Monthly Archives: August, 2020

The Gripen E has been ordered by both Sweden and Brazil. Other Saab Gripen fighters have been sold to Hungary, Czech Republic, South Africa and Thailand. India turned down the option to buy the Gripen fighter jet for the Rafales. 

IAI’s Carmel entry presents a vehicle capable of fully autonomous, semiautonomous, and manual driving modes. It can also automatically engage in target acquisition and weapon selection, though weapon deployment requires a human action.

China has been accusing India of being "hijacked by domestic radical nationalism and that it has failed to manage it" since New Delhi took...

Amidst tensions in the South China Sea (SCS) & border conflict with India, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has launched the DF-26...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Online armies of self-styled Saudi patriots riding a wave of state-led nationalism attack critics and what they call "traitors" of the...

Soldiers from India and China have been engaged in a bitter border standoff and bilateral ties have almost frozen after 20 Indian Army soldiers...

But even amid a harsh crackdown on the Uighur population in China's Xinjiang region, Pakistan PM Imran Khan has refused to be drawn into the domestic affairs of Pakistan's long-time ally and focussed on Kashmir.

“They (T-90s) are not there to defend Indian territory, but to threaten Chinese territory,” said a fellow at the U.S.-based National Bureau of Asian Research thinktank. In comparison to the 45-ton Russian origin T-90 tanks, Beijing has deployed Type 15 tanks which are way lighter giving them an added advantage of navigating through the challenging terrain of the Himalayan region.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged prominent Afghans holding a major meeting Friday to free Taliban prisoners, promising help if the war-torn...

Sri Lanka's ruling Rajapaksa brothers have secured a two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections, giving them powers to change the constitution and unravel democratic safeguards,...

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) along with their heavy equipment has arrived at the Zabaikalsk railway station in Russia to participate in the...

Amid the ongoing India-China border dispute along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Galwan valley, the Indian Army will get 73,000 Sig...

The MH-60R helicopters were chosen as a replacement for the Sea Kings and were cleared for purchase by the Defense Ministry in August 2018. The deal of sell 24 helicopters was approved by the Trump administration however the initial cost estimated was $2.6 billion

Indian Defence Ministry's report acknowledging Chinese intrusion into Indian territory in eastern Ladakh in early May has now bizarrely vanished from the Ministry's website....

On the first anniversary of abrogation of Article 370, China and Turkey have denounced India's move on Jammu and Kashmir but have decided to...

Beirut or Hiroshima: Experts believe that the blast in Beirut was not as powerful to the blast in Hiroshima. The explosive power would, however, be comparable to the lowest yield B61 nuclear gravity bomb, which is believed to have an explosive yield of around 300 tons.

Junagadh was a part of the Kathiawar region along with other princely states that had already acceded to India. However, on August 15, 1947, to everyone's surprise, Junagadh's Nawab, Mahabatkhan Rasulkhanji decided to accede to Pakistan even though he had earlier given the impression that the future of his state lies in joining India.

Facebook and Twitter took aim at US President Donald Trump and his campaign over a video post in which he contended that children are...

After procuring 24 Rafale fighter jets from France, Egypt has received the first order of Russian Sukhoi Su-35 jet fighters. As per reports, the...

Lower-caste Pakistani Hindus are often the victims of bonded labour. It was banished in 1992, but the practice is still widespread. The Global Slavery Index estimates that over three million Pakistanis live in debt bondage.