Technology
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.
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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).
4 min |
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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August 2018
India Strategic
India-US Relations: A Burgeoning Partnership
The recent decision by the United States to upgrade India from Strategic Trade Authorization (STA)-2 to STA-1 category has come as a huge shot in the arm for ties between the two countries.
6 min |
August 2018
India Strategic
Imran Khan, Pakistan Army And Nuclear Peace
London. While Pakistan’s Prime Minister-elect ponders the selection of his closest advisers, he needs to consider how they will be viewed across the border in neighbouring India.
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August 2018
India Strategic
Boeing Sees Greater Global Demand For P-8 Maritime Patrol Aircraft
Farnborough. Boeing says it sees growing global demand for its P-8A maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), especially from Asian and Middle Eastern countries, despite competition from cheaper alternatives such as the Saab Swordfish and modified turboprop airliners. Lowering of Poseidon’s cost and adding an additional crew workstation has helped sustain/kindled interest of the current/ potential buyers.
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August 2018
India Strategic
Rolls-Royce Intelligentengine Vision Makes Rapid Progress
Farnborough. Rolls-Royce provided a detailed update on its Intelligent engine vision during the July 2018 Farnborough Airshow, highlighting three examples of recent progress and showing how rapidly Rolls-Royce’s digital capabilities are developing.
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August 2018
India Strategic
Russia Celebrates 74th Anniversary Of The Great Patriotic War With Victory Day Parade
MOSCOW. Russia will keep strengthening its armed forces, President Vladimir Putin promised while speaking at the annual military Victory Day parade at Red Square May 9.
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May 2019
India Strategic
IAF Gets Its First Boeing Apache Ah-64E Combat Helicopter
NEW DELHI. The Indian Air Force (IAF) received its first Apache Combat Helicopter May 10, the Air Headquarters announced.
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May 2019
India Strategic
Flydubai Receives Industry Recognition
DUBAI-BASED flydubai was named “Best Low-Cost airline serving the Middle East” at this year’s Business Traveller Middle East Awards, which was held during the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) at the Grand Plaza Mövenpick.
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May 2019
India Strategic
Tejas Mk 2
To Replace IAF’s Upgraded Mirage 2000 Fighters!!
2 min |
May 2019
India Strategic
Indian Navy Submarine Arm
• A Status Report and the Way Ahead
8 min |
May 2019
India Strategic
Lockheed Martin
In Jet Speed to Make F-16s in India
3 min |
September 2017
India Strategic
From The Parliament - Make In India Initiative
GOVERNMENT HAS taken various steps to encourage indigenisation and self reliance in defence. Under ‘Make in India’ initiative, Government has taken following initiatives:
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September 2017
india strategic
indian army strikes terrorist launch pads in pok
about 40 terrorists killed in measured response across the loc.
4 min |
october 2016
india strategic
india sets new terms of engagement with 'surgical strikes'
india set out new terms of engagement with the international community after it conducted surgical military strikes across the line of control (loc), or the de facto border with pakistan,on september 29.
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october 2016
india strategic
indian women leave sharif un-covered
indian women have managed to severely and mortifyingly dent the credibility of the prime minister of a pakistan at the leading global forum, the united nations general assembly.
7 min |
october 2016
india strategic
iaf needs 200 to 250 mmrcas, says outgoing air chief raha
requirement is for 400 though.
4 min |
january 2017
India Strategic
India, Japan Sign Civil Nuclear Cooperation Deal
NEW DELHI. The India-Japan civil nuclear cooperation agreement, in the works for over six years, was finally signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan on November 11 and 12, for the annual prime ministerial summit with Japan, a key feature of the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership. The Japan-India Nuclear Civil Agreement (NCA) opens, in theory, the way for the construction of six Westinghouse/Toshiba AP1000 reactors at Mithivirdi, in the state of Gujarat.
8 min |
November 2016
India Strategic
Mechanised Forces
IN ANY battle, speed, accuracy and protection are extremely important. In days of yore, the Cavalry provided these and won the day with the artillery decimating the target prior to the assault. Gradually, engines came in and the speed of automobiles exceeded that of horses. During the First World War, both sides stagnated in their trenches till the British invented the tank in the First World War in September 1915. The first use of tanks on the battlefield was the use of British Mark 1 tanks at the Battle of Flers-Courcellete on September 15, 1916, with mixed results; many broke down, but nearly a third succeeded in breaking through. Of the fortynine tanks shipped to the battle field, only thirty-two were able to begin the first attack in which they were used and only nine made it across “no man’s land” to the German lines. The tanks had been rushed into combat before the design was mature enough and the number was small but their use gave important feedback on how to design newer tanks, the soundness of the concept, and their potential to affect the course of the war.
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