Category: Images

Army Day Special: Armor and Mechanized Forces

by Saurabh Joshi • January 15, 2012

Check out this image gallery of the exhibition organized by the Armored Corps Center at their firing ranges in Ahmednagar, aka Armored Nagar.

by Saurabh Joshi • January 15, 2012

Your correspondent was invited to visit an army aviation squadron in Jammu and Kashmir, to get a first hand feel of their functioning. Take a look at the operating routine of the 202 Army Aviation Squadron (UH), which operates the Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH).

by StratPost News Desk • January 11, 2012

Here’s another look at the Presidential Fleet Review of the Indian Navy held last month. All photography is by Gautam Datt.

by Saurabh Joshi • December 5, 2011

Minister of State for Defense, Mallipudi Mangapati Pallam Raju, accompanied by the deputy chief of the Indian Navy, Vice Admiral Satish Soni, asked the Bell Boeing V-22 Tiltrotor Team for a briefing on the aircraft.

by Indo-Asian News Service • November 2, 2011

India’s cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Olympian gold medalist shooter Abhinav Bindra Tuesday officially became honorary Lieutenant Colonels in the Territorial Army with the army chief, General Vijay Kumar Singh, pipping their ranks on their shoulders.

by Indo-Asian News Service • October 11, 2011

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday warned that nuclear security and proliferation in India’s neighborhood remained “a serious threat” and called for the country’s policy-makers to factor in the deterioration in the international strategic and political environment while drawing up India’s future policies.

by Saurabh Joshi • September 30, 2011

Second Lieutenant Radha Mohan Naresh was killed in action on December 10, 1971, defending the Raipur Crossing, one of the fordable points of the Munnawar Tawi river, the Indian line of defense for the Akhnoor Sector, ten days after being commissioned into the IX Jat Regiment at the age of 21.

by Saurabh Joshi • September 29, 2011

The Indian Navy’s first P-8I, Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance aircraft took off on its first flight on Wednesday from Renton field in the US State of Washington, taking off at 1202 hours and landing two hours and 31 minutes later, at Boeing field in Seattle.

by Saurabh Joshi • September 27, 2011

The naval LCA is still not ideally suitable for carrier-based operations, with the current GE-F404 engine slightly underpowered. This will change with the development of the naval version of the LCA Mk II, which will be powered by the GE-F414 engine.

by Indo-Asian News Service • September 27, 2011

Defense Minister Arackaparambil Kurian Antony: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) will be one of the biggest in this sector in the world by 2018. ICG assets have increased by 50 percent and the number of stations will go up from 22 to 42. Indian shipyards are building 156 vessels for the ICG and 12 Dornier aircraft will be inducted within two years.

by Saurabh Joshi • September 27, 2011

The RBS 70 NG is a ‘beam-rider’, steered by a user-operated laser beam and is not susceptible to deception by counter-measures dispensed by target aircraft, like chaff or flares.

by Saurabh Joshi • September 23, 2011

The Indian Navy’s first P-8I Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance aircraft looks painted and ready. But the crucial bells and whistles are still to come and the aircraft will be delivered in early 2013, ahead of seven others.

by Saurabh Joshi • September 21, 2011

An Indian Army team of stunt motorcyclists displayed their skills outside India for the first time, ever, on the occasion of Military Naadam, which commemorates the Mongolian Ministry of Defense Centennial..

by Indo-Asian News Service • September 21, 2011

Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed Tuesday evening in a suicide blast at his house in Kabul. He was meeting a group of Taliban insurgents when the explosion was triggered, Xinhua reported, quoting an unnamed source from Rabbani’s office.