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The date & coordinates though :unsure:

Negatively. But it was inevitable though. Iran is firmly in the Chinese fold. They don't have the option of relying on the US/West, so it's not like they had a realistic choice in deciding to join up with China. That said, Iran had been constantly creating roadblocks for any meaningful Indian...

"Detected" a Submarine that was snorkeling....Okay. By the way, they shouldn't confuse EEZ with Territorial waters. Exactly. Only reason it would snorkel at that point of time is if it wants you to know that its there.

This also needs to be looked at through the lens of the proposed Arab-Mediterranean Trade Corridor proposed by India some years ago, but until the Abraham Accords were signed, it didn't seem practical - but now it seems to be the most pragmatic thing around...

Another good piece on the developments following 4 Foreign Ministers' summit: https://theprint.in/opinion/global-print/why-us-and-india-are-taking-on-china-with-a-middle-eastern-quad/752775/ 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇮🇱🇦🇪

In May 2019, two Kolkata-class destroyers of Indian Navy conducted their first Joint Taskforce Coordination (JTC) exercise where the JTC mode on the CMS-15A Combat Management System (built by Tata Power SED) was validated. JTC is the Indian equivalent of what is known in Western navies as...

Indian Navy Tupolev Tu-142MK-E (NATO name: Bear-F), the Tu-142 is a maritime patrol version of the Tu-95 strategic bomber. India was the only non-Soviet country to have operated any variant of the Bear. The Indian Tu-142s (8 of them) were acquired in the 80s and retired a few years ago, replaced...

QUAD-West :)

Keeping all the above developments & growing technological and strategic convergence in mind, this is purely something that I'm proposing of my own accord... With the QUAD nations cooperating in the three critical domains of Space, Technology & Climate Change - here's something that falls right...

Following up with bits from multiple sources that were released AFTER the September summit, first is a piece from The Diplomat: The Quad Commits to Regulating Space Growing space security threats are proving to be a challenge for existing global governance measures, but consensus on new rules...

(this is an op-ed published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), written by Senior Analyst Malcolm Davis) NOTE: This article was published in the aftermath of the first 'Virtual' summit held earlier this year in March, not the in-person summit last month. What the author laments...

Aircraft of the Indian Navy past & present - in the background are diagrams of the 4 aircraft carriers operated by the Navy since the 60s - INS Vikrant (R11), INS Viraat (R22), INS Vikramaditya (R33) and the new INS Vikrant (purportedly R44). The lengths & sizes are obviously not to scale. The...

Use this thread to post news, updates & discussions about all Aviation assets (manned & unmanned) of the Indian Navy.

Number of NGD destroyers confirmed as 6. There was some confusion regarding 5 or 6, but the most likely seems to be 6. First ship will be inducted most probably in mid-2030s. RFP expected at around ~2024-2025, firm order by 2027 or thereabouts. Construction will start toward end of decade...

The first P-17A (INS Nilgiri) hull was laid down at MDL Mumbai in Dec 2017 & launched in Sep 2019, and now the radar mast has been installed, so seems like the superstructure construction is mostly complete: Thanks to Dharani for finding! Beside the P17A FFG you can also see the mast of one...

@Nilgiri - I'm wondering, should we split the civilian & military-related space developments into separate threads? Or too early?

A flight of 14 Tejas fighters conducted a flypast at Sulur AFS

Yes - though the Naval variant has additional LEVCONs (leading-edge vortex controller) on the wing roots, for more controllable approach speeds for carrier landing (I presume). Air Force version doesn't have these.

Did it just take the title from the Mahindra XUV300 as the safest car from an Indian brand?