It’s a Plane! It’s a Helicopter! It’s the Army’s Next-Gen Hybrid Jet-Copter
Defense contractors Lockheed Martin and Boeing compete with Bell Helicopters to come up with the next-generation replacement to the US Army’s helicopter fleet. Read More… Read more
DARPA Awards Research Contract For Future Armored Vehicles
Future Armored vehicles will be able to deflect incoming threats by moving their armor plates up, down or sideways, be light, agile and have greater situational awareness than the steel behe... Read more
Parrikar: Real impact of Make in India in defence sector will be seen in 2017
The face of the Indian defence sector is changing rapidly with a strong focus on indigenisation. The man leading that change is Manohar Parrikar, India’s defence minister. Parrikar has... Read more
LCA Tejas :: The Bird That Gave Us Freedom
So , finally after a long time , the Tejas are ultimately being inducted into the Air Force with a sizeable order of 100+ jets on the Mk1 airframe [ 20 Mk1 + 80 Mk1A (may vary)] . Let’s take... Read more
India modernizes its military
By far the largest importer of arms in the world, India is poised to spend an estimated $310 billion by 2022 on upgrading its arsenal. Vying for these sweepstakes are global arms vendors and... Read more
Glacial Mistrust
South of the Pamirs, there is a knot of mountains formed by the Karakoram, Hindu Kush and Kuen Lun ranges. Emanating from the mighty Karakoram range, which forms the northern crown of India... Read more
Good times for US-India defence ties
US-India defence ties have taken another small step towards consolidation with the visit of US secretary of defence Ashton Carter to India this week. The two countries finally managed to agr... Read more
The 13-year-old proposal of a trade route from India to Iran, and Afghanistan and also Central Asia – bypassing Pakistan – is now within grasping distance of becoming reality. The three coun... Read more
The Strategic Imperative Benefits outweigh costs of India, US intimacies
There’s anxiety in the Indian strategic community that India is about to embrace the US strategically and get locked in an anti-China alliance — without adequate debate. This anxiety is fuel... Read more
The various branches of the United States military have never been especially shy about their interest in 3D printing technology. Considering how versatile and useful 3D printing has proven... Read more