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HAL is likely to begin the delivery of Tejas Mk1A aircraft to the IAF from January 2027, ahead of Aero India. 🇮🇳

Indian Navy has issued an EOI for the construction of 4.7m, 6.5m, 7m & 10m rigid hull boats to serve as shipborne craft onboard frigates, destroyers & aircraft carriers. 🇮🇳

Footage of the terror attack on a CRPF Naka in Kulgam, Jammu & Kashmir. 🇮🇳 The attack was carried out by Pakistani terrorists with the help of local overground workers.

Motorcycle borne terrorists opened fire on CRPF personnel deployed at a naka in Kulgam, J&K, injuring 02 Personnel. Both personnel were shifted to a hospital in Anantnag & are now out of danger. Security forces have launched an operation to hunt down the terrorists.

Philippines Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. 🇵🇭 says the country is interested in acquiring India's Akash Air Defence System, alongside additional BrahMos.missiles. 🇮🇳

Pakistan's NRTC has signed a $100 million deal with Türkiye's TİTRA Technology to acquire & locally manufacture drones. 🇵🇰 Including: 100,000 Merküt FPV drones 10 Alpin & 25 Rotary-wing UAS 500 Deli loitering munitions 250 Korgan autonomous drone stations.

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The CRPF plans to acquire loitering munitions in large numbers for counter insurgency & internal security operations. The drones will have a minimum range of 15 km & flight endurance of 30 mins, combining aerial surveillance with precision strike capabilities. 🇮🇳

We should be part of FCAS only as a co-development partner, not to pour our money into it in the name of ToT. We need to move away from that mentality. - Former IAF Cheif RKS Bhadauria