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S-400 Triumf LR-SAMs Arriving By 2018 For Limited TMD, Plus Six SSNs & Four...
As per the IAF’s projections, there exists a requirement for 12 Batteries of the JSC Almaz-Antey-built S-400 (each Battery using four TELs each housing four cannister-encased LR-SAMs), plus five...
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Gloves Are Finally Off Against Those Irreconcilable, Compulsively Sulking...
On paper, to the north, those Pakistan Army (PA) battle formations that are LoC-specific and Chicken’s Neck-specific are the Mangla-based I Corps that comprises the Gujranwala-based 6 Armoured...
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11th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition Highlights
More HighlightsThe hapless sod from the Pakistan Air Force (below) was seen seeking Allah’s intervention for the availability of the elusive JFT-17 tandem-seat OCU trainer. Just behind the main expo...
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Never-Ending Torrent Of Unkept Promises
“Aim for the sky and try developing more-advanced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) despite being incapable of developing far less-advanced UAVs over the past 28 years.” That’s what best exemplifies the...
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Waging Retributive, Sustained Hyperwar
Despite all sanctimonious talk (about not retaliating with fire-assaults against ‘brotherly’ Muslim Kashmiris inside J & K’s Kashmir Valley) and bombastic bluster (about possessing full-spectrum...
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A Tale Of Two Aircraft Carrier Construction Programmes
Keel-laying for Project 71 IAC-1 took place on February 28, 2009 and the hull was launched on August 12, 2013.About 83% of the fabrication work and 75% of the construction work had been completed by...
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India’s Cruise Missile Programme Updates
Re-inventing the wheel is a futile and time-consuming process for countries like India, especially when there are a select few friendly, highly industrialised countries that are more than willing to...
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Dissecting The RFQs Of HAL/ARDC For Tejas Mk.1A L-MRCA
By floating two separate restricted request for quotations (RFQ) on December 14 and 15 last year, the MoD-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd’s (HAL) Aviation Research and Design Centre (ARDC) finally won...
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A Not-So-Silent War
The mystery surrounding the alleged interception of an Indian Navy (IN) diesel-electric submarine (SSK) on November 16 last year by a Pakistan Navy (PN) P-3C Orion LRMR/ASW aircraft can at last be...
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Mapping Out An Incredible Rollercoaster Journey
The period between October 2015 and January 2017 saw a bizarre process being played out that has now come back full circle to the point where it all originally started: On October 17, 2014 the Indian...
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Aero India 2017 Highlights
Let us first browse through the site navigational aspects, shall we? Now to the outdoor exhibits.The Rustom-2 MALE-UAV has been re-named (only God-knows-why) as TAPAS. Now to some of the prominent...
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Aero India 2017 Highlights-2
This year’s expo showcased two new-generation weapon systems that are expected to enter service by 2020 at best, these being the SR-SAM for the Indian Army’s Corps of Air-Defence Artillery (CADA), and...
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SpyDer-SR LL-QRM/QR-SAM Deliveries Have Begun, Aerostat-Mounted EL/M-2083s To...
Following a nine-year wait, both the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Indian Army (IA) are now poised to replace their existing inventories of OSA-AKM and ZRK-BD Strela-10M SHORADS with the RAFAEL of...
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Arjun Mk.2 MBT Now A Firm Reality
Contrary to widespread speculation, the Indian Army (IA) has not forsaken or given up on the Arjun Mk.2 main battle tank (MBT). Instead, for the past four years, the IA’s Directorate General of...
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Updates On Pakistan's Air-Defence Artillery Force Modernisation Efforts
Pakistan being a national security/garrison state will obviously not want to share the critical operating parameters of its weapon systems, especially those pertaining to air-defence, even with its own...
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Setting The Record Straight
Till this day, the overwhelming majority of India’s citizens are ill-informed about the legal status of the State of Jammu & Kashmir (inclusive of PoK), i.e. whether it is legally a part of India...
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From T-6/Bhim To K-9/Vajra-T: Tracing The Tracked SPH Merry-Go-Round
It was in March 1994, that Indian Army (IA) HQ formulated the GSQR for tracked self-propelled howitzers (T-SPH) SP by using the 152mm 2S19M1/MSTA-S T-SPH as the baseline performance parameter...
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L’Affaire De Kulbhushan Jadhav: A Case Of PARVAZ-E-WAHIYAT (Unmitigated...
If the public administration motto of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ‘maximum governance, minimum government’, the exact opposite holds true for his Pakistani counterpart Mian Mohd Nawaz...
View ArticleL’Affaire De Kulbhushan Jadhav-2: A Case Of PARVAZ-E-WAHIYAT (Unmitigated...
The International Border (IB) between India and Pakistan spans 2,175km. The Working Boundary (WB) spans 202km, the Line of Control (LoC) spans 797km, and the Line of Actual Contact (LAC)—which India...
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