An Indian Air Force Antonov An-32 tactical transport aircraft is believed to have crashed today in the eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The aircraft had taken…
The landslide election victory by India's Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has led to an expected shuffle of top ministerial portfolios. India's new defence minister is now…
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…
Nearly a decade after Indian military scientists first declared that an anti-satellite weapon capability was within reach, India today conducted the first test of the weapon…
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…
20 days after Indian Mirage 2000 jets flew into Pakistani airspace in a first-ever peacetime intrusion to conduct precision bombings of terror targets, new details are…
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…
A new generation of air-to-air missiles is set to transform the Indian Air Force’s fighter fleet. It has been an exciting two years for India’s air-to-air…
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…
