Afghanistan’s Taliban said on Monday that Pakistan carried out two air strikes on its territory, killing five women and three children, and its security forces launched heavy weapons at the Pakistani military in retaliation. The strikes came as the neighbouring countries trade blame over who is responsible for a recent spate of militant attacks in…
Pakistani airstrikes targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan early on Monday, the foreign ministry said. The Afghan Taliban said the attacks killed at least eight people and prompted return fire from their forces. The exchange, two days after seven Pakistani soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing and coordinated attack…
The Indian Army has raised an elite tech unit that will undertake research and evaluation of futuristic communication technologies like 6G, artificial intelligence, machine learning and quantum computing for military use given the changing nature of the field. The Signals Technology Evaluation and Adaptation Group or STEAG is mandated to nurture technologies spanning the complete…
North Korea fired short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday for the first time in two months, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Seoul for a conference hosted by President Yoon Suk Yeol on advancing democracy. South Korea’s military said several short-range missiles flew about 300 km after being fired from Pyongyang,…
In continuation with the centennial celebrations of Admiral RL Pereira, PVSM, AVSM (1923-1993), the Indian Navy and St Joseph’s School (North Point), Darjeeling jointly conducted commemorative events at the school campus on 15 March 24. Admiral Pereira, fondly known as ‘Ronnie P’, rose to become the 9th Chief of the Naval Staff in 1979, was…
The third edition of the Station Commanders’ Workshop of the Indian Navy is scheduled from 18-20 Mar 24 at New Delhi. After the successful conduct of two such Workshops INS Hamla at Mumbai (Southern Naval Command) and INS Circars (Eastern Naval Command), the venue shifts to New Delhi, where more than 100 Station Commanders, Unit…
Key Facts Thales took less than six months to develop the Expeditionary Portable Operations Centre (e-POC), a lightweight, full-function mission planning, management and analysis demonstrator for mine countermeasures operations relying on unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). The innovative demonstrator is a small form-factor, easily transportable operations centre that will enhance force agility by allowing naval operators…
Lockheed Martin, the global aerospace and deterrence company, has extended its collaboration agreement with Navantia, Spain’s national defense and shipbuilding company and naval Combat System Integration agent. This agreement signed by Lockheed Martin executives Chauncey McIntosh and Joe DePietro, and by Navantia executives Donato Martínez and José Manuel Mondéjar, will extend the current agreement three…
