By N. C. Bipindra With the changing sea line of communication and the economy’s eastward shift, maritime security has become one of the most substantial economic and human security pillars. Since the 2004 tsunami, the Indian Navy has consistently proven itself as the first responder to any crisis […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Sweden’s Saab announced today that it is setting up a production facility in India for its legendary Carl-Gustaf shoulder-fired recoilless rifle’s latest variant through the 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment route. The Swedish defence firm’s senior officials said they were hopeful of […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times Over 200 Indian-origin Jews from the Bnei Menashe community, who migrated to Israel in the recent past, have joined the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for active or reserve duty in the war on the Palestinian group Hamas since the October 7 […]
By Sakshi Tiwari for EurAsian Times New Delhi: India has finally secured the delivery of its first C-295 aircraft, two years after the country signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space to acquire 56 of these transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF). The deal was […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times August 1 marks the 96th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The world’s largest military, the PLA, comprises over two million military personnel with an annual budget of $224.8 billion. However, despite the numbers and the resources, newfound aggressive strategy, […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times The Lockheed Martin-built C-130J is called the ‘Super Hercules,’ not without reason. In a Kabul-style rescue during the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the C-130J, now also operated by the Indian Air Force (IAF), carried out a pitch-dark night operation on April […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times The employment of space assets for military purposes has recently seen an uptick. The Russia–Ukraine war is the most significant space-related development since 2022, given the wide-ranging use of space-based assets by both the warring sides. A Space Threat Assessment by […]
By Air Chief Marshal V. R. Chaudhari The foremost lesson that can be drawn from the twentieth century and indeed the early twenty-first century is that no war can be successfully prosecuted without aerospace power and in the words of Field Marshal Montgomery, ‘If we lose the war […]
By Neeraj Rajput and N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times New Delhi: India is sending its Rafale combat jets to France for a multi-nation air exercise. This is the first time the 2020-inducted Indian Air Force (IAF) fighters have flown overseas to join a wargame in a friendly […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times The Joe Biden administration has blamed the Afghanistan troops’ drawdown fiasco entirely on the shoulders of his predecessor Donald Trump. It has made critical comments about his leadership and how he gave a free run to the Taliban to run over the civilian […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times The democratic world is bracing for the possibility of Communist China emerging as a global superpower dislodging the United States to take the top slot or at least rise as one of the two poles in geopolitics. As this reality hits […]
By N. C. Bipindra For EurAsian Times. The United States security establishment has sounded the alarm of a possible arms race over the latest Putin-Xi bilateral agreement for a critical technology transfer that China could use to produce nuclear warheads. The US officials are on edge. The recent summit […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India today carried out a successful maiden flight test of the phase-II of the Ballistic Missile Defence interceptor off the Odisha coast, in a major boost to self-reliance in countering possible enemy attacks. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted the […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India and the United States can’t afford to take their “eyes off the ball” when it comes to Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), a senior US defence official posted at its embassy here said today, as he made […]
By N. C. Bipindra Vadodara (Gujarat): India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for C-295 transport aircraft manufacturing facility — the country’s first military production effort in the private sector — in Vadodara, Gujarat today. The facility will manufacture C-295 aircraft for the Indian Air Force […]
