US offers India F-16s more advanced than Pak's

American aerospace giant Lockheed Martin on Monday assured India that the F-16s being offered to it would be "much more advanced" than the fighters provided to Pakistan. "I can assure you, the......

The mastermind behind India's Star Wars

DRDO chief G Satheesh Reddy Reddy is the first Indian to be appointed Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and of the Royal Aeronautical Society.Ajai Shukla reports. Scientists of the......

Now, IAF wants the F-35

In contrast to the bare-bones price of $115 million for each Rafale fighter, the F-35A cost $94.6 million, reports Ajai Shukla.   In what would be a huge capability jump, the Indian Air Force......

The Lonely Man of China

What was the need for Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman, Central Military Commission, to don the new role of......

A 'dead' cat-helicopter that is worth Rs 70 lakh

The value of Orvillecopter, a Dutch work of art transforming a dead cat into a remote controlled helicopter, has surged by almost tenfold after generating both headlines and criticism worldwide.......

Who is the father of civil aviation in India?

Man has always dreamt of flying. From drawings on stone pyramids to Leonardo da Vinci's prescient drawings of flying machines, we can see the curiosity of mankind to conquer the sky. Then at the......

The world's biggest planes

When Orville and Wilber Wright took to the skies in North Carolina, they made it 120 feet. They could have taken off and landed on the wings of the world's biggest cargo plane. The An-225 Cossack......

Liv Tyler shares first full photo of baby Sailor

A lowdown on what's going on in Hollywood. Photograph: Liv Tyler/Twitter Liv Tyler showed off her beautiful baby boy, Sailor Gene Gardner, in a Twitter post. In the twitter, Tyler, 37, is seen......

EXPOSED! FIFA scandal stinks up the Caribbean

‘There is a Jack Warner or two in every Caribbean parliament today’ Activists from advocacy group Avaaz demonstrate near the Hallenstadion, in Zurich. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters......