Exploiting platforms and technologies from space to sensors, India is planning a multi-layer aerospace surveillance network which may manifest between 2030-35. What is the potential of these systems and what outcomes can be anticipated and when, here is a review.

For the Indian Armed Forces whose primary role is deterrence, war avoidance and territorial sovereignty – UAVs, missiles and air defence systems will be supplementary and complementary to tanks, artillery guns and infantry carriers. This will also give the commanders strategic as well as operational options, while ensuring tangible achievement of success rather than the narrative.

The month of May [2026] has been particularly significant for the Indian Air Force [IAF]. The call for accelerating projects and programmes by the IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal A P Singh appears to be finally paying off as the Ministry of Defence initiated combat fighter acquisitions with one Request for Proposal [RFP], another Letter of Request [LOR] and US firm Honeywell delivering the first batch of three engines for the overdue indigenous basic trainer aircraft to Hindustan

Several forcing events tend to suggest that at least preliminaries of the much vaunted plan to integrate the Army, Navy and Air Force operations through formation of Theater Commands may be reaching a degree of finality, or is it another so near yet so far moment.

What’s changed between Op Sindoor 1 and a projected Operation Sindoor 2 – here is a review of nine variables - strategic, diplomatic, military and terrorism which are likely to change and one constant.

The Defence Forces Vision 2047 outlines many of the desired capabilities for a modern military progressing over the next two decades or so. The ominbus approach denotes complexity of the mission and the necessity for political and military will and commitment to achieve the aims laid down.

As India continues to languish in the top two nations for arms imports globally, a conversation with SIPRI expert Siemon T Wezeman provides perspectives and how India could shed this “distinction”.

Screen Grab China Military Online 29 December 2025 China PLA Eastern Theatre Command announced the launch of Justice Mission 2025 on December 29 in the Taiwan periphery with integrated operations by PLAA, PLAN, PLAAF and Rocket Force. Here is a run of events and simulation of impact. In a series of press releases China Military Online [ http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/ ] Xinhua and Weibo/WeChat reports wherein forces of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberatio

Representative Image Wix Media The aggregate arms revenues of the three companies in India in the Top 100 rose by 8.2 per cent to $7.5 billion in 2024 as a result of orders from the Indian government orders. These include Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Bharat Electronics Ltd and Mazagon Docks Revenues from sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest arms-producing companies rose by 5.9 per cent in 2024, reaching a record $679 billion, according to new data released t

LCA TEJAS The November 21, accident involving the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) manufacturing Tejas LCA Mark 1 at the Dubai Air Show will be a test for the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Defence Public Sector Undertaking directly operating under the Indian Ministry of Defence [MOD]. Indeed, the loss of Wing Commander Naman Syal is grievous for his family, the IAF as well as the nation. A tribute to the departed soul would be a fair investigation rather than speculation