Defence

Above: Army Chief General Bipin Rawat greeting a retired disabled person. The Army needs to rectify defects in the disability pension system/Photo: spsnavalforces.com Pension for armed forces perso...

Above: The advanced Brahmos supersonic cruise missile test fired from Car Nicobar Island/Photo: UNI India has finalised a new system to speed up sale of military equipment to friendly countries but...

Army chief General Bipin Rawat recently said at a seminar that soldiers should use smartphones and social media which can be leveraged for psychological warfare. Cyberwar is the potent new weapon but ...

Above: The three service chiefs, Gen Bipin Rawat, Admiral Sunil Lanba and Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, with the PM; plans to appoint a chief of defence staff post the 1999 Kargil conflict ...

Above: Then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar receives French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian for signing the Rafale contract in September 2016/Photo: UNI It is naïve to imagine anything secretive a...

Above: An airdrop of personnel during Gagan Shakti 2018 Gagan Shakti 2018 was meant to test the preparedness of all the fighting systems of the IAF against the might of the Chinese and Pakistanis, ...

Above: Photo Courtesy UNI With increasing threats to the country, the need of the hour is a national security policy document, establishment of a separate ministry and greater centre-state co-ordin...

Above: The AgustaWestland chopper/Photo: Rick Inghan/imgproc.airliners.net Regardless of the CBI saying this case is independent of any legal cleansing in Italy, the fact is that a major leg of the...

India would do well to lobby for this highly advanced jet so that it stays ahead of the game in the subcontinent ~By Bikram Vohra Even as the turbulence in the wake of the purchase of the Rafale...

Above: Army parade at Rajpath, New Delhi Changing the apolitical nature of the forces is a dangerous trend and can have serious repercussions for democracy, the morale of soldiers and the security ...