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From Establishment 22 To Special Frontier Force: The Phantom Warriors
Who would lead such a force? What was needed was a senior Indian military officer who could win the confidence of the Tibetans, embracing their independent nature and promoting a semblance of...
View ArticleA Dysfunctional National Security System Without A Coherent National Security...
This explains it all:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HTYdwdjcQo And while the air-defence networks of the Indian Air Force and the Indian Army are gearing themselves up to match the conventional...
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SEAD-Specific SAAW Cleared For Bulk Production, While DEAD-Specific NG-ARM...
The approval accorded by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) of India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) on September 28, 2020 for commencing the process of bulk acquisition worth Rs.970 crore of the Smart...
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New Garrison HQ For PLA’s 361 Border Defence Regiment (Unit 69310)
The new Garrison HQ of the PLA’s 361 Border Defence Regiment (Unit 69310) was commissioned into service on October 1 in the Zanda County of Tibet’s Ali (Ngari) Prefecture. This is one of three...
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160Km-Range RUDRAM-1 NG-ARM Test-Fired
Preliminary conceptual studies got underway in April 2012 at the DRDO’s Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), following which financial approval for Rs.317.2 crore was accorded in...
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Indigenous Warship Construction: Laudable Objective, But Unsustainable Practice
While indigenisation of the design, development and construction of naval principal surface combatants is a laudable objective, it is the apex-level project management of successive warship...
View ArticlePakistani Falsehoods Finally Exposed By Native Pakistanis
To uphold one lie, several more lies have to be uttered. This is what best sums up all that has been emanating from Pakistan over the past 48 hours. The original lie unleashed by Pakistan was on...
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Deployment Pattern Of Indian Navy's Undersea Warfare Assets
Thus, by doing the math, we can safely conclude that at least one Type 877EKM SSK (out of the eight remaining in service), one Scorpene SSK (out of four as of two days ago), one Class 209/Type 1500 SSK...
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Those Were The Days!
Back in 1981, the Indian Air Force (IAF) had attained two critical milestones: service-induction in April of its first BVR combat-capable air superiority combat aircraft—the MiG-23MF—and the raising of...
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IAC-1 Completes 75-Day Basin Trials
Basin Trials of the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC-1), which got underway in mid-September, were successfully concluded at Cochin Shipyard Limited on November 30, 2020 in the presence of Vice Admiral...
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Recalling India's First Joint Forces Vertical Envelopment Operations That...
The Aftermath: Lessons Unlearnt
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HAL's HTFE-25 Turbofan: Unclear & Unexplained R & D Objectives
It was in 2007 that US-based Honeywell successfully demonstrated to the Indian Air Force (IAF) the ‘drop-in installation’ of its F125IN turbofan on a Jaguar IS interdictor/strike aircraft. The F125IN...
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Update On INS Arighat S-74 SSGN
Following the successful completion of the all-critical SCRAM systems tests and performance validations of the the third-generation OK-700A/VM-4SG pressurised water reactor (generating 89.2mW...
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Manned/Unmanned Airborne ISR Platforms Of China & India
PLAAF/PLAGF PlatformsIndian Platforms
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PLA's Training Schedule For 2021 Kicks Off In Lhasa Under WTC's Tibet...
China’s President Xi Jinping, also General Secretary of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), on January 4, 2021 signed the first...
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Mischievous 'Dragonnade' By Clueless 'Desi Patrakaars'
Either unwittingly or as a result of sheer ignorance about historical realities, India’s ‘desi patrakaars’ have yet again managed to bring to the forefront of national discourse certain glaring and...
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IAF-Specific Akash-NG E-SHORADS Explained
The maiden test-firing of the DRDO-developed, 40km-range Akash-NG E-SHORADS was the culmination of a six-year R & D effort that had begun in 2014 to fulfil an Indian Air Force-specific requirement...
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Indian Navy Orders DRDO-Developed & BEL-Made SDRs
India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) yesterday inked a Rs.1,000 crore procurement contract with its wholly-owned defence public-sector undertaking Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) for supplying the Indian...
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From Arjun Mk.1 to Mk.1A to Mk.2: An Evolving MBT Family
The 124 Arjun Mk.1s were delivered to the Indian Army between 2004 and 2012 at a rate of 15 MBTs per annum and each MBT had 63% imported content.They will be upgraded in phases that will include the...
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