DefenceTalkThe United States, Japan, India and Australia expressed concern Friday over the militarization of Asia’s waters, in a veiled reference to China’s growing presence in contested seas. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the foreign ministers of the other three nations assembled in New Delhi under the auspices of their Quad grouping. In a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/quad-powers-concerned-over-militarisation-in-asian-seas-79921/

DefenceTalkTwo Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed Saturday, killing one pilot and injuring two others, in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises south of the capital New Delhi. The crash is the latest in a string of military aircraft accidents at a time when the government is trying to modernise its armed forces and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/two-indian-military-jets-crash-one-pilot-killed-79801/

DefenceTalkFormer US secretary of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published Tuesday that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation. “I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to spilling over into a nuclear conflagration in February 2019,” […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pompeo-says-us-averted-nuclear-war-between-india-pakistan-79741/

DefenceTalkJapan and India began their first joint fighter jet exercise on Monday near Tokyo as the countries upgrade defence and security ties with an eye on China’s growing military might. The 11-day joint exercise will involve eight Japanese fighter jets, with India sending four fighters, two transport aircraft and an aerial refueling tanker, Japan’s defence […]https://www.defencetalk.com/japan-india-start-first-joint-fighter-jet-drill-79718/

DefenceTalkIndia on Friday successfully tested a ballistic missile fired from its first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine, the defence ministry said, in a boost for its growing strike capabilities. The test of India’s “nuclear deterrence capability” makes it one of six countries — alongside the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China — with nuclear strike and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-successfully-tests-ballistic-missile-from-submarine-79523/

DefenceTalkIndia debuted its first locally made aircraft carrier on Friday, a milestone in government efforts to reduce its dependence on foreign arms and counter China’s growing military assertiveness in the region. The INS Vikrant, one of the world’s biggest naval vessels at a length of 262 metres (860 feet), will formally enter service after 17 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-unveils-first-homemade-aircraft-carrier-with-eye-on-china-79299/

DefenceTalkTwo pilots have been killed in India after a Soviet-era fighter jet crashed during a training sortie, the air force said, heightening safety concerns after a string of incidents involving the aircraft. The MiG-21 came down on Thursday night in the desert of western Rajasthan state near the city of Barmer, the defence ministry said. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/two-pilots-killed-as-soviet-era-fighter-jet-crashes-in-india-79150/

DefenceTalkIndia on Thursday claimed it foiled an attempted cyber-attack by Chinese hackers targeting its power distribution system near a disputed frontier where the two countries are engaged in a military stand-off. Ties between the world’s two most populous nations are at a low ebb after a deadly skirmish in the Himalayan region of Ladakh that […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-claims-it-foiled-chinese-cyber-attack-on-disputed-border-78654/

DefenceTalkWhen 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a recent border clash with China, the military hardware New Delhi sent to bolster its Himalayan frontier was mostly Russian-origin, showing not for the first time its closeness to “longstanding and time-tested friend” Moscow. Facing an increasingly assertive China closer to home, these ties help explain Prime Minister […]https://www.defencetalk.com/indias-russian-arms-explain-shaky-ukraine-stance-78507/

DefenceTalkIndian defence chief General Bipin Rawat was among 13 people killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, raising questions over the future of military reforms he was leading. Rawat was India’s first chief of defence staff, a position that the government established in 2019, and was seen as close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-defence-chief-among-13-dead-in-helicopter-crash-77557/