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India faces diverse external threats and challenges. It has to manage its over 15000 km long borders with seven countries, sections of which are contested or not formally demarcated on the ground or constitute...
India faces diverse external threats and challenges. It has to manage its over 15000 km long borders with seven countries, sections of which are contested or not formally demarcated on the ground or constitute...
Meet Otto Adolf Eichmann a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer who was one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. After Germany’s defeat in 1945, Eichmann fled to Austria. He lived there until 1950, when he moved...
Do you know during world war II, civilians were asked to volunteer for the fight, and many of them joined the war to save their nation? We never want a war as we are...
On January 20, the Hindustan Times reported India is “laying the groundwork” to test a new 800km version of its BrahMos cruise missile. The test is expected to take place some time in 2018. “It will be...
The IAF watched the early development of the Jaguar with keen interest but with no real inclination to acquire it. The keenness was to see how its own HF-24 would do the job so...
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by defenceupdate · Published August 21, 2017 · Last modified May 4, 2019
The Indian Navy’s latest aircraft carrier, the 65,000-ton supercarrier INS Vishal, the second ship of the Vikrant-class, will not be powered by a nuclear reactor as country’s premier nuclear institution, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre...
India’s ambassador to the United States, Amb. Harsh Vardhan Shringla was handed over first Boeing developed CH-47F Chinook Helicopter for Indian Air Force at transfer ceremony held in Boeing Defense facility in Philadelphia, which...
Described as the most lethal attack helicopter in the world, the Apache has been in service since 1984 with over 2,100 machines produced. The version that India is purchasing is the latest Block III...
The Indian Navy successfully conducted maiden firing of an AntiShip missile from first of Kalvari class submarines, during test firing in the Arabian Sea on Thursday. The missile has successfully hit a surface target...