- June 24th, 2026
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has officially brought down the curtain on one of the most iconic chapters in Indian military aviation history with the retirement of the legendary Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighter aircraft. After more than six decades of operational...
The appearance of blurred tail numbers on India’s flagship Rafale fighter aircraft has reopened one of South Asia’s most politically sensitive military controversies, reviving unresolved questions surrounding combat losses, operational security doctrine, and strategic information warfare after the intense India–Pakistan...
India’s indigenous fighter modernization programme is approaching a strategically sensitive turning point as mounting delays surrounding the Light Combat Aircraft programme increasingly force difficult decisions between technological perfection and immediate operational necessity. Reports emerging from India’s defence establishment indicate that...
During the Indo-Pakistan conflict of May 2025, India claimed to have achieved a major combat milestone during Operation Sindoor: the longest-ever recorded surface-to-air missile kill by the Russian-origin S-400 air defense system. The claim emerged months after the brief but...
In a significant demonstration of India’s growing strategic resolve, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently inaugurated a Highway Landing Strip (HLS) on the Moran Highway in Assam, enabling the Indian Air Force (IAF) to operate a wide array of aircraft in...
India has taken a significant step toward fielding its own stratospheric surveillance and communications platform, even as Russia unveiled a conceptually similar system designed to transform battlefield connectivity. India’s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) to...
In one of the most consequential military modernization decisions in recent years, India’s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has approved the acquisition of 114 additional Rafale fighter jets for the Indian Air Force (IAF), six more P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft...
In a strategically significant display of airpower cooperation, Indian Air Force (IAF) Su-30MKI fighters have conducted joint in-situ air drills with Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) JAS 39 Gripen aircraft near the vital Malacca Strait—just days after Swedish aerospace major...
The May 2025 confrontation between India and Pakistan marked one of the most dangerous escalatory episodes in South Asia in years, as Pakistani missile salvos struck multiple Indian Air Force bases and pushed two nuclear-armed rivals toward a perilous threshold....
India is poised to formalise one of its most consequential defence-industrial agreements with the United States, with the long-negotiated technology transfer deal for General Electric’s F414 fighter jet engines expected to be signed by March 2026, according to sources familiar...
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