K-4 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)

India Strengthens Nuclear Triad with Successful K-4 SLBM Test from INS Arihant

India has achieved a major strategic milestone with the successful test of its K-4 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine INS Arihant in the Bay of Bengal on 23 December 2025. The launch, conducted from a...
Sukhoi Su-35 (Flanker-E)

Iran’s Strategic Leap: Satellite Imagery Reveals Purpose-Built Hardened Shelters at Hamadan Air Base as Su-35 Fighters Moves from Planning to Operational Reality

Recent high-resolution satellite imagery has laid bare what defence planners across the Middle East have quietly anticipated for more than a year: Iran has entered the final infrastructural phase of integrating Russia’s Su-35 multirole fighter into frontline service. The near-completion...
YJ-21E Hypersonic Missile

China’s J-10C Fighter Jet Spotted Carrying YJ-21E Hypersonic Missile as China Pushes Fighter-Borne Hypersonic Strike into Indo-Pacific

China appears to have crossed a decisive threshold in airborne strike warfare with the first publicly observed integration of the YJ-21E hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missile on the Chengdu J-10C multirole fighter. The development fundamentally redefines the operational ceiling of 4.5-generation...
China’s J-35 Stealth Fighter

Pentagon Confirms China’s J-35 Stealth Fighter Offer to Pakistan, Marking a Watershed in South Asian Airpower

The United States Department of Defense has confirmed that China has formally offered Pakistan up to 40 fifth-generation J-35 stealth fighter aircraft, a development that represents one of the most consequential inflection points in South Asian military aviation since India...

China’s Third J-36 Sixth-Generation Fighter Completes Milestone Flight Test, Underscoring Beijing’s Accelerated Push to Define a New Era of Air Dominance as U.S. NGAD Lags

The flight of China’s third J-36 sixth-generation fighter prototype on December 25, 2025, marks far more than another step in an advanced aircraft programme. It represents a calibrated declaration that Beijing intends not merely to participate in the next era...
High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)

China warns US arms sale to Taiwan is “speeding up” threat of war in Taiwan

China on Thursday sharply criticised the United States over its latest weapons deal with Taiwan, warning that the move was accelerating the risk of conflict across the Taiwan Strait and undermining regional stability. Speaking at a regular press briefing on...
Renewable Energy

China and Gulf Investors Drive a New Phase of Central Asia’s Energy Transition as Renewable Projects Expand Under the Belt and Road Framework

Since launching the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, China has emerged as one of the world’s largest overseas energy investors. For much of the past decade, Beijing’s engagement abroad was dominated by fossil fuel projects. However, the post-pandemic...
Mount Everest

Everest Overcrowded: How Mount Everest Became a Commercial Playground Choking Under Its Own Garbage

Dr Laxman Singh Dev In 1953, when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Mount Everest, they could hardly have imagined that within just four decades their historic expedition would turn Everest into an expensive hobby and a commercial industry. Today,...
Coal waits to be transported at Guoyuan Port container terminal in Chongqing, China

China’s Industrial Scale Powers Growth but Risks Overproduction and Global Tensions

China now produces more than 30 percent of the world’s manufactured goods—surpassing the combined output of the United States, Germany, and South Korea. Some Chinese scholars argue the country should target 45 percent of global capacity, framing sheer scale as...
Russian Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bombers

Russian Nuclear-Capable Bombers Conduct “Scheduled” Flight Over Norwegian, Barents Seas

Russian nuclear-capable bombers carried out a “scheduled” flight over the Norwegian and Barents Seas on Thursday (Dec. 25), prompting foreign fighter jets to escort them, Russia’s Defence Ministry reported, according to Russian news agencies. The ministry did not provide details...
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