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Profiling The Indian Army's UFH Procurement Saga
It was in 2006 that the Indian Army (IA) had zeroed in on the need for air-portable ultralightweight 155mm/39-cal howitzers (UFH) and had even drafted a GSQR for its procurement. At the same time, the...
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Islamic Republic of Iran’s RMA Analysed
When it comes to defending the sovereignty of its national airspace and the related air-defence identification zone (ADIZ), the Islamic Republic of Iran has, since mid-2004, been undertaking a mammoth...
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Islamic Republic of Iran’s RMA Analysed-2
PADAJA’s Regional Air-Defence NetworkCommand-and-control at the regional level is provided by the IRIADF’s or Khatam al-Anbiya Air-Defence HQ’s (PADAJA) nine regional commands, each headquartered in a...
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Shanghai-Based CSSC's Jiangnan Shipyard Launches First 10,000-Ton Type 055 DDG
The Type 055 DDG was preceded by the Type 052B DDGs, Type 052C DDGs and the Type 052D DDGs.Type 052B DDGType 052C DDGType 052D DDGNow, compare ther above evolutionary designs with the evolution of...
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Recent PLAN Movements In IOR & The China-India Border Standoff
The 26th PLA Escort Naval Fleet, comprisingType 054A FFGs Huanggang 577 and Yangzhou 578 and the fleet tanker Gaoyouhu 966 from the PLAN’s East China Sea Fleet departed from Zhoushan City of east...
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DRDO-Owned & Navy-Operated MRIS Vessels Take Shape, As Does The S-3 SSBN
The first of two DRDO-owned and Indian Navy-operated Missile-Range Instrumentation Ships (MRIS) is presently undergoing outfitting alongside the 560-metre jetty of the MoD-owned Hindustan Shipyard Ltd...
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PLA's India-Specific Operational Orientation + Location Of China-India...
PLA Air Bases east of Arunachal PradeshYanggong Plateau, Heqing, Dali, Yunnan, China PLA Air Bases in Qinghai Plateau & Opposite CARs ALGs in Arunachal PradeshALGs in SikkimPLA Helipad at Yushagang...
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Products From A Self-Confessed “Teacher Without Any Dreams”
A consortium of the PLA Navy’s (PLAN) R & D institutions is claiming to have achieved vital developmental breakthroughs in the arenas of integrated electric propulsion systems (IEPS), pump-jet...
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Likely Points Of PLA Ingress Into India
Needless to say, any ingress by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) into India-controlled territory will be small-scale, shallow in depth and of a temporary nature, primarily due to the vagaries of the...
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LCA-AF Mk.2 Can Still Become A Reality. Here's How
A revised roadmap dealing with the propulsion system for both the Tejas Mk.1A and the LCA-AF Mk.2 multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA) is slowly but gradually emerging, following the satisfactory...
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Debunking The PLA's Over-Hyped Manoeuvre Warfare Capabilities
Since the past decade, a widespread disinformation campaign has been mounted—both officially and unofficially—to over-hype and over-estimate the manoeuvre warfare capabilities of China’s People’s...
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Mini-UAVs Will Get Zapped By EMP All Over NCR, For Starters
In the absence of comprehensive legislation governing the usage of privately-owned unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) anywhere within Indian airspace, there has been a steady proliferation of mini-UAVs,...
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Will Nag/NAMICA-2 Combination Enter Service?
Though the successful test-firings of the Nag ATGM/NAMICA-2 combination passed its most crucial developmental milestone on September 8 and 9, 2017, this has perhaps come too late and it now remains to...
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Why CHHAMB Continues To Matter: A Historical Perspective
Unless we derive lessons from our past mistakes, we are condemned to repeat those very same mistakes in future. This is what we can learn after conducting critical appreciations of the all of India’s...
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Missing The Woods For The Trees, Putting The Cart Before The Horse
Whenever hyper-speculative media hype originates from certain claims made by an over-zealous corporate house, the end-result always tantamount to putting the cart before the horse. And this is exactly...
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Dazzle-N-Destroy Air-Defence Options
New-generation mobile, high-energy solid-state laser-based directed-energy weapons (DEW) are fast emerging as cost-effective counter-rocket, counter-artillery, counter-PGM, counter-UAV and...
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INS Kalvari S-21 SSK's On-Board Systems & Fitments
A unique feature of each of the Indian Navy’s six Scorpene SSKs is an on-board tactical situational awareness display console (above) of the kind normally found on SSNs, SSGNs and SSBNs. On this single...
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AAD Endo-Atmospheric Interceptor Headed For Systems Maturity
India’s Ministry of Defence-owned Defence Research & Development Organisation’s (DRDO) Hyderabad-based Research Centre Imarat (RCI( and its associated Sensors Research Society (SRS) has since 2012...
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When Application Of Sound Common-Sense Produces The Best Results
The Annual Army Tech Seminar (ARTECH-2018), conducted at the Manekshaw Convention Centre, Delhi Cantonment, on January 8, 2017 also played host to displays of selected innovations of the Indian Army...
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