India’s Ministry of Defense has launched a program to modernize the Indian Army’s BMP-2/2K Sarath infantry fighting vehicles. The Russian website Topwar.ru reported that each company competing for a tender issued last year by the […]
The potency of the S-400 anti-aircraft system is questioned by both Turkey and China while the systems cannot detect low altitude fighter jets, drones supersonic cruise missiles and stealth fighters. Russia will start supplying its […]
Russia and India are discussing “additional” production of Russian military equipment in India, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday, in a move that could irk the United States which frowns upon countries engaged […]
Local media reported that Chinese brokers (bdmilitary.com) based in Dhaka, Bangladesh have paid kickbacks to Bangladesh Navy officials to facilitate sales of obsolete Chinese warships and submarines to the Bangladesh Navy. The Bangladesh Navy (BN) […]
On the night of August 4, 2018, DGFI officers accompanied by Police surrounded the home of Nusrat Jahan Sonia, a 25-year-old primary school teacher, in a rural area of Patuakhali district, south of Dhaka. They […]
New Delhi (GDC) — One of the four attack helicopters supplied by India to Afghanistan in 2019 has been seized by the Taliban after they took over the airport in Kunduz, the northern provincial capital […]
Today an ALH Dhruv helicopter of the Indian Army crashed into the Ranjit Sagar Dam located in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Initial reports suggested at least five were on board the chopper, […]
Ministry of Defence had initially signed a contract with Boeing for ten P-8I aircraft in 2009 for Indian Navy. It later signed another contract for six additional P-8I aircraft in 2021. Indian Navy has received […]
India allocated $18.48 billion for weapons procurement in its 2021-2022 defense budget amid an ongoing military standoff with China and financial stress on the national economy due to the coronavirus pandemic. Excluding pensions, the new […]
In 2016, the Pakistan Army disclosed that it had procured six HQ-16A surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems from China for $373 million U.S. in fiscal year 2014-2015. This acquisition appears to be a follow-on from the […]
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