US may offer F-35 fighter if India scraps S-400 deal
The US could offer the fifth-generation F-35 fighter jet for both the air force and navy, if the $5.43-billion deal with Russia for the S-400 air defence system is dropped. The US has been...
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Is India prepared to fight a two-front war?
The induction of the former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar and the elevation of Ajit Doval to the Cabinet rank give us the indication that Narendra Modi is now serious about the China conundrums and...
India needs to start winning the diplomatic war with Pakistan
All diplomacy,” said Communist China’s first premier Zhou Enlai, is a “continuation of war by other means”. The statement was a play on the famous line by Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz: “War...
Iran plays Pakistan, China against India as Modi turns to Trump
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has recently kept busy with diplomatic visits to neighboring countries. On May 23, he arrived in Islamabad, his third trip to Pakistan since Prime Minister Imran Khan took...
US delivers CAATSA warning to India
The present course of defence ties between India and the United States could be jeopardised if New Delhi goes ahead with its planned procurement of Almaz-Antei S-400 Triumf self-propelled surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems from...
When Prithvi Missile spooked Pakistan to tread the path of ‘Nuclear Proliferation’
More than developing a nuclear bomb for its own, Pakistan’s larger malaise is proliferation of the centrifuge technology. Pakistan indulged in clandestine nuclear trading with both North Korea and Iran. A Q Khan, the...
India to conclude user trials of first locally developed howitzer
The Indian Army (IA) is expected to successfully complete user trials of the 155 mm/52 calibre Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS) within the next two months: a move that would pave the way...
India to test NextGen Akash surface-to-air missile variant this year
BEL Chairman M V Gowtama while speaking to media has confirmed that with all final components in place, assembly of Akash NG (new generation) which is a brand new variant of surface-to-air missile (SAM)...
Russia To Offer Customizable MiG-35 Jet To India
Russia will offer customizable Mikoyan MiG-35 fighter to the Indian Air Force (IAF) which is looking to acquire 114 combat aircraft to supplement its depleting fleet of fighters. Russia is open to the idea...
IAF plans to retire R-77 AAMs across all Russian fighter fleet
IAF had placed orders for 1000 R-77 AAMs from 1996 onwards and each missile costs approximately 2 crores each. According to the audit report filed by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) nearly...