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4th on the Moon, 1st on the crucial South Polar Region. Great going, ISRO! 🇮🇳 Time to officially greenlight the Chandrayaan-4/LUPEX joint mission with Japan.

I kind of answered this before in other threads. To put it shortly, GRSE is the only yard in India with the in-house experience in oilers/supply ships (INS Aditya, 24k tons), but HSL was trying to enter the field to compete, eventhough both are state-owned they are managed by independent boards...

Okay so I created a free account (you can too, you get 1 free article per month I think). I don't think it's okay to copy paste an otherwise paywalled article, so I'll just paraphrase (anyone interested can just create a free account & read) Basically, it's saying that the TAIS deal was...

I don't have a subscription either, will see if I can find other sources. I was wondering because the article specifically mentioned indigenous design in the image title at the top.

"India had earlier negotiated with TAIS over fleet support vessels, but in the end it decided to go with an indigenous design." https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/naval-warfare/fleet-support-vessels-are-approved-for-the-indian-navy/?utm_source=rss-twitter&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS...

Yes - seems to launchers for the smaller 9M96 missiles. The larger long range rounds are carried in a single-tube canister.

Developing story...what we know is that Arif Alvi, the President of Pakistan (who is the head of state, PM is head of Govt) has come out and categorically denied that he signed a number of laws, which were apparently passed as though he did. The President has accused his staff of acting on their...

I'm hearing NP-5 will also serve as a testbed for TEDBF technologies?

The Lander has successfully separated from the Propulsion Module! Propulsion Module will stay in orbit and carry out its own mission:

This is big: 6 x older Talwar-class FFGs and 3 x Shivalik-class FFGs to get MFSTAR multifunction APAR and Barak-8 VLS. Massive upgrade in capabilities! On the Shivalik the upgrade would be more straightforward as the CMS is our design and we hold the IPR to modify it as we want...but this...

In addition to the link in my previous post (which @Afif showed), I'd suggest you go through this older post of mine as well to get a better understanding of how NGD seems to be shaping up: https://defencehub.live/threads/indian-navy-destroyer-archive.4215/post-218950 In short, it's going to...

The biggest application of this technology (which is all developed as part of BMD Phase-II) is indeed ground based. There are 12 new HPR radars coming up in the first tranche itself, it's likely there will be more. And they only add to the radars already deployed under Phase-I. As of the naval...

Nothing here that defence enthusiasts didn't already know - but I'm glad 'mainstream' newsmedia is picking up these stories in significant detail. I have long maintained that there is an intrinsic link between the LRMFR (the 6-mtr AAAU being talked about here) and the IAF's HPR program. If the...

Zero as per me. Rafale is the only realistic choice. Especially as upwards of $2 billion has already been spent in the previous order to develop & implement the ISEs. https://defencehub.live/threads/indian-air-force-general-archive.121/post-143515 Plus, air base infrastructure for an...

Cool flyby

The Atlas Elektronik ACTAS has variable-depth capability and has been fitted onto Talwar-class as well as Shivalik-class. In all likelihood the same model will go onboard Nilgiri as well. But it may or may not have it at the outset.

Big updates on the surface combatant front: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/08/india-proceeds-with-new-submarines-surface-ships-development/ Earlier, plan was for 5 ships of the NGD class. Then, it seems it was increased to 6. The latest updates (source from a MDL investors'...

AASM Hammer integration trials have commenced: pics via DefenceMatrix

Like I said, no official word on it. I think it's kind of like how the IA was undecided regarding which way to go for Prithvi-2 replacement (SRBM or TBM) before finally deciding on SRBM (Pralay). I think right now they are internally debating as to whether a 155mm SPG capability can be reliably...

The moon as seen from CY-3 (sped up frames):