By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Sweden’s Saab announced today that it is setting up a production facility in India for its legendary Carl-Gustaf shoulder-fired recoilless rifle’s latest variant through the 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment route. The Swedish defence firm’s senior officials said they were hopeful of […]
By Ritu Sharma for EurAsian Times As the entire country was washed with the glow of millions of earthen lamps lit up to celebrate Diwali, the Indian Navy achieved a significant milestone as India’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, achieved “full operational status.” The development puts […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times Over 200 Indian-origin Jews from the Bnei Menashe community, who migrated to Israel in the recent past, have joined the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for active or reserve duty in the war on the Palestinian group Hamas since the October 7 […]
By Sakshi Tiwari for EurAsian Times New Delhi: India has finally secured the delivery of its first C-295 aircraft, two years after the country signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space to acquire 56 of these transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF). The deal was […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times India officially declared itself a nuclear weapons state in May 1998 following the ‘Shakti’ nuclear tests in the Rajasthan desert, popularly called Pokhran-II. But it spelled out its official nuclear doctrine for the first time publicly in January 2003 through a […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times August 1 marks the 96th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The world’s largest military, the PLA, comprises over two million military personnel with an annual budget of $224.8 billion. However, despite the numbers and the resources, newfound aggressive strategy, […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times The Lockheed Martin-built C-130J is called the ‘Super Hercules,’ not without reason. In a Kabul-style rescue during the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the C-130J, now also operated by the Indian Air Force (IAF), carried out a pitch-dark night operation on April […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times Cyberspace is becoming the new battlefield where the United States (US) and Communist China are trying to outsmart each other. With the hindsight of cybersecurity vulnerabilities witnessed during the Russia–Ukraine conflict, the two sides are trying to secure their cyberspace with […]
N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times New Delhi: India entered an elite club of nations that possess the capability to fire a Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor from a naval platform when it successfully carried out the maiden test of the weapon system yesterday. The announcement of the […]
By Air Chief Marshal V. R. Chaudhari The foremost lesson that can be drawn from the twentieth century and indeed the early twenty-first century is that no war can be successfully prosecuted without aerospace power and in the words of Field Marshal Montgomery, ‘If we lose the war […]
By Neeraj Rajput and N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times New Delhi: India is sending its Rafale combat jets to France for a multi-nation air exercise. This is the first time the 2020-inducted Indian Air Force (IAF) fighters have flown overseas to join a wargame in a friendly […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times The Joe Biden administration has blamed the Afghanistan troops’ drawdown fiasco entirely on the shoulders of his predecessor Donald Trump. It has made critical comments about his leadership and how he gave a free run to the Taliban to run over the civilian […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times The democratic world is bracing for the possibility of Communist China emerging as a global superpower dislodging the United States to take the top slot or at least rise as one of the two poles in geopolitics. As this reality hits […]
By N. C. Bipindra The United States‘ and China’s great power game is now being played in the unlikeliest of places over the unlikeliest of reasons. The two nations are today battling to gain supremacy in controlling global communications through the undersea fiber-optic cables in their latest tech […]
By N. C. Bipindra For EurAsian Times. The United States security establishment has sounded the alarm of a possible arms race over the latest Putin-Xi bilateral agreement for a critical technology transfer that China could use to produce nuclear warheads. The US officials are on edge. The recent summit […]
