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The 1.13 million strong Indian Army, the 2nd largest in the world, now wants its own "fully-empowered and trained" police force to take care of both External as well as Internal crime. As part of an overall transformation in the pipeline to make the Indian Defence force into a lean and mean...

India is looking at the possibility of yet another major government-to-government military deal with the United States. The army headquarters is in the advanced stages of evaluating the Javelin anti-tank missile for large-scale induction. If the missile suits India, it could lead to another...

Chinese forces intrude Indian territory at least 223 times in the year 2008 Chinese forces intrude Indian territory at least 26 times in the month of August alone (2009). Chinese forces beat Indian nomads & ask them to "leave their land & return to India". Uttarakhand CM Nishank writes to the PM...

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...

On July 26 this year, India joined the select group of five nations to have its own nuclear propelled and nuclear armed submarine called Arihant. Code-named Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV), the submarine is a project conceived in the 70s and initiated by Indira Gandhi in the 80s. It was a...

In what could be a latest and one of the biggest threat to India, Pakistan has hired a Chinese company to build an illegal railway station on no man's land near the Indian border at Barmer. The railway station being built by a Chinese company is not only illegal but is just one of the many...

Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju said on Monday that India is aware of the growing influence of China in Pakistan and other neighbouring countries. Pallam Raju said, “Chinese influence is not just in Pakistan. They are trying to develop a port in Sri Lanka and in Myanmar. And we...

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: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...

India Has made a secret request to the United states to supply a huge quantity of Cluster Bombs.India wants CBU-105 bombs which cost about $375 millions. After the Mumbai terror attacks india has asked US to fast-track this request, so that weapons can quickly be added to India's arsenal against...

BY : PTI Faced with intelligence inputs of a possible threat from the skies on the patern of 9/11, the Indian Air Force has decided to install highly-sophisticated radar in Delhi to detect 'rogue' low-flying aircraft. The decision to install 'Aerostat' radar in Delhi comes close on the heels...

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 has built atleast 2 tunnels in mountains for storage of Agni Intermediate Range Ballastic Missile (IRBM). It was revealed by Mr. Bharat Karnad, who released his book “India’s Nuclear Policy†in Mumbai yesterday. He said that India is building more such facilities. Such tunnels will...

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 : 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 : ZEE NEWS Russia will start deliveries of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier fighters to India in the spring of 2009. Russia and India signed a contract on January 20, 2004, stipulating the delivery of 12 single-seater MiG-29K and four two-seater MiG-29KUB by 2009, to be deployed on the Admiral...

Following in the footsteps of the US Armed Forces, the Indian Army soldiers will soon be armed with laser guns to help take on militants without even firing a single shot. The Laser Science and Technology Centre (LASTEC), a DRDO laboratory, has developed 'Laser Dazzler' - a non-lethal gun -...

Hyderabad, Sept. 24 With an intention to make the country’s missiles lighter, cost-effective and possess greater hit power, the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) is augmenting its composite materials facilities and capabilities. An independent centre for composite testing...