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With Fire From Missile & Space Program, India Tests Anti-Satellite Weapon
Nearly a decade after Indian military scientists first declared that an anti-satellite weapon capability was within reach, India today conducted the first test of the weapon system, under the aegis of a project codenamed Mission Shakti. While official specifics of…
Amidst India-Pak Claims, Russia Embraces IAF ‘Kill’ As New Life For Missile Family
The fog over India’s dramatic and unprecedented Feb 27 air battle with Pakistan thickened this week, with Pakistani defense sites, and social media posting pictures (that could only have been released officially) suggesting that IAF pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman’s…
Indian ‘Moles’ In Jaish Confirmed Targets For Post-Uri Strikes — Balakot Too?
20 days after Indian Mirage 2000 jets flew into Pakistani airspace in a first-ever peacetime intrusion to conduct precision bombings of terror targets, new details are emerging through a persisting fog of the precise nature of the operation. While new…
‘Pak Once Disproved Indian Kill Claims By Flaunting All Its Mirages, Why Not Now With F-16s?’
JAGAN PILLARISETTI is an air war historian, author of two seminal books on India’s aerial conflicts in 1965 and 1971, and one of the country’s foremost aviation watchers. As the force behind the air force section of the pioneering Bharat…