Tokyo: Against the background of the Coronavirus, aggressive Chinese domination activities are continuing, and Japan is making intense preparations to counter them. On Monday, Japan announced a provision of nearly USD 52 billion for the defence sector. This is an increase of 1.1% over the last year. This is the ninth successive year of growth […]
Tokyo: Japan has announced that it is developing long-range anti-ship missiles to target the destroyers sailing dangerously close to the Japanese marine borders. Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi declared, ‘The situation in the East China Sea has become complicated, and it becomes necessary for Japan to act against the situation.’ Although Defence Minister Kishi did […]
Athens/Ankara: Greece has increased its defence expenditure budget by a whopping 57% to stop the aggressive Turkish activities in the Mediterranean Sea. The Greek parliament approved this increase on Tuesday, and Greece will be spending USD 6.6 billion on the defence forces in 2021. This envisages the increase in the number of defence personnel, purchase […]
New Delhi: – Indian ‘Maritime Theatre Command’, responsible for the security of the seven and a half thousand long coastline, will be active in the next year. Since the last few years, large scale restructuring has been undertaken to increase the war capabilities of the defence forces and Maritime Theatre Command is considered to be […]
Kolkata: – INS Himgiri, a stealth warship from the Nilgiri class, has been launched. Defence Chief General Bipin Rawat attended the ceremony where he asserted that the Indian defence forces are fully prepared to defend its land, marine and aerial borders. Seven stealth warships are being built under the Project 17 of the Indian Navy and INS Nilgiri, the […]
New Delhi: While the movements of the Chinese Navy have increased in the Indian Ocean, the Indian and Russian Navy have initiated exercises. The India-Russia naval exercise Indra was conducted even in September. Thus, this second round of practice that is happening after a two-month gap draws attention. On Friday, seeking opportunity on the occasion […]
Canberra/Washington: – Australia has indicated to strengthen its military cooperation with the United States, against the background of the increasing Chinese domination activities and threats. Australia will be developing Hypersonic Cruise Missiles, in collaboration with the United States and the Australian Defence Minister asserted that this project has a game-changing capability. The US Department of […]
Moscow: As per received information, Russia tested a hypersonic missile along with an anti-satellite weapon in the last few days. The tests were for Tsirkon hypersonic missile and 14Ts033 Nudol interceptor missile. Russia claimed that the 14Ts033 Nudol capable of 12 Mach speed, can destroy any satellite in the low earth orbit. Only a few […]
Athens/Abu Dhabi: – Greece has initiated strong moves to stop the increasing dominant Turkish activities. Since the last few months, Greece has taken the initiative to increase cooperation with the United States, France, Israel, Egypt and India. Now there is an addition of United Arab Emirates to the list and Greece has signed a strategic […]
New Delhi: – Indigenously developed torpedo, Varunastra, was inducted in the Indian naval fleet on Saturday. The strike range of the torpedo is 40 kilometres and has the capability of carrying out an attack at 70 kilometres per hour. This will augment the strength of the Indian Navy. This torpedo has been developed by the Naval […]