The US Navy has struck a third Indian-crewed vessel, MT Jalveer, off Oman within a week, as New Delhi confirms three Indian sailors killed in the Settebello attack a day ago. Read More

The Indian Army expects to induct the indigenous Zorawar light tank in 2028-29 after completing design refinements and trials, with enhanced protection requirements contributing to the revised timeline. Read More

The Indian Navy’s EOD team successfully neutralized a live missile warhead found inside oil tanker MT Olympic Life off the Omani coast, preventing a major maritime disaster near Kochi. Read More

A US missile reportedly struck the tanker Settebello in the Gulf of Oman, leaving three of 24 Indian crew members missing. Read More

Sipri’s Yearbook 2026 suggests India has placed a small number of nuclear warheads in peacetime deployment for the first time. Read More

The Army is preparing to make one of its biggest artillery acquisitions in recent memory, moving a proposal to procure more than 300 additional K9 Vajra self-propelled howitzers. Read More

The global defence, aerospace and security company – BAE Systems, has appointed Tony Walton as the managing director for India, effective immediately. Read More

The defence ministry is considering invoking contractual penalty clauses against state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) over its failure to deliver a single Tejas Mk1A fighter jet to the Indian Air Force (IAF), more than two years after deliveries were originally due to begin in March 2024. Read More

Nuclear-armed states are expanding and modernizing their arsenals faster than they are dismantling them, with Operation Sindoor emerging as a defining stress test for deterrence, according to Sipri Yearbook 2026. Read More

India has formally abandoned a five-year effort to expand the INS Baaz naval air station at Campbell Bay, clearing the path for a greenfield international airport at Galathea Bay in the Nicobar Islands. Read More