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SAAB Gripen Jets ‘Hot Contenders’ For Indian MMRCA 2.0 Deal; Seeks Clarity On Strategy Partnership Model

With Swedish Aerospace giant SAAB’s JAS 39 Gripen frontrunners for India’s massive fighter jets deal, the firm while labelling the 74% Foreign Direct Investment...

India Tests Powerful Short Range Prithvi-II Missile Amid Soaring Tensions With China, Pakistan

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India has successfully test-fired the indigenous Prithvi - II missile, the third weapon tested in the...

Doors Still Open For India To Co-Develop ‘Tempest’ Sixth-Gen Fighter Jet With The UK

In 2007, India and Russia had agreed to jointly build a fifth-generation fighter jet called Sukhoi/HAL Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) or Perspective Multi-role Fighter (PMF). However, with India later pulled out from the project.

Why Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Are A Bigger Threat To India Than Enormous Chinese Nuclear Stockpile?

At a time when Pakistan’s arch-rival - India is deeply engaged with China in the eastern Ladakh region, Islamabad knows it has got a...

Afghan Top Negotiator Abdullah Abdullah To Visit Pakistan To Discuss Afghan Peace Process

The top Afghan peace negotiator - Abdullah Abdullah is in talks with the Taliban and could travel to Pakistan next week to discuss matters...