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/

DefenceTalkSix Pakistan servicemen including a senior commander were killed in a helicopter crash during flood relief operations in southwestern Pakistan, the military confirmed Tuesday. Civilian authorities in Pakistan depend heavily on the army during natural calamities such as the floods which have swamped parts of the country this monsoon season. A helicopter on relief operation […]https://www.defencetalk.com/top-army-commander-among-six-killed-in-pakistan-chopper-crash-79162/

DefenceTalkThe Government of Argentina has officially decided to purchase 12 PAC JF-17 Block III fighters from Pakistan, as a draft bill for the next budget has been presented in Argentina’s Parliament. An Open-Source Intelligence account on Twitter AEROSINT Division PSF reported on Friday that the South American nation will be buying Pakistan’s fighter jets for […]

DefenceTalkDushanbe, Tajikistan: Members of the China and Russia-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Friday endorsed Iran’s future membership of the bloc that already includes South Asian rivals India and Pakistan. The move comes as Moscow and Beijing have moved to assert themselves as key players in the region, after the United States’ hasty retreat from Afghanistan […]

DefenceTalkPakistan on Thursday conducted a successful training launch of surface-to-surface nuclear-capable ballistic missile Ghaznavi, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. According to a statement, the training launch was aimed at ensuring operational readiness of Army Strategic Forces Command (ASFC) and re-validating technical parameters of the weapon system. As per the military’s media wing, missile Ghaznavi […]

DefenceTalkPakistan and India on Thursday pledged to end all firing along their disputed Kashmir frontier, according to a joint statement from their militaries, after months of violence between the nuclear-armed rivals. The two nations regularly exchange artillery and machine-gun fire along the ceasefire line known as the Line of Control (LoC) that has separated the […]

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkPakistan successfully conducted a test flight of indigenously developed Fatah-1, Guided Multi Launch Rocket System, on Thursday, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Babar Iftikhar. Announcing the news on Twitter, the DG ISPR maintained that the weapon system is capable of delivering a conventional warhead upto a range of 140 kilometres. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-conducts-successful-test-flight-of-fatah-1-gmlrs-76650/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe first five of a batch of French Rafale fighter jets purchased by New Delhi in a controversial multibillion-dollar deal headed to India on Monday for rapid deployment amid rising tensions with China. The deal, estimated to be worth $9.4 billion, has been shadowed by corruption allegations levelled by the opposition Congress party, though Prime […]https://www.defencetalk.com/first-batch-of-french-rafale-fighter-jets-head-to-india-76058/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkA United States study on worldwide nuclear materials security for 2020 has said Pakistan is the “most improved country” after increasing its overall score by seven points. On the whole, Pakistan ranked 19 with 47 points, while India ranked one place below at 20th spot with 41 points. According to the National Threat Initiative Nuclear […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-most-improved-country-on-us-nuclear-security-index-76029/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkChina has ramped up production of JF-17 fighter jet, which was jointly developed with Pakistan. In the first half of 2020, the number of aircraft delivered was the most in the past five years, according to industry reports. As of June 30, the production line of the JF-17 has on average shortened the production period […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-ramps-up-production-of-jf-17-fighter-jet-75924/