Tuesday, February 22, 2011

NDTV Hindu Program on Two and a Half Books




NDTV Hindu did a feature on 'Two and Half Books' in Chennai. 'Two and a Half Books' was a joint event on my book i.e The Upside Down Book of Nuclear Power, my wife Devapriya's book The Vague Woman's Handbook and our forthcoming title The Heat and Dust Project which is still in process.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

GTRE's Laghu Shakti Engine


Well, here's a cross-sectional rendering of GTRE's Laghu Shakti Engine which is primarily being developed for use in UAVs and such like. It's apparently in the 400 Kgf thrust class.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Indian JSOW?

Well, Whaddya know? Looks like India has an answer to the JSOW :) . Displayed here is Gurgaon based Basant Aerospace's SWAK or "Smart Wing Adapter Kit for general purpose bombs". The image below gives you some specs ( make that very scant specs).

Let's see if anything comes of this.