[This is a slightly modified version of an article which was originally published at OpIndia on 31st March, 2019] A robust discussion about the military capabilities of a nation and conduct of its armed forces in peace and wartime in public space is important on many levels. For one, a…
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” – goes the popular phrase. Nothing exemplifies this more than the conduct of many in the English Main Stream Media (MSM) when it comes to reporting the Rafale deal. Latest in the series of such ‘analysis’ is a piece…
With narrow political interests guiding the discourse on the subject, by both political parties and many ‘analysts’, the true picture has got lost. And deliberate misinformation is being peddled. Introduction One of the biggest ironies of the manufactured debate on pricing of Rafale deal is that no one from Indian…
The aircraft entered production in 1959 and over a period of next 25+ years, more than 11,000 MiG-21s of various variants were produced. If we factor into account the Chinese copy of MiG-21, J-7, into account, then more than 14,000 aircraft have been produced till date. In the aviation world,…