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Sweden’s Saab sets up Carl-Gustaf factory in India under first-ever 100% FDI

By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Sweden’s Saab announced today that it is setting up a production facility in India for its legendary Carl-Gustaf’s latest weapon system through the 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment route. The Swedish defence firm’s senior officials said they were hopeful of meeting the entire need of Indian armed forces for the M4 variant of the Carl-Gustaf and export the…

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Indians ‘Join’ Israel’s War On Gaza! Scores Of Emigrated Members Serve IDF To Fight ‘Terror Group’ Hamas

By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times Over 200 Indian-origin Jews from the Bnei Menashe community, who migrated to Israel in the recent past, have joined the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for active or reserve duty in the war on the Palestinian group Hamas since the October 7 massacre, media reports said. According to a report by the Jerusalem Post, which quoted the Shavei Israel nonprofit this…

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Indian Navy’s Indigenous Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant Achieves Full Operational Status; India Joins ‘Elite Club’ Of Nations

By Ritu Sharma for EurAsian Times As the entire country was washed with the glow of millions of earthen lamps lit up to celebrate Diwali, the Indian Navy achieved a significant milestone as India’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, achieved “full operational status.” The development puts India in the elite group of countries capable of constructing and deploying aircraft…

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KCP Group hands critical equipment for India’s human space flight mission for testing

By T. S. Shankar Chennai: A city-based company has achieved a key milestone by fabricating critical hardware for India’s human space flight mission, handing over two crew model structures for testing to the government space agency. KCP Goup’s Heavy Engineering division, also based in Chennai, had produced the two Integrated Air-Drop Test – Crew Models (IADT-CM), each costing Rs. 1 crore, for…

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Naresh Goyal: The unbearable pain inflicted on India’s civil aviation industry

By T. S. Shankar Mumbai-based Jet Airways and its founder-chairman Naresh Goyal are hogging the media limelight for his business acumen in building a world-class private airline capitalising on the then Indian government’s ‘open sky policy’ in the early 1990s and then destroying it on a whim. Naresh was single-handedly responsible for successfully building Jet Airways from scratch in 1993…

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Tata Emerges ‘Biggest Challenger’ To State-Run HAL; Set To Produce Cutting-Edge Airbus Aircraft For Indian Air Force

By Sakshi Tiwari for EurAsian Times New Delhi: India has finally secured the delivery of its first C-295 aircraft, two years after the country signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space to acquire 56 of these transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF). The deal was signed under an INR.1,935-crore project to replace the legacy Avro Hawker Siddeley HS748, a British-origin twin-engine…

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20 Years Of India’s Nuclear Doctrine: Does Delhi Need To Reset Its Nuke Policy With Growing Economic & Military Might

By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times India officially declared itself a nuclear weapons state in May 1998 following the ‘Shakti’ nuclear tests in the Rajasthan desert, popularly called Pokhran-II. But it spelled out its official nuclear doctrine for the first time publicly in January 2003 through a media statement issued by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) after a meeting of the Cabinet…

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96 Years Of PLA: China’s Xi Jinping Looks To Remove ‘Deadweight’ On Chinese Economy & Resources

By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times August 1 marks the 96th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The world’s largest military, the PLA, comprises over two million military personnel with an annual budget of $224.8 billion. However, despite the numbers and the resources, newfound aggressive strategy, and growing territorial ambitions, especially in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR)…

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China Completes 10 Years Of $1.4 Trillion BRI Project; Puts South Asia, Barring India & Bhutan, In A Bind

By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times This year marks the tenth year of the People’s Republic of China’s $1.4 trillion Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Xi Jinping’s ambitious project to connect Asia, Africa, and Europe, a supposed ‘21st century silk road.’ However, the project is viewed with suspicion in view of China’s vision of a China-led world order. The suspicion grew deeper with the…

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India Conducts US-Style Ops In War-Torn Sudan; C-130J Super Hercules Leads A High-Intensity Rescue Mission

By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times The Lockheed Martin-built C-130J is called the ‘Super Hercules,’ not without reason. In a Kabul-style rescue during the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the C-130J, now also operated by the Indian Air Force (IAF), carried out a pitch-dark night operation on April 27 and 28 to evacuate 121 persons from a small unmanned airstrip in Sudan. Without any aid from…

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Cat & Mouse Game! US conducts wargames to thwart China on network breach; Beijing hardening penal law on cyber espionage

By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times Cyberspace is becoming the new battlefield where the United States (US) and Communist China are trying to outsmart each other. With the hindsight of cybersecurity vulnerabilities witnessed during the Russia–Ukraine conflict, the two sides are trying to secure their cyberspace with stringent measures and wargaming. China has decided to strengthen its…

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India joins ‘Super Elite Club’ with warship-launched ballistic missile interceptor capable of thwarting China, Pakistan nuke threats

N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times New Delhi: India entered an elite club of nations that possess the capability to fire a Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor from a naval platform when it successfully carried out the maiden test of the weapon system yesterday. The announcement of the successful test was made today through a statement from the Ministry of Defence (Mod). However, further…

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Russia-Ukraine conflict is world's first commercial space war, starting point of future Star Wars

By N. C. Bipindra The employment of space assets for military purposes has recently seen an uptick. The Russia–Ukraine war is the most significant space-related development since 2022, given the wide-ranging use of space-based assets by both the warring sides. A Space Threat Assessment by an American think-tank has also concluded that there has been an unparalleled level of transparency on the…

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Aerospace Power: Pivot to future battlespace operations

By Air Chief Marshal V. R. Chaudhari The foremost lesson that can be drawn from the twentieth century and indeed the early twenty-first century is that no war can be successfully prosecuted without aerospace power and in the words of Field Marshal Montgomery, ‘If we lose the war in the air, we lose the war and lose it quickly’. There are a few very pertinent words, which need a bit more study.…

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Rafales Replace Russian Sukhois As India’s Frontline Fighters; Fly To France For 1st Multi-Nation Wargames

By Neeraj Rajput and N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times New Delhi: India is sending its Rafale combat jets to France for a multi-nation air exercise. This is the first time the 2020-inducted Indian Air Force (IAF) fighters have flown overseas to join a wargame in a friendly foreign nation’s air base. The French-origin nuke-delivery platform has emerged as the South Asian giant’s true “frontline”…

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Trump Or Biden – Who Is Responsible For ‘Chaotic’ Afghan Withdrawal That Toppled Kabul Govt Within Days?

By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times The Joe Biden administration has blamed the Afghanistan troops’ drawdown fiasco entirely on the shoulders of his predecessor Donald Trump. It has made critical comments about his leadership and how he gave a free run to the Taliban to run over the civilian government in Kabul in August 2021. In a 12-page after-action review that outlined the key decisions…

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Silent Invasion: How China’s Greatest Covert Operation Fooled the US, Stunned Australia & Shocked the World

By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times The democratic world is bracing for the possibility of Communist China emerging as a global superpower dislodging the United States to take the top slot or at least rise as one of the two poles in geopolitics. As this reality hits them hard, the democracies now realize how deep the inroads made by China’s spy agencies in their administration and civil…