- August 23rd, 2025

In a setback to India’s growing ambitions for defence self-reliance, efforts to equip the forthcoming Rafale M carrier-borne fighters with the indigenous Uttam Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar have reportedly hit a roadblock. Sources close to the Indian defence...

India has entered the final stretch in the evolution of its undersea nuclear deterrence capability. A former senior BrahMos Aerospace scientist recently disclosed that the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has completed development of the K-5 submarine-launched ballistic missile...

India is accelerating efforts to field an advanced air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) capability with the possible acquisition of Israel’s cutting-edge Air LORA system. This move, coming in the wake of Operation Sindoor — a major and largely clandestine cross-border air...

In a powerful display of enduring defence ties between India and Russia, ROSOBORONEXPORT JSC, the export arm of Russia’s military-industrial complex, officially handed over the advanced Project 11356 frigate—INS Tamal—to the Indian Navy on 1 July 2025. The commissioning ceremony,...

In a storm that is rapidly evolving into one of the gravest crises in India’s civil-military relations in decades, the Narendra Modi-led government is battling mounting criticism from opposition leaders, defence analysts, and veterans over what is increasingly seen as...

In a stunning show of force and technological prowess, the skies over South Asia became the stage for what is now being called the largest Beyond Visual Range (BVR) aerial engagement in history. The massive aerial clash between the Pakistan...

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is reportedly moving ahead with plans to integrate Russia’s powerful R-37M long-range air-to-air missile — NATO codename AA-13 Axehead — onto its frontline Su-30MKI and MiG-29 fighter aircraft. According to credible defence sources in New...

In an unprecedented revelation that has shaken India’s defence establishment and strategic community, Captain Shiv Kumar, the Indian Navy’s Defence Attaché to Indonesia, has openly acknowledged that the Indian Air Force (IAF) lost multiple fighter aircraft in a high-risk operation...

India's defence self-reliance goals, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov on June 26, 2025, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ Meeting in Qingdao, China. What set this meeting apart from...

In a world of shifting borders and fleeting regimes, one truth remains enduring: civilizations remember. Unlike nation-states, which rise and fall with wars, treaties, or decrees, civilizations carry an ancient heartbeat—persistent, defiant, and enduring through centuries of conquest, colonization, and...

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