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Why India Needs To ‘Smell The Coffee’ On Future Warfare
When General David Petraeus, former Director of the CIA and commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, delivered his prescription for modern warfare at the…
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Aircraft And Helicopters
IAF Reveals What It Took To Bomb Tiger Hill
In 2024, the Kargil War fought between India and Pakistan will be a quarter century old. One of the most contentious modern skirmishes continues to be…
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IAF’s Only Chopper Pilot Chief Just Flew The LUH. And Loved It.
Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major (Retd.), the only chopper pilot to be chief of the Indian Air Force, just flew HAL's Light Utility Helicopter --…
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Navy-Dhruv Spat Escalates, Key Officers Throw It Back To HAL
A war of words over HAL's Dhruv helicopter for the Indian Navy, sparked by an interview on Livefist this week, has escalated further. After an angry HAL…
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Angry HAL Replies To ex-Navy Chief’s ‘Dhruv’ Attack
An angry HAL has responded to Livefist's launch episode of #LivefistTalks, a new YouTube interview series. The inaugural episode, an interview with former Indian Navy chief…
Army
An Indian Special Forces Hero’s Final Selfie
That's Colonel Navjot Singh Bal. And that's the last picture he took of himself on his phone yesterday. As you can see, he's missing an arm.…
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We Speak To Our 6 Favourite Indian Aviation Photographers
It's true. There are few things lovelier than a great aviation photo. For all the mind-numbing restrictions that continue to exist, India has a terrific community…
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Deconstructing Pak’s Missile Muddle: Conclusive Evidence, Or Elaborate Trick?
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…
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‘Pak Once Disproved Indian Kill Claims By Flaunting All Its Mirages, Why Not Now With F-16s?’
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…
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Livefist Speaks To Reporter Behind VVIP Chopper Scam Story
On February 24, 2012, The Indian Express newspaper front-paged a report that quaked the government, and has reverberated for over six years now. The report, by defence…
