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Saurabh Joshi

Founded India's first defence news and analysis website in 2008. Trained in journalism. Studied law. Pioneered online video to tell stories of defence technologies. Video journalist. Analyst. Reporter. Follow him on Post.News: https://post.news/@/saurabhjoshi and Twitter.

#RafaleScam: Fallout on MMRCA 2.0
Manufacturers concerned over implications of Rafale revelations

One representative of an MMRCA 2.0 competitor said, “The process is so elaborate, difficult and expensive. If you’re permitting cheating, at least have the decency to not make the rest of us work so hard.” “Just the thought of it being tailored to one of the contestant would discredit the whole idea of a competitive bidding process,” said another.

India’s VSHORAD program off flight path
Defence ministry faces problematic result after 20 years of shopping around

Even after two decades since the acquisition case, the Very Short Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) search has seen a system absent from trials and failing trials, being passed as technically compliant and ending up as, apparently, the cheapest. Also problematic is the difficulty its purchase could pose by provoking U.S. sanctions under their CAATSA.

Navy increases captains’ tenure to 08 years
The move is being perceived to preclude time-scale captains' promotions to commodore

The Indian Navy has increased the mandatory tenure of captains to eight years before officers can be eligible for promotion to the rank of commodore. As a result of this, captains in the navy will spend an additional three years in the rank – up from the existing five-year tenure, before they are eligible to being considered for promotion to commodore.

Podcast: Letters from Kargil

A Kargil martyr’s daughter would get angry waiting for someone to write about her dad. She has finally written a book, herself. Diksha Dwivedi tells Saurabh Joshi why she wrote Letters from Kargil and what it was like growing up for the daughter of Major Chandra Bhushan Dwivedi, 315 Field Regiment.