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Thursday, April 19, 2012

DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: India Launches Long-Range Agni V Missile Successful Test

Defense News: DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: India Launches Long-Range Agni V Missile Successful Test

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources IBN

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 19, 2012: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulated the scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the successful test-fire of the Agni-V missile on Thursday.

"I congratulate all the scientific and technical personnel of the DRDO and other organisations who have worked tirelessly in our endeavour to strengthen the defence and security of our country. Today's successful Agni-V test launch represents another milestone in our quest to add to the credibility of our security and preparedness and to continuously explore the frontiers of science. The nation stands together in honouring the scientific community who have done the country proud," the Prime Minister said in a statement.

A tweet from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) also said that Manmohan Singh called DRDO chief Dr VK Saraswat to personally congratulate him and his team for the successful test launch of Agni-V.

Agni-V missile test-fired: PM congratulates DRDO

India conducted the maiden test of indigenously developed nuclear capable Agni-V Ballistic Missile from the test range off Odisha coast on Thursday. With over 5,000 km range, Agni V was test-fired at around 0807 hrs from Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.

The three stage, solid propellant missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher from the launch complex-4 of the ITR, defence sources said.

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DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: India To Deploy Two Nuclear Submarines

Defense News: DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: India To Deploy Two Nuclear Submarines

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources Ria Novosti
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 1, 2012: India will operate two nuclear powered submarines soon as it inducts the Russian Nerpa and launches the indigenous INS Arihant, Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) Chief V K Saraswat said on Saturday.

"INS Arihant is in advanced stages. It will be ready for operations within the next few months,” he was quoted by The Economic Times as saying.

India is also testing the Sagarika K-15 missile that will be carried by INS Arihant, V K Saraswat said, adding that more than 10 test launches have been carried out in the Bay of Bengal.

The Nerpa has been leased from Russia for ten years and will be delivered next week, he said.

The Nerpa, an Akula II-class attack submarine, had originally been scheduled for delivery to India in 2008. However, that date was moved back after twenty people, mostly civilians, died during sea trials earlier that year when a fire-suppressant gas was accidently released on the sub.

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DTN News - DEFEXPO 2012 INDIA: Firms Flock To Delhi To Woo World's Top Arms Importer

Defense News: DTN News - DEFEXPO 2012 INDIA: Firms Flock To Delhi To Woo World's Top Arms Importer

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources TOI - The Times of India
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / NEW DELHI, India - March 28, 2012: The message is embarrassing but clear: with India failing to get its act together to build a strong defence-industrial base (DIB) unlike China, it will continue to be the world's largest arms importer in the foreseeable future.

So, gleeful global armament giants are again lining up to hard-sell their aircraft, helicopters, drones, submarines, howitzers, futuristic infantry combat vehicles, missiles, assault rifles and carbines at India's biennial arms jamboree here.

There are going to be 232 foreign firms, mainly from the US, Russia, France, Israel, the UK and Germany, and 60 official delegations in town this week for the four-day "DefExpo-2012' that begins on Thursday.

Over 335 Indian exhibitors, including major ones like Tatas, Punj Lloyd, L&T and Mahindra, will also be there to explore tie-ups and joint ventures with foreign companies as well as DRDO, defence PSUs and domestic shipyards.

"We understand fully well that indigenization cannot happen through only defence PSUs...we have taken several steps to encourage the private sector," said Shekhar Agarwal, secretary (defence production).

The defence ministry has been pushing for JVs and technology transfers to strengthen the DIB, albeit in a haphazard manner, even as it continues to restrict FDI to only 26% in the defence production sector.

Foreign vendors who bag arms deals over Rs 300 crore, of course, have to plough back at least 30% of the contract value into India as "offsets" in the defence industrial, civil aerospace, homeland security and training sectors.

The gigantic $20 billion MMRCA (medium multi-role combat aircraft) project to acquire 126 fighters, in fact, has a 50% offset clause. Offset contracts worth over Rs 50,000 crore are set to materialize over the next two to three years, say officials.

But India, with its fledgling DIB, still remains far away from reversing the current trend of being forced to import 70% of its military hardware and software. This also leaves it vulnerable to supply lines being choked in times of conflict.

Just earlier this month, Swedish think-tank SIPRI dubbed India the world's largest arms importer, accounting as it did for 10% of global arms imports in the 2007-2011 timeframe to display China. With an aggressive DIB, often propelled by "reverse engineering", China is becoming a major arms exporter to countries like Pakistan.

But if India inked arms deals worth $50 billion mainly with foreign vendors in the decade after the 1999 Kargil conflict, it will spend well over double that amount in the current decade.

The Army has pointed at huge operational gaps in fields ranging from artillery, aviation, air defence and night-fighting to ATGMs (anti-tank guided missiles), PGMs (precision guided munitions) and specialized tank and rifle ammunition.

After taking it up with defence minister A K Antony, the force now wants to brief the PM since it will need around Rs 41,000 crore to make up just its existing "critical hollowness'' in ammunition and equipment, say sources.

Indian arms bazaar

Aircraft:
-- India in final commercial negotiations with French Dassault Aviation for the $20 billion MMRCA project to acquire 126 fighters.

-- Over $1.5 billion contract for six new mid-air refueling aircraft in final stage between AirbusMilitary's A330 MRTT and Ilyushin IL-78MK tankers.

-- Acquisition of 75 Swiss Pilatus PC-7 trainer aircraft for over Rs 3,000 crore awaiting final nod.

-- Three major "follow-on" deals with US companies in pipeline: Six more C-130J "Super Hercules" tactical airlift planes (over $1.2 billion), four P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft (over $1 billion) and six C-17 Globemaster-III strategic airlift aircraft (over $2.4 billion).

Helicopters:
Army, Navy, IAF and Coast Guard on course to induct over 600 helicopters, ranging from heavy-lift and attack to maritime multi-role and light utility ones, the majority from foreign companies, for over Rs 20,000 crore in the coming decade.

Submarines:
Global tender for over Rs 50,000 crore `Project-75 India' to construct six advanced diesel-electric stealth submarines, armed with both land-attack missile capabilities and air-independent propulsion (AIP), to be issued soon.

Artillery:
Over Rs 20,000 crore 155mm artillery modernization programme to acquire 1,580 towed guns, 814 mounted gun systems, 180 self-propelled wheeled guns, 100 self-propelled tracked guns and 145 air-mobile ultra-light howitzers.

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: India’s Military Inferiority Complex

Defense News: DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: India’s Military Inferiority Complex
*Indian officials are preoccupied by China’s growing military power. They would do better to fix their own incoherent defense establishment.

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Trefor Moss - The Diplomat

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 24, 2012: Modern India is economically and strategically buoyant, and has every reason to feel confident as the 21^st century progresses. So it’s strange to think that this same confident place is developing an inferiority complex over China’s military power.

Never mind that New Delhi just announced a hefty 13 percent defense budget increase for 2012-13, or that the country is now the world’s biggest importer of military systems. Most Indian commentators seem to have digested these two pieces of news by focusing on the downside: that the country’s $39 billion defense budget remains quite modest compared with the $106 billion military budget at China’s disposal.

The critics should bear two things in mind before giving into defense budget envy. First, a 13 percent increase is actually very generous in the context of an Indian economy that’s only expected to grow by7.6 percent in the coming year. Larger increases aren’t only unaffordable but also strategically untenable, as they would alarm neighboring countries.

Second, the Indian military has long since accepted two facts of strategic life: that the Chinese military will always be bigger; and that it will always be richer.

That doesn’t mean the Chinese military will necessarily be better, and overcoming the comparative disadvantages of wealth and scale is what Indian military strategy, at least vis-à-vis China, is all about. The solution comes in two parts. First, the Indian military knows it has to focus on quality rather than quantity, investing in weapon systems that China, hindered by international arms embargoes, cannot match. It then also means capitalizing on regional unease about China’s rise and on forging smart alliances. China might be more powerful, but India knows it can be more popular.

The Indian media is therefore over hasty in viewing defense matters through the China inferiority lens. The Times of India, for example, headlined last week’s defense budget announcement by bemoaning the fact that the “Military plays catch-up but China [is] a long march ahead.”

That’s a self-defeating way to look at things. The important questions Indians should be asking are whether their government is giving defense the resources it needs – and based on successive double-digit spending increases, you’d have to say that it is; and whether that money is being used wisely to bankroll a coherent military modernization strategy. It’s when you look more closely at this second point that you begin to appreciate that India – not China – is its own worst enemy.

Writing in the Business Standard, Ajai Shukla observed this week that the Indian Army is being starved of funds, while the Navy and Air Force soak up all the investment. Indeed, the numbers don’t look good from the Army’s perspective. The Air Force has a capital expenditure to operational cost ratio of two to one; the ratio for the Navy is about three to two. By contrast, the Army spends six times as much on day-to-day running costs as it does on new equipment.

However, such ratios are a fact of life when you have an army of over a million active personnel whose poor pay and conditions you are attempting to upraise over time. China, with its 2 million increasingly well-paid troops, has exactly the same headache of rising everyday bills eating away at budget increases. And there’s also no getting away from the fact that India, despite its expanding resources, can’t buy everything at once. With several costly Air Force and Navy programs currently underway, such as the procurement of the Dassault Rafale fighter and new naval frigates, the Army has been obliged to wait in line. Now, it can rightfully claim to have moved to the front of the queue.

Of greater concern is the tenacious ineptitude of India’s defense bureaucracy. In the last financial year, as in most others, the Defense Ministry failed to spend all of the cash at its disposal thanks purely to red tape. That’s the first thing that needs to be fixed.

The government then needs to redouble its efforts to introduce a functioning procurement system. More often than not, India’s attempts to buy equipment become tortuous and wasteful. In January, Army Chief Gen. V.K. Singh, himself a recent victim of his country’s eccentric bureaucracy, suggested wearily that, “the procurement game is a version of snakes and ladders where there is no ladder but only snakes, and if the snakes bite you somewhere, the whole thing comes back to zero.” His exasperation centered on the army’s efforts, initiated 10 years ago, to buy new artillery; the process has just resulted in the blacklistingof six foreign defense contractors but, as yet, no new guns.

Another example is the acquisition of 75 much-needed Pilatus PC-7 Mk II trainer aircraft, announced last year, which now faces delays – like so many procurements before it – over allegations of irregularities in the bidding process. Worryingly, though perhaps predictably, questions are now also being asked about the flagship Rafale procurement.

Third, the government should re-evaluate the role of the domestic defense industry, which currently does a lot of things badly. It should be made to start doing a few things well. India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) recently complained that it doesn’t have enough money – but that has never been its problem. The agency has a track record of initiating overambitious programs and then executing them poorly, as the travails of the Tejas light combat aircraft, to name but one example, continue to demonstrate. For the sake of both the taxpayer and the military, the Defense Ministry should focus the DRDO and the defense industry on developing a realistic core of indigenous capabilities, and then just import everything else.

So India is wrong to feel inferior just because China has more soldiers and more money. The problem is the incoherence of India’s defense establishment, from industry through to government – therein lies the inferiority. It’s a danger to Indian security that has nothing to do with China, and that’s within India’s own power to put right.

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: India's First Light Combat Aircraft Tejas Inducted In Indian Air Force

Defense News: DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: India's First Light Combat Aircraft Tejas Inducted In Indian Air Force

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources NDTV Correspondent, Updated: January 10, 2011 12:32 IST

(NSI News Source Info) BANGALORE, India - January 10, 2011: India's first locally designed and manufactured Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas' was handed over to the Indian Air Force by Defence Minister A K Antony after initial operational clearance on Monday.

Designed by Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) Aeronautical Development Agency, the first squadron of 20 Tejas aircraft was inducted.

Conceived and launched in 1983 with a meagre funding of Rs. 560 crore, the operational aircraft and test flights could actually be launched only in 2001.

The project, which has a fair number of critics in the country and within the Air Force, has gone through many ups and downs in its long journey. But 10 years after the initial test flights, the Tejas, a fourth-generation plus aircraft, has finally arrived.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 2010
DTN News: IAF Going In For Massive Upgrade Of Airfields, Helipads
DTN News: IAF Going In For Massive Upgrade Of Airfields, Helipads
*DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: India's First Light Combat Aircraft Tejas Inducted In Indian Air Force
*DTN News: IAF Going In For Massive Upgrade Of Airfields, Helipads
*DTN News: India’s First Naval Variant Of Light Combat Aircraft - TEJAS
*India Set To Build Medium Combat Aircraft
*India's Army Ill-Equipped Despite Plans
*Indian Air Force to Induct LCA Tejas Fighter Jets by 2010: Defence Minister
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources including The Times of India & Wikipedia
(NSI News Source Info) NEW DELHI, India - August 13, 2010: From new Sukhoi-30MKI bases at Chabua (Assam), Halwara (Punjab) and Jodhpur (Rajasthan) to one for Tejas fighters in Sulur (Tamil Nadu), IAF is going in for a massive upgrade of its airfield and helipad infrastructure across the country.
This will not only bolster operational logistics and flexibility on both the eastern and western fronts with China and Pakistan, apart from plugging existing gaps over central and peninsular India, but also make IAF airbases more accessible to civilian aircraft.
This is in tune with IAF's aim to have 42 fighter squadrons by 2022, up from the existing 32, with progressive induction of 270 Sukhois, 126 multi-role combat aircraft, 120 indigenous Tejas Light Combat aircraft and the first lot of the fifth-generation fighter aircraft to be developed with Russia.
A major endeavour in all this is the soon-to-be-launched MAFI (modernisation of airfield infrastructure) programme, under which 30 of IAF's 51 operational airbases will be upgraded in Phase-I over 42 months. "
Commercial negotiations with the Tata Power-led consortium for MAFI Phase-I, at a cost of around Rs 1,300 crore, is in the final stages now. Bhatinda airbase will be taken up as the pilot project,'' said a source.
Under Phase-II, remaining IAF, Army, Navy and Coast Guard airfields will be modernised. The upgrade includes resurfacing, expansion and lighting of runways for night operations as well as installation of new tactical navigational (TACAN), instrument landing (Cat-2 ILS), air traffic management and air-to-ground radio communication (RCAG) systems.
The North-East is a major thrust area, with upgrade of airbases in Chabua, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Mohanbari, Hasimara, Guwahati and Bagdogra, among others. The Tezpur airbase already houses Sukhois after it underwent an upgrade last year.
Then, after reactivating western sector ALGs (advanced landing grounds) like Daulat Beg Oldi, Fukche and Nyama in eastern Ladakh, IAF is now concentrating on upgrading eastern sector ALGs like Pasighat, Mechuka, Walong, Tuting, Ziro and Vijaynagar as well as several helipads in Arunachal.
This is meant to strategically counter China's massive build-up of military infrastructure all along the 4,057-km Line of Actual Control, which includes 14 airbases directed against India in Tibet.
The focus on the western front, of course, remains as sharp as before. The Phalodi airbase in Rajasthan, just 102 km away from the Pakistan border, for instance, began fighter operations earlier this year.
"The aim is to make all the bases capable of operating all kinds of aircraft. This will, for instance, allow our IL-78 mid-air refuellers to support fighters from virtually anywhere in the country,'' said the source.
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List of aircraft of the Indian Air Force
From Wikipedia
CURRENT AIRCRAFT

Photo Aircraft Origin Type Versions In service^[1] Notes on aircraft
Fighter aircraft^[1]
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Soviet Union Interceptor/fighter MiG-21 Bison 108^{[citation needed]} All other 150+ MiG-21 aircraft are to be phased out after 2012.^[2]
Mikoyan MiG-29Fulcrum Soviet Union Air superiority fighter MiG-29S 69^[3] To be upgraded to MiG-29SMT.^[4]
Sukhoi Su-30MKIFlanker-H Russia/ India Air superiority fighter Su-30MKI 124^[5] 272^[6] aircraft have been ordered to date of which 182 will be constructed locally by HAL with a fulltechnology transfer. 50 aircraft are to upgraded with newer avionics, onboard computers, electronic warfare systems and capability to carry the BrahMos missile.^[7]
Dassault Mirage 2000 France Multi-role fighter Mirage 2000 H 51^[8]^[9] The Indian Air Force is in talks with Thales of France as well as severalIsraeli companies to outfit the Mirage 2000 with newer radars and avionics in a $1.9 billion USD deal.^[8]^[9]
HAL Tejas India Multi-role 4 4^[10] aircraft are in the IAF inventory though Initial Operating Clearance is expected only in December 2010. 48 aircraft of the type are on order.^[11]
Total Combat aircraft ~500+
Ground attack/Bomber aircraft ^[1]
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27 Soviet Union Ground Attack MiG-27UPG 122 122 from the total inventory of 148 being up-graded, while the remaining 26 are being phased out.
Jaguar IS/IM France
United Kingdom Bomber Jaguar IS/IM 102
Total Ground attack/Bomber aircraft 224
Trainer aircraft
HAL HPT-32 Deepak India Basic Trainer (BJT) 70 ALL grounded since Oct 09; and to be retired soon officially.
HAL HJT-16 Kiran India Intermediate Trainer (IJT) HJT-16 80
BAE Hawk United Kingdom Advanced Trainer (AJT) Hawk 132 39^[12] Received first 24 aircraft directly from BAE Systems.^[13] In addition, 42 aircraft are to be locally assembled by HAL.^[14] An additional 40 aircraft would be inducted into IAF and 17 into the Navy.^[15] Total 106 aircrafts to be inducted.
Total Trainers Aircraft 189
Transport aircraft^[1]
Embraer EMB 135 Brazil VIP transport ECJ-135 Legacy 5
Boeing Business Jet United States VIP transport 737-800 3
Dornier Do 228 Germany
India very Light Transport Do 228-201 40
Hawker Siddeley HS 748 United Kingdom Light Transport HS 748-100 64
Antonov An-32 Cline Soviet Union Medium Transport An-32 94
Ilyushin Il-76 Candid Soviet Union Heavy Transport Il-76 17
Total Transport Aircraft 223
AEW&C^[1]
Beriev A-50 Phalcon Russia
Israel AEW&C Phalcon 2 The expected delivery date for the third and final aircraft is December 2010.^[16]
Total number of AWACS 2
Air Tanker Aircraft
Ilyushin Il-78 MKI Russia
Israel Il-76 IL-78MKI 6
Total number of Air Tanker Aircraft 6
Helicopters^[1]
HAL Dhruv India Utility helicopter Dhruv 36
India Attack helicopter HAL Light Combat Helicopter 65 on order
Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama France Utility helicopter SA 315B Cheetah/Cheetal 28
Mil Mi-26 Halo Soviet Union Transport helicopter Mi-26 4
Mil Mi-8 Soviet Union Transport helicopter Mi-8 82
Mi-17 52
Mil Mi-35 Hind-E Soviet Union Attack helicopter Mi-35 20
Aérospatiale SA 316B Alouette III France Utility - 92
Total number of Helicopters 314
Unmanned Air Vehicles
Lakshya PTA India Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA) ~10 23 were orderd by India to be operated by the IAF, Indian army and Indian Navy.
IAI Harpy Israel Fire & Forget Radar Emitter Destroyer ? A UAV explosive which attacks enemy radars, but also destroys its self.
IAI Heron Israel Heron I/II Strategic Multi-Role UAV ~25 India orderd 50 to be deployed by the IAF and Indian Navy.
IAI Searcher Israel Searcher II 100+
Total Unmanned Air Vehicles 135+
Total Aircraft 1,321 aircraft and 135+ UAVs

Photo	Aircraft	Origin	Type	Versions	In service^[1]	Notes on aircraft
Fighter aircraft^[1]
	Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21	Soviet Union	Interceptor/fighter	MiG-21 Bison	108^{[citation needed]}	All other 150+ MiG-21 aircraft are to be phased out after 2012.^[2]
	Mikoyan MiG-29Fulcrum	Soviet Union	Air superiority fighter	MiG-29S	69^[3]	To be upgraded to MiG-29SMT.^[4]
	Sukhoi Su-30MKIFlanker-H	Russia/ India	Air superiority fighter	Su-30MKI	124^[5]	272^[6] aircraft have been ordered to date of which 182 will be constructed locally by HAL with a fulltechnology transfer. 50 aircraft are to upgraded with newer avionics, onboard computers, electronic warfare systems and capability to carry the BrahMos missile.^[7]
	Dassault Mirage 2000	France	Multi-role fighter	Mirage 2000 H	51^[8]^[9]	The Indian Air Force is in talks with Thales of France as well as severalIsraeli companies to outfit the Mirage 2000 with newer radars and avionics in a $1.9 billion USD deal.^[8]^[9]
	HAL Tejas	India	Multi-role		4	4^[10] aircraft are in the IAF inventory though Initial Operating Clearance is expected only in December 2010. 48 aircraft of the type are on order.^[11]
Total Combat aircraft		~500+
Ground attack/Bomber aircraft ^[1]
	Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27	Soviet Union	Ground Attack	MiG-27UPG	122	122 from the total inventory of 148 being up-graded, while the remaining 26 are being phased out.
	Jaguar IS/IM	France United Kingdom	Bomber	Jaguar IS/IM	102
Total Ground attack/Bomber aircraft		224
Trainer aircraft
	HAL HPT-32 Deepak	India	Basic Trainer (BJT)		70	ALL grounded since Oct 09; and to be retired soon officially.
	HAL HJT-16 Kiran	India	Intermediate Trainer (IJT)	HJT-16	80
	BAE Hawk	United Kingdom	Advanced Trainer (AJT)	Hawk 132	39^[12]	Received first 24 aircraft directly from BAE Systems.^[13] In addition, 42 aircraft are to be locally assembled by HAL.^[14] An additional 40 aircraft would be inducted into IAF and 17 into the Navy.^[15] Total 106 aircrafts to be inducted.
Total Trainers Aircraft		189
Transport aircraft^[1]
	Embraer EMB 135	Brazil	VIP transport	ECJ-135 Legacy	5
	Boeing Business Jet	United States	VIP transport	737-800	3
	Dornier Do 228	Germany India	very Light Transport	Do 228-201	40
	Hawker Siddeley HS 748	United Kingdom	Light Transport	HS 748-100	64
	Antonov An-32 Cline	Soviet Union	Medium Transport	An-32	94
	Ilyushin Il-76 Candid	Soviet Union	Heavy Transport	Il-76	17
Total Transport Aircraft		223
AEW&C^[1]
	Beriev A-50 Phalcon	Russia Israel	AEW&C	Phalcon	2	The expected delivery date for the third and final aircraft is December 2010.^[16]
Total number of AWACS		2
Air Tanker Aircraft
	Ilyushin Il-78 MKI	Russia Israel	Il-76	IL-78MKI	6
Total number of Air Tanker Aircraft		6
Helicopters^[1]
	HAL Dhruv	India	Utility helicopter	Dhruv	36
		India	Attack helicopter	HAL Light Combat Helicopter	65 on order
	Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama	France	Utility helicopter	SA 315B Cheetah/Cheetal	28
	Mil Mi-26 Halo	Soviet Union	Transport helicopter	Mi-26	4
	Mil Mi-8	Soviet Union	Transport helicopter	Mi-8	82
	Mi-17				52
	Mil Mi-35 Hind-E	Soviet Union	Attack helicopter	Mi-35	20
	Aérospatiale SA 316B Alouette III	France	Utility	-	92
Total number of Helicopters		314
Unmanned Air Vehicles
	Lakshya PTA	India		Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA)	~10	23 were orderd by India to be operated by the IAF, Indian army and Indian Navy.
	IAI Harpy	Israel		Fire & Forget Radar Emitter Destroyer	?	A UAV explosive which attacks enemy radars, but also destroys its self.
	IAI Heron	Israel	Heron I/II	Strategic Multi-Role UAV	~25	India orderd 50 to be deployed by the IAF and Indian Navy.
	IAI Searcher	Israel	Searcher II		100+
Total Unmanned Air Vehicles	135+
Total Aircraft	1,321 aircraft and 135+ UAVs