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Launch window announced! 12th July to 4th August!

Of the 5 Astute-class SSNs currently in Royal Navy service, not a single one is currently available for tasking: HMS Audacious - arrived in Devonport in April 2023 in need of docking. Unconfirmed reports suggest she suffered damage of some sort during her patrol in the Mediterranean in late...

I think European navies are in a mood to downsize some really expensive programs and replace with cheaper, smaller vessels. Cancellation of UK's Type-83 is coming just after Germany scrapped their large F-126 'frigate' program and decided to go for the smaller MEKO A-200 design instead.

ISRO successfully conducted hot test of Semicryogenic Engine Power Head Test Article (PHTA) at higher thrust level https://www.isro.gov.in/ISRO_successfully_conducted_hot_test_of_Semicryogenic_Engine.html Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) demonstrated successful hot test of the...

Nilgiri-class frigate INS Udaygiri on a visit to Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. 🇮🇳 🇻🇳

What this USV possibly looks like under the drape: INS Dunagiri (the 5th Nilgiri-class firgate), INS Sanshodhak (the 4th & final Sandhayak-class survey ship) and INS Agray (the 4th Arnala-class ASW craft & the 5th overall of the ASW-SWC order) seen together at GRSE, Kolkata prior to...

> Hasn't South Korea's CVX been cancelled? > The Project-23000 is a bit of a pie in the sky. Hasn't been approved/funded and likely never will be. > India's future carrier plans are...a bit undecided right now. The Navy certainly wants a 3rd carrier but right now there's no confirmation as to...

Reactor End Shield built by L&T for Kaiga Units 5 & 6 (IPHWR-700 reactors):

World's oldest operating nuclear units back on India's grid Friday, 19 June 2026 Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS), image from a NPCIL video Tarapur 1 and 2 are BWR units commissioned at the site in Maharashtra in 1969 as India's first commercial nuclear power plant. Built by GE on a...

Reliance Jio eyes India's own satellite broadband network Reliance Jio is evaluating the development of a sovereign low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation for India as it looks to expand connectivity to remote parts of the country, Reliance Jio Chairman Akash Ambani said at Reliance...

Somebody on Twitter spotted an LRMFR housing/enclosure (probably awaiting the radar panels themselves?) at the Near Field Test Range (NFTR), Kolar. I think this is our first look at what the outer protective shell/radome of the LRMFR would look like:

The NLCA takes off from INS Vikramaditya with 62-63 kN thrust. Thanks to member "Choice_of_inevitability" on another forum for the find. I missed seeing this video back when it was released in 2020:

Seems a new system is getting close to launch testing. The shape (wider booster section that tapers into a slimmer upper stage) resembles the VEDA satellite launch vehicle, which we know has been under development: But GODOFPARADOXES indicates this is "P-32", which was previously...

White House released full text of the MoU The points summarised are as follows: 1. The U.S. and Iran, and their allies in the current war, by signing this MoU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on...

It appears the booster rocket has changed design: Earlier booster: Additionally, it seems the latest launch was conducted from an actual sealed canister instead of the skeleton-frame launcher used for earlier tests. Operationally, it would be deployed in canisters so that's progress. This...