Defence Update
India bought 36 Rafales worth €7.878 billion. But these deal includes the Rafale fighter, the Meteor and MICA Missiles, along with other weapons, Logistics and Supplies. Meteor missile is a Beyond Visual Range missile...
The Rashtriya Rifles are the largest Counter insurgency/anti-terrorist force in the world made up of soldiers deputed from other parts of the Indian army, who receive special incentives while serving in the Rashtriya Rifles....
India has a rich history of naval warfare. In fact, Indian ships have made their presence felt since the time of Rajendra Chola’s 10th-century naval expedition to Southeast Asia and Maratha Admiral Kanhoji Angre’s...
“Weapons differentiate between Air Forces and Flying Clubs” is an often heard adage. Weapons capability is an integral part of an Air Power matrix. In the last three months, a number of successful indigenous...
The IAI Harop (or IAI Harpy 2) is an unmanned Combat air vehicle (UCAV) developed by the MBT division of Israel Aerospace Industries.Unlike other UCAV it can not carry any separate High-explosive warhead rather the drone...
This is a story from the summer of 1996. Some of you might remember (and the rest can Google) how a little controversy had started to build in the last days of the Narasimha Rao...
On August 11, 2005, Pakistan outsmarted India by publicly announcing the successful test launch of Hatf-VII a.k.a ‘Babur’ cruise missile. India had to wait until 2014 to counter Pakistan in subsonic cruise missile tech....
India had maintained closer ties with Israel when R.N Kao was heading RAW since 70’s. Since both countries was facing Terrorism issues, Kao had approached Israel in providing intelligence and thus started Indo-Israel brotherhood!...
Underlining the Bharatiya Janata Party’s unease at the Congress party’s allegations of wrongdoing by the National Democratic Alliance government in the Rs 58,000 crore (Rs 580 billion) purchase last year of 36 Rafale fighters from the...
In the last four decades, India has made significant progress in the missile development. From the humble beginning in 1983, when the program to develop surface-to-surface missile Prithvi was launched, India now has a...