Military-Defence
india strategic
india's ballistic missiles: role in nuclear deterrence
back-to-back agni missile tests: on december 26, 2016, india tested the 5,000 plus km agni-v icbm for the fourth time. the test that was conducted from kalam island in the bay of bengal achieved all the mission parameters that had been stipulated. after user trials over the next 18 to 24 months, the nuclear capable agni-5 missile will be inducted into the strategic forces command (sfc). on its operationalisation, all targets in china will come within range from india.
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january 2017
India Strategic
India Gains In Stature At BRICS Summit In China
THE BRICS Summit in Xiamen, China has worked well to considerably enhance India’s global stature.
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September 2017
India Strategic
India, Japan Support A Free, Open And Prosperous Indo-Pacific
NEW DELHI. “India-Japan ties are at their best ever,” Kenji Hiramatsu, Japan’s Ambassador to India, told India Strategic days before Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in India for the 12th annual India-Japan summit in the Gujarat capital Ahmedabad.
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September 2017
India Strategic
IAF To Issue RFI For Single Engine Combat Aircraft Within October 2017
NEW DELHI. The Indian Air Force (IAF) is finally set to issue a Request for Information (RFI) to the US Lockheed Martin for F-16 and to Swedish Saab for Gripen for acquiring 114 single engine combat aircraft.
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October 2017
India Strategic
Asia In The Process Of Reinventing Itself: MJ Akbar
Asia In The Process Of Reinventing Itself: MJ Akbar
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October 2017
India Strategic
India Marks Independence Day With A Promise To Send Man In Space
New Delhi . On August 15, Ind ia celebrated its 72nd Independence Day and as is the tradition, the country ’s Prime Minister addresses the Nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort, projecting his government’s policies and mentioning its achievements.
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August 2018
India Strategic
India's Predicament
Vis-a-vis US Sanctions On Iran
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August 2018
India Strategic
Rim of the Pacific International Maritime Exercise: RIMPAC 2018 Concludes
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii. The world’s largest international maritime exercise RIMPAC 2018 concluded August 2 following more than a month of training events conducted in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California.
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August 2018
India Strategic
Farnborough International Airshow 2018
Duopoly of Boeing and Airbus Rule the Roost
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August 2018
India Strategic
Gripen's Smart Support Solution Story
From Makers Of The Gripen
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August 2018
India Strategic
Boeing Says 737 Max Software Updated Working With FAA To Resume Flights
CHICAGO. Boeing has completed development of the updated software for the 737 MAX, along with associated simulator testing and the company’s engineering test flight.
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May 2019
India Strategic
Indian And French Navies Conclude Exercise Varuna
Mumbai. The Indian and French Navies concluded the first part of their periodic exercise Varuna off the Goa coast May 1-10, the Naval Headquarters has announced
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May 2019
India Strategic
Airbus Delivers First A321LR To Canada's Air Transat
Air Transat, a Canadian leisure and holiday travel airline, took delivery of its first Airbus A321Lr aircraft.
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May 2019
India Strategic
Elections And The Armed Forces
Increase of election fever in the country with the ongoing Lok sabha and some state assembly elections necessitates an assessment of the effect, if any, that the large constituency of serving and retired soldiers would have on the outcome.
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May 2019
India Strategic
India Working On Advanced Defence Technologies, Says Dr G Satheesh Reddy
NEW DELHI. Indian defence scientists are working on advanced technologies from missiles to aircraft and precision weapons, according to the country’s top scientist.
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May 2019
India Strategic
M777 Clears Customs Check
Mahindra Defence is partner in contract.
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November 2016
India Strategic
India Between Multipolarity And Multipolarism
Impressions from the 20th Asian Security Conference at IDSA March 26 - 28.
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April 2019
India Strategic
World's Largest Aircraft Takes To Skies On Debut Test Flight
The World’s largest aircraft took off for its first flight over the Mojave desert in California April 13. The carbon-composite air-launch carrier plane built by stratolaunch systems Corporation’s has been years in development before soaring on its debut flight lasting 2:30 hours without issue. stratolaunch systems was started by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in a bid to enter the lucrative private space market by offering an alternative and cost-effective air-launch system to put satellites into orbits.
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April 2019
India Strategic
IAF Inducts Four Boeing Chinook CH-47F Heavy Lift Helicopters
NEW DELHI/ CHANDIGARH. The Indian Air Force (IAF) inducted the first lot of four Boeing CH-47F heavy lift helicopters March 25, providing the much needed modernisation of assets at this mainstay frontline Transport airbase.
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April 2019
India Strategic
ISRO: Towards A Space Station
New Delhi. On April 1, 2019, India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C45) successfully launched EMISAT and 28 international customer satellites. This was the 47th mission by the PSLV rocket which has witnessed only two failures till date since its first successful launch in October 1994.
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April 2019
India Strategic
Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue 2019
The Oceans are for Free, Open, Inclusive and Cooperative Rules-based Order.
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April 2019
India Strategic
Chief of the Air Staff
The Indian Air Force marks its 84th Anniversary this October 8, with the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, saying that IAF is looking forward to increase its combat strength.
10+ min |
October 2016
India Strategic
MRCA Dogfight for Indian Skies Begins Again
IAF needs 400 aircraft, and Navy 60
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December 2016
India Strategic
Perilous Interventions: A revealing Title to the Initiated
NEW DELHI. India’s Vice President M.Hamid Ansari released a book by Hardeep Puri titled ‘Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos’ at a wellattended function September 7 in New Delhi.
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September 2016
India Strategic
Indo-US Logistics Agreement LEMOA: An Assessment
ON 29 August 2016, during the visit of the Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar to Washington DC, Ind ia and the United States (US) signed the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA).
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September 2016
India Strategic
The F-16 in its Block 70 Avatar
Much more than meets the eye.
6 min |
September 2016
India Strategic
Honeywell Hardware Awarded Final
Certification for Inmarsat’s NextGeneration GX Aviation in-Flight Wi-Fi.
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September 2016
India Strategic
Indian Civil Aviation Vindication Of The Low Cost Model
NINE YEARS after the first fixed-wing flight by man, India traipsed into its own civil aviation journey; in December 1912 the first domestic air route between Karachi and Delhi was launched as an extension of the London- Karachi flight by imperial airways, a British airline.
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July 2019
India Strategic
Two New Boeing CH-47F (I) Chinooks Arrive At The Indian shores
NEW DELHI. Boeing announced July 8, arrival of two more CH-47F (I) Chinooks for the Indian Air Force ( IAF) at the Mundra port in Gujarat.
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July 2019
India Strategic
HAL To Triple LCA Production To 24 Per Year
London. The state-run HAL will deliver 16 Light Combat Aircraft from 2019, and given the orders from the Indian Air Force (IAF), it will be able to ramp up the production to 24 aircraft per year by setting up a third assembly line.
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