I’ve been speaking to a lot of officers and soldiers over the last one year — I mean, it’s part of the job, and all defence reporters do it. One thing that’s stood out in the last six months has…

The ten day Akash air defence exercise has been completed at the ITR in Orissa, with a string of five successful tests that began on December 11. Here’s an MoD press release which indicates that with the end of this…

The Indian government has become so good at artifice and so bad at telling it like it is, that there is hardly any space left for robust defence acquisition any more. Down goes the 197 Army choppers deal, just like…

A nice piece on the PAD-AAD system by Raj Chengappa in the current issue of India Today. Here it is:In the summer of 2012, the rollercoaster relations between India and Pakistan suddenly go steeply downhill. Terrorists had launched a successful…