Airbus Group has been actively supporting India’s military modernisation as well as furthering India’s efforts to build a robust indigenous military-industrial complex through the transfer of technology and joint development and production with local...
India’s diplomatic engagements with the ASEAN members date back to the World War 2 era when India supported the independence of Indonesia and Myanmar and was a prominent participant at the 1955 Bandung Conference....
On 22nd August the Defense Acquisition Council, government’s highest decision making body on defense procurements granted emergency powers to armed forces for procurement of essential weapons and equipment. This provision has been in place...
Comprehensive combat potential, emphasised by flexibility, quick response, and mobility, is a must-have for any nation. Aerospace power, with its ability to reach far distances, be they be within or outside the borders, fits...
This October 8th the IAF completes 90 years of glorious service to the nation. The past nine-decades is a saga of critical contribution to nation-building, warfighting, support to civil administration, air defence, international cooperation...
As the 27th Chief of the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari has relentlessly been working to ensure that Indian Air Force emerges as a modern fighting force, capable of defending...
India’s defence acquisition regime is currently governed by Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020 (DAP 2020). It came into effect on October 1, 2020, superseding Defence Procurement Procedure 2016 (DPP 2016). Like all its previous versions,...
In 2018, India’s elite Special Forces unit, the National Security Guard, acquired the world’s smallest micro drone, the Black Hornet. Weighing just 33 grams and able to fly 25 minutes on a single charge,...
Regardless of status, nations across Europe are speaking unanimously against the Russian attack on Ukraine. The European block’s unified reaction is striking since the Old Continent is known for its difficulty to find common...
On 2nd September 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned India’s first 40,000 ton Stobar (short take off from the 160m deck and three-barrier assisted landing) aircraft carrier INS Vikrant at the Cochin Shipyard Ltd...
With the annexation of four former Ukrainian regions namely Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, into the Russian Federation, Kremlin claims to have achieved the objective behind the special military operation (SMO) which began on...
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh signed an MoU on defence cooperation with Egypt during his first visit to Egypt on September 21, 2022. During the visit, the minister held wide-ranging discussions with Egyptian Defence Minister...
When Hitler invaded Poland on the 1st of September 1939, he swept across the country with a different kind of cavalry ― tanks. The whole world watched the dawn of an entirely different type...