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Why has a grainy photograph, purportedly showing four damaged air-to-air missiles, become the centrepiece of a fresh controversy over the outcome of the India-Pakistan air battle…
This week, on March 25, Meghna Girish wrote to India's Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The letter was the latest of several she has written since her…
The fog over India's dramatic and unprecedented Feb 27 air battle with Pakistan thickened this week, with Pakistani defense sites, and social media posting pictures (that…
JAGAN PILLARISETTI is an air war historian, author of two seminal books on India's aerial conflicts in 1965 and 1971, and one of the country's foremost…
The fog of war that persists over several aspects of the February 26 and 27 will not likely lift soon. And while the strands of available…
Visual. And locked. That was the final radio call from IAF pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman's MiG-21 Bison before he pushed a button on his stick,…
Amidst brewing tensions with Pakistan which took a maritime turn three days ago with Pakistan claiming to have 'spotted' the Indian Navy's sole Scorpène-class submarine INS…
On Tuesday morning, several Pakistani mainstream news agencies put out footage shared with them from the country's military, claiming to be the sighting of an Indian…
India's 2016 deal for 36 Rafale jets has been a hot political football in the run-up to the country's 2019 national election, an unsparing campaign led…
In a Cold War wet dream that has at once stunned and captured the imagination of international security watchers across the world, the Indian Air Force…
