[V.Narayan]

Close-up photos of a Marut HF-24 fighter-bomber model at home.


The two port side 30mm Aden cannons visible (two more on the starboard side). Fuel drop tank for range and the 68mm rocket pod with 18 rockets.


Long sleek airframe designed for transonic and supersonic speeds. The latter sadly never got used as an adequate engine could not be found that others were willing to sell to us or provide a manufacturing license for.


The starboard (right side) engine exhaust. Note the knife edge half down the span of the wing. This scrubbed the fast flowing air and made it stick over the wing to improve the grip of the ailerons (used for banking).

[V.Narayan]

Origin of the phrase 'JAI HIND'

A little off topic but on the occasion of our 68th Republic Day I thought this should be shared with all BHPians.

JAI HIND is the common form of greeting in the Armed Forces. Ever wondered where the phrase originated from. The term was coined by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

It went like this.....after escaping from house-arrest in Calcutta in January 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose arrived in Berlin in April 1941, via Kabul and Moscow. In Berlin, he set up a Free India Centre and from amongst the prisoner-of-war Indian soldiers captured in North Africa, he raised an Indian Legion which numbered about 4000 soldiers from all castes, communities and religions integrated in the unit. Bose asked his aides to “find a common national greeting that would have a nice ring to it and would be acceptable to all religious communities”. One day, Abid Hasan, one of his deputies, heard some Rajput soldiers greet each other with “Jai Ramji Ki”, a phrase that had a musical quality (and is common in North India). Hasan changed it to “Jai Hindustan Ki.” This while good did not quite work....it was a little too long. This morphed into an shortened form “Jai Hind” which sounded just right and Netaji embraced it as India’s national greeting. This phrase became India’s national slogan in 1947 and has rung across the country for 7 decades.

Sourced from “His Majesty’s Opponent” by Prof. Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University

[Foxbat]

Originally Posted by V.Narayan

Close-up photos of a Marut HF-24 fighter-bomber model at home.

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The two port side 30mm Aden cannons visible (two more on the starboard side). Fuel drop tank for range and the 68mm rocket pod with 18 rockets.

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Long sleek airframe designed for transonic and supersonic speeds. The latter sadly never got used as an adequate engine could not be found that others were willing to sell to us or provide a manufacturing license for.

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The starboard (right side) engine exhaust. Note the knife edge half down the span of the wing. This scrubbed the fast flowing air and made it stick over the wing to improve the grip of the ailerons (used for banking).

Narayan so many models, I missed spotting this one !

This must be a custom made one, never seen one on sale.

Bit of Google Search led me to the source:
https://www.factorydirectmodels.com/...iled-interior/

[Flyer]

One rests at Sainik School, Trivandrum.

Marut H-24 Fighter

[V.Narayan]

Originally Posted by Foxbat

Narayan so many models, I missed spotting this one !
This must be a custom made one, never seen one on sale.
Bit of Google Search led me to the source:
https://www.factorydirectmodels.com/...iled-interior/

Yes it was custom made through FDM(Factory Direct Models). They put it up on their web site. Doubt anyone else got one made as the price is rather steep. This was some years ago. I had some difficulty getting detailed three view drawings or outlines to share with them hence the paneling and flaps etc are not chiseled into the model but just painted on. But nevertheless I am happy to have an Indian aircraft which otherwise are simply not made. Work in progress is the HAL Rudra and I plan to follow it up with the Kiran HJT-16 and Deepak HPT-32. When the Tejas is fully inducted will get one made too. It pays to be old with little to do.

Originally Posted by Flyer

One rests at Sainik School, Trivandrum.
Marut H-24 Fighter

Thank you for sharing.

Coming next month to a theatre near you......It is a first for FDM again and I have had to spend time on phone & VC to guide them. But they are a co-operative bunch.

[V.Narayan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpTsJzQNZWs

This video put up by some defence site features the Marut. The scale model shown in here is the same one I have posted photos of on this thread. Happy to see that Team BHP and my scale model toys are getting some free publicity.

[V.Narayan]

A pilot's view of the HF-24 Marut

This ex-IAF pilot shares my view that the HF-24 was done in by the apathy of the IAF where the senior command did not want to make that extra effort needed to make a home grown machine into a fully mature weapon platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ0BubBrWa4

Video courtesy Bharat Rakshak.com

[Lalvaz]

Originally Posted by V.Narayan

A pilot's view of the HF-24 Marut

Just bumping up this thread to remind you that you were supposed to update this thread on 17/6, the 60th anniversary of the Marut