By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India‘s missile muscle got a boost with its all-weather friend Russia helping the nuclear-armed South Asian giant to catch up in air defence capabilities with its arch rival China. India and China are currently in a military faceoff in the Ladakh region […]
New Delhi: India today successfully fired a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in an anti-ship mode, hitting bullseye on the intended target, in a test conducted live by the navy from a destroyer. This was part of a series of tri-service BrahMos tests conducted in the last one week, […]
New Delhi: Two years after its commissioning, Indian Navy‘s newest destroyer INS Chennai today validated its arming with the world’s first supersonic cruise missile with a successful test-firing of the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos. The missile, fired from on board the 7,500-tonne warship, hit its intended surface target […]
By Angad Singh If the annual SIPRI data consistently showing India among the top few arms importing nations in the world is a depressing commentary on the state of India’s military-industrial capability and capacity, the 2020 figures bring some cheer. Although India is second only to Saudi Arabia […]
New Delhi: In two back-to-back test firings, the Indian Air Force (IAF) today successfully validated the Indo-Russian BrahMos land-attack cruise missiles for its combat readiness. The IAF conducted the tests of the surface-to-surface cruise missile in combat mode at the Trek Island in Car Nicobar Islands region off […]
New Delhi: In what’s been described as a golden letter day in Indian naval aviation history, the Light Combat Aircraft (Navy) today successfully carried out its first-ever arrested landing at the shore-based test facility at the naval air station INS Hansa in Goa. Developed indigenously by Defence Research […]
