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Chinese CZ-5B Heavy-Lift Launch VehicleSpace platforms support ballistic missiles and hypersonic weapons: Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR); and network-centric battlefield. Space superiority is key for modern information-centric warsby Air Marshal Anil ChopraChina Space Station Tiangong is now complete and China is in a position
Over the last two decades 18 to 22 incidents involving the ALH Dhruv have been reported. Experts say the malaise in the ALH fleet could be related to design & engineering issuesNew Delhi: The ditching of the Navy’s Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv off the coast of Mumbai due to sudden loss of power earlier this month has put the spotlight back on the performance and safety of the indigenous
A Guided Missile Corvette of Indian NavyThe Naval Indigenisation and Innovation Organisation (NIIO) has proposed a collaborative method to accelerate the development of disruptive, indigenous defence technologyby Joseph P ChackoAmong the three branches of the Indian armed forces, the Indian Navy has consistently been at the vanguard of technological and innovative changes. During the country’s
A Combat Support Craft developed BAE Systems of the UKThe Indian Navy under Ministry of Defence, is planning to procure one Technical Support Craft (TSC) from registered Indian Shipyards. With a view to identify probable shipyards who can undertake the construction of TSC, the Shipyards are requested in a MoD notification to forward information as sought in the RFI. The aim of seeking this RFI
New Delhi: The senior-most UK diplomat in New Delhi was summoned on Sunday night after the Indian High Commission in the United Kingdom was vandalised.The senior-most UK diplomat in New Delhi was summoned late evening today to convey India’s strong protest at the actions taken by separatist and extremist elements against the Indian High Commission in London earlier in the day, the Ministry of
The situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China is stable but there is a need to keep a very close watch on it, Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande said on Friday amid the nearly three-year-long border row in eastern Ladakh. In an interactive session at the India Today Conclave, Gen Pande said the Indian Army has a robust deployment of troops all along the LAC besides having adequate
Border Security Force (BSF) Director General, Sujoy Lal Thaosen, visited the India-Bangladesh international border in Tripura on Friday and held a meeting with a senior BGB official, discussing strategies for effective border management. A senior official of the paramilitary force said that Thaosen, accompanied by BSF Inspector General of Tripura frontier, Sumit Sharan, visited the border areas
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday said that a new plan on Free and Open Indo-Pacific will be announced during his two-day visit to India and will present concrete ideas about the future of it at "this historical turning point."Taking to his Twitter handle, Kishida said that he will hold a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Kishida is set to arrive in India on March 20.
New Delhi: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in India on a two-day visit on Monday.Kishida was received and greeted by Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar at the airport in Delhi.Kishida will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and also deliver a speech on Japan’s Indo-Pacific strategy and its new defence posture. Fifteen years ago PM Shinzo Abe first spoke about Indo-Pacific
Singapore: Last week, Singapore’s Minister for Trade and Industry, Gan Kim Yong, was in New Delhi and spoke at the 28th Annual Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Partnership Summit where he encouraged Indian businesses to increase their investments and trade with Southeast Asia.The summit titled "Partnerships for Responsible, Accelerated, Innovative, Sustainable, and Equitable Businesses",