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…
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The 100% Drone Tariff Wall: How Washington’s UAS Decoupling Rewires Indian Aerospace Capital
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
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 ISRO Moon Base Invite: What Bengaluru Meeting Means
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…
Pakistan Looks West: Reducing Dependence on China Through a New Middle Eastern Security Architecture
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…
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…
Project-77, AUKUS and the Quad: Complementary Pillars of Indo-Pacific Undersea Deterrence
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…
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…
The Next Indo-Pacific Contest Won’t Be Fought. It Will Be Responded To
Indian Army Disaster Response: India’s Strategic Edge Geopolitics · Defence Analysis Indian Army disaster response — from Operation Brahma to theatre commands and Quad logistics…
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…
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…
Op Sindoor, Aatmanirbharta and the Making of a Defence Exporter: What Rajnath Singh’s 18 July Address Reveals About India’s Strategic Trajectory
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…
Beyond the Rocket: What Vikram-1’s Orbit Actually Buys India
The Eastern Strategist At 12:05 pm on 18 July 2026, a seven-storey rocket built by an eight-year-old Hyderabad company punched through the coast at Sriharikota…
Beyond the 1.78 Lakh Crore Milestone: Assessing the Structural Reality of India’s Defence Industrial Base
A month has passed since the Ministry of Defence released the FY 2026 production figures of Rs 1.78 lakh crore. While the headline numbers captured…
The Unseen Front of the Tech War: Why Mission ShakthiSAT is a Masterclass in Strategic Soft Power
By Rocío Caparrós Space Policy Expert When global powers calculate their competitive edge in space through Mission ShakthiSAT, artificial intelligence, or quantum computing, the metrics…
Agniveer CEE Result 2026: A Recruitment Cycle That Signals More Than Numbers
Analysis | Defence & National Security TES Intelligence Desk | 12 July 2026 With the announcement of the Agniveer CEE Result 2026, the Indian Army…
The Next Fight in Artificial Intelligence Is Over Price, Not Power
Analysis | Emerging Technologies 11 July 2026 For much of the past three years, the contest among artificial intelligence developers has been framed around a…
The Precision Gap: Why India’s New Heliport Rules Matter More Than the Hardware
Point-in-Space (PinS) navigation is set to redefine Indian aviation, addressing the persistent ‘white-out’ nightmare that pilots face while navigating the Himalayas. In seconds, the peaks…
₹52000 Crore DAC Approval Puts Defence Stocks in Focus: What It Could Mean for BEL, HAL, BDL and Mazagon Dock
Holding BEL, HAL, BDL or Mazagon Dock? Here’s Why the Latest ₹52000 Crore DAC Approval Matters If your portfolio includes Bharat Electronics (BEL), Hindustan Aeronautics…
DRDO at the Crossroads: Can India’s Defence Lab Keep Pace with the Future of Warfare?
DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) has spent nearly seven decades at the centre of India’s military modernisation, a journey that once depended largely on…
HAL Dividend 2026: ₹45 a Share Is Nice. The GE F414 Engine Deal Is What Matters.
If you are looking for details on the HAL Dividend 2026, the record date is set for August 14, 2026. That’s the cutoff date to…
Can Military Robots Protect Siachen? Why India Is Building UGVs, Drones and Autonomous Systems for High-Altitude Warfare
India’s defence industry has started investing heavily in autonomous systems, raising an important question: Can Military Robots Protect Siachen? It is no longer a futuristic…
India J-35 Counter Strategy: Neutralizing Pakistan’s Stealth Threat
Executive Briefing The Strategic Shift: The accelerated timeline of the Pakistan stealth fighter threat alters the South Asian air-power balance by compressing detection windows, forcing…
How the Drishti-10 Hunts Submarines: Decoding India’s Unarmed Kill Chain
Executive Briefing The Operational Shift: The recent Indian Navy drone induction alters the fundamental geometry of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) in the Indian Ocean Region, shifting…