Having flown HAL produced helicopters right from 1989 till I retired 2008, I have had first-hand experience of the quality of their products, and I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that ‘mazaa ...

In the wake of a SECRET report submitted by the Defence Secretary to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), outlining urgent recommendations to address the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) fighter jet crunch, we ...

In modern aerial warfare, the ability to strike first and strike decisively defines the outcome of battles. The race for air superiority is no longer […] ...

When President Donald Trump declared yesterday that the U.S. was “paving the way to ultimately provide India the F-35 stealth fighters”, he changed two decades of history in the India-US defence trade ...

The heart-wrenching sight of the smoke billowing from the crashed Indian Coast Guard (ICG) helicopter at Porbandar on January 5th, 2025 brought back to my mind the struggles we had with HAL when I was ...

In modern aerial warfare, the ability to strike first and strike decisively defines the outcome of battles. The race for air superiority is no longer about just dogfights but about engagements far ...

US President Donald Trump’s offer to sell the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II to India has raised a few eyebrows in Indian defence circles, sparking intense Is President Donald Trump about to make ...

Nearly four years after the Indian Army received clearance from the Ministry of Defence to sign up for 118 of the indigenous Arjun Mk.II main India’s Arjun main battle tank, possibly the country’s ...