Through its deployment of land-attack cruise missiles (LACM) and various ballistic missiles, Pakistan stated that it is maintaining “minimum credible deterrence.” However, while that might be accurate in terms of its nuclear deployment capability, Pakistan’s conventional deterrence is at risk of eroding. By ‘conventional deterrence,’ we refer to Pakistan’s…
“India is estimated to have produced enough military plutonium for 150 to 200 nuclear warheads but has likely produced only 130 to 140,” according to Hans Kristensen and Matt Korda of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists. “Nonetheless, additional plutonium will be required to produce…
The Government aims to take the Indian economy to $10 trillion by 2030, and it believes, the defence is one of the sectors that can help in contributing towards this. Echoing the same views, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is working towards the same to make this…
Russian atomic energy corporation Rosatom has expressed interest in collaborating with Indian companies not only for the construction of large nuclear power plants but also for joint development of medium- and small-sized nuclear power reactors, including floating N-reactors. Nikita Mazein, vice-president of Rusatom Overseas (a division of Rosatom), said,…
In an unusual thrust to meet ambitious export targets, Indian defence officials recently made a pitch for defence and aerospace products to over 50 foreign military attaches posted with their embassies in New Delhi. The Indian officials talked up the growing logic of buying Indian defence products, the export…
NASA has found that at least 28 pieces of debris from India’s ambitious anti-satellite (A-SAT) missile test are still in the low Earth orbit — over seven months after India successfully test-fired the missile, thereby joining an elite group to possess such capability. After the missile test, NASA had…