China’s Naval Ambitions China’s aircraft carrier program has made significant progress with the country ready to launch its first indigenous aircraft carrier in the near future. China acquired its first aircraft carrier, the decommissio....
Tags : China , Aircraft , China’s Naval , Ukraine
Recent reports in the media, concerning a CAG report on the Indian Navy’s MiG 29K aircraft, have raised alarm about the performance of these aircraft. However, the issue needs to be deliberated with the necessary seriousness, devoid of media specul....
Tags : Russia , Indian Navy , CAG Reports , MiG 29K aircraft
On 1 July the Deputy Chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Marshal RKS ‘Chottu’ Bhadauria received the first two series production Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) from HAL. These would equip IAF’s 45 ‘Flying Daggers’ Squadron—which, ....
Tags : Tejas Fighter , Aircraft , Flying Daggers
Infiltration is usually a well-planned process but often terrorists continue repeating the very same routes on which their colleagues have been killed in droves. This is because of the compulsion they perceive of getting to the ‘reception area’ a....
Tags : Jammu & Kashmir , infiltration , J&K , LoC Fence
People who meet me socially often get into discussions on J&K. I find most of them have visited the state as tourists and have considerable interest in the security situation. Besides never being able to perceive why there is such large presence of t....
Tags : Jammu & Kashmir , infiltration , J&K , Terror
The Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet is ‘Acting East’ with four of its ships en route to the seas east of the Malacca Straits, an area of maritime interest to the Indian Navy. In a press release, the MoD has stated that the four ships, the I....
Tags : China , South China Sea , Vietnam , Malabar , Malacca Straits
सरकार ने रक्षा सौदों की नीति (डी.पी.पी.) को मार्च 2016 में जारी किया है, ये उनकी विचारधारा के अनुरूप ह�....
Tags : Hindi
In keeping up with its recognition that ‘self-reliance in defence is of vital importance for both strategic and economic reasons’, the government has released the much anticipated Defence Procurement Policy (DPP) in March 2016. The DPP gives top ....
Tags : Defence Procurement Policy , Indigenization
Siachen is in the news again. Loss of ten precious Indian lives in the most unfortunate tragedy of 3rd February has reignited debate about the rationale of our military presence on the glacier. Pakistan High Commissioner was quick to re....
Tags : Pakistan , Siachen , Demilitarization
One of the much awaited announcements of the recently concluded Chinese “Two Sessions” was the Chinese defence budget. With some commentators predicting another double digit rise in line with what has been the norm for the last two decades, the l....