Lt Gen Retd P.C. Katoch

US will NOT Permit Ukraine-Russia Peace

  The talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Turkey on Thursday saw no progress. This was more than expected. Earlier, Ukraine President Zelensky said Ukraine would not...

The Catch 22 in Afghanistan

  There is much in the news about US including India in the multilateral dialogue on Afghanistan while Russia kept India out of it. This rhetoric will heighten with the dialogue on peaceful settlement in...

Minesweeping Capability

News reports of December 2020 indicate that the Indian Navy is looking at leasing an unspecified number of mine counter measure vessels (MCMVs) in addition to other equipment to fill critical gaps. For example,...

China’s Water Bombs

  After shunning disengagement beyond first phase on both banks of Pangong Tso in Eastern Ladakh, China has fired the next shot at India; China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) has cleared the construction of a...

The FICV Story – Ongoing for Decades, Unsure Future

THE DRDO began developing Abhay, an Infantry Combat Vehicle (ICV), in the late 1990s and the design work was completed by 2001. Abhay is a pre-technology demonstrator to develop and test technologies to be...
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