DRDO’s VK Aatre: Then and Now
Frontier India has done an interview with Dr VK Aatre, former DRDO chief, on the current state of affairs in the organization and its relationship […]
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Army
Delivery of BrahMos Land System to Army Begins
Here’s the Government press release received this afternoon on delivery of the BrahMos to the Army. PRESIDENT CALLS FOR FAST DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-RANGE HYPER-SONIC CRUISE
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Ajai Shukla On His Alleged “Turnaround” on the Arjun MBT
Given that Ajai Shukla has taken the time out to write a full-on rejoinder in the comments section of the last-to-last post (refuting opinion from
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PSU/OFB: If they’re so good, why are they so scared?
On May 17, the Trade Union Forum for Self-Reliance in Defence (a formal group comprising trade union officials, DPSU and OFB employees) presented Defence Minister
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Army Asks For Man-Portable UAVs
Last week, the Army presented a fresh reworked QR to the Ministry of Defence for upto 32 man-portable UAVs for “tactical, point-of-interest imaging and rapid
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Arjun’s Demons To Rest?
Contrary to what reports in the newspapers and television have reflected, the Arjun MBT programme has actually found a voice of unlikely support in the
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Arjun To Star At Exercise Ashwamedh!
A piece by Sandeep Dikshit in The Hindu today: The Army is fielding the indigenous Arjun tanks for the first time in simulated war games
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The Army’s Pay Commission Demands!
The slide to the right is from the 82-slide presentation made by Army General J.J. Singh to the Defence Ministry today (click to enlarge). The
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Look who’s talking!
I reproduce here R Prasannan’s fine piece in The Week — the other side of the DRDO story. Some of our commenters have referred to
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General Sham(e)
Imagine giving your whole adult life to one of the armed forces and then ending your career, not with the adulation of your men, but