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BY : Express Buzz India has deployed naval ships and put fighters on standby across the country as it waits for definitive Pakistani action to bring the terror brains to book. Top sources told to this website's newspaper that the Indian Air Force had fully armed its strike fighters as well...

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...

by : sakaal Times Indian defence scientists have embarked on Project Agni-V to develop a long-range missile by the year 2010, which can strike targets over 5,000 km, programme director of Agni weapon systems, Avinash Chander said on Wednesday. After the success of Agni-3, which is ready...

by : Zee news Indian Armed Forces are facing a shortage of 13,830 officers. This was stated by Defence Minister A K Antony while replying to a question in Parliament on shortage of officers in the armed forces. "There is a shortage of 11,119 officers in Indian Army, 1,359 officers in Indian...

by : Zee news New Delhi, Oct 20: Country's premier defence research organisation DRDO is facing the attrition problems as 785 defence scientists have resigned in the last three years. The government has offered various incentives for scientists in the Sixth Central Pay Commission (CPC) report...

BY : PolskiRadio Polish soldiers will begin training in India, particularly taking advantage of the high-altitude training available in the region near the Himalaya mountains. General Mieczyslaw Stachowiak of the Polish Army states that Polish helicopter pilots in particular can benefit...

What do you all think should Indian army's role be in politics? Should the Army step in on its own when mob rule becomes more powerful than rule of law? Or should the constitution be designed so as to have clauses which enables the army legally to protect it when politicians fail similar to...

BY : DNA INDIA Fearing unmanageable defence scandals on the eve of general elections, the Union government has issued comprehensive guidelines to deal with two tainted Israeli firms that are dominant players in the Indian arms market. The guidelines put curbs on new deals with them, citing...

BY : TNN With the gigantic Rs 18,798-crore project to construct six French Scorpene killer submarines at Mazagon Docks in Mumbai finally gainin g momentum, India’s hunt for six new-generation submarines in a mammoth project worth well over Rs 30,000 crore is now well underway...

BY : TNN India and China are among the world's top importers of arms, with Beijing accounting for almost 12 per cent of global weapons and military equipment import followed by New Delhi with eight per cent, according to a survey by a Stockholm-based think tank. The report by Stockholm...

by : TOI The Army has launched a global hunt for a "massive" induction of "mini" and "micro" spy drones for short-range surveillance and intelli gence-gathering missions as well as detection of NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) contaminants in the battlefield. Interestingly, the Army...

According to A K Maini of DRDO, the Laser Technology Center "successfully tested the guided weapon testing devices, which helps improve the accuracy rate of guided weapons of IAF like infra-red guided missiles and laser guided bombs." The innovative device reportedly matches weapons' code...

BY : IANS India and Singapore have concluded a two-day defence dialogue to take stock of their growing military ties, assess threats to stability in the region and share security concerns. Indian defence secretary Vijay Singh and his Singaporean counterpart, permanent secretary-defence...

BY : IANS An integrated command and control system commissioned here Wednesday has enabled the real time networking of all military and civil radars in south India to qualitatively enhance the surveillance capabilities of the Indian Air Force (IAF) in a broad swathe from the Bay of Bengal to...

by : Times of India The Pentagon has notified the US Congress of its offer to sell India CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapons (SFW) worth $375 mn to help the "Indian Air Force to develop and enhance standardisation and operational ability with the United States". "This proposed sale will...

by : defense news Indo-U.S. strategic ties take a quantum jump Oct. 4, when U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee sign the 123 agreement. The Indo-U.S. civil nuclear cooperation agreement took three years before the final obstacle was...

by : Defense News India said on Oct. 3 it was gearing up to seal military contracts worth billions of dollars, including a massive fighter jet deal that has prompted a dogfight among global aeronautical giants. India's move to buy 126 fighter jets worth $12 billion was in its final...

India confirmed Monday it will buy 347 T-90 battle tanks from Russia and said it will consider a demand from Moscow that it pay an additional US$1.2 billion because of delays in a deal for a Soviet-built aircraft carrier and 16 fighter jets. Visiting Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov...

The 1.5-million personnel of the armed forces will not be a happy lot this festive season, as their revised pay scales are expected to be paid only in November. They will take home, salaries under the old pay scales this month, but would get a part of the 40 per cent arrears under the 6th...

India's Special Forces doctrine, released Sept. 30, details the dominant role special forces units are expected to play for all three services in future wars. Adm. Sureesh Mehta, chairman, Chief of Staff Committee, and chief of the Naval Staff, formally released the "Joint Doctrine for...