User:Mrt3366/DidYouKnow/Aug-23-2012

Did you know

• ..Indo-Russia defense deal on Sukhoi/HAL FGFA project which will be worth $35 billion,

  will be the biggest ever defense deal?

• ..India's mission to send a probe to Mars, a venture where only about half of the attempts — made by other countries like USA, Russia, France, etc — have been successful, has the potential to make India the first Asian nation to have successfully completed a mission to Mars because the probes sent by China and Japan had to be abandoned en route?

• ..the President of the Indian American Forum for Political Education (IAFPE), Swadesh Chatterjee who serves on the Board of Directors for The Center for International Understanding Council of North Carolina and as Chairman and Co-founder of the U.S.-India Friendship Council, is the first Indian American to receive Padma Bhushan award in the public affairs category?

• ..Bobby Jindal, who, having won that office in both the 2007 and the 2011 elections, became the 55th Governor of Louisiana, is the first Indian American to be elected governor of any state in the United States?

• ..AH-64D Apache Longbow which emerged as the final choice of Indian Air Force for $1 billion deal inclusive of the cost of 22 Apache choppers, hellfire longbow missiles, stinger missiles and 12 fire-control radars, outscored Russian Mi-28N in more than 20 different technical points?

• ..India's EMB-145 AEW&C aircraft which recently got handed over to Centre for Airborne Systems of Defence Research & Development Organisation, will be equipped with India's first-ever airborne Active Electronic Scanned Array (AESA) radar and will be able to provide 240 degrees (equal on either side) of coverage that can be expanded to 300 degrees with some modification?

—Mrt3366 ^{(Talk page?) (New section?)} 16:50, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
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