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Sharp, award-winning journalism on Indian defence & aerospace | Founded by @ShivAroor , run by new team

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Indian Army Paratroopers exit their aircraft over Stakna, Ladakh today:
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JUST IN: 1st Rafale handed over to the Indian Air Force
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BREAKING: Bharat Forge Limited awarded ₹177.95 crore contract from Indian Ministry of Defence for supply of Kalyani M4 vehicles
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And the Oscar for wrong use of image goes to...
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A citizen’s video of today’s BrahMos ER launch in the Andaman Islands:
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Hi @AltNews , not a problem, but it’s Livefist, not Livefest. 😭
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BREAKING: The Indonesian Navy has declared submarine #KRINaggala402 has sunk, with all hands lost. Debris located. Condolences to the families of the 53 men lost.
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HAL doesn’t build the Mirage 2000.
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Take a bow #Mirage2000 ! Take a bow HAL .
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Great new shot of the Tata Kestrel in Ladakh 😎 From the first lot that was handed over to the Indian Army in April this year.
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Lovely picture! The seniormost woman officer to have served in the Indian Air Force, Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay (Retd.) with the IAF’s 1st woman fighter pilot Flt Lt Avani Chaturvedi. #WomensDay
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To clarify, they're being delivered safely in a C-17, not the way depicted below.🥲
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Big day for defence too! The first consignment of Indian-made BrahMos cruise missiles is out for delivery to its first export customer Philippines, as part of a 2022 deal. (File pic)
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JUST IN: India's Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) registers an all-time high turnover of ₹19,705 crore, a growth of 7.8% over the previous year. Net profit up 14.8% to ₹2,282 crore. Order book position as on March 31 is ₹58,000 crore. (Remember the poll politics over the firm?)
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BREAKING: Indian MoD orders 1,300 light specialist vehicles (LSVs) from Mahindra Defence in a contract worth ₹1056 crore. #MadeInIndia
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BIG: India’s homegrown Pinaka multi rocket system scores its first export order! Unspecified number of systems part of a fresh ₹260 million weapons/ammo package sale to Armenia, reports @ManuPubby
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BREAKING: India’s @DRDO_India tests Nirbhay 1,000-km range ruise missile from east coast. (Footage from earlier test filmed from a Jaguar)
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FIRST VIDEO: The N-LCA’s first arrested landing on INS Vikramaditya.
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BREAKING: India's first 'negative list' on imported items -- those it will no longer import include: 1⃣ Artillery guns 2⃣ Assault rifles 3⃣ Corvettes 4⃣ Sonar systems 5⃣ Transport aircraft 6⃣ Light Combat Helos 7⃣ Radars 8⃣ Armoured Fighting Vehicles
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Exclusive? That picture was tweeted by the IAF 🙄👏🏽
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TIMES NOW accesses exclusive image of Rafale fighter aircrafts being refueled mid-air.
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BREAKING: India tests Agni-V nuclear capable ballistic missile. The 5,000 km range missile was launched at 7.50pm from the east coast. (File photo)
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Hi @moneycontrolcom , pretty sure the @IndianNavy all-woman crew isn’t sailing around the world in an aircraft carrier.
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Fact check: HAL doesn’t and hasn’t ever built Mirage 2000 jets.
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Congrats to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for building Mirage 2000 here in India which were crucial to #Balakot airstrikes. This same #HAL , a govt org, was kicked out by @narendramodi & gave Ambani's Reliance the Rafale deal. BJP & Dhokla Mafia a national security problem.
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"If China needs Pakistan's help in any confrontation, then I have nothing to say." ~ IAF chief, ACM RKS Bhadauria
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One of the 5 IAF #Rafale jets that will take off from Istres, France tomorrow morning, stop over at Al Dhafra, UAE, and arrive Wednesday in Ambala, India.
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JUST IN: Advanced version of 🇮🇳🇮🇱 MRSAM tested today off India’s east coast:
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BREAKING: After Indian Army's decision to abort deal, UAE's Caracal course-corrects, says will build the 93,895 carbines FULLY in India, says it has identified land, facility & local partners to begin production immediately
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BIG NEWSBREAK: India’s Fifth Generation AMCA Fighter Project To Be Public-Private Program, Joint Venture Company To Be Formed
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Full video of India’s first 5 Rafales departing Mérignac a short while ago. Next stop Al Dhafra, UAE. Stay tuned for updates through today.
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Not that Chinese propaganda needs debunking, but the Indian Army remains deployed at far higher altitudes than any other force on earth. Here's saluting India's snow warriors in Ladakh & their families across India this very tense season.
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Incredible, high-tempo series of missile tests by the @DRDO_India in the last few weeks. Kudos to the teams. This is just some of them. More around the corner.
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Indian Army chief General MM Naravane in the Army's new combat camo:
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Images just in of the 5 IAF Rafales in Indian airspace, escorted by 2 Su-30 MKI. Look at that size difference!
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Century Of Service Between Them, IAF Says Its MiG-21 Just Scored World’s First F-16 Kill
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BREAKING: India's LCA Tejas all set to participate in its first ever combat air exercise over foreign soil -- Ex Cobra Warrior 22 at Waddington, UK from Mar 6-27.
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Leh.
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Hot damn! Tejas on Day 1 of #SingaporeAirshow2022 .
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BREAKING: BrahMos successfully test-fired from @IndianNavy destroyer INS Chennai at ship target. Target sunk successfully in Bay of Bengal. (File clip from earlier test)
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BREAKING 🚨 Clearest picture so far of India’s stealth flying wing tech demonstrator before its maiden flight test today in Karnataka. This is a precursor to the Ghatak stealth combat drone program, we’ve detailed here:
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Gorgeous set of photos just in of the Indian Air Force's second Rafale 'RB 002' in the air. [Photos © @Dassault_OnAir by G. Gosset]
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'I remember giving presentations in 2012 seeking project clearances for the #ASAT weapon, unfortunately government didn't respond. Current Govt has appreciated the need for such a capability,' former @DRDO_India chief VK Saraswat tells @Livefist .
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BREAKING: An LCA Navy has just made its maiden landing and take-off from aircraft carrier INS Vikrant. First photos:
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At yesterday’s PASSEX in the Indian Ocean, two @IndianNavy P17 stealth frigates flanked the USS Nimitz.
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ALERT 🚨 Successful maiden BrahMos firing by destroyer INS Delhi from an upgraded modular launcher.
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BREAKING: Indonesia orders 42 @Dassault_OnAir Rafale jets.
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“Should I shake their hands?” @RajnathSingh with his Russian counterpart in Moscow yesterday.
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Glorious shot here by @SandeepUnnithan of an inbound MiG-29 at Leh, Ladakh. (This is an IAF-permitted shoot, in case you’re wondering)
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Cool view of Tata's Apache fuselage line near Hyderabad.
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One for the books! Probably the first time F-35s have flown with a Su-30? 🔥 From the 🇮🇳🇬🇧 exercise Konkan Shakti:
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Big day! Cochin Shipyard Ltd says it has formally ‘delivered’ indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-1) Vikrant to the @IndianNavy . (file video)
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That's a Tejas, not a Jaguar, @htTweets . *smh*
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Interesting new details of what IAF pilots faced in Kabul during the big evac of citizens during the Taliban terrorist takeover last year:
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Don’t think aviation metaphors are Arundhati Roy’s thing.
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This just happened.
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BREAKING: LCA Mk2 project receives formal Govt sanction with ₹10,000 crore, first flight by 2027, production by 2027. Detailed report shortly.
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JUST IN: India’s fifth Scorpène submarine Vagir departs Mumbai on first sea sortie. Enters @IndianNavy service later this year.
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BREAKING: India's Light Combat Helicopter named Prachand / प्रचंड. (Meaning: Fierce).
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A pair of IAF Su-30 MKIs get some gas from a UAE Air Force A330 tanker while en route to Egypt for a tactical leadership program. 🇮🇳🇦🇪😎
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What December has looked like so far for India’s guided weapons program:
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First pictures of India-bound IAF Rafale team with one of their birds at Istres. They’re in the air now.
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IAF C-17 lands at Singapore’s Changi International Airport, Singapore to take on board 4 containers of cryogenic O₂ tanks — will now fly to Bengal’s Panagarh air base and offload containers by evening.
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Is there a bigger story in the world today? No, there isn’t.
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JUST IN: India's indigenous aircraft carrier IAC Vikrant has just headed out for its next phase of sea trials. She enters service with the @IndianNavy in August this year.
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FIRST LOOK: Here’s the 1st Indian Rafale at Mérignac. The handover ceremony begins shortly. Stay tuned for live updates here.
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The DRDO ATAGS 155mm artillery gun trials in Pokhran from April 26-May 2:
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JUST IN: India's hypersonic test vehicle that was flight-tested today. This is the ballistic carrier vehicle that gives the hypersonic vehicle (nestled inside) its altitude boost.
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The HTT-40 project is alive and boomin' now thanks to the late Manohar Parrikar. A program he rescued from the jaws of death. 🇮🇳
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Here’s the route the 5 IAF #Rafale jets are taking from Mérignac to Ambala. Here’s wishing the new ‘Golden Arrows’ a great flight home!
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The makers of these #Diwali firecrackers got the aircraft image right. That's it. That's the tweet. cc: Media
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This lad here. 🫡
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JUST IN: Indian signs ₹423 crore deal for more U.S. Mk54 torpedoes for the @IndianNavy ’s P-8Is.
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An IAF @Boeing_In CH-47F Chinook just flew India’s longest single helo sortie — non-stop from Chandigarh in the north to Jorhat in the east. A 7+ hour flight.
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All the Iron Dome videos out of Israel going viral tonight:
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Your day needs these onboard-aircraft videos of the N-LCA deck launch off INS Vikramaditya
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Sweet! An ‘officially cleared’ clip of an IAF AH-64E from the Gladiators squadron seen landing today at an air base in Ladakh. Expect to see a flood of air power imagery starting now.
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Re-issuing in public interest for Indian media getting on the #Rafale story:
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‘Falcon Slayer’ Abhinandan the toast of aviation watchers worldwide. We speak to some of them on the MiG-21’s first claimed kill of an F-16. (Re-up) #WelcomeHomeAbhinandan
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Their bodies were found 2 meters away from the terrorist infiltrators they killed. Our report on the fearsome close-quarter encounter in which the Indian Army has lost 5 Special Forces men from the elite 4 Para (SF)
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Great shot of INS Vikramaditya at #Malabar2020 .
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BREAKING: Indian Cabinet approves procurement of 56 @Airbus C-295MW transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force to replace its old Avro transports
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Ferry of 5 IAF Rafale jets complete, pilots of 17 Squadron are welcomed home by IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Bhadauria & AOC-in-C Western Air Command Air Marshal Balakrishnan Suresh.
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3 more IAF Rafales arrived in country yesterday, taking total deliveries to 29. With 17 Squadron in Ambala topped up with its 18 airframes, 101 Squadron now has 11 airframes, with 7 left to be delivered to complete the total order for 36. (File photo)
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Gorgeous photo just out from the DRDO as LCA Tejas is cleared for Python-5 air-to-air missile in its weapons package.
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Sweet new shots of INS Vikrant with the @IndianNavy ’s Western Fleet as part of a combat op readiness review this week.
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Indian Army tank drills n Ladakh today.
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BREAKING: Indian Army finally places order for 118 indigenous Arjun Mk-1A main battle tanks. Contract worth ₹7,523 crore. The 118 improved tanks add to the 124 Arjun Mk1 tanks in service. Good, belated news, but nowhere near the numbers this program needed.
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To meet the Indian Army’s light mountain tank requirement, India’s L&T and DRDO have tied up to mate the K-9 chassis with a new modular gun, reports @SandeepUnnithan . Can be built in large numbers at L&T’s ready K-9 line in Hazira, Gujarat. Detailed report soon.
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The Iron Dome system you see painting that terrifying picture in the night sky between Israel & Palestine is a system that 🇮🇱 once pitched to 🇮🇳. Here’s our 📸 of it in Bangalore in 2013. India was never interested though, since our anti-projectile requirements are much larger.
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BREAKING: India's first indigenous aircraft carrier Vikrant (IAC-1) sails out on maiden sea trials. First video here:
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Let this wash over you, y’all. The @IndianNavy ’s two carriers operating together for the first time. Read all about it here: [🎵: Flying by Carl Storm©️]
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The @DRDO_India has just conducted a test of the 700-1800 km range SHAURYA cannisterized nuclear-capable surface-to-surface missile from the east coast. (Photo from an earlier test)
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The Israeli Air Force has this gorgeous photo of 4 🇮🇳 Mirage 2000 jets over the 🇮🇱 Negev Desert at #BlueFlag2021 .
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🇮🇳🤝🇫🇷 IAF Su-30 MKIs getting some gas from a French mid-air tanker en route to Australia for Exercise #PitchBlack22
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JUST IN: The 5 IAF Rafales have landed at Al Dhafra air base, UAE. They'll depart for India late on Wednesday morning.
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“Boys did well”
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