Missile Technology Transfer: Why Agni, K-Series and BrahMos Stay Out
The Ministry of Defence’s missile technology transfer decision is being reported as a single exclusion. It is actually two structurally different exclusions — one rooted…
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Javelin Missile Deal: India’s 16-Year Wait Ends, MPATGM Waits On
A Rs 292-crore Javelin missile deal signed on 28 August closes a 16-year procurement saga — through routine financial powers, not a fresh Ladakh crisis,…
The Navy’s New Ship Has One Job: Testing Indian Weapons
A small trial ship’s delivery becomes the entry point for a bigger story: India’s fastest-ever warship production cycle, and the private yards and MSMEs now…
The Titanium Pivot: How PTC Industries and Sovereign Metallurgy Anchor India’s Jet Engine Future
Strategic Intelligence · Defence & Markets A private Lucknow foundry is casting titanium for Airbus and Safran today — and the same vacuum furnaces are…
Vietnam’s Biggest Warship Is Homegrown — But Its Bones Are Still Russian
Vietnam just started building its largest-ever warship, calling it proof of genuine self-reliance. But the ship’s weapons layout tells a more complicated story — and…
BRICS Summit 2026: Modi’s Photo Test and Washington’s Balancing Act
As Xi, Putin and Iran’s Pezeshkian converge on New Delhi for the 18th BRICS Summit, a year of viral photographs and Congressional scrutiny collides with…
Rajnath Singh: From 2019’s Rafale Storm to a ₹38,000 Crore Export Record
In May 2019, Rajnath Singh walked into South Block with the Rafale deal controversy still trailing the Defence Ministry’s name and India’s arms bazaar dominated…
Mazagon Dock Project 75I: Why a Stock Sitting 32% Below Its Record Hasn’t Moved Yet
Defence & Markets The government has known for months that this deal is coming. So has the market. Neither has acted on it yet. Mazagon…
India-Armenia Defence Deal: Inside the $2 Billion Order Book
How a $2 billion arms relationship with Armenia — Akash-1S, Pinaka, MArG — became India’s most instructive defence-export case study, and what the August 2026…
Paras Defence Leads Rally as India Notifies Sixth Positive Indigenisation List
A routine procurement notice from the Department of Defence Production moved defence stocks within hours on 18 August — but not the way most coverage…
MQ-9B Sea Guardian Lease: Why India Rents Drones It Already Bought
A Rs 1,943 crore lease for two more Sea Guardians reveals the three-year wait behind India’s 31-drone MQ-9B fleet — and which Indian companies stand…
India’s Military Power in 2026: The Global Scale That Can No Longer Be Ignored
India’s Military Power in 2026: The Global Scale That Can No Longer Be Ignored Defence & Geopolitics · Independence Day Special Outranking Beijing in the…
Can Hypersonic Missiles Be Intercepted? China vs India’s BMD
Defence Analysis · Missile Technology · Markets On 27 March 1999, a Yugoslav air defence battalion did something the United States Air Force had built…
Three Nations Signed a Defence Pact in Mecca. Only One Brought Nuclear Weapons to the Table.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement on 7 August 2026. Behind the NATO-style rhetoric lies an old, unresolved question —…
Indian Navy 2026: Five Times Pakistan’s Tonnage, Third Carrier Still Pending
2026 is the Indian Navy’s biggest induction year on record. TES walks through what’s actually been delivered, what Pakistan and Germany are doing in response,…
Agni-V MIRV: The Physics Behind India’s 200-Kiloton Nuclear Bomb
Agni-V MIRV: The Physics Behind India’s 200-Kiloton Nuclear Bomb Strategic Defence · Nuclear Architecture · Indo-Pacific Power Dynamics The physics validated in a 1998 test…
Astra Microwave Just Hit ₹1,950. India’s Defence MSMEs Are Still Stuck at 0.4%
Defence Manufacturing · Markets On 31 July, Astra Microwave Products opened 7.5% above its previous close and kept climbing through the session. By the closing…
Not a Science Project: How India’s Space Station Became a ₹47,000 Crore Border-Security Bet
India’s space station is routinely covered as a science story. The budget says otherwise — a combined ₹47,000 crore commitment across two programmes reveals a…
India Drone Industry: The Real Race Is for the Technology Stack, Not the Aircraft
India Drone Industry: The Real Race for Tech Ownership Defence Manufacturing · Markets · The Eastern Strategist Operation Sindoor exposed the gaps. A $100 million…
Saudi Arabia Spent 45 Years Building an Escape Route From Hormuz. Yemen Just Shut That Too.
In 1981, as tankers burned in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War, Saudi Arabia’s oil planners made a quiet bet. They built a 1,200-kilometre pipeline…
Why Altitude, Not the Enemy, Has Been India’s Toughest Adversary Since Kargil
Kargil to Operation Sindoor: India’s Defence Leap Twenty-five years separate the Bofors gun from the BrahMos missile. Both fought the same mountain. TES Brief Kargil…
India Private Missile Manufacturing
India Private Missile Manufacturing: From Nuts and Bolts to Warheads: India Opens Missile Manufacturing to Private Firms | The Eastern Strategist Defence Manufacturing · India…
Two Chokepoints, One War: Why Trump Is Weighing a “Massive Attack” as Hormuz Diplomacy Collapses
Iran has rejected a US ceasefire proposal carried by Iraq’s prime minister, retaliated with drone strikes on American-linked sites in Bahrain and Jordan, and President…
Pakistan J-35 Stealth Fighter: What Are India’s Real Options?
On 27 March 1999, a Yugoslav air-defence battery shot down an American F-117 Nighthawk over Serbia. The aircraft was, on paper, invisible. A radar operator…
The Great Rebalancing: Why the World’s Centre of Gravity Is Moving East
On 16 December 1971, India recorded one of the most decisive military victories of the Cold War. The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dhaka created…
The Ocean That Will Decide the Century
Why the waters between Africa and Australia matter more than most people realise For most of history, empires were built and broken on land. Armies…
Africa Is No Longer Waiting to Be Defined by Others
Demographics, minerals, digital infrastructure and a crowded field of external partners are turning the continent into an independent actor in a multipolar world For decades,…
Why Turkey Supports Pakistan: Strategy Over Religion, and What It Means for India
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The Eastern Strategist India defence export growth has become a central focus for the nation’s defence establishment, which has spent the past decade building a…