Another update from ADA today (quoted): The Tejas LCA programme received a major fillip with the first successful flight test using the Litening pod which can provide the pilot with day and night pictures of terrain, laser ranging and laser…

I’m posting these documents because I bet there’s a measure of curiosity and interest in the whole War Room Leak case and the investigation that followed. Even two years after the whole thing broke, things are still not quite watertight.…

Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta is not known to be a forthright officer who “tells it like it is”, and is usually supremely in contrast to his predecessor. Yet, it was Mehta who now has the distinction of…

Some of us defence correspondents received a very aggrieved e-mail from former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Arun Prakash a few days ago. Few would be unfamiliar with the expansive and sustained investigative campaign in Outlook over 2005-06 on the…