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India licences NFC-Kota fuel plant The Rajasthan facility will produce 500 tonnes a year of natural uranium dioxide fuel assemblies, with approval valid until 30 April 2031. May 6, 2026 India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has granted an operating licence to the Nuclear Fuel...

Yeah that's what I was afraid of. I found the press release section for IDEF 2023 but it seems these charts aren't available there. Just pics of some individual systems.

Is there a clearer version of the 3rd pic? I could go with AI-upscaling but that tends to mess up a lot of the text & details.

The Agni-V Mk2 (Divyastra) is an advanced, MIRV capable iteration of the Agni-V. Major improvements include replacement of maraging steel first stage casing with one manufactured using carbon composite filament winding, It is India's largest composite casing for now. That, combined with the use...

As of now, I'm afraid there isn't really much of a credible deterrence posture against China to begin with. Let alone taking the ABMs into account. The reason for that is that I feel true credibility only comes with a survivable second-strike capability. While it appears the K-4 SLBM might...

Here we go - it was a MIRVed Agni! "Advanced Agni missile with MIRV (Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle) system was successfully tested from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha on 08th May 2026. The missile was flight tested with Multiple payloads, targeted to different targets...

Something big was tested off the east coast today... The issued NOTAM was for a distance of just over 3500 kms, so most probably an Agni-derived boost stage. No statement yet on what the upper stage was.

The TARA (Tactical Advanced Range Augmentation) guidance package + range extension kit was tested yesterday from a Jaguar. The REK uses a HSLD-500 bomb body:

Fatah-3 has been revealed to be a supersonic cruise missile with a Ramjet motor: Several OSINT handles have already identified the platform as based on the Chinese HD-1 missile, even the launcher/TEL appears to match: So the specs are likely the same as the HD-1's. Interestingly, as...

Hmm, 3 tons might be quite less for bunker busting though. Shallower targets maybe (arms dump, storage tunnels & the like). Kinetic energy will help magnify that but not by much if you want to focus that damage toward a particular direction (downward). Remember, the RV's terminal velocity wont...

A liquid-fueled BM? Didn't expect to see those come back into the picture. Isn't Turkiye already producing solid-fueled BMs? Or is this a repurposed SLV concept? Well, a fighter is expected to be used again & again. Missile is by definition single use. I agree. A 1 ton thermobaric would do...

Some details on the AMCA's retractable in-flight refueling (IFR) probe mechanism: Sourced via another forum.

This is India's first germanium-free thermal imaging system for drones. It was built right here in India by this Hyderabad-based startup - @EonSpacelabs. And it is a huge deal. Right now, India imports almost 100% of its germanium. No points for guessing which country controls the germanium...

Mission Drishti is the result of a journey that started years before the satellite itself. It is the culmination of years spent building, testing, validating, and evolving Earth observation systems across multiple platforms. The roadmap took us through India’s first DroneSAR, the world’s first...

So this is VT-21 (AAP-Tr) model produced by Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. (TASL): While this is AAP-Wh model from Bharat Forge Ltd. (BFL, part of Kalyani Group): ^^ You can see behind the VRDE poster there are two more vehicles, turretless. Those are TASL's AAP-Wh and BFL's AAP-Tr versions...

HAL Tejas Mk2's final push: Fighter on the cusp of first flight In a defining moment for India's next-generation indigenous fighter programme, the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s Tejas Mk2, is entering a decisive phase, with critical ground testing and certification processes accelerating ahead...

Spec sheet of the LRGR-120 rocket, pic quality is bad though. Better pic of the important bits: So the price of a single LRGR-120 round is around $160,000 (if directly converted from Rupees). The 150km ranged ER-GMLRS (used by M270 & HIMARS) was sold to Finland for over $430,000 per round...

A short summary of some of the technical challenges that went into PFBR's development, part of a larger article by Nuclear Engineering International (NEI): https://www.neimagazine.com/news/criticality-for-indias-pfbr/?cf-view "...Developing the PFBR was not an easy task. Construction of the...

Somebody on Twitter prompted AI to create renders of the NGC using that WDB image as a reference: Oh and btw, I'm hearing that these ships won't be powered by a gas turbine but by diesel engines in a CODAD config. Possibly by the indigenous 6 MW diesel.

I'm not sure as to the exact numbers that were delivered, but it's true that several airframes of Mk-1A have been built and are laying around awaiting their engines. The reasons for it are officially that there's a supply chain problem leading to delay in deliveries. The US has got an internal...