Defence Update
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s palpable pride at the recent completion of a “deterrent patrol” by the navy’s first home-built, nuclear-propelled, ballistic-missile armed submarine (termed SSBN), INS Arihant, is understandable. As a nation committed to “no...
INS Arihant, the indigenously-built nuclear-propelled submarine that completed its first deterrence patrol, is capable of firing ballistic missiles and can stay under water for months. The Strategic Strike Nuclear Submarine (SSBN) Arihant is a...
India joins the list of select nations to have an operational Nuclear Triad i.e. the ability to launch a nuclear counter-strike from land, sea or air. Even though India already had the nuclear tried,...
lIndia and Russia signed a contract for the delivery of five batteries of the S-400 missile defence system Friday, during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi. The deal has been signed in...
India’s effectiveness as a major power and a rising great power depends greatly on its ability to project deterrence and influence from its military power. Modern military capability is critically dependent on the nation’s...
On January 18, 2018, the personnel of the Indian armed forces test-fired the 5,000-km-plus Agni-5 Interim Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM). The test, conducted from Kalam Island in the Bay of Bengal, achieved all the...
If wishes were horses beggars would ride ! The cost of the MMRCA buy without Transfer of Technology is currently at $18000/kg x 8000 kgs (weight of aircraft) /aircraft x Rs. 66/$ (Rupee conversion...
Mig-29K is the frontline Carrier-Based Mutirole Fighter Aircraft designed and deployed pertaining to Indian Navy needs for a Carrier-Borne Multirole Aircraft which can be based upon the lone Aircraft Carrier operated by Navy :...
USA ‘s Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is an all-weather,long range,subsonic cruise missile used for land attack warfare,Launched from U.S. Navy surface ships and U.S. Navy and Royal Navy Submarines. Nirbhay is an all-weather,...
In a rare, official comment on the Indian nuclear attack submarine project, The Government of India approved the construction of six new nuclear powered attack submarines (SSN) in February 2015. These will be designed...