F-35 Conducts First External Weapons Release
For the first time, an F-35 released an external weapon from its wings during a Sept. 23 test.The Navy F-35C carrier variant released four 500-pound GBU-12 laser guided inert bombs from its wings...
View ArticleSince Nawaz Sharif is a Toothless PM, should India start Engaging Pakistan Army?
Like Americans, should India also engage Pakistan Army?New Delhi: Nawaz Sharif is one Pakistani politician who is supposed to be in favour of normalizing relations with India. His opponents in Pakistan...
View ArticleLt Gen Hoon Reveals some ‘Untold Truths’ in his Book
Lt Gen PN Hoon during his book release at Chandigarh golf club on Saturday. (HT Photo)by Tanbir DhaliwalChandigarh: Operation Brasstacks was the army’s preparations for a war against Pakistan and not a...
View ArticleIndia Restricts Naval Gear Acquisition to Domestic Firms
India is limiting purchase of certain naval equipment to domestic companies - Above INS RanjitNEW DELHI — India's Ministry of Defence has drawn up a list of warship systems and equipment that it will...
View ArticleAtrocities by Pak Army and ISI in PoK Bolsters India's Stand
India on Friday said the video showing Pakistan's brutality in the PoK has lifted the "veil which the Pak Army and ISI had put" and the world can now see the "real and horrific consequences" of...
View ArticleGSLV Mark III Rocket Modified, Ground Tests Completed: ISRO
CHENNAI: Based on last year's GSLV Mark III's experimental flight, modifications have been done to solid rocket S-200 motors to change dynamic pressure and forces and ground tests have been done, a top...
View ArticleHitting The Bull's Eye
Operation Safed Sagar Kargil Conflict 1999The codename was assigned to IAF’s strike to support the ground troops during the Kargil conflict that was aimed to flush out regular and irregular troops of...
View ArticleThe Day of the Eagle
Nations ritualise their victories on the battlefield, lest the coming generations forget. This year, as India celebrates the powerful contributions by its armed forces towards winning the 1965 war with...
View ArticleIndian Air Force Wants more than 100 Rafales or Similar Jets
Dassault Rafale Multi-Role FighterNew Delhi: The Indian Air Force on Saturday said it would need at least six squadrons comprising 108 Rafale fighter jets or similar jets to shore up its capabilities...
View ArticleMerkel Arrives Today, Focus on Investment and Market Access
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives with a galaxy of some of the world’s most powerful business leaders on a three-day India visit beginning on Sunday, inbound investment and greater market...
View ArticleUS, Japan, South Korea Warn North Korea against Provocations
North Korean UNHA-3 Carrier RocketThis week, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said sanctions against Pyongyang "seek to impose consequences on the DPRK regime, not on the North Korean...
View ArticleIndia-Pakistan Talks only if BJP Goes, says Pakistani Daily
Islamabad: India-Pakistan peace talks will be possible only when the BJP is voted out in India, a Pakistani newspaper said on Saturday.The Nation said in an editorial that despite Islamabad's attempts,...
View ArticleOnly Government Can Save AMCA Project: Sources
‘If the deal is good and the govt. decides, we need to have six more squadrons’The 36 Rafale fighters that India is buying from France are not enough to meet the requirements of the Indian Air Force,...
View ArticleChinese Flying Ops in Tibet have Increased, but no need to Worry: Air Chief...
Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha (Source: AFP)In what may raise serious concerns for India along the Chinese frontier, Air chief Marshal Arup Raha on Saturday said the Chinese flying operations in Tibetan...
View ArticleLight Combat Aircraft Tejas Ready to be Inducted
Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha on Saturday said Air Force stands by its order for 120 Tejas fighters, which will be inducted as it is and be upgraded later.After a 32-year wait, first indigenously-built...
View ArticlePAKISTAN MEDIA: OIC Reaffirms Kashmiri People's Right to Self-Determination -...
UNITED NATIONS: Foreign Ministers of Islamic countries have called for the resolution of the decades-old Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India.At their annual coordination meeting on Friday, the...
View ArticleRussian Scientists Present Device That Sees 50 Meters Through Walls
Crimean company EMIIA presented a device that can “see” through walls and depict moving objects in a real-time mode.“The technology can scan the movement of people, animals and other things at a...
View ArticleGSLV Mark III's Cryogenic Stage to be Ground Tested in 6 Months
CHENNAI: ISRO’s next big project under development, the GSLV Mark III, will have one of its most problematic components ground tested within March next year. A senior source at the ISRO Propulsion...
View ArticleHome-Built Tejas to make up for Critical Shortage of Fighter Jets
by Gautam DattHoping to seal the contract for the purchase of 36 French Rafale jets by the end of this year, the Indian Air Force has pinned hopes on struggling home-made solutions — Light Combat...
View ArticleChina’s Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir Tunnels Ring Alarm Bells for India
by Ananth KrishnanChina's move to construct five tunnels to open up a new section of the Karakoram Highway in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) last month has signalled Beijing’s intent to go forward...
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