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Case For Combining Indian Navy’s NGMV & NGC Needs Into A Unitary Procurement
Worldwide, the major navies as well as those with littoral warfare missions are getting rid of their existing fleets of FAC-Ms and light multi-role guided-missile corvettes (both armed with anti-ship...
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The War That Should Never Have Been
Behind the much-feted victory in the India-Pakistan limited war of mid-1999 (in the Drass-Kargil-Batalik sectors of Jammu & Kashmir) lurks colossal blunders—bungles which had involved the top...
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Indian Navy Places Bulk Order For SDRs, Plus Project 15 DDG MLU Details
The Indian Navy will be the first of the country’s three armed services to induct new-generation software-defined radios (SDR), following a contract signature on August 8, 2019 with state-owned Bharat...
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'Desi' X-Band Active Phased-Array PARs for Indian Air Force & Indian Navy
India’s Ministry of Defence on August 26, 2019 inked a contract worth Rs.380 crore with Chennai-based Data Patterns (India) Pvt Ltd under which the latter will supply, install and commission an initial...
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China-Developed Long-Range, TNW-Armed MBRLs For Export
When China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) holds a grand military parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on October 1 (expected to be the biggest in China’s history) showcasing some of its most advanced...
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PLA Navy's First Type 075 LHD Launched
In a brief ceremony held on September 25, 2019 the China State Shipbuilding Corp’s (CSSC) Shanghai-based Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard launched the first of three Type 075 landing helicopter docks (LHD)...
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PLA Displayed New Hardware At The PRC's 70th Anniversary Parade
The People’s Republic of China held a huge parade to mark the 70th anniversary of its founding, which featured 15,000 troops, 160 aircraft and 580 pieces of equipment.
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Delusional In Cuckooland
What goes and will inevitably always go horribly wrong when someone who is an ENT Surgeon by profession and an ex-Adviser to the UN’s World health Organisation (WHO) gets to become the Govt of India’s...
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M982 Excalibur GPS-Guided Cargo Projectiles Have Arrived
Utterly frustrated by the long gestation period for developing the precision-guided Pinaka-2 multi-barrel rocket launch system (MBRL), the Indian Army’s (IA) HQ Northern Command last July began the...
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GAETEC's Capacities, Capabilities & Future Plans
The SDR-A developed for use by the airborne manned platforms of the Indian Navy has successfully completed its user-trials and has been cleared for serrvice induction.
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Fuelling High Expectations By Manufacturing FAKE NEWS
Since the previous decade itself, India-based ‘desi patrakaars’, through both print and electronic media outlets, have been churning out FAKE NEWS about the export potential of India-made military...
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How Nylon Necklaces Were Developed For Conducting OP TRIDENT & OP PYTHON in...
During summertime in 1970, a group of group of 40 Indian Navy (IN) officers and 18 non-commissioned men—after learning the Russian language over a four-month period, were sent to the headquarters of...
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Key Takeaways From The IAF-PAF February 27 Aerial Engagements
South Asia’s first aerial engagement in 48 years, which took place on the morning of February 27 this year, was noteworthy for two reasons. Firstly, the engagements between the two opposing air forces...
View ArticleEscalation Dynamics Under Nuclear Overhang
The two rounds of aerial engagements between the air forces of India and Pakistan on February 26/27 after the February 14 Pulwama terror-attack hold important lessons for conventional deterrence as...
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Pakistan Army's SH-15 MGS Package
The Pakistan Navy had last August inducted into service the NORINCO-supplied Sharp Eye tactical UAS for use along the contested Sir Creek area bordering India’s state of Gujarat and Pakistan’s Sindh...
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IAF’s MiG-23BN ‘Vijay’ & MiG-27M ‘Bahadur’: Under-Utilised Workhorses
The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) association with ‘swing-wing’ combat aircraft came to an end on December 27, 2019 when the last remaining seven MiG-27UPGs were decommissioned from service. These aircraft,...
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From NLCA To MRCBF To TED-BF
The maiden arrested recovery of the LCA Navy Mk.1/NP-2 technology demonstrator on board INS Vikramaditya on January 11, 2020 and its following maiden takeoff a day later marked the attainment of a...
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New Weapons Showcased At RDP-2020
ADTCR of Indian Army’s ADC & RSThe ADTCR is the Army version of the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) gapfiller Ashwini MRSR.The Ashwini is in turn networked with the IAF’s Arudhra MPR through the IACCCS...
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