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https://indianexpress.com/article/india/covaxin-effective-against-the-brazil-variant-icmr-niv-study-7297972/ In a new study, scientists at Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology have found that Covaxin is effective against the Brazil variant (B.1.128.2). This comes...

Yes Pakistan has very low testing rate and other issues going on. Even with India medical capacity (perspective w.r.t developing countries average), the big issue that is now coming out was the very lax+slow approach to local lab research w.r.t new strains/sequences as they pop up in real...

So far its only KIA that have expectedly started their activity (having invested into ASSK/NDL peace+democracy deal that is now basically scrapped). Shan militias are more or less quiet for now....I guess China reserve to use them again if junta strays from current status quo line w.r.t PRC...

Same number of VLS cell (32) for barak (anti air) Half number for Anti-ship/Land attack (8 in frigate vs 16 for destroyer) i.e brahmos Nilgiri Frigate also has CODAG compared to the kolkata/vizag COGAG. Most of rest of specs are similar or the same (leads to similar final tonnage 6700 vs 7500...

Excellent progress by Turkey. The system is maturing and we can expect lot more soon. Is this test facility in the Sinop range area?

A bit of throwback time (old archive footage, varying pitch tape reel and everything) of a venerable design. Leander Frigates (Nilgiri class :) ) A crucial earlier program to getting Indian warship local design and production capacity where it is today: 6 were made with increasing local...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/navy-to-get-aircraft-carrier-vikrant-missile-destroyer-visakhapatnam-in-2021-101619498533809.html Indian Navy is expected to get delivery of 45,000-tonne indigenous INS Vikrant aircraft carrier and 7,500-tonne Visakhapatnam class stealth guided missile...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40383/russian-cruise-missile-spins-out-of-control-before-crashing-into-sea-near-launching-destroyer video has emerged showing a test launch of a Kalibr cruise missile from a Russian Navy Project 1155 Udaloy class destroyer going spectacularly wrong. The...

Placing my marker here so I get updates. Hope everything IDEF related goes well.

Seeing how IA selects and imports foreign maal first thing, I think these should be at least as good? Tonbo has won a number of export orders from western countries (and others) if I'm not mistaken too...

Admins can decide if previous thread (regarding the coup and progression of it afterward) should be merged into this one: https://defencehub.live/threads/there-was-a-coup-in-myanmar.4814/

The interview I posted earlier said it can cost up to 200 million USD (IIRC) to raise/salvage the nanggala. The Aussie expert said that money is better used on the living (i.e current fleet of sub safety program etc) and leave nangalla to be as memorial....and designate the spot as such. What...

Since India has been brought in (on what seems to be some border skirmish/tensions totally unrelated to our relations with both countries involved), time to set the record straight. We share good relations with both countries. Kyrgyzstan recently sent their special forces to train in India...

I believe UK Q.E carrier group will be having some exercises with IN soon (in May-June somewhere): https://defencehub.live/threads/uk-carrier-strike-group-will-sail-to-india-on-its-maiden-deployment.6725/ Other than that, I think thats it for UK, France (European blue water navies) for 2021...