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India planning Agni-4 nuclear missile test next week New Delhi: India is planning to carry out a development trial of the 4,000km-range nuclear weapon capable Agni-4 missile off the coast of Odisha next week. This would be the third test-firing of the missile, which has the second-largest...

DRDO Wants to Get out of Upgrades Business Soon The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), India’s lone military R&D agency, wants to soon get out of the upgrades business and let the state-owned and private sector industries take up that role. This, DRDO chief Avinash...

Indian soldiers come under fire in South Sudan An Indian peacekeeping contingent in South Sudan came under fire as fighting erupted between local groups near a U.N. base in Malakal, requiring the soldiers to fire multiple rounds in order to protect civilians. The U.N. Mission in South Sudan...

With eye on exports, Tejas on display in Bahrain air show Seeking to explore the export potential of its homemade defence equipment, India is showcasing weapon systems like Light Combat Aircraft Tejas and the airborne early warning systems aircraft at the Bahrain international air show...

ISRO yet to pick up rover built by IIT-K ISRO had given a project to IIT Kanpur to develop a rover to be launched with Chandrayaan-II, which the university’s scientists completed in 2010, but the space agency was yet to pick it up and make part payment to the institute, according to its...

T-50 Fighter To Feature Higher Stealth Capabilities Sukhoi Aircraft has introduced the new design solutions to increase the stealth capabilities of T-50 by managing to greatly reduce the effective surface scattering of the fighter, which is the basic element for visibility on aircraft radars...

Deals stuck, Army not fighting fit NEW DELHI: The 1.1-million strong Army is still nowhere near fighting fit. The force may have inked contracts worth Rs 11,777 crore this fiscal but none of its critical modernization projects for howitzers, helicopters, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs)...

Critical sectors get cyber attack protection The government has cleared a proposal to put technical-spying agency NTRO in charge of securing the IT installations of key infrastructure bodies including telecommunications, power, railways and airports. The move comes at the behest of National...

Will Rafale F3R Upgrade Impact Indian MMRCA Procurement? As the development and integration of a new-standard Rafale fighter, the F3R gets underway by Dassault, its impact on the Indian MMRCA procurement could be significant. With the current official information on the Indian deal being...

India has avenged LoC murders, says army chief India has avenged the murders of its soldiers along the Line of Control (LoC) by the Pakistani army last year by inflicting casualties on the neighbouring army, General Bikram Singh said on Monday. Warning Pakistan against border violations, he...

Pak youth too seek AAP-like change: Imran KOLKATA: The Pakistan of today is a distant shadow of what its founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, wanted the country to be. But there's still hope for it. Imran Khan, who heads Pakistan's principal opposition party, told TOI in an exclusive chat on...

Indian Coast Guard ship decommissioned after 23 years of services MUMBAI: On January 10 in a traditional military ceremony held at Naval Dockyard Mumbai, the Indian Coast Guard Ship Annie Besant was decommissioned with full armed forces honours. The ceremony was presided over by Inspector...

Russian sailors of INS Vikramaditya roam naked on Karwar beach, cops in a tizzy KARWAR: The behaviour of Russian naval personnel who accompanied INS Vikramaditya to Karnataka's Karwar caused some embarrassing situations on Saturday. About 120 Russians came with the aircraft carrier to train...

Its not about size...its all about not getting caught and bypassing radar networks.

The design philosophy of the PAK-FA/T-50 is not to be the stealthiest plane in the sky, but rather just stealth enough to get close where it'll win almost all the time v.s. the F-35 and have a chance v.s. the F-22.

Thats bullshit..!! RCS of a clean Rafale is 0.3m2. RCS of F-22 :: 0.00004 m2 (On the Sukhoi website, they state that the RCS of the F-22 is 0.3sqm..!! And i dont know why..?!) RCS of F-35 :: 0.0001 m2 RCS of PAK-FA :: 0.001 m2 (Those are all in the Frontal Section with X-band radars.) Perhaps...

Teddy bears and balloons on the Sino-Indian border Asia's two most fearsome armies wish each other Happy New Year, pose for photos and exchange teddy bears and balloons on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near Tawang. Link - Broadsword: Teddy bears and balloons on the Sino-Indian border

A different model for DRDO There is hardly any lecture or discussion on the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Defence Ministry more broadly in which a call is not given for the setting up of a Defence R&D Commission “on the pattern of” the Atomic Energy Commission...

Pranab: Let’s reclaim our top position in higher education Time has come for India, which once had such world famous universities as Takshashila, Nalanda and Vikramashila, to reclaim its premier position in higher education, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday. Presenting the Pravasi...

Nirbheek, India's first gun for women LUCKNOW: Giving more power to women to defend themselves and as a tribute to December 2012 ganrape victim Nirbhaya, the Indian Ordnance Factory, Kanpur, has manufactured Nirbheek, a .32 bore light weight revolver, India's first firearm designed for...