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Tuesday, 2 November 2021

Tested to above 20,000 feet, MoD orders 12 Light Utility Helicopters from HAL

HAL's Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) being tested in the Siachen Glacier sector. (Photo credit: Shiv Aroor, Livefist) By Ajai Shukla B...

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Sunday, 31 October 2021

shipbuilding

The Navy gets a new destroyer, INS Visakhapatnam, the first warship built under Project 15B

Yard Number 12704 (INS Visakhapatnam), the lead ship of Project 15B – a line of four stealth guided missile destroyers being built at Ma...

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Friday, 29 October 2021

US military

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd delivers 200th gun bay door to Boeing for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet naval fighter

S Manicka Vasagam of HAL hands over delivery documents for gun bay doors to Ashwani Bhargava, Director-Supplier Development (Boeing India) H...

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Thursday, 28 October 2021

Indian Navy

India-UK tri-services, bilateral Exercise Konkan Shakti 2021 successfully concludes

The Indian and UK armies, navies and air forces concluded their maiden, bilateral, tri-service exercise -- Konkan Shakti 2021 -- on 27 Oct...

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Wednesday, 27 October 2021

Missiles

Successful night launch of Agni-5 ballistic missile

The surface to surface Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), Agni-5, underwent a night-firing trial a short while ago. The test took ...

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Tuesday, 26 October 2021

strategy

China's muscle-flexing on the northern mountain border with India. Is New Delhi doing enough to counter Beijing?

In conversation with Anubha Bhonsle about China's muscle-flexing on the northern mountain border with India and whether New Delhi is doi...

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Private Sector

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reaches out to the global defence industry, ahead of Defexpo-22

By Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 26th Oct 21 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday addressed more than 200 foreign envoys and defence ...

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Saturday, 23 October 2021

West Asia

Mysore Literature Festival: a virtual conversation with Adrian Levy on the ISI and RAW. All listeners welcome.

For t hose who might be interested in a discussion on Adrian Levy's and Cathy Scott-Clark's new book on the ISI and R&AW (the in...

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Friday, 22 October 2021

West Asia

In UK-India joint tri-service exercise, Indian fighter pilots’ will have their first encounter with 5th-generation aircraft

The Royal Navy aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, with the India frigate, INS Shivalik By Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 22nd Oct 21 ...

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Wednesday, 20 October 2021

shipbuilding

Indian admirals to visit British aircraft carrier to see the "integrated all-electric propulsion" system

By Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 20th Oct 21 On Friday, a group of senior Indian Navy admirals will helicopter out from Mumbai and land...

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Monday, 18 October 2021

West Asia

Navy weighs ordering more P-8I aircraft as Boeing nears end of delivery

Boeing has delivered 11 of the 12 P-8I Poseidon aircraft ordered by India. The question now is: To order more of these, or to lease Sea Guar...

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Sunday, 17 October 2021

US military

Aviation firms for “net zero” emissions ahead of target

Rolls-Royce, Airbus and Shell are investing in the technology required for "net zero" By Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 18th Oct...

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Saturday, 16 October 2021

US military

Royal Navy aircraft carrier strike group, led by HMS Queen Elizabeth, enters Bay of Bengal, will exercise with Indian Navy

Multilateral exercises in the Indian Ocean region The Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike Group (CSG), led by HMS Queen Elizabeth, sailed into the...

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Thursday, 14 October 2021

strategy

Se La tunnel opened with “breakthrough blast”, connects Tawang to West Kameng in Arunachal

A photograph I took while driving over the Se La pass in winter (Note: This is a colour photograph!) By Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 15t...

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Wednesday, 13 October 2021

West Asia

Spy versus spy: Review of Adrian Levy's and Cathy Scott-Clark's new book

Spy stories: Inside the secret world of the R.A.W. and the I.S.I By Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark Juggernaut Books, 2021 340 pages Rs ...

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