Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 30
Air Vice Marshal Ajit Singh Lamba, who was decorated with the Vir Chakra for gallantry in teh1965 Indo-Pak war and an aviator who continued to fly even when he was in his eighties, passed away at Bangalore on Wednesday after battling cancer. He was 85.
Commissioned into the Indian Air Force in April 1955, he served with No.7 Squadron during the 1965 war. As a Hunter pilot, he flew 15 operational sorties, of which 11 were in close support of the army in the Kasur and Lahore sectors. On several of these missions he led formations of Hunter aircraft and showed great skill and determination in seeking out enemy targets and pressing home his attacks in spite of intensive ground fire and the presence of enemy interceptor aircraft, his citation states. In spite of heavy opposition, he successfully destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His achievement in the destruction of enemy guns and armour near Harbanspura railway station was especia
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India Is Still Throwing Good Money at Hopeless Military Programmes
The government persists in throwing good money after bad in its enduring albeit elusive decades-long bid for materiel self-sufficiency.
The GTRE GTX-35VS Engine on its testbed. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Security15/Dec/2020
Chandigarh: The government’s Atmanirbhar Bharat, or self-sufficient India, initiative with regard to military equipment is littered with the remains of incomplete and
ad hoc projects, on whose continuing development vast sums of money are being wasted.
Many such ambitious programmes, under the patronage of the government-run Defence Research and Development Organisationâs (DRDO) and the public sector Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), include the development of an aircraft engine, military transport and intermediate multi-purpose civilian aircraft and intermediate jet trainers or IJTs.