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Following the Pentagon’s declassification of operational on-orbit space control weapons and Beijing’s warning against an orbital arms race, The Eastern Strategist analyzes the technical mechanisms,…
BEL, Cochin Shipyard and BEML all trended this week — for three unrelated reasons. Here’s what each one actually signals about order books versus execution.
The S-400 314 km kill is now official. Four months after Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh first spoke publicly of an engagement “at about 300…
Inside the Modi-Xi Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam: Prime Minister Modi paired verified LAC disengagement with structural demands to compress India’s $112.16 billion trade deficit…
By Amandus Singh & Shuvadeep Banerjee Chaudhuri In the broader calculus of national power, India jet engine development represents the ultimate acid test of strategic…
The renewed Su-57 India pitch orchestrated by the Kremlin ahead of the 2026 BRICS Summit in New Delhi is neither routine diplomatic choreography nor a…
A same-day pairing of a record DAC clearance and a self-reliance speech — what was approved, and which companies’ product lines it touches.
Five Dhruv helicopters looped past the Pyramids of Giza this week. The image was striking. What it could not hide is that the Tejas Egypt…
Cold War arms control survived because rivals could verify each other’s restraint. Hypersonic weapons are quietly dismantling that verification architecture — and no one has…
Deploying an operational geosynchronous imaging satellite fundamentally changes Himalayan deterrence. While Low Earth Orbit platforms suffer from multi-day revisit latency, EOS-05 locks a permanent electro-optical…
Defence Industrial Base · Strategic Policy From turnover-based R&D mandates to the 405-item import ban, New Delhi is dismantling the low-margin subcontracting model to build…
The Indian Navy commissioned INS Nipun on 31 August 2026 — its second Nistar-class Diving Support Vessel, giving both coasts dedicated submarine rescue infrastructure for…
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…
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,…
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…
Fifty major components. 180 sub-components. Nearly 100 MSMEs. TES unpacks what “100% indigenous” actually meant when IRRPL test-fired the AK-203 Sher — and what the…
Strategic Intelligence · Defence & Markets A private Lucknow foundry is casting titanium for Airbus and Safran today — and the same vacuum furnaces are…
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…
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…
A routine procurement notice from the Department of Defence Production moved defence stocks within hours on 18 August — but not the way most coverage…
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…
Washington’s new drone tariff wall taxes Chinese-linked UAS imports at up to 100%. For Indian manufacturers like ideaForge and Bharat Forge, the fallout is reshaping…
India’s Military Power in 2026: The Global Scale That Can No Longer Be Ignored Defence & Geopolitics · Independence Day Special Outranking Beijing in the…
NASA’s invitation to ISRO to join its Moon Base programme, extended at the 9th India-U.S. Civil Space Joint Working Group in Bengaluru, opens a new…
By Natalie Treloar In assessing Pakistan Middle East Security, Pakistan’s relationship with China has for decades been described as an “all-weather friendship.” Beijing has become…
Defence Analysis · Missile Technology · Markets On 27 March 1999, a Yugoslav air defence battalion did something the United States Air Force had built…
Balaji Chandramohan and Natalie Treloar The strategic balance of the Indo-Pacific is increasingly being shaped beneath its oceans. Submarines, autonomous underwater vehicles, seabed sensors and…
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 Strategic Defence · Nuclear Architecture · Indo-Pacific Power Dynamics The physics validated in a 1998 test…
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…
