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A Silent Industrial Player
Neither Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co Pvt Ltd nor its subsidiary Godrej Precision Engineering have participated in expos like Aero India and DEFEXPO to date. Instead, both have chosen to be...
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IAF's Project Eagle Eye, Plus IA's Battlespace Digitisation Efforts For IBGs...
Dhruti Radar Warning Receivers on IAF Su-30MKI H-MRCAsIA's Battlespace Digitisation Efforts For IBGsAVision is a JV between Israel-based UVision Air Ltd & Hyderabad-based Aditya Precitech Pvt Ltd...
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PRACHAND LCH Is Defenceless...As Of Now
Back in 2015 during the Aero India expo at Bengaluru, HAL Chief Test Pilot Retired Wg. Cdr. Unnikrishnan had told me that the RWR, LWR and MAWS sensors would most probably be installed along the twin...
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Western FMBTs Profiled
The General Dynamics Land Systems AbramsX MBT features an autoloader, unmanned turret, hybrid electric powerpack that gives 50% more fuel efficiency, and reduced weight for improved mobility. It weighs...
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India-Japan Military-Technical/Military-Industrial Cooperation Takes Off
The first-ever military-technical/military-industrial cooperation projects between India and Japan have now entered the negotiations stage, after being green-lighted by the second Japan-India 2 + 2...
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MAREEM AIP Plug-In Module For Indian Navy's INS Kalvari S-21 CM-2000 Scorpene...
As expected, the first MAREEM fuel cell-based Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system designed and developed by the DRDO’s Ambarnath-based Naval Materials Research Laboratory (NMRL) and built by an...
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Aero India 2023 Expo Highlights
The above is presently undergoing high-altitude tests at Zhukovsky in Russia.The above missile is not a BVRAAM, but is a surface-launched supersonic aerial target.Notice the changed configuration of...
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Decoding A 1980s-Era Espionage Operation
Thus far, only one senior Indian Air Force (IAF) has gone public (see below) with a much-publicised espionage operation that had been mounted by the US in the early 1980s inside India.In March 1983,...
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US INDOPACOM’s Integrated Deterrence Strategy & Its Indian Component
Two retired senior Indian Navy veterans in the recent past have passionately made the case for fortifying the Andaman & Nicobar Islands for very good reasons. First and foremost is the China...
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Updates from Vizag, Bhuj & Naliya
Construction of SBC-2, the second final-assembly line for the Indian Navy's six-boat SSN project, should be completed by the end of 2024. Thus, it can be concluded that the various hull-sections...
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No More A Fence-Sitter
When India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J Austin III met in New Delhi on June 5 this year, many were wondering what was the reason why the two had indulged in what...
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HAL Attains A Critical Milestone In Rotorcraft Development & Manufacturing
Following 18 years of hardwork, state-owned DPSU Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd on July 4 received 'restricted' type-certification (for flight operations up to medium-altitudes) from the Brussels-based...
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BARC & ECIL To Co-Develop PWR Control-Systems For Indian Navy's Six Projected...
A tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the Indian Navy (IN), BARC and Hyderabad-based ECIL on July 10, 2023 in the presence of VADM Dinesh K Tripathi, FOC-in-C, Western Naval...
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Indian Army Begins Limited Upgrade Of T-90S MBTs
The Indian Army has begun the process of upgrading four regiments of its T-90S main battle tanks by ordering about 400 units each of the following hardware.The upgraded T-90S MBTs will be deployed with...
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GIDS Exhibits At IDEF'23 Originate From China & South Africa
IDEF’23, the 16th International Defence Industry Fair held between July 25 and 28, 2023, saw Pakistan’s state-owned Global Industrial & Defence Solutions (GIDS) exhibiting several of its products...
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Heron-2 MALE-UAV & Its Archer-NG Clone Explained
Although Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) had been offering its Super Heron HF MALE-UAV to India since 2015 (it even brought this UAV to the Aero India 2015 and 2017 expos in Bengaluru), both the...
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Yes To Temporary Disengagement & De-Escalation, But Permanent De-Induction...
Analysis of satellite imagery around the Indian Union Territory of Ladakh reveals that while the disengagement and de-escalation by the opposing military ground forces of China and India remains a...
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Taiwan's Hai Kun (SS-711) SSK Explained
The Republic of China (Taiwan) attained a significant national security milestone o September 28 when its first of eight domestically built diesel-electric submarines, the Hai Kun (SS-711), was rolled...
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Required: ATGM-Armed UGVs & UAS, Not Light Tanks
It is now fairly established that the actions of China’s PLA Ground Forces (PLAGF) in eastern Ladakh in mid-2020 were part of its evolution of an “Active Defence” posture, defined as a focus on “rapid...
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Hermes 900 MALE-UAVs, aka Drishti-10, Arriving Early Next Year for IA & IN
It was on March 2, 2021 that Israel’s ELBIT Systems had announced that it had received a US$300 million contract from an undisclosed Asian customer to supply and deliver Hermes 900 Starliner MALE-UAS....
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In a significant move aimed at reducing tensions, the Indian Army (IA) and Pakistan Army (PA) on February 25, 2021 announced that they would cease firing across the Line of Control (LoC) while...
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