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Since the LWF did not share the design requirements of the VFAX, the Navy asked McDonnell Douglas and Northrop to develop a new aircraft from the design and principles of the YF-17. On 1 March 1977, Secretary of the Navy W. Graham Claytor announced, that the F-18 would be named "Hornet", after the characteristics of the Hornet insect.
Status: In service. [62] IAI Searcher Israel: Reconnaissance: Mk 1/2 108 [63] Status: In service. [64] NewSpace NIMBUS India: Swarm drones Mk-III 75: Status: In Service. Part of autonomous surveillance and armed drone swarm (A-SADS) [65] [66] NewSpace BELUGA India: Swarm drones 25 Raphe mPhibr MR-20 India: Cargo: 48: Status: In service ...
The last steam-hauled service trains on the British Railways network ran on 11 August 1968, but the use of steam locomotives in British industry continued into the 1980s. [22] In June 1975, there were still 41 locations where steam was in regular use, and many more where engines were maintained in reserve in case of diesel failures. [23]
Indian Railways operates India's railway system and comes under the purview of the Ministry of Railways of Government of India. As of 2023 [update] , it maintains over 108,706 km (67,547 mi) of tracks and operates over 13,000 trains daily with a fleet of 14,800 locomotives .
The Super Hornet is an enlarged redesign of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.The wing and tail configuration trace its origin to a Northrop prototype aircraft, the P-530, c. 1965, which began as a rework of the lightweight Northrop F-5E (with a larger wing, twin tail fins and a distinctive leading edge root extension, or LERX). [4]
All three companies are owned by the Indian Ministry of Railways. IRSDC was incorporated on 12 April 2012. [1] On 18 October 2021, as part of a measure to rationalise railway bodies, the Railway Board announced that it would shut down IRSDC, and transfer the stations under its management to the respective zonal railways. [6]
It would mark the beginning of a new era in the Indian Railways where modern EMUs for long distances beyond suburban railways started plying. [19] Train 18 was designed with the LHB coach as a base. With sixteen chair cars and a 160 km/h speed, the technology was set to replace Shatabdi services.
As a joint venture company, both Indian Railways and GE Transportation are set to invest collectively a huge amount of US $2.5 billion for DLF. Indian Railways will hold 26% equity in the JV company subject to a maximum of ₹ 100 crore (US$12 million). [1] The estimated cost of 1000 locomotives will be around ₹ 14,656 crore (US$1.7 billion ...