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    India Army Armoured Vehicles

    "The DAC also cleared a Rs 10,000 crore program to acquire 900 Active Protection Systems for the Indian Army’s T-90 tanks. The Israeli system is believed to be based on Israel’s ‘Trophy’ APS and increases the survivability of tanks."...
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    India Space Indian Space Program

    ISRO conducts Flight Acceptance Test of Cryogenic Engine successfully for next LVM3 mission "...Flight acceptance hot test of CE20 engine earmarked for LVM3-M7 mission is successfully carried out with a thrust level of 22 t using Nozzle Protection System (NPS) for the first time at Main...
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    India Navy Indian Navy

    Models of the 45,000-ton FSS (Fleet Support Ship) in front & the 15,000-ton INS Dhruv MRIS on the side: I'm not sure but I suppose this is the 1st FSS under construction: Keel of the first ship was laid down in November 2024 so this much progress is to be expected after close to 2 years...
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    India Space Indian Space Program

    ESA to seek lunar mapping capability for Argonaut lander https://spacenews.com/esa-to-seek-lunar-mapping-capability-for-argonaut-lander/ "...Several spacefaring countries with lunar ambitions have invested over the past two decades in high-resolution topographic mapping, which is essential...
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    India Economy + Infra Archive

    Nice chokepoint :)
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    India Defence Exports and Relations

    Apparently, Indonesia is interested in the Astra BVRAAM for their Su-30s... We'll see if it happens (and which version, possibly the dual-pulse Mk-2 variant). It serves to know that as part of the Indian Navy's Rafale-M deal, we've negotiated to integrate Astra with our Rafales, so the...
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    India Navy Destroyers

    Kuntal Biswas has made a neat 3D description of the NGD using the latest design iteration available:
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    India Missiles and Guided Munitions

    No idea if they are what he says they are...but they're certainly huge: This old poster comes to mind: 70-ton canister. For reference, the current Agni-V is only ~50 tons.
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    India Space Indian Space Program

    Launch window announced! 12th July to 4th August!
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    UK Not a single Astute-class SSN is at sea

    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...
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    UK BBC: Navy to build drone-equipped warships instead of replacing ageing destroyers

    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.
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    India Space Indian Space Program

    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...
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    India Navy Frigates

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

    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...
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    The 10 Upcoming Aircraft Carriers

    > 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...
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    India Civil Nuclear Program

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

    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...
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    India Economy + Infra Archive

    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...
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    India Radar, Sensors and Electronic Warfare Archive

    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:
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    India Navy Naval Aviation

    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:

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