The US military fired another wave of ship- and submarine-launch missile strikes against Houthi-controlled sites Wednesday, US officials said. This firing marks the fourth time in days it has directly targeted the group in Yemen as violence that ignited in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war continues to spill over in the Middle East. The…
The Indian Navy will project its military might and firm resolve to safeguard the nation’s strategic interests in the maritime domain at the Republic Day parade, amid growing global concerns over the escalating tensions in the Red Sea. The naval tableau at the parade at Kartavya Path on January 26 will also showcase the Navy’s…
The State Department of United States (US) has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Australia of General Tomahawk Weapons System Support Services Uplift and related equipment. The estimated total cost is $250 million. Notably, the Government of Australia has requested to buy services to support the Tomahawk Weapon…
Indian and Chinese troops clashed at least two times in 2022 along their Himalayan frontier where they have been involved in a bitter standoff since 2020, according to new details that have emerged from the Indian Army’s gallantry award citations. The incidents involved hand-to-hand combat and came as New Delhi and Beijing held a series…
In a major development at Wings India 2024, commencing January 18 at Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the largest DPSU under the Indian Ministry of Defence, is set to showcase its homegrown civil platforms. Among the highlights are the Hindustan-228 aircraft and the upgraded civil variant of ALH Dhruv helicopter. The aerospace, and…
The United States, South Korea and Japan conducted combined naval drills (exercises) involving an American aircraft carrier in their latest show of strength against nuclear-armed North Korea, South Korea’s military said on Wednesday, as the three countries’ senior diplomats were to meet in Seoul to discuss the deepening standoff with Pyongyang. The training in waters…
The Department of Defence Research and Development, India has issued a tender / RFP for the procurement of 1 set of Weapon System Evaluation and Simulation Platform-H The system to be procured is intended to provide a unified platform for Modelling, Simulation and Evaluation of the entire weapon system scenario with computing environment, encompassing the…
The XSPECT payload on XPoSat, India’s first X-ray polarimetric mission, has captured its first light from the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant. Launched on January 1, 2024, XPoSat carries two co-aligned instruments, POLarimeter Instrument in X-rays (POLIX) and X-ray SPECtroscopy and Timing (XSPECT), aimed at unravelling the mysteries of cosmic X-ray sources. While the…
Vice Admiral Vineet McCarty took over as Commandant, Indian Naval Academy, on 15 Jan 24. The Flag Officer was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 01 Jul 1989 and is a graduate of Defence Service Staff College, Wellington (2005) and National Defence College, New Delhi (2017). A specialist in ‘Gunnery and Missiles’, he served as…
The maiden Bilateral Maritime Exercise between the Indian Navy (IN) and Royal Thai Navy (RTN) was conducted from 20 to 23 December 2023. Indigenously built Indian Naval ships Kulish and IN LCU 56 participated in the inaugural edition of the exercise. While, the RTN side was represented by His Thai Majesty’s Ship (HTMS) Prachuap Khiri Khan. Besides, the 36th edition…
