1971 War: How Russia Sank Nixon’s Gunboat Diplomacy
On Dec 10, even as Nixon and Kissinger were frothing at the mouth, Indian intelligence intercepted an American message, indicating that the US Seventh Fleet was steaming into the War ZoneExactly 40...
View ArticleIndia’s Air Force to Get 10 Killer Drones from Israel
New Delhi recently approved a $ 400 million deal for the purchase of armed Heron TP UAVs.by Franz-Stefan GadyThe Indian government has approved the procurement of ten missile-armed Heron TP (aka IAI...
View ArticleIsraelis Eager to Participate in 'Make in India' Program
by Ranjeet Kumar Israel has emerged as India’s second largest supplier of defence hardware, not only because of a special relationship with India, but also because they have done a miracle in the...
View ArticleBharat Heavy Dynamics Test Fires Indigenous Anti-Tank Missile
DRDO's HeliNa is a helicopter-launched version of Nag Fire-and-Forget Anti-Tank MissileHYDERABAD: Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) officially announced here today that it had successfully test-fired an...
View ArticleThe Lashkar's Empire of Jihad
How Pakistan's intelligence agency created a pliant proxy and implacable foe of Indiaby C Christine Fair In the BeginningIn 1984 Zaki-ur-Rehman assembled a small group of Pakistani Ahl-e-Hadith...
View ArticleIndian Troops Never Crossed into Myanmar; Operation took place in Manipur and...
NEW DELHI: The cross-border strike in June to take down insurgent camps never took place in Myanmar, if the gallantry citations of the crack paratroopers who executed the operation are to be believed....
View ArticleAbdul Kalam: India’s Werner von Braun PLUS Champion of Youth Entrepreneurship
by Susmita MohantyAvul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam , also known as “APJ” Abdul Kalam, was India’s equivalent of Werner von Braun , both brilliant rocket scientists. It is no secret that the rockets...
View ArticleAustralian Warplanes Make First Air Strike in Syria
An Australian F-18A Hornet Fighter during an Aerial refueling processSYDNEY: Australian fighter jets have carried out their first air strike against Islamic State group in Syria, destroying an armoured...
View ArticleMoD Extends Deadline for FICV Program
Representational ImageThe defence ministry has decided to extend the deadline for the army's R1-lakh-crore futuristic infantry combat vehicle (FICV) programme by eight weeks.by Huma SiddiquiThe defence...
View ArticlePrivate Sector Cries Foul over Rs 12,700-Crore Army fleet Upgrade Project
Indian Army's BMP-2 Infantry Combat VehicleNEW DELHI: A proposal to hand over a Rs 12,700-crore upgrade of the army's fleet of infantry combat vehicles to the public sector has the private industry up...
View ArticleAurora’s Orion UAV Demonstrats 80 hours of endurance in a World-Record Flight
The US Air Force appears to have no room for Aurora Flight Sciences’ long-endurance Orion unmanned aerial vehicle in its inventory, despite the aircraft successfully demonstrating 80 hours of endurance...
View ArticleSAAB begins Construction of Swedish Navy's first A26 Submarine
The construction phase for the Swedish Navy’s A26 next-generation submarine has officially begun. On 4 September 2015 at the Saab Kockums shipyard in Karlskrona, the first steel for the new vessel was...
View ArticleAgustaWestland Prepares for AW609 Certification Push
AgustaWestland will fly the third prototype of its AW609 tiltrotor late this year as the manufacturer accelerates testing activity ahead of planned certification in 2017.Two flight-test articles dating...
View ArticleMumbai Blasts Accused Bats for 7/11 Convict
An Accused Terrorist in the Serial Train Blasts case meeting his relatives in Mumbai on TuesdayThe post-conviction proceedings on sentencing in the 7/11 case took an unusual turn on Tuesday with the...
View ArticleIndia, Sri Lanka Sign Satellite Deal
India and Sri Lanka signed a deal on co-ordinating radio frequencies on the proposed SAARC satellite during Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to New Delhi. The satellite, proposed by India to...
View ArticleGAGAN has put India in Elite Group
The launch of GPS-Aided Geo Augmented Navigation System (GAGAN) has put India in the elite group of nations in offering space-based satellite navigation services to the Aviation industry.A joint effort...
View ArticlePakistan-US Experts Discuss Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Materials
Common Thief: Disgraced AQ Khan Stole entire Centrifugal blueprints from the NetherlandsISLAMABAD: Strategic export control experts from Pakistan and the US today discussed the best practices to...
View ArticleFour Indian Warships to Visit Oman
Talwar-Class Frigate [Krivak III class] INS Trishul [Foreground] undergoing cold weather trials in Russia prior to being handed over to the Indian Navy(MENAFN - Muscat Daily) Indian Naval ships Deepak...
View ArticleCisco Router Hack Exposes Internet Traffic Details from India & Other Countries
Network security company FireEye has reported a hack called SYNful Knock that modifies the firmware on some Cisco routers letting attackers maintain a persistent presence in the victim’s router....
View ArticleIDN TAKE: One of the Best F-22 Raptor Airborne Images Ever
The images in this post show F-22 Raptor stealth fighters belonging the first F-22 squadron in Alaska, USA.Taken by aviation photographer John Dibbs, they were released by Lockheed Martin’s Code One...
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