India’s military modernisation effort is a road riddled with depressions and disappointments, a path so full of dark irony and paradoxes, it would send the most optimistic among us to a padded room, screaming into buckets of cold water. In…

The hugely anticipated first flight of an improved version of India’s Tejas fighter took place today in Bengaluru. The 18-minute flight of the first Tejas Mk1A airframe ‘LA5033’ was flown by HAL chief test pilot Group Captain K.K. Venugopal and…

23 years after its first flight, and nearly a decade into operational service with the Indian Air Force, a homegrown Tejas fighter has crashed for the first time. The Tejas, which began IAF service in 2016, currently populates two squadrons…

The Indian Government today announced the names of the four Indian Air Force fighter pilots who will be astronauts on the country’s first ever crewed space mission, Gaganyaan. Trained in Russia, the four pilots are currently undergoing the rest of…