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Inside India’s AI-Powered Stealth Jet: The Future Unmanned Fighter Aircraft

The Indian Future Unmanned Fighter Aircraft (FUFA) project is a key initiative in India's pursuit of next-generation combat capabilities, combining strategic ambition and indigenous innovation in aerospace technology. We investigate the conceptual origins, technical...

Digital Steel: Transforming the Armoured Corps for Integrated Multidomain Wars

The Imperative for Doctrinal Transformation: India’s Armoured Corps faces transformation challenges unique to the digital age of multidomain battlespace. The predominance of C5ISR and digital kill webs, along with unmanned aerial systems cum missiles,...

The Bogey of Trump’s Gaza Deal

With Israel continuing to pound Gaza despite US President Donald Trump’s three-day old missive to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to immediately stop bombing Gaza, the fragility of Trump’s Gaza peace plan is more...

Should India Take Back Pakistan Occupied Kashmir?

These days, the Indian media is making much noise over Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement regarding the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The speculation is rife because of ongoing protests in PoK. Based on these protests,...

Teetering on the Edge

In a highly provocative speech, Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party of Bangladesh, asserted that should India try to intervene in Bangladesh, it would have to “fight off five million youth...

US Presence in Bagram: The Regional Fallout

The latest demand by POTUS to reoccupy Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, shows his modus operandi, insisting on a new toy after every few days, to further his MAGA ambition. The writer analyses the...

Wars of the Future: The Need to Re-Orient Indian Air Force

Technology-driven weapon systems have reshaped the very nature of modern military conflicts. Revolutions in military affairs have pushed the arena of war from ‘non-contact’ to ‘invisibility’. It simply means whatever is visible to the...

India Needs Fighter Jets, But Not Without Pilots, Trainers and Ground Crew

On September 26, 2025, the Indian Air Force (IAF) finally bid farewell to its last MiG-21s—the numerically largest fighter fleet in IAF history—after more than six decades of service. The final two squadrons, No....

Sir Creek – The New Conflict Zone: Implications For National Security

On October 2, 2025, at a military base in Bhuj, Gujarat, during the Vijayadashami/Shastra Puja ceremonies, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh issued a stern warning to Pakistan regarding its activities in the Sir Creek area....

Snapback Sanctions on Iran: Punishment Without Strategy

The reimposition of United Nations sanctions on Iran this September has been described in Western capitals as a triumph of resolve. In practice, it reveals the fundamental ineffectiveness of diplomacy and the failure of...

Gaza Peace Plan: What’s Cooking Among USA, Israel and Pakistan

"Great leaders coming — Prime Minister of Pakistan coming and Field Marshal (Asim Munir) coming. Field Marshal of Pakistan is a great guy and so is the Prime Minister of Pakistan — both coming....

MiG-21 – Time to Say Goodbye or Good Riddance

Bollywood movie, "Love and War," starring Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor, and Vicky Kaushal, filmed at the Nal Air Force Station in Bikaner, featured the Indian Air Force's MiG-21 jets. The film shoot marked the...

Has US Antagonism Taught India the Cost of Dependencies?

Operation Sindoor underlined India’s ability to impose its will on the battlefield. Yet the weeks that followed have shown that the bigger war is not about missiles or drones. It is about autonomy. The...
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