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MKU sold over 30,000 body armour sets to the Sao Paulo Military Police

India Approves $318 Million Project for LIGO Gravitational Field Observatory The Union Cabinet has approved a gravitational-wave detector project in Maharashtra costing Rs 2,600 crore, estimated to be built by 2030. Union minister Jitendra Singh stated that a 174-acre land has been acquired in...

Ashok Leyland, one of India's (and the world's) largest commercial vehicle makers, is going full speed ahead with Hydrogen IC & Hydrogen Fuel-Cell solutions for their future fleet of truck offerings:

The first of 18 FOC-standard twin-seat Operational Conversion Trainers has taken flight:

Skyroot Aerospace successfully test-fires 3D-printed cryogenic engine for a record 200 seconds The first Indian private company to send a rocket into space has successfully tested fully-cryogenic rocket engine at a private propulsion test facility Skyroot Aerospace, the pioneering private...

Some more pics of the models, via AlphaDefence It's now more or less certain that the S-5 class SSBN will be having no less than 12 x ballistic missile tubes.

I'm not a 100% on this, but I think the indigenous Arudhra MPR made by DRDO (not to be confused with the 2084 which is also known by the same name in Indian service) is designed to be a substitute/replacement for the 2084 in the long term. A number of 2084s were purchased initially to serve as...

It's mostly strategic in nature. Some details of the orbit-adjustment capabilities of the spaceplanes are mentioned here: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/23/former-secaf-explains-how-secret-x-37-space-plane-throws-enemies.html But what actual missions they perform are still...

With the suspension rig: The Boeing X-40 Space Maneuver Vehicle (SMV), precursor of the X-37B, undergoing similar tests back in the day: RLV-TD is roughly the same size as the X-40.

For this experiment, it was carried to altitude by a Chinook and dropped, it landed autonomously. This was the Landing Experiment (LEX). The RLV-TD platform was first tested in 2016, launching on top of a solid rocket booster. That was called the Hypersonic flight experiment (HEX), where the...

India's PSLV to launch Europe's Proba-3 mission to unravel secrets of the Sun By India Today Science Desk: The two spacecraft forming the European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission are ready with instruments and sensors allowing them to maneuver to a millimeter-scale precision relative to one...

Pics from the landing:

BMD & ASAT missile engagement envelope (altitude)

Indian space tech startup Pixxel Space has bagged a five-year contract from the US National Reconnaissance Office to provide hyperspectral imagery. The NRO awarded six contracts for commercial hyperspectral imagery to BlackSky Technology, HyperSat, Orbital Sidekick, Pixxel, Planet, and Xplore...

Pics from launch. At 5,805 kg this is also the heaviest payload orbited by an Indian rocket so far.

Just this one pic, in an anti-shipping config: 1 x AM39 on centreline 2 x 2,000L DTs on inner stations 4 x AAMs About <5 tons payload Photo taken by amateur planespotters camped outside SBTF.

Nothing official yet. I'd reckon we're more interested in obtaining technology rather than outright Barracudas, however the French SSNs are built around LEU reactors whereas India's infrastructure is HEU-based. So if there is to be cooperation or tech-sharing, it's likely to be in the fields of...

During TROPEX-23, with Deepak-class oiler and Kolkata-class destroyer