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IDN TAKE: The EXCALIBUR Assault Rifle Awaits Certification Trials
by Koustav KAn indigenously produced 5.56mm Excalibur assault rifle, is awaiting user trials and final certification, even as the Army seems to be moving away to a bigger calibre rifle than what has...
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Behind China’s Gambit in Pakistan
Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, at Nur Khan air base in Islamabad on April 20, 2015by Daniel S. MarkeyThe China-Pakistan Economic...
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Russian Aerospace Defense Forces Received Over 30 New Aircraft In 2016
A Sukhoi Su-35 "Flanker - E" of the Russian Air ForceThe Russian Aerospace Defense Forces have received over 300 units of weaponry, military and special air defense equipment, including over 30...
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China's Permanent Conflict Strategy Is A Stroke of Genius
Permanent conflict in alternating areas, not war, best suits Beijing’s interests.Tokyo lodged a series of protests over the weekend regarding renewed Chinese activity in the disputed East China Sea....
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Pakistan Ready For Nuclear Non-Testing Agreement With India: Sartaj Aziz
Sartaj Aziz said that Pakistan consistently supported the CTBT and voted for it when it was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1996ISLAMABAD: Pakistan was ready for an agreement with India on...
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The Reason Why America's F-35 Would Crush China's J-20 Stealth Fighter in Battle
by Dave MajumdarThe United States Air Force would maintain an “asymmetric” advantage over potential adversaries in the Western Pacific even after the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force inducts...
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Pak Action In Valley To Hit Ties: India
In Rebellion Mode: Policemen detain Syed Geelani (C), leader of the Hurriyat Conference to foil a March to Eidgah - It is alleged that money was paid by Geelani to stone throwers on a daily basisNew...
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Cultural Ministry Shows Chinese Jet With Indian Flag In I-Day Video
In an embarrassment to the government, the Ministry of Culture in its Independence Day celebration video has shown a Chinese built JF-17 fighter jet flying with an Indian flag.The opening portion of...
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Survivors 'Unlikely' In Missing Air Force AN-32: Government Tells Lok Sabha
Defence Minister Parrikar and MoS Subhash Bhamre answered questions in Lok SabhaNew Delhi: It is "unlikely" that there are any survivors on board the Indian Air Force AN-32 aircraft that went missing...
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Five Reasons U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are Nearly Impossible To Sink
by Loren B. ThompsonLarge-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the signature expression of American military power. No other combat system available to U.S. warfighters comes close to delivering...
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India’s First Three Women Fighter Pilots Meet Arjan Singh
U.S. President Obama greets Arjan Singh, Marshal of the Indian Air Force, at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi in January 2015New Delhi: In a rare moment, India’s first three women fighter pilots today...
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Pentagon Grants Lockheed About $1B To Stem F-35 Lot 9 Production Costs
by Valerie InsinnaWASHINGTON— With F-35 contract negotiations stretching on, the US Defense Department in August approved about $1 billion in additional funding to reimburse joint strike fighter...
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Taliban Plans Attack At Borders With India, Warns Pak Agency
"Tehreek-i-Taliban's Fazalullah group is planning to target parade at Wagah Border in Lahore and Ganda Singh Border in Kasur on August 13, 14 or 15," the security alert says.LAHORE: Pakistan's top...
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IDN TAKE: Is the 7.62x51mm Calibre Assault Rifle Suitable For Conventional War?
The FN FAL (Fusil Automatique Leger - Light Automatic Rifle) is one of the most famous and widespread military rifle designs of the twentieth century. Developed by the Belgian Fabrique Nationale...
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Japanese Warships On Mumbai Visit
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers JS Yuudachi leading a formation of ships during Exercise Malabar 2007 in the Bay of BengalSince 2014, eight Indian Naval ships have visited Japan and eight...
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Stealthy F-35 Is Visible To Thermal Imagers
An F-35 image captured using the FLIR Star SAFIRE 380-HDc during a flight demonstrationThe much-touted ‘stealth’ features of the Lockheed Martin F-35 making it nearly invisible to radar, could be...
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Antrix-Devas Scam: CBI Files Charge Sheet Against Former ISRO Chief
NEW DELHI: The CBI filed a charge sheet on Thursday against renowned space scientist and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Ex-Chairman G Madhavan Nair, former executive director of Antrix...
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‘India-US Relations Are In An Extraordinarily Strong Place’
Ashley J. Tellis is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace specializing in international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues. He is an alumni of University of...
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TATA Power SED Emerges As Lowest Bidder To Build Sonar Systems
A Portable Diver Detection Sonar (PDDS) Systemby Vivek RaghuvanshiNEW DELHI — Private defense company TATA Power's Strategic Engineering Division (SED) has emerged as the lowest bidder to build 78...
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Rafale Negotiating Team Submits Report; DAC To Take It Up Soon
The commercial negotiations on the pricing of the planes, equipment and other issues began in mid-January this year.NEW DELHI: The Defence Ministry's top acquisition council is likely to take up this...
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