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Leveraging its status as a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), India is very keen on arming its Mirage 2000 aircraft with the best-in-their-class long- range meteor missiles, claims reports. After Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman chased the F-16s of Pakistan on his MiG 21 Bison, and shot one down with his R-73 and R-77 missiles, during the dogfight on 27 February soon after IAF attacked the Balakot terror camps, the necessity to equip more of our fighter jets with long-range missiles is being felt. Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi promptly went on to say, “The whole nation is feeling the need to have Rafales at the moment. Had we possessed Rafales in our inventory, the result would have been different” at an event organised soon after the unfolding of hostilities between the two countries. In a move to maintain absolute air superiority over its hostile western neighbour, the IAF is going to have a combination of BrahMos NG, Astra, Israeli Derby, Meteor and SCALP

Indian Army has begun massive mobilisation of military tanks and deployment of troops along the International Border in Rajasthan and Punjab. The movement of tanks from Jhansi and Kanpur to forward post locations were witnessed over the last two days.  Sources reported deployment of armoured formations from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to border outposts. A major reinforcement of the Army was noticed in Punjab's Abohar and Rajasthan's Bikaner and Barmer areas.  The development comes amid reports of Pakistan vacating civilians at border villages and moving large scale troops to the Indian front. Sources also claimed that the Pakistan Army moved troops opposite 'sensitive areas' in Amritsar and Samba sectors along the International Border.  Tensions have been simmering between India and Pakistan since the Pulwama terror attack on February 14 that claimed the lives of over 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans. Eleven days after the attack, the Indian Air Force

As the tension skirmishes between India and Pakistani forces at the border, an alert has been reportedly issued by the terror outfits to shut down their camps in the Pakistan occupied Kashmir region, as they fear another strike by the Indian Army. As per the intelligence input and several surveillance by the technical teams, the agencies have come to know that a meeting was held in PoK’s Nikial on March 16 and it included ISI persons from Pakistan, Let handlers and terrorists including Ashfaq Barwal. As per a report published in India Today, a message was sent out to the operatives of the Lashkars and other terror outfits that terror camps need to shut down in some of the region, as there is an apprehension that Indian Army might conduct another strike across the border. Post this message, camps of the terrorists have been closed in and around the Kotli and Nikial region in the Pakistan occupied Kashmir, which is opposite to the Sunderbani and Rajouri sector. As per information, Pakist

Indian Air Force recently participated in LIMA, Malaysia with LCA-Tejas aircraft for the 1st time. The indigenous supersonic fighter jet Tejas showcased its flying power and a video has been shared by the Indian Air Force Twitter handle. Hon’ble PM of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Bin Mohamad & the Defence Minister of Malaysia, Mohamad Sabu also visited the Tejas aircraft & interacted with team IAF. India projected the Tejas aircraft in a big way at the five-day Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) in Malaysia as it has been manufactured indigenously at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) for the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy.  The IAFs' team departed from Air Force Station Kalaikunda for Langkawi on March 22 via Myanmar, Yangon. "India's indigenous supersonic Light Combat Aircraft(LCA)-Tejas & the world's lightest supersonic fighter which has already joined IAF, is for

Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan is of the opinion that the possibility of war with India is not yet over, as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi would continue the anti-Pakistan rhetoric in order to cash in on the public sentiments regarding the situation at the border until the Indian elections are over. Expressing grave concern over the persistent tension at the border, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has cautioned that the danger of war with India is not over yet. Khan predicted that relations would remain tense until India's general elections are over.  "The danger is not over. The situation will remain tense till forthcoming general elections in India. We are already prepared to avert any aggression from India", Imran Khan responded to a question about "India's war hysteria" which was attended by a group of Pakistani journalists in Islamabad.  The statement comes amid reports of continuous cross border firing by forces of both the countries, u

India is expected to supply four gunship helicopters to Afghanistan by July, with the deliveries falling almost a year behind schedule, people familiar with developments said on Monday. As first reported by Hindustan Times in March 2018, Afghanistan, Belarus and India had inked a trilateral pact to supply the refurbished Mi-24 helicopters. Belarus was to upgrade the helicopters, which were to be paid for by India, the then Afghan envoy, Shaida Abdali, had said. “It is now expected that two helicopters will be delivered to Afghanistan in April. The other two are expected to be handed over in June or July,” a person familiar with discussions on the matter said. This is only the second instance of India supplying lethal military equipment to Afghanistan. India had provided four Mi-24s to the Afghan armed forces during 2015-16, marking a significant shift from its earlier position of supplying only non-lethal equipment. However, some of the helicopters provided earlier had been grounded be

Pakistan's military has rejected India's claim that it used US-made F-16 fighters jets against India in retaliation to its pre-emptive strikes on a JeM terror camp in Balakot, saying that JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft developed jointly with China were used in the operation.  Referring to the aerial dogfight with the Indian Air Force after the February 14 Pulwama terror attack claimed by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor said the Indian jets violated the Pakistani airspace on February 26, dropping payloads without inflicting any casualties or damage to infrastructure.  A day after Pakistan's attempt to retaliate the Indian Air Force's air strikes at a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in Balakot, the Indian armed forces displayed parts of an AIM-120 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) fired by an F-16, which fell in Indian territory. New Delhi had also underlined that electronic signatures captured by India

In a major victory for the forces, the Indian Army gunned down 12 Pakistan Army soldiers, including two officers on Thursday in retaliation of continued ceasefire violation by the neighbouring forces along the Line of Control (LoC). Sources have told twelve coffins were seen at the Pakistani Army brigade headquarters opposite Jammu and Kashmir's Sundarbani sector. The Pakistan army was seen using two MI 17 helicopters to transport the mortal remains of the slain soldiers from Sundarbani sector to Rawalpindi, intelligence sources further added.  The intelligence inputs suggest that two officers and ten soldiers of the Pak army were killed in India's retaliation in the Sundarbani sector and 22 Pakistani soldiers were injured. Pakistani troops violated ceasefire along Line of Control in multiple districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. An Army rifleman was killed on Thursday after Pakistan violated ceasefire along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district.

Perhaps the main lesson should be that, despite their differences of philosophy, the Russians and Americans both armed their stealth fighters with guns. One Chinese expert holds a mixed view of Russia's Su-57 stealth fighter, Beijing's state media reported. For all its faults, the Su-57 is "unique," Wang Yongqing concluded, according to Global Times . Wang is the chief designer at the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute, which is developing the J-31 stealth fighter. The Chinese navy reportedly is considering adding the type to future carrier air wings. But in studying the troubled Russian plane, Wang seems to have overlooked potentially the most important lesson the Su-57's abortive development stands to teach the Chinese. The Su-57 might never enter service in meaningful numbers. But that's not necessarily the fault of the plane's design, which is sophisticated and well-rounded. Perhaps most notably, the Su-57 has a gun, just like American stealth fighters

In a major boost to the firepower of Special Forces of Indian Army, sources said that the government has decided to buy assault rifles, ammunition, parachutes and several other specialised equipments from the US. "Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is going to chair an important meeting where the proposal to buy the equipment worth over Rs 1,000 crore from the American Department of Defence is expected to be discussed," sources told ANI. Sources added that during the meeting the Defence Minister will hold discussions over several types of equipments including assault rifles, ammunition and combat free fall parachutes for the Special Forces units of the Parachute Regiment of the Army. "If the proposal goes through, the equipment would be acquired from the United States in a government-to-government deal under the Foreign Military Sales route," they said. The Indian Army already has American M4A1 assault rifles, which are used extensively by security forces in counte

While the most common stereotype is that beauty pageant winners end up in Bollywood, Lt Garima Yadav, a former beauty pageant winner, had other plans when it came to her career. Her story is truly inspiring for a lot of us who want to achieve the best of both worlds. An alma mater of St Stephen's College, Delhi, Garima wanted to clear the IAS exam but failed to do so. But as luck would have it, she cracked the CDS (Combined Defence Services) exam in her first attempt and got into OTA (Officer's Training Academy) Chennai. But before she was on her way to becoming an officer in the Indian Army, Garima has also been a beauty queen. In the year 2017, she participated in a beauty pageant called 'India's Miss Charming Face' and ended up winning the competition. According to a report by SSB Crack, she was invited to participate in the next beauty pageant at an international level in Italy. But she chose to enroll into OTA instead and ended up achieving her dream of serving

Over a year-anda-half after setting up its missile subsystem manufacturing facility on the outskirts of the city, Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems (KRAS), a joint venture between Kalyani Group and Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, is set to scale up its operations in Hyderabad by opening a maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) for missile systems, Rudra B Jadeja, chief executive (Hyderabad), Bharat Forge Defence, said here on Saturday. The construction work of the MRO facility, which is being touted as a first-of-its-kind to be set up by a private sector player in India, has commenced. He, however, did not disclose any financial details of the project. The facility, which will cater to the domestic market initially, is also expected to also cater to foreign markets, especially Asia-Pacific region, in the future, he added. After getting all the requisite licences and clearances from both, the governments of India and Israel, Jadeja said that KRAS has started work on the MRO unit

From putting an emphasis on indigenisation in the defence sector to ensuring that a home- grown fighter jet joins the air force fleet, from the defence forces carrying out a surgical strike to signing of the Rafale deal, Manohar Parrikar had an eventful tenure as the defence minister.  The IITian, who died Sunday after battling a pancreatic illness for over a year, had moved to the South Block at the insistence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2014.  His nearly three-year tenure saw the Army conducting the surgical strike in September 2016, after a terror attack claimed lives of 19 soldiers in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir.  Parrikar also ensured that the long-pending Light Combat Aircraft Tejas is inducted in the Indian Air Force's fleet, besides taking steps to ease the process of indigenisation in the defence sector.  The political controversy over the Rafale jet deal, initiated in September 2016, cast a shadow on his tenure.  Last month, the back and forth between the Con

Pakistan’s support to terrorism and its doctrine of “first and even an early use” of nuclear weapons, create a worrying and destabilising situation in South Asia, experts opined here at a conference, held parallel to a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The experts voiced these concerns against the backdrop of the Pulwama terror attack, while noting that it was carried out by Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). Gathered at the conference ‘Terrorism and Nuclear Security in South Asia’, a side event during the 40th Session of the UNHRC here, the panel of academics, former diplomats and independent military researchers in the field of terrorism and nuclear security deliberated upon growing terrorism in the region and its implications for the nuclear security of region and the world.  Speaking at the event, Junaid Qureshi, Director of think tank European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), referred to the February 14 Pulwama terror attack and noted tha