India is poised to counter expansion of China’s strategic footprint in Pakistan with development of Chabahar Port on the Iranian coast. New Delhi is set to ink a memorandum of understanding (M...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2015/04/india-to-develop-strategic-chabahar.html
Indian print media of 1960s and then Indian Government only speak about Sino-Indian conflict of 1962 where weak political leadership gave the military advantage to China. However, the history o...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2015/04/second-sino-indian-war-of-1967-decisive.html
I have been away from my own blog for a while now, close to 10 months, and the reason was a herd of Clueless Indian Politicians who were in power at the Centre. However, things have changed dram...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2015/04/rafale-deal-for-indian-air-force-wise.html
Two Russian submarines are entering service just in time for the Russian Navy Day, which falls on July 27 this year: a Yasen class nuclear attack submarine Severodvinsk and a Borei class ballist...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2014/07/russian-navy-severodvinsk-yasen-class.html
Naval Alternative Operations Base (NAOB) project of the Indian Navy at Rambilli in the district will be completed in the next five to six years as land acquisition is almost over and project wor...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2014/07/rambilli-naval-base-updates.html
Project 75 has now become one of India's most closely guarded military projects, almost as inaccessible to outsiders as the nuclear ballistic missile submarine, INS Arihant, nearing completion i...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2014/05/update-on-project-75-indian-navy.html
Enjoy these two awesome pictures showcasing the might of Indian Navy !!!! History repeating itself after 23 long years !!!! Cherish the moment !!!! INS Vikrant and INS Viraat in 1990...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2014/01/nostalgia-ins-vikrant-ins-viraat-and.html
The Indian Navy has floated a US $2.6 billion domestic tender for construction of four landing platform docks (LPDs) and bids were sent to domestic shipyards, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), Pipavav Defe...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/12/india-navy-tender-for-domestic.html
The Russian Navy will receive its first Mistral-class helicopter carrier from France on November 1, 2014, a high-ranking defense industry official told RIA Novosti on Friday. The Vladivostok,...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/10/vladivostok-mistral-class-to-be.html
The Indian Navy is just one step away from issuing a global tender worth almost eight billion dollars for six conventional stealth submarines. Russia is among the four countries which are in a v...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/09/indian-navy-tender-for-six-project-75-i.html
In a major step towards completing its nuclear triad, the atomic reactor on-board the indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant was activated late Friday night and the submarine is on its own po...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/08/ins-arihant-reactor-active-running-on.html
Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest warship since World War II, a huge flat-top destroyer that has raised eyebrows in China and elsewhere because it bears a strong resemblance to a conventiona...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/08/japan-unveils-its-new-aircraft-carrier.html
India will launch its first indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, on August 12 from the Kochi shipyard. This will make India only the fifth country after the US, Russia, Britain and France t...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/08/ins-vikrant-to-be-launched-on-august-12.html
India and Russia are to shortly begin negotiations on the lease of a second nuclear attack submarine for the Indian Navy. The second boat likely to be the completed might be Iribis, an Akula tha...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/07/indian-navy-to-lease-second-akula-class.html
After much delay, the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), being built in Cochin, is ready for its launch on August 12. At the same time, the second carrier, INS Vikramaditya, will be undergoing e...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/07/ins-vikrant-to-be-launched-soon-first.html
Sevmash shipyard confirms the return of Admiral Nakhimov - Kirov Class Nuclear Powered Battle Cruiser - The Admiral Nakhimov, a nuclear-powered missile cruiser currently being overhauled and...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/06/return-of-admiral-nakhimov-kirov-class.html
The Indian Navy — one of just nine navies that operate aircraft carriers — is thinking high-tech in planning its second indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vishal. The admirals are deciding whe...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/06/ins-vishal-might-use-emals-for-catobar.html
Long-delayed aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is undergoing trials and could be in India by December, Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin said Friday. Kadakin was speaking to reporters after i...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/05/ins-vikramaditya-to-arrive-in-december.html
The first of the six Scorpene submarines ordered by the Indian Navy from French firm DCNS in 2005, will be rolled out by 2014, France's top diplomat in India said today. "The first submarin...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/04/first-scorpene-submarine-for-indian.html
Alexander Nevsky, second nuclear-powered strategic submarine of Borei-class will be handed over to the Russian Navy by the end of the year, a Navy official told RIA Novosti on Friday. “The Na...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/03/second-borei-class-ssbn-alexander.html
The last in a series of three frigates that Russia is building for India at the Yantar Shipyard in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad has completed contractor sea trials, a spokesman for the ship...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/03/ins-trikand-on-sea-trials-to-be.html
SSGN - a nuclear submarine capable of launching guided cruise missiles, have got a role that is entirely different than SSNs and SSBNs. We seldom hear about them and their role from main stre...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/03/ssgn-logical-next-frontier-for-indian.html
India has successfully carried out the maiden test firing of the over 290 km-range submarine-launched version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in the Bay of Bengal becoming the first country...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/03/india-test-fires-submarine-launched.html
Though, it should not come as any kind of revelation to anyone, but something which was quite expected (in my opinion somewhat delayed as well) and had been in open for a while now. India i...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/03/india-navy-to-lease-another-ssn-from.html
Capt. Biswajit Dasgupta, Commanding Officer of INS Viraat helped to lay rumors to rest, regarding near-future decommissioning plans of the vessel. “There’s no plan to pay the ship off at th...
http://activedefence.blogspot.com/2013/03/ins-viraat-to-serve-indian-navy-till.html