New Delhi – The Indian air force’s fleet modernization is on track, and it is inevitable that the IAF will have three or four different types of aircraft, IAF Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik says. “In the next 10 to 15 years, India will have Sukhoi SU-30s, the medium multirole combat aircraft, the fifth-generation fighter aircraft jointly being developed with Russia, and the indigenous light combat aircraft (Tejas) in the IAF inventory,” Naik says.

New Delhi – India’s space agency has developed a supercomputer to tackle complex aerospace problems and other launch issues. The SAGA-220 – or the Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture – will be the country’s fastest supercomputer in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 trillion floating point operations per second, or TeraFLOPS. It will be used by space scientists to ensure that space-related calculations take place more quickly, says S. Satish, spokesman of the Bengaluru-based Indian Space and Research Organization.

The stalemate between Air India management and its striking pilots continued into the sixth day on May 2 as the national carrier could operate only 40 of its 320 daily domestic flights. Close to 90% of the flights have been canceled due to the strike by more than 800 pilots, an Air India spokesman says. “We will operate only 40 of the total 320 flights throughout the duration of the pilots’ strike ... all flights canceled are domestic, our international operations continue as per schedule,” the spokesman says.