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Maritime ISR Outposts Taking Shape
As per an agreement inked between Mauritius and India on March 11, 2015, the latter had committed to funding the construction of an airport capable of accommodating twin-engined jetliners as well as...
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Mapping The PLAGF's Field Deployments In Eastern Ladakh
Updated GoogleEarth imagery has nolw revealed the scales of field deployment of the PLAGF Ground Forces’ two warfighting formations now deployed in eastern Ladakh—the South Xinjiang Military District’s...
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Creating & Disseminating False Narratives
Creating and disseminating false narratives for the sake of according false fame/glorification has become a fashionable pastime for some ‘desi patrakaars’, with this being the latest instance:Manohar...
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Opposing Deployments Along The LAC In Eastern Ladakh
Depsang Plain AreaEarly last year, the Indian Army (IA) had concluded that the number of transgressions in the preceding months had been much more all along Sikkim and eastern Ladakh. Around March 2020...
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China's Assessment Of The Military Dimensions Of The LAC Standoff
The following is a semi-official assessment of the military balance-of-power along the LAC in eastern Ladakh by an unknown China-based entity, which was drafted sometime last last year, and has...
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ACTAS Fitment On INS Tabar FFG
Clearest evidence thus far on the fitment of ATLAS Elektronik-supplied ACTAS towed-array sonar suites on the three Batch-1 Project 1135.6 guided-missile frigates of the Indian Navy.
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PLAGF’s Modular Combined-Arms Brigades and Combined-Arms Battalions Explained
First and foremost, China and the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) are looking to become what they call a “Great Power,” as they were centuries ago. We can trace much of this back to 1979, when...
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ATHOS Or ATAGS?
While the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) notification of ‘Second Positive Indigenisation List’ of 108 items finally confirms that both the Indian Army (IA) and Indian Air Force (IAF) will now receive only...
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PLA Navy's Bastion At Hainan Island
The PLA Navy’s (PLAN) South Sea Fleet component of the PLA’s Southern Theatre Command at Hainan Island, which is to the immediate north of the South China Sea, is being equipped with a string of new...
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China's Military Infrastructure Updates In South Xinjiang & Tibet Military...
Over the past 12 months, several new permanent structures have been constructed and commissioned by the PLAAF, PLAGF and PLARF throughout the South Xinjiang and Tibet Military Districts, the most...
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PLAGF Deployments In Depsang Plains
The deployment footprint is indicative of the existence there of an entire High-Mobility Light Mechanised Infantry Brigade of the PLAGF.
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Early Pointers
Probable Directions of HexaCopters' Flight-PathsHere is what one can infer about the drone-strike conducted in the early pre-dawn hours of June 27, 2021 against the Indian Air Force’s Jammu AFS:1)The...
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Missing The Woods For The Trees
The two back-to-back televised interviews given yesterday by India’s first-ever Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Bipin Rawat and the Indian Air Force’s 26th Chief of Air Staff (CAS) Air Chief Marshal...
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Interesting Visit
The just-concluded three-day visit to India by US Army Gen Richard D Clarke, Commander United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and his officially acknowledged meeting with the Indian Army’s...
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Builder's Sea-Trials For Project 71 IAC-1 Commence
Designed by the Directorate of Naval Design of the Indian Navy (IN) under Project 71, the 37,500-tonne Project 71 Indigenous Aircraft Carrier’s (IAC-1) construction at a cost of Rs.3,261 crore was...
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A Very Bleak Future For Afghanistan
Afghanistan has a population of 38 million. About 4.5 million people (12% of the country) live in the capital Kabul, which is located in the east of the country. Other major provinces include Herat...
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Afghanistan's Future & Regional Options
Following a fortnight of targetted conciliatory statements issued by Taliban spokespersons Zabihullah Mujahid and Suhail Shaheen on mainstream English-language Indian TV channels, the Taliban’s head of...
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From Regional Strategic Convergence to Regional Strategic Coherence
Back in the decade of the 1990s, it was the combination of India’s financial crisis in mid-1991, followed by the dissolution of the Soviet Union (USSR) on December 25, 1991, that was responsible for...
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AUKUS Is Born, RAN To Procure Eight SSGNs
Following almost a year of extensive deliberations, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States on September 16, 2021 formally agreed to the creation of an enhanced trilateral security...
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