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Monday, February 23, 2026
TopicLight Tanks

Topic: Light Tanks

World’s top turret-making company to manufacture in India. Signs joint venture for light tanks’ turrets

This will be the first time that Belgium-based John Cockerill Defense will set up a manufacturing facility for turrets outside its country.

India’s indigenous light tank ‘Zorawar’ unveiled, fastest product development by DRDO, L&T

Tank will go for desert trials later this yr in coordination with Army & eventually high-altitude areas of Ladakh to test its capabilities to operate in such terrain & extreme winters.

DRDO to roll out Zorawar tank prototype with American engine in December, Army trials in March

Tank is especially designed to operate at high altitudes, countering Chinese armoured deployments in high-terrain warfare. Weighing 25 tonnes, it will be transportable by air.

Defence ministry clears projects worth Rs 85,000 crore, including light tanks, mounted artillery

In terms of cost, projects for the Army received the most number of clearances, with land force equipment coming to a total of Rs 50,000 crore.

Eye on China threat, Army launches Project Zorawar to deploy light tanks for mountain warfare

Army wants the light tanks to be amphibious, allowing for them to be deployed across the riverine and the Pangong Tso lake in Eastern Ladakh.

Naval utility chopper, light tanks on 3rd list of items India will stop importing

List consists of 101 items. Inclusion of naval choppers a boost to HAL, which wanted in on project. Rajnath Singh speaks about danger of importing systems with foreign codes.

India sets eyes on Russian Sprut light tanks to counter China, gets rare access to trials

The 18-tonne amphibious Sprut-SDM1 is capable of being airlifted, parachuted with crew inside and can even disembark from a ship.

Light tanks served well in ’62. But Ladakh needs a Stryker-like multipurpose combat platform

The production of Make in India light tanks is likely to have a gestation period of 3-5 years, the same amount of time needed to make a combat platform at home.

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Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.