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67th Republic Day Parade 2016 HELL MARCH - Indian Army

This Is China's Master Plan to Destroy the U.S. Navy in Battle ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Harry J. Kazianis)

Image credits- Wikimedia Commons Source- The National Interest Author- Harry J. Kazianis When Chinese officers go to bed at night, what do they fear most? Despite all the hard work, all the billions of dollars spent, no Chinese sailor wants to tangle with the U.S. Navy. As one retired Chinese senior defense official told me in late 2014: “The 3 A.M. crisis ‘call’ I feared the most is that we were at war with your navy.” While such a statement surely tickles the hearts of Pentagon officials, know this: Fear, when focused properly, can make the mind—and the collective power of nations—help craft solutions to complex military challenges that might at one time have seemed nearly impossible. For example, during the 1995-1996 Taiwan Crisis, Beijing’s ‘nightmares’ were nearly realized. When faced with a superior military power that could deploy massive amounts of advanced naval assets and project power from multiple domains like no other nation in history, China simp

Return of the FONOP: US Navy Destroyer Asserts Freedom of Navigation in Paracel Islands ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Ankit Panda)

USS Curtis Wilbur underway ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / US Navy) Source- The Diplomat Author- Ankit Panda On Saturday, a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, the USS Curtis Wilbur, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island in the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. Triton Island is claimed by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam, and is administered by China. The Curtis Wilbur‘s passage near Triton Island marks the first freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea since the U.S. Navy sailed the USS Lassen within 12 nautical miles of Subi Reef in the Spratly Islands, marking 95 days between the two operations. Triton Island is not among the features where China has built artificial islands and constructed military and civilian features. According to Captain Jeff Davis, a spokesperson for the Pentagon, no Chinese People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) vessels attempted to inhibit the Curtis Wilbur‘s passage unlike during the October freedom of na

South Korea Eyes THAAD, China Urges ‘Caution’ ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Shannon Tiezzi)

United States THAAD launcher ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States Army) Source- The Diplomat Author- Shannon Tiezzi A U.S. missile defense system would be helpful for South Korean security if deployed on the peninsula, a defense official from Seoul said on Friday. The comments are the latest sign that Seoul is again considering allowing the U.S.-made Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to be deployed on its soil. Defense Ministry spokesperson Kim Min-seok said on Friday that the Korean government “will consider every measure to prepare against North Korea’s missile threats.” He added, “If U.S. Forces Korea deploys THAAD, it will help our national security and defense.” However, Kim also refuted media reports that South Korea and the United States had begun negotiations on the subject next week. He said that the “South Korean government has not been offered negotiations by the U.S. government,” meaning no decision on the issue should be

Japan Unveils New 5th Generation Stealth Fighter Jet ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Franz Stefan-Gady)

Japanese ATD-X ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Hunini) Source- The Diplomat Author- Franz Stefan-Gady This Thursday, Japan’s new Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency revealed the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Advanced Technology Demonstrator – Experimental (ATD-X) fifth-generation fighter technology demonstrator, now dubbed X-2 and unofficially named ‘ShinShin,’ to the media at a heavily guarded hangar at a regional airport near the city of Komaki, in Aichi Prefecture. It has previously been showcased once already in May 2014. The X-2 is the country’s first domestically produced full-scale test model—a technology demonstrator—of a new indigenous stealth fighter jet design, which has been under development at a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plant in Toyoyama since 2009, with total program costs estimated at 39.4 billion yen (around $331 million). The aircraft—an “advanced technology demonstration unit,” according to the Defense Technical Research and Devel

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India: International Fleet Review 2016 – Analysis (Source- Eurasia Review / Author- Commdore RS Vasan IN (Retd) /SAAG)

Indian navy western fleet ( Source- Wikimedia Commons / Indian navy) Source- Eurasia Review Author- Commdore RS Vasan IN (Retd) /SAAG The IFR 2016 will indeed be a grand spectacle as more than one hundred ships from the navies of over fifty countries will participate in this exercise that is carried out every five years. The event which in the initial years was mostly limited to the participation of ships from the Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard and the merchant navy transformed in to an international event with a major maritime event conducted in 2001 under the initiative of then Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Susheel Kumar. The marching of the naval officers and sailors from ships around the world along the marine drive in Mumbai and the presence of many ships from around the world signaled a new era in maritime diplomacy. The intentions of a maritime India to occupy center stage in both regional and global missions by using the Indian Navy as an instrument of national po

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Japan’s Elite Amphibious Assault Force Trains With US Marines ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Franz Stefan-gady)

Image credits- VOA Source- The Diplomat Author- Franz Stefan-Gady For five weeks, 270 Japanese soldiers from the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) Western Infantry Regiment, along with other units, will participate in an annual, bilateral amphibious training exercise, codenamed Iron Fist, jointly held with the United States Marine Corps (USMC) at Camp Pendleton in southern California. The goal of the exercise, which will include combat marksmanship, military planning, and fire support operations, is to train the GSDF and USMC in combined amphibious operations, according to a U.S. Department of Defense press release. “Since 2006, Exercise Iron Fist has enabled Japanese soldiers to train with U.S. Marines on American soil to improve the planning, communications, and conducting of combined amphibious operations,” said USMC Colonel Clay C. Tipton, commanding officer of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. “In the short span of a decade, this exercise has allowed our two ser

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Book Review: Indian Power Projection: Ambition, Arms and Influence ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Ankit Panda)

Indian Army Para SF  ( Source- Wikimedia Commons)  Source- The Diplomat Author- Ankit Panda Does India project hard power? If it does, what tools does it use? Finally, what are its ambitions for power projection in the future, as it continues to rise and emerge as a world power? These questions are at the center of a new monograph by Shashank Joshi, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. Indian Power Projection: Ambition, Arms and Influence presents, as of 2016, what is perhaps the most up-to-date compendium of information on India’s hard power toolkit and Indian policymaker attitudes toward that toolkit. Generally, owing to a range of domestic political factors and its security situation vis-a-vis its neighbors, India has been largely uninterested in far-reaching power projection since its independence. Indeed, today as during much of the Cold War, the country’s primary warfighting scenarios are against its neighbor to the west, Pakistan, an

This Could 'Sink' the U.S. Navy: Lethal Stealth Submarines (Source- The National Interest / Author- Harry J. Kazianis)

Russian LADA class SSK ( Source- Wikimedia Commons / Author- Vitaly V. Kuzmin) Source- National Interest Author- Harry J. Kazianis There is no force patrolling the world’s oceans more powerful than the mighty U.S. Navy. Washington’s nuclear-powered attack and ballistic submarines, aircraft carriers and surface combatants, all guided by the best trained sailors and professionals in the world, are no match when stacked up on paper one-on-one against the likes of Russia, China, Iran or any other challenger. And as history shows, going to war against Washington in a fair-fight is suicide. However, thanks to advances in modern, ultra-quiet conventional diesel-electric submarines, Washington will need to adjust its tactics if it were to tangle with any nation sporting these increasingly sophisticated weapons of war. To be fair, the threat of super-stealthy diesel submarines being deployed around the world has been present for decades. Still, newer boats are coming armed wit

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Watch LCA Tejas Entering Foreign Airspace and Touching Down At Foreign A...

Watch LCA Tejas Entering Foreign Airspace and Touching Down At Foreign A...

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HAL Tejas Bahrain Air Show 2016

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India to Consider French Fighter Jets for Navy’s Newest Aircraft Carrier ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Franz Stefan-Gady)

Rafale landing in USS Theodore Roosevelt ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons/ Matthew DeWitt) Source- The Diplomat Author- Franz Stefan-Gady Representatives of French aircraft maker Dassault Aviation are slated to meet with senior officials of the Indian Navy to pitch the naval version of the Dassault Rafale twin-engine, fourth generation multirole fighter this week, according to local media reports. The briefing is scheduled for January 29. Sources within India’s Defense Ministry said that New Delhi has asked four countries (France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia) for proposals for the design of the country’s first 65,000-ton supercarrier, the INS Vishal, the second ship of the Vikrant-class. The INS Vishal will allegedly feature significant design changes from the lead vessel, the INS Vikrant, including possible nuclear propulsion and Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR) and Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS).

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JF-17 vs HAL Tejas: New Competitors on the Military Block ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Kabir Taneja)

HAL Tejas ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Rinju9) Source- The Diplomat Author- Kabir Taneja The Bahrain International Air Show slated to be held between January 21-23 at the Sakhir Airbase in Bahrain is supposed to be the first international symposium where India will showcase its indigenously built, but much delayed, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Tejas light combat aircraft. This move, reportedly taken at a “political level,” could place the Tejas as an export option in the future and will expose it to much wider scrutiny over its performance and offerings in the international market. However, even though this may become an exciting time for the Tejas as a potential option for foreign militaries for their arsenal, it has an interesting competitor from its own neighborhood. The JF-17 Thunder fighter jet, jointly developed by China’s Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) and its Pakistani partner, Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), is also now in t