India has started work on establishing a ground station, payload data reception, processing and dissemination facility in Vietnam. It is intended to provide a reliable operational space-based system for remote sensing over the Asean — Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam — region.
SOURCE: TNN With replacements for old Cheetah and Chetak helicopters still stuck in red-tape amid the continuing military confrontation with China, the armed forces are planning to approach the government Continue Reading
China’s Belt and Road Initiative, aimed at renewing the country’s historic trade routes in the coastal countries of south-east Asia, Eurasian mainland and big sweeps of the Indian Ocean if Continue Reading
Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) on Thursday signed a contract worth about Rs 499 crore with the Ministry of Defence for the manufacture and supply of Akash missiles to the Indian Continue Reading
India and China Two Asian behemoths who are currently at loggerheads over a bitter border standoff over a year ago, are not in any race for nuclear arms, External Affairs Continue Reading
China has declassified its new unmanned underwater drone designed specifically to target “enemy” submarines, a report said on Thursday. The project to build such a drone dates back to the Continue Reading
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday promoted four senior military officers including the commander of People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) western theatre command (WTC) ground forces to the rank of general. Continue Reading
The first pillar is that Indian diplomacy is Indian in thought — tradition of the Middle Path that arises from the teachings of Buddhism. India tends to avoid extreme strategic Continue Reading
More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers have fled to neighbouring Tajikistan after clashing with Taliban militants, officials have said.The troops retreated over the border to “save their own lives”, according to Continue Reading
The IAF, sources said, is aware that its assets will be divided among the proposed theatre commands, and the theatre commander will be reporting directly to the Chiefs of Staff Continue Reading