter joined the group, told Rudaw in Grozny.   “The girls told us on the phone that there are seven other houses where Hashd imprisons the Chechen girls. There are lots of chil

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes and that John Simpson would heartily approve  of the election of a progressive liberal in Slovakia :

India has become the fourth country in the world after China, Russia and the United States to test an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile, sparking fears of experts that the move may lead to an arms race in the region as well as overall increased tensions in space. On Wednesday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that New Delhi had successfully tested its first indigenous ASAT missile, which had hit a defunct Indian satellite at an altitude of 300 kilometres (around 186 miles). According to Modi, the mission dubbed Shakti showed "the remarkable dexterity of India's outstanding scientists and the success of our space programme" and would make India stronger and more secure as well as "further peace and harmony." India has been developing its space program since it gained independence from the British Empire in 1947. Arms Race in Space By testing the missile, India demonstrated its technological capability of depleting the operational capabilities of Chin

The Air Force office of Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation at the Air Force Research Laboratory is working on fielding a prototype Autonomous, Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle as an Early Operational Capability as early as 2023. The program is known as Skyborg, and the SDPE office issued what is called a "Capability Request for Information" to industry March 15 to conduct market research and Concept of Operations analysis to learn what is commercially available now as high technology readiness level capabilities which can meet the requirements and timeline of the Skyborg program. Skyborg officially stood up as an FY19 funded pathfinder program through SDPE in October 2018, according to Ben Tran, Skyborg Program Manager. "There was a lot of analysis that determined what was put into the CRFI," said Tran. "We've been given the overall objective to have an early operational capability prototype fielded by the end of calendar year 2023, so this is

Seventy years after it was formed to counter the Soviet Union, Russia has returned to the top of the agenda for NATO. But the alliance faces another, more unlikely problem -- criticism from the US president. The 29-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization is celebrating its 70th anniversary with talks among foreign ministers Wednesday and Thursday in Washington, where, in a Cold War redux, the resurgent power of Russia will be the chief item. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the ministers will work "to make sure that NATO is around for the next 70 years" and take aim at Russia over its 2014 takeover of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine. Pompeo told a congressional hearing he was hopeful "we will be able to announce another series of actions that we will jointly take together to push back against what Russia is doing there in Crimea." But if countering Russia is a familiar role for NATO, its new internal dynamics are not, with President Donald Trump repea

Freya from 120 db (one of the women featured) Echo chambers don't just apply to social media - despite what you might hear on Lord Hall's mainstream media.  As the whole Trump-Russia conspiracy stuff showed, the mainstream media can be just as bad, if not worse - especially because they are meant to be professionals and have vast reserves of money to fund their 'trusted' reporting. Sometimes, however, the two echo chamber worlds meet.  Radio 4's  Feedback , for example, is increasingly the venting place for the left-liberal section of UK Twitter's collective spleen - at least as far as griping about the BBC and right-wingers, climate change deniers, social conservatives and John Humphrys (etc) goes. And poor Roger Bolton increasing sounds like a ventriloquist's dummy for such people  - though once, if you recall, he actually said on air that he smelt a campaign behind one such campaign.  This week's edition began with another coll

Dom at a different rally In the mad mood the country's in at the moment, yesterday found the BBC's Dominic Casciani, of all people, coming under sustained fire from certain (largely leftist) quarters  for calling Tommy Robinson "an anti-Islam activist" rather than "a far-right activist" or "a fascist".  The most common accusation was that by using such language the BBC was "normalising"Tommy Robinson and the far-right, with the more conspiratorial end of this Twitter faction smelling a deliberate BBC editorial decision to so do.  There are plenty of demands for an apology.  Such folly is par for the cause these days, but the idea that Dominic Casciani - Dominic Casciani!!! - was trying to do Tommy Robinson a favour and "legitimising hate speech and bigotry" is so utterly barking that every single person who made such a Twitter complaint should seriously consider moving to Barking, buying a kennel, setting up ho

Thursday night's Newsnight - the last of the week featuring Emily Maitlis - drew a sharply contrasting response from two main partisan sides on social media.  The pro-Remain side was full of praise for Emily Maitlis; the pro-Leave side full of criticism for her.  That's because she'd spent the programme being much more antagonistic towards her pro-Leave guests than towards her pro-Remain guests, with a particular mocking laugh-in-the-voice that's fast becoming a trademark of her style reserved for the kind of people BBC programmes like Newsnight appear to disapprove of. Watch that edition and see the first four-way discussion between Jacob Rees-Mogg, Tobias Ellwood, Sarah Wollaston and Stephen Kinnock. In terms of interruptions, challenges and mocking laughter, her treatment of Jacob Rees-Mogg was much more antagonistic. Indeed, it was mostly 'Get Mogg! ' from Emily.("You whipped up hatred and fear", she told him at one point). And in t

Source:- The Tejas Mark 2 fighter has been bulked up into medium fighter category The Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA), which was developed to replace the MiG-21/MiG-27 light fighters in the Indian Air Force (IAF), will not remain a light fighter much longer. Numerous additional capabilities demanded by the Indian Air Force (IAF) for the Tejas Mark 2, which is still on the drawing board, will increase the weight of the 14.5 tonne aircraft by three tonnes, into the 17.5 tonne medium fighter class. “We now call the Tejas Mark 2 a medium weight fighter, or MWF”, said a senior Tejas designer in a classified briefing in New Delhi on Friday, which Business Standard attended. Consequently, the Tejas Mark 2 is now being billed by the IAF as a replacement for the Mirage 2000 medium fighter, rather than the lightweight MiGs that are retiring soon. Changes in defence equipment specifications demanded by the buyers – the army, navy and IAF – are partly responsible for endemic delays in develo

Source:- State-run Chinese media decries West double standards on Anti-Satellite Missile Test A top state-run Chinese media outlet has decried what it called Western double standards in its reaction to India’s Anti-Satellite Missile Test vis-a-vis similar test by China in 2007. “China carried out an anti-satellite missile test in 2007, which was strongly criticized by the US and other Western countries. India conducted the same test, but instead of condemning the country, the West viewed it from the China-India competition perspective. Only a US official warned nations of space debris caused by the test, without any moral accusations,” state-run Global Times wrote in an editorial titled ‘Anti-satellite test shouldn’t stir India’s nationalism.’ The Chinese people are getting used to the US and Western countries’ obvious double standards on China, the editorial claimed. “China was the world’s third largest economy in 2007, which was clearly rising. Today’s India is developing rapidly

When campaigning organisations commission polls you kind-of expect the results of the poll to back up their position, even if the poll is conducted by a reputable polling company. So if, say, the People's Vote campaign or the Leave Means Leave campaign commissions a poll and the results reinforce their respective positions, then it's easy to feel wary - even if the polls are just as scrupulously-conducted as any other poll and, in all probability, just as reliable - or unreliable. You always need to look at the question though.  One of the questions Leave Means Leave put via ComRes a few days ago ran as follows:  Some have described the government's approach to Brexit as a 'stitch-up'. Reflecting on this, do you agree or disagree with the following statement?: Organisations like the BBC seem to be in favour of remaining in the EU and fail to give an impartial view on Brexit Now, there's undoubtedly a 'leading' quality (or two) to that question

Here, from this week's Newswatch , is a transcript of the interview with the BBC UK editor Richard Burgess. He's talking about the BBC's coverage of protests. Enjoy! Shaun Ley : From the Gilets Jaunes, or Yellow Vests movement, protesting for several months in France, to the now frequent demos across the UK, which are on subjects including climate change, supporters of such events demand and expect media coverage. To what extent should the BBC comply with their wishes? Well, one of those responsible is the BBC UK editor Richard Burgess, and he's with me now. Thank you very much Richard for coming into the Newswatch  studio. What are the criteria you use to determine what demonstrations to cover and how much coverage to give them?  Richard Burgess : Well, I don't think there are exact criteria, but I think there are a number of factors that you take into consideration. Scale is obviously one of them, which we saw with last weekend's march, a major march wi

A little light relief: It’s 4am. You are on the way to the 24 hour garage for some Rizlas and two tins of Lilt. The rozzers stop you. Your mate has had loads of whizz but you are peaking on a Purple Ohm. pic.twitter.com/QxCQGUJQmH — Just Some Fella (@EddyRhead) March 28, 2019 The lady on the right is Sherelle Jacobs of the Daily Telegraph, and she has now responded to her new-found fame: Apparently my "intense stare" and flyaway hair (due to cameraman messing my hair trying to fix my loose earpiece at the last minute 👎) BBC Breakfast on Thurs morning has belatedly gone viral. I will try to smile more on TV in future. And pack my hairpins 😝.

They have history Fans of  Daniel Sandford, Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News , might enjoy his tweeted reports from one of the two Westminster pro-Brexit protests yesterday: The music currently being played from the Tommy Robinson/UKIP stage in Whitehall is Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody sung by Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara.) I am not sure what TR's policy is on Zoroastrianism. While the Tommy Robinson/UKIP crowd are waiting for their rally to start Tommy Robinson has taken to the stage to play the "Panodrama" online documentary, presented by Tommy Robinson. Yes from his point of view it all appears to be about him today. Tommy Robinson has just been introduced at his/UKIP's rally as "our national hero". The man who called Tommy Robinson "our national hero" is UKIP's Alan Craig. Tommy Robinson now talking about US politics, journalists and comedians he hates, the Syrian bullying case. We seem to have got off t

Lucy Manning As March 29th came and went, the BBC's special correspondent Lucy Manning, attending yesterday's Leave protests outside Parliament, put it well : Lucy Manning : They wanted it, voted for it, won it, but didn't get it.  And Laura K put it pretty well too: Sophie Raworth : Let's go back to Laura. We had been expecting to stand here and be counting down to 11 o'clock tonight, when the UK officially left the European Union. That hasn't happened. Who knows when it will happen? It really is quite a moment.  Laura Kuenssberg : It is Sophie.  And, of course, for Theresa May it was a promise that she made to the public, time and time and time again: "We will leave the European Union on the 29th of March".  That process that she triggered was something then that Parliament itself voted for.  And of course at the General Election not so long ago, in the long history of Britain's tangled relationships with the EU, b

I agree with Bruce : Jesus. Radio 4. Marcus Brigstocke doing a Brexit “comedy” slot on Radio 4 for half an hour. Exactly as you’d expect. Clichéd anti-Brexit rubbish. Totally unfunny too. I’m tempted to drive my car into a tree at high speed to end the misery. The good news is I changed the radio channel. The bad news is I got Wave 105 FM blasting out Phil Collins. Now where’s that tree? Honestly BBC comedy. Is this the best you can do? Tired old, clichéd rubbish rehashing the same material that seems prevalent with all your “woke” “comedians”. Not funny. Not interesting. Not original. Try harder to spend my money on something better please. "Supposed to be entertaining" was one four-word phrase from the script, and it might serve as a four-word summary for  Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off... Article 50 as a whole. If you didn't hear it, here's a sample. Marcus plays Giles, "Budleigh Salterton’s biggest idiot". Here he's just received an in-

Source:- 5 Incredible Fighter Aircraft which did not enter service with Indian Air Force Since its inception, the Indian Air Force has used some 38 Fighter Aircrafts ( here ) ranging from Russia to British Fighter Aircrafts over the time. In this post, I will discuss 5 incredible Fighter Aircraft which DID not enter service with Indian Air Force, which was once considered but could not pass through due to various reasons. A. Su-34 Fullback Fighter-Bomber Aircraft: After Canberra was retired by Indian Air Force in 2005, Indian Air Force got in a strange dilemma for a Strategic Bomber. At that time so 200 Su-34 were envisioned for Indian Armed Forces including some 50 for Indian Navy for Naval Strike and Interdiction. However, the project got killed when Indian Air Force realized SU-30MKI can fill in the roles and there was actually no need for a Strategic Bomber since Bombers are hard to maintain and operate and they have become increasingly vulnerable to Air Defense assets. Su-3