The Indian Navy on Friday rescued a hijacked Iranian fishing vessel and its crew of 23 Pakistani nationals, after more than 12 hours of "intense coercive tactical measures" as part of an anti-piracy operation at sea, officials said.Indian naval specialist teams are presently undertaking thorough sanitisation and seaworthiness checks of the fishing vessel in order to escort her to a safe area for

by Hamdan KhanOn March 11, 2024, India’s Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) carried out a test of its longest-range ballistic missile Agni-V — a nuclear-capable, solid fuel, three-stage, cannisterised missile with a range above 7,000 kilometers. This is the 10th test of Agni-V since April 2012 and followed the night trial of the missile inDecember 2022. What differentiates the

Visakhapatnam: US Marine CH-53E ‘Super Stallion’ made its maiden landing at Naval Air Station at INS Dega, Visakhapatnam. As part of the ongoing India-US joint exercise ‘Exercise Tiger Triumph’, stated a press release on Friday.These heavy lift helicopters of the Marine Corps are operating from US Navy ships as part of bilateral tri-service exercise in Kakinada.In consonance with Indian Navy and

Illustrations of Over The Horizon RadarsDRDO’s Electronics & Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) has designed and is currently developing a prototype Over-the-Horizon Radar (OTHR). The radar is to be deployed on India’s Western Seaboard for surveillance/ detection in the Indian Ocean Region. The radar prototype is to have two different types of radar arrays – a log-periodic wire antenna (

Laser weapons could be the future of warfare, and hence there is a worldwide interest in acquiring such system. DRDO is reported to have achieved a fairly advanced stage of testing a real prototypeIn 2022, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) tested a 100-kilowatt lightweight directed-energy weapon (DEW) called the Directionally Unrestricted Ray-Gun Array (DURGA) II. The DEW

French Foreign Minister Stéphane Sejourne will arrive in China on April 1 to meet with PRC Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Lin Jiang, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, announced this during the briefing."At the invitation of Wang Yi, the member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Minister of