Defence general

21 Apr 2018

The hotline, which enables direct communications between North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and the South’s Moon Jae-in, is the latest step in a whirlwind of diplomacy on and around the Korean peninsula since the Winter Olympics

20 Apr 2018

18 Apr 2018

While AI-controlled doomsday machines are considered unlikely, the hazards of artificial intelligence for nuclear security lie instead in its potential to encourage humans to take potentially apocalyptic risks, says a new RAND Corporation paper

17 Apr 2018

The integrated land-air-sea combat exercise, Gagan Shakti 2018, with 1,150 fighter aircraft, helicopters and drones and over 15,000 IAF personnel participating, is being carried out with active participation of the Army and the Navy in a pan-India format

14 Apr 2018

While US defence secretary Jim Mattis said the strikes are a 'one-time shot’, US President Donald Trump said the allies are prepared to sustain the strikes until the Syrian regime stopped its use of prohibited chemical agents, raising the prospect of a confrontation with Russia

13 Apr 2018

Prior to the Trump administration, the US consistently attempted to justify reprisals through creative characterisation of the facts to fit the self-defence paradigm, says world-renowned expert on international law,  Mary Ellen O'Connell 

07 Apr 2018

A number of fighter jets, including the Eurofighter Typhoon, Lockheed`s F-16, Saab’s Gripen and Russian aircraft MiG-35 are expected to vie for the contract worth over $15 billion that allows makers of both single engine and twin-engine combat jets to participate

03 Apr 2018

27 Mar 2018

26 Mar 2018

22 Mar 2018

The world’s fastest supersonic cruise missile, the BrahMos, was successfully flight-tested at the Pokhran test range on Thursday

21 Mar 2018

17 Mar 2018

Until recently, Lockheed Martin’s F-16 and Saab’s Gripen were in a two-horse race supply at least 100 single-engine jets to the Indian Air Force. But the government has now reportedly asked the IAF to also evaluate Boeing’s twin-engine F/A-18 Super Hornet

14 Mar 2018

13 Mar 2018

According to a SIPRI report, Russia remained India’s largest supplier of arms from 2013 to 2017, accounting for 62 per cent of India’s imports. But the US recorded blazing growth of over 550 per cent in its arms exports to India compared with the previous five years

12 Mar 2018

Russia claimed to have successfully test-launched a hypersonic missile, is said to travel at 10 times the speed of sound, with a range of 2,000km

10 Mar 2018

After a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, French President Emmanuel Macron, on a four-day visit, said New Delhi is a 'strategic partner' of France, and stability in the Indian Ocean is 'very important for the entire region'

08 Mar 2018

The emergence of inexpensive small unmanned aircraft systems (sUASs), commonly known as drones, has led to adversarial groups threatening deployed US forces, especially infantry units

06 Mar 2018

05 Mar 2018

China has announced a military budget of 1.11 trillion yuan ($175 billion) for this coming year, an 8.1 per cent increase on last year

03 Mar 2018

03 Mar 2018

The new Russian arsenal include nuclear-powered submarines or drones, called uninhabited underwater vehicles (UUV), nuclear-powered missiles and a hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missile

28 Feb 2018

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27 Feb 2018