Germany stopped selling weapons to Saudi Arabia over the war on Yemen’s Houthi militia. It has now started selling weapons to Saudi Arabia again, to intercept missile attacks from the same Houthis aimed at Israel.
Category: Analysis
Israel’s dilemma: Regime change or release of hostages
| Is it possible for Israel to do both -- dismantle Hamas and at the same time, recover its hostages? Or will it need to prioritise one over the other?
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•Rafale, Part Deux
| With the selection of the Rafale Marine by the Indian Navy, here's a look at how it happened, and the challenges and consequences ahead.
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•F-35 for India?
The F-35 Lightning II offered a thrilling display of aerobatics at Aero India 2023, but here's why the fifth generation stealth fighter doesn't make sense for India
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•The acquisition of the S-400, differing points of view on the war in Ukraine, eye-watering costs, a domestic 5th gen fighter program and never having operated any U.S. fighter aircraft are some of the reasons why India can’t and shouldn’t consider the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
Rajnath Singh in Vietnam speaks volumes before SLD2022
India's quiet messaging before global defence leaders meet in Singapore
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•F/A-18 pitch to Indian Navy takes-off with ski-jump trials
Boeing & the U.S. Navy conducted the trials in August to prove the fighter could operate from India's INS Vikramaditya & IAC-1 aircraft carriers
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•Missile tests, border roads set India’s tone to China
India has made no bones about conducting ten missile tests since September & completing 40 bridges in the regions bordering Tibet, plus another 48 this year
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•Defending ground or defending a new reality
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•Q&A: Saab’s pitch for an Indian Aircraft Co.
The proposed INAC will assemble & deliver the Gripen in India
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•The Trouble with ToD
Alternatives, Duration, Training and Unit Dynamics are why it wouldn't work
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•That Fighter Thing Again
The IAF's new contest for fighters has major problems ahead
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•#RafaleScam: The Crucial Date
The date reveals what was known, to whom, and when
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•Part III of this analysis examines the implications of the single most interesting data point to emerge from the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. This date has never been mentioned in earlier media reports, and what is almost startlingly significant is not only what transpired on this date, but the fact of the date, itself.
How the MMRCA was killed #RafaleScam
And the Eurofighter was shafted by interpretation of costs
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•#RafaleScam: The CAG’s History
How the game was fixed for the French fighter
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•India’s VSHORAD program off flight path
Defence ministry faces problematic result after 20 years of shopping around
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•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.