In this op-ed, senior journalist Jayanta Bhattacharya writes that India’s submarine programme, crippled by decades of paralysis, is leaving the Navy dangerously ill-equipped for the increasingly contested IOR – and the recovery window is narrowing fast. Read More

The Agni system will link fighter pilots, air-defence controllers and ground commanders on a single network, marking a shift away from single-platform simulators that have defined IAF training for decades. Read More

Squadron Leader Saanya of the Indian Air Force has become the first woman officer to earn India’s highest instructional rating awarded to military aviators. Read More

The government has appointed Meetu Agarwal, a 2010-batch Indian Revenue Service (IT cadre) officer, as Director in the Department of Defence Production under the Ministry of Defence, headquartered in New Delhi. Read More

The chief of Integrated Defence Staff has called for urgent acceleration of the Ghatak remotely piloted strike aircraft programme, warning that India risks falling behind adversaries in the emerging domain of manned-unmanned aerial combat teaming. Read More

The Hyderabad-based precision engineering group has signed an MoU with the state’s investment promotion body to build a 100-acre complex focused on micro turbojet engines and unmanned aerial vehicles, promising 3,000 jobs. Read More

The Pune-based autonomous-systems maker, which recently obtained an industrial licence for explosives manufacture, plans to build a full-spectrum defence production hub in the state, backed by a new MoU signed in the presence of the defence minister and chief minister. Read More

Military institutions across South Asia share a specific institutional assumption that has proven consistently wrong: that the combination of physical security perimeters, rank hierarchy, and institutional discipline is sufficient to insulate personnel from external ideological influence. Read More

A new subsidiary, Agneyastra Energetics, will manufacture propellants, rockets and pyrotechnic systems on a 1,000-acre site near Madakasira, as India pushes to cut its dependence on imported munitions. Read More

Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh says the battlefield has already shifted, with unmanned systems no longer a future aspiration but an operational imperative that must be integrated with conventional air power. Read More