India’s growing footprint in Armenia coincided with a period of profound geopolitical transformation in the South Caucasus. But the region is no longer defined by the Russia-centric order.
Armenia has procured significant defence equipment from India, including artillery guns, multi-barrel rocket launchers, air defence system, sniper rifles, weapons locating radars, anti-drone weapons.
As the Israel-Iran conflict intensifies, the embassy has urged Indians and PIOs to leave Tehran. The US President has called on all residents to leave Tehran.
The largest economy in the South Caucasus, Azerbaijan has a growing partnership with Türkiye & Pakistan. Economic ties between India & Azerbaijan remain strong.
In siding with Armenia, India also enjoys support from Greece. The country has many an axe to grind with Turkey over disputed gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean.
Four Su30s bought from Russia in 2019 did not take part in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan as they lacked fire power, including guided air-to-surface munitions.
Manufactured by Bengaluru's Tonbo Imaging, these sights are among several defence-related equipment Armenia has bought from India to beef up its military after losing war with Azerbaijan.
New Delhi: Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has slammed the sale of Indian-made arms to Armenia, while also questioning their quality. This comes amid a...
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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