In the present paradigm of operational environments saturated with aerial/ground combat machines, inter-platform lethality/survivability have emerged as essential prerequisites for a combat platform, now and into the foreseeable future. While…
By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)The Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turbo shaft attack helicopter with a tail wheel-type landing gear and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. Nose-mounted sensors help acquire…
By Air Marshal Anil Khosla (Retd)In the global airpower arena, advancements in aerospace power are frequent, swift and multi-dimensional. Airpower proves to be a critical facet in the race for global/regional dominance and as a…
By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)The Indian Air Force, on the sidelines of ‘Tarang Shakti 2024,’ the largest multilateral exercise carried out in the country, also conducted a symposium on air domain awareness. The theme…
By Air Vice Marshal Anil Golani (Retd.)The Chinese are masters of deception and denial is well known, for they see nothing illogical as being deceptive and talking of trust. In 2016, to neutralise India’s position on…
By Phunchok StobdanAs India rightly pushes for Atmanirbharta, it is very clear that the highest dividend for indigenisation in defence is in aviation sector. Aircraft requires the leading-edge technologies. No country shares…
By Air Marshal Anil Chopra (Retd)India’s largest international air exercise, Exercise Tarang Shakti 2024, is in progress. Phase I at Sulur Airbase has been completed, and phase II is now underway. Military exercises are an…
By Air Marshal Anil Khosla (Retd)The largest-ever International Air Exercise that mainland Asia has seen in over six decades is underway as the Indian Air Force hosts friendly foreign Air Forces from thirty nations, ten…
By Air Marshal (Dr) Diptendu Choudhury (Retd) PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSMThe Indo-Pacific region can be understood as a geopolitical area that comprises of the waters of the Indian Ocean, the central and western Pacific Ocean, and the seas that connect…
By EKAMVIR SINGH research associateLast year, I discussed how India’s neighbouring countries were increasingly burdened by debt, which I referred to as the ‘Ring of Debt.’ I also predicted that after this phase, anti-India…
By Cdr Sandeep Dhawan (Retd)After weeks of demonstrations and violence that started in July 2024, the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India on 5th August 2024. The World’s longest-serving female…
By Cdr Sandeep Dhawan (Retd)A perfectly stable government, only recently elected, with a history of 15 years of continuous rule, suddenly comes apart and its leader, the Prime Minister of the country has to…
By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)