Independence Day Features

    In 2009, long before Make in India became a popular buzzword in the defence industry, Mahindra Aerospace acquired a 75.1 per cent stake in Australian light aircraft manufacturer GippsAero, becoming the first – and...

    The clarion call for self reliance has always been the cynosure of successive governments but the seriousness of the issue to address long-standing strategic and national security concerns to offset India’s external dependence for...

    India’s geographical shape and location has always given advantage over others. Being covered from sea on three sides and Himalaya on north, our boundaries have been defined and secured. But in recent time India’s...

    From being the world’s second largest importer of arms between 2014 and 2019 at US$16.75 billion, India now aspires to become self reliant in defence sector, and has even drawn up an ambitious plan...

    NATIONAL SECURITY CONSTRUCT AND ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT: India’s strategic security canvas, if not perilous, is fragile and susceptible to escalating threats to national security. Both on the western and northern front we face adversaries who...

With the regional security environment around the country remaining perilous, India is in the midst of an ambitious military modernisation programme as the central government has sought to undergird India’s expanded international profile on...

    Two recent developments in the Indian Air Force (IAF) again brought into sharp focus the ‘indigenous versus import’ conundrum facing the service. Indigenous LCA Tejas:  IAF commissioned the second squadron of indigenous ‘Tejas’ Light Combat...