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The indefatigable Hans M. Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists has done it again. He has posted on his blog a satellite picture of what is almost certainly a Pakistani nuclear weapons storage site near the Masroor Air Force base, some 12 km from Karachi. The picture features...

Air Chief Marshal PV Naik has admitted that India lacks the air power to meet the myriad terror threats facing the country. Earlier, Admiral Suresh Mehta publicly admitted that India was no match for China and china was likely to be more assertive in its claims on the neighborhood and called for...

India will get its first set of lethal drones designed to take down high-value targets like missile sites, radars and even senior enemy personnel by 2011, adding a new dimension to its combative capabilities. While India already has a fleet of Searcher and Heron Unmanned Aerial Vehicles...

The Army is creating a new Mountain Division for the Northeast, headquartered in central Nagaland or the adjoining areas of Upper Assam. Although it will be stationed in an area when the Army is engaged in counter-insurgency operations, sources say the division could also have the task of...

The Indian military fears a ‘Chinese aggression’ in less than a decade. A secret exercise, called ‘Divine Matrix’, by the army’s military operations directorate has visualised a war scenario with the nuclear-armed neighbour before 2017. “A misadventure by China is very much within...

Home Minister P Chidambaram said that personnel of the Special Forces Unit, an anti-terrorist force set up in Bangalore following the Mumbai terror attacks, were "available for deployment at short notice". Chidambaram said: "At present, the SFU has 100 men of all ranks and by the end of this...

By : Zee News French naval defence system contractor DCNS on Wednesday said there had been initial "teething trouble" in the transfer of technology for the Indian Navy's Scorpene submarine project but they had been resolved. Three of the six Scorpene submarines are being built at the...

BY:Express Buzz. An ultra modern High Performance Human Centrifuge (HPHC) was inaugurated by the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal FH Major, at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine (IAM) recently. “With this new acquisition, the IAM is now at par with world standards as it now has one...

A new hypersonic version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise and anti-ship missile capable of speeds in excess of Mach 5 is reportedly undergoing laboratory testing. Though the challenges to its development cannot be overstated, its progress bears continued monitoring. Laboratory testing of a new...

Hi everyone, I am new to this India forums and new to the blogger talks also.. I like to make a list of Current weapons used by our military men. Weapons include all small arms, AT guns, AA weapons, Explosives, missiles things that are flying,floating etc. like that everything.. when i search...

by : India Today The government is considering a proposal to raise intake of cadets from the National Cadet Corps (NCC) into the prestigious Indian Military Academy (IMA) from 64 to 80, Lt. General R.K. Karwal, Director-General, NCC, said today. Alarmed over the shortfall of officers, the...

India is ready to take on Pakistan for its alleged backing of terrorists, but can it take on the country militarily? Military options exist but exercising them isn't that simple, say experts. India's military options against Pakistan include: Surgical air strikes not just on infrastructure...

NEW DELHI - India has built the British Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) at facilities of state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) at rates nearly 20 percent less than those built by BAE Systems, said a senior Indian Defence Ministry official. The first HAL-built Hawk is ready for delivery...

An Indian double has caught global attention in the hypersonic race for cheap and cost effective launch technology. Bidding for their rightful place among the world's majors, two of the country's premier agencies are in the advanced stages of proving scram jet (supersonic combustion ramjet)...

LCA Tejas ( तेजस् ) is a lightweight multirole jet fighter developed by India. It is a tailless, compound delta wing design powered by a single engine. It came from the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme, which was begun in the 1980s to replace India's ageing MiG-21 fighters. India's...