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Indo-Pacific naval strategy

India's historical focus on its continental borders has overshadowed its maritime ambitions, but that is changing quickly

'Neighbourhood First': Maldives gets two Made in India warships

"The Indian Ocean is our shared space. Peace and security of a region are best secured with cooperation and collaboration of the regional players," he said

3 yrs post Galwan, Chinese strategist 'explains' border tensions with India

The Galwan Valley incident in June 2020 led to the death of 20 Indian and an unspecified number of Chinese soldiers

With indigenisation growing in warships, Navy asks for 3rd aircraft carrier

The navy chief struck a positive note in reporting that the degree of indigenisation in warships had risen

Navy, DRDO conduct maiden flight trial of interceptor ballistic missile

DRDO has earlier demonstrated land-based BMD systems successfully with the capability to neutralize ballistic missile threats emerging from adversaries

L&T gets order to build prototype of light tank for Sino-India border

To be optimised for extreme cold, high altitude of Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh

Hindustan Aeronautics launches third assembly line of Tejas jets

HAL also proposes to remove 300 kg of dead weight distributed across the Mark I to balance the fighter evenly

Defining India-US relations

Defence cooperation is fizzling out with no big-ticket procurement driving forward the relationship

Guns vs Butter-5: 'India can make do with defence spend of 2% of GDP'

The last of a 5-part series points out that the Standing Committee on Defence report says India will not be able to absorb much more on defence

India's defence equipment exports reach Rs 16,000 crore this year

This amounts to a ten-fold increase since 2016-17, when exports were Rs 1,521 crore

Guns vs Butter-4: We took giant leap with the Tejas, says Indian Air Force

In the fourth of a five-part series, the IAF assures the Standing Committee on Defence that its fighter fleet is not too diverse and each fighter has its use

Guns vs Butter-III: Much of Army's war-fighting equipment remains vintage

The third of a five-part series looks at the state of the Army's weaponry and the need for greater funding to transition to a more state-of-the-art arsenal

Govt signs Rs 19,600-crore deal to buy patrol, missile vessels

The construction of these ships will generate employment of 4.5 million man-days over a period of nine years

Guns vs Butter-II: Indian military's quest for indigenous weaponry

The second of a five-part series takes a close look at the military's push for acquisition of defence equipment from domestic sources rather than from overseas

Guns vs Butter-I: House panel welcomes larger funds allocation

The first of a five-part series analyses the military's capex demand versus allocation. The recent report of the parliamentary standing committee on defence provides the backdrop

India's Data Patterns develops equipment to check BrahMos missile functions

Domestic firms driving down price of supersonic cruise missile system with homegrown solutions

Carborundum Universal partners DRDO for 'ceramic radome' technology

CUMI is one of India's first companies to produce the wonder material graphene for aerospace and defence applications

Rs 70,500-crore indigenous arms buy gets defence ministry's approval

These largely include indigenous BrahMos missiles, Shakti Electronic Warfare (EW) systems, and Maritime Utility Helicopters

India's tryst with counterinsurgency

Two of American academia's most perceptive writers explore varied aspects of India's internal security and argue its counterinsurgency posture is calibrated depending upon the nature of insurgency

Defence start-up Hyper Stealth Technologies bags first order under iDEX

Hyderabad-based HSTPL has got an order from Indian Army for Integrated Mobile Camouflage System