Indian Air Force and Indian Navy are in dire need of fighter jets, helicopters and submarines, and the new government has to ensure that they get them.
The IAF's office in Paris houses the team that coordinates with Dassault Aviation on manufacture of Rafale jets and the weapons package onboard the aircraft.
Six IAF personnel, one civilian were killed as an Mi-17 chopper was shot down in Kashmir on 27 February while Indian and Pakistan air forces were locked in a dogfoght 100 km away.
A special patch meant to be worn by PAF pilots showed the JF-17 as a Chinese dragon with the MiG-21 in its grasp. Indians responded with ‘Falcon Slayers’ patch.
‘Modi needs to be warned that he’s guilty of anti-national activity in trying to ride on sacrifices of Army & CRPF martyrs in a dirty election campaign,’ writes Mani Shankar Aiyar.
Officers from Army, Navy, IAF, CRPF, BSF, ITBP and other central police forces are crying foul over the panel formed by DoPT to discuss non-functional upgradation.
The guidelines ask whether a student can climb stairs, but not whether the college has a ramp. They ask whether a student can bear weight, but not whether the system can bear the weight of its own prejudice.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
It’s a shame that as a journalist in charge of defense issues, you are foaclaisais on the acquisition of material. For my part, as a reader, facing the many acquisitions announced in recent years and especially the last months I asked myself what exactly is the situation on this point. This is important because it has a budgetary impact. But beyond that, we must start with a simple but difficult thing to do: it is to reform the mode of operation of the Ministry of Defense, because it is responsible for promoting the country’s defense policy (the creation a general secretariat in charge of coordinating the various departments of this Ministry, would be a means of retrying the vertical operation of services). We will then have a clear vision of planned acquisitions, acquisitions made, and projects for the future. But who wants to shake this anthill?
It’s a shame that as a journalist in charge of defense issues, you are foaclaisais on the acquisition of material. For my part, as a reader, facing the many acquisitions announced in recent years and especially the last months I asked myself what exactly is the situation on this point. This is important because it has a budgetary impact. But beyond that, we must start with a simple but difficult thing to do: it is to reform the mode of operation of the Ministry of Defense, because it is responsible for promoting the country’s defense policy (the creation a general secretariat in charge of coordinating the various departments of this Ministry, would be a means of retrying the vertical operation of services). We will then have a clear vision of planned acquisitions, acquisitions made, and projects for the future. But who wants to shake this anthill?