While India watches with concern Sri Lanka’s deepening political crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is boldly visiting the Maldives on the day its autocratic president, Abdullah Yameen, is to cede power after a surprise...
The activities at LCA Tejas Division of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) have reached a fever pitch. The engineers, designers and the shop floor crew are committed to beat the March, 2019, deadline and deliver...
The Gripen NG fighter jet by all accounts is an excellent fighting aircraft and in direct comparisons can keep up with the world’s best, costing nearly half the price of the F-35. Gripen performance...
After the 1971 Indo-Pak War finished, it was acknowledged that Indian Air Force had an enduring predominance over its partner Pakistani Air Force who lost considerably aircraft than Indian Air Force during the combat....
At the recently concluded visit by a high-level defence delegation from UAE, `Made in India’ Akash surface-to-air missile system (SAM) was high on the agenda. Sources confirmed to FE Online that the delegation led...
Lost in the din of public discourse about the depleting (fighter) squadron strength of the Indian Air Force, is the equally dire need of combat enablers, without which the IAF would be severely handicapped...
After a gap of 7 years, DRDO developed solid-fuel road-mobile tactical ballistic missile Prahaar (“Strike”) once again made a comeback to the argument the offensive conventional firepower of the Indian Army against strategic and...
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by defenceupdate · Published February 1, 2016 · Last modified November 9, 2018
The Sukhoi Su-35 is a designation for two separate, heavily upgraded derivatives of the Su-27 ‘Flanker’ jet plane. They are single-seat, twin-engine, supermaneuverable multirole fighters, designed by Sukhoi. The first variant was designed during the...
While India watches with concern Sri Lanka’s deepening political crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is boldly visiting the Maldives on the day its autocratic president, Abdullah Yameen, is to cede power after a surprise...
The keel was laid at GRSE’s Main Works Unit on November 10 in the august presence of Vice Admiral KB Singh, PVSM, AVSM, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C), Eastern Naval Command. Rear Admiral VK Saxena...
India and China are aggressively engaged in building their economic and military presence across the globe. While defence experts in India have accused China of creating “string of pearls” around India, China, on the...
The joint statement issued after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s four-day visit to meet his “Iron Brothers” in Beijing is most instructive as it inadvertently acknowledges the rise of India as a global power...
Rakesh Sharma was in his cottage in the Nilgiri Hills, in Tamil Nadu’s idyllic Coonoor hill station, watching the telecast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red...
India earlier this week announced its first locally built nuclear-powered submarine had completed a patrol in the Indian Ocean — a development that has the potential to escalate the nuclear arms race in the...
India’s S-400 missile system procurement from Russia is aimed at expanding its air-defense capacity along its 4,000km border with China, according to news sources. Already militarily strong due to improved defensive and offensive capabilities,...
India recently took its first steps towards establishing the third leg of a nuclear triad: the ability to launch nuclear weapons from under the sea. On November 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that...
