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When India opened the Sialkot front in September 1965, it unleashed its largest concentration of armour since independence, aiming to force Pakistan onto the defensive and reshape the war’s momentum.
The Kargil officer whose assaults across multiple ridgelines showed how momentum is built, one feature at a time.
The counterinsurgency officer who rallied his patrol after an ambush and set the template for small-team leadership.
A night of roadblocks, ambush fire and a close-quarters charge in Elisabethville turned one young officer’s last battle into one of UN peacekeeping’s most remembered stories.
He was part of the Indian Air Force’s early MiG-21 cadre, pilots tasked with mastering a cutting-edge aircraft that had arrived with promise but limited operational experience.
In the fog and minefields of the Shakargarh sector, a 21-year-old tank troop leader refused to step back even after his Centurion was hit, helping blunt a Pakistani armoured thrust and earning India’s youngest Param Vir Chakra.
In the closing days of the 1971 war, a company commander’s decision to keep moving forward, even after being hit, helped hold a hard-won Pakistani position through repeated counterattacks.
The LR-AShM is a hypersonic glide missile developed indigenously to meet the Indian Navy’s coastal defence and blue-water warfare requirements.
On the opening day of the 1971 war, a single Indian Air Force fighter took off into overwhelming odds over Srinagar. Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon’s brief, ferocious dogfight became one of the IAF’s defining moments.
In total, 26 aircraft will take part in this year's flypast, made up of 16 fighter jets, four transport aircraft and nine helicopters.
Europe is increasingly viewing India as a potential supplier of arms and defence equipment in select segments, reflecting a shift in long-term strategic thinking.
The new variant’s design began with a digital backbone.
More than 2,400 nuclear devices were detonated in tests conducted worldwide between 1945 and 2017.
Amid geopolitical upheaval, IAF chief's stark warning with a Venezuela, Iran example
In the winter battles that decided the fate of a crucial Kashmir sector, Brigadier Mohammad Usman led from the front, steadied a thin line at Naushera, and became one of independent India’s earliest battlefield icons.
Poonch survived because a besieged garrison improvised an airbridge and fought off constant raids, but the siege ended only when relief columns forced their way through. In the middle of that push, Lieutenant Colonel Dharam Singh led a brutal night battle on a key feature that helped open the road.
India went into Sri Lanka as a peacekeeper and ended up in a bruising, three-year counter-insurgency that exposed gaps in planning and intelligence, forced tactical innovation, and left lessons the Army still returns to.
India’s longest internal security operation evolved not through one grand plan, but through countless battalion-level adjustments that slowly bent a brutal insurgency
The German company’s flagship strike drone, the HX-2, had trouble taking off in tests by Ukraine’s 14th Regiment, an unmanned aerial systems unit
A late-night SOS from President Gayoom triggered a nine-hour IAF dash and a swift PARA assault that is still studied as a model for regional crisis response
A summer offensive in the Gurez valley helped India secure a vulnerable northern corridor and underscored how mountain warfare is won as much by roads, rations and leadership as by rifles.
Speaking to the media during his annual Army Day press conference, he said modern warfare has blurred the distinction between rockets and missiles, with both now capable of delivering decisive impact
India has already test-fired drones with a range of about 100 km and plans to extend this further, army chief said.
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Germany has indicated its willingness to expand cooperation between defence manufacturers to support joint development and production
Each IBG is expected to be led by a Major General and will consist of more than 5,000 troops, with the traditional layer of brigade commanders being done away with
A hard-armour fight in Punjab where Indian formations blunted Pakistan’s main counterstroke, even as Dhaka became the war’s decisive headline
The Battle of Asal Uttar is remembered as the graveyard of Pakistan’s Patton tanks. But the fighting in the Khem Karan sector did not end there. For weeks after the famous clash, Indian and Pakistani forces continued a quieter, grinding contest of consolidation, counter-moves and denial — a phase of the 1965 war that rarely makes headlines but proved just as decisive.
Solar-powered surveillance drones are unmanned aircraft designed to stay airborne for extended periods by harvesting energy from the sun through onboard solar panels
The Kargil war is remembered for peaks and politics, but it was won by young officers and junior leaders who planned and led night assaults at 16,000-18,000 feet, often with sketchy maps, improvised routes and men exhausted by altitude.
Away from the spotlight of Tiger Hill, the battles in Batalik and Dras showed how sustained artillery fire and slow, punishing infantry advances broke some of the most resilient positions of the Kargil war.
While the activity is within Chinese-held territory, it consolidates Beijing's physical presence post the 2020 border dispute
A battlefield of patrols that quietly became the Indian Army’s most durable school of small unit war
Long before Dhaka fell, the Indian Navy’s eastern fleet had already sealed Pakistan’s fate at sea, isolating East Pakistan through a quiet but decisive campaign of patrols, interdiction and control of the Bay of Bengal.
A day-by-day operational chronology of how the Golden Temple operation unfolded, and why constraints and miscalculation shaped the outcome.
Officials said the initiative is aimed at equipping local volunteers with essential skills to safeguard their villages and function as a first line of defence in vulnerable areas.
The ministry said the contracts reflect strong synergy between the government and private industry, further accelerating the Make-in-India programme in the defence sector.
Beyond the operation, 2025 saw accelerated modernisation, deep indigenisation, new force structures, enhanced firepower, and expanded global military engagement-cementing the Indian Army's readiness for future conflict across domains.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu flagged off the helicopter and described it as a powerful reflection of India's growing technological prowess and self-reliance in aviation
At a time when the world was witnessing multiple conflicts-from Ukraine to Gaza - India resolved a major geopolitical tension in its own neighbourhood and did so with an iron hand.
A decisive clash in the Punjab plains where Indian commanders turned flooded fields and patience into weapons, breaking Pakistan’s armoured thrust and reshaping how India thought about tanks, terrain and modern ground warfare.
When a blown bridge threatened to slow the dash to Dhaka, Indian commanders and Air Force helicopters turned a wide river into an air corridor, leapfrogging a strong Pakistani position and compressing the campaign’s timeline.
In the Shakargarh bulge in mid-December 1971, an Indian river crossing became a live- fire test of combined arms, where sappers cut lanes through mines, infantry held a fragile bridgehead, and tanks arrived in time to break a counterattack.
An often-overlooked eastern front of the 1962 war, the battle of Walong saw Indian infantry fight along the Lohit valley under extreme logistical and terrain constraints, offering one of the clearest ground-level accounts of courage, delay and sacrifice in India’s Himalayan conflict.
In the early hours of December 4-5, 1971, a small Indian outpost in the Thar Desert absorbed a mechanised thrust meant to crack open Rajasthan’s western flank, then turned survival into a textbook on air ground coordination.
Long before the images from Dhaka, Indian and Pakistani troops fought a slow, punishing battle in northern East Pakistan that tied down forces, drained morale, and quietly tilted the 1971 war.
An infantry action on the Lahore front where the Ichhogil Canal’s prepared defences forced men into close-quarter rushes against bunkers and machine guns, leaving behind a trail of casualties, gallantry awards, and stories that outlasted the official record and became part of Sikh regimental memory.
The government is likely to award contracts for at least Rs 10 lakh crore worth of defence equipment in the next five years
A daring mountain assault that delivered a clear tactical victory, Hajipir became a lasting reminder that in wars between states, what soldiers win on the battlefield can still be surrendered at the negotiating table when diplomacy, international pressure, and political priorities take over.
A lightning night assault by 3 Jat across the Ichhogil Canal briefly put Indian infantry inside Dograi, near Lahore, before punishing counter-attacks forced a withdrawal, leaving behind a hard lesson on how speed and surprise can win ground but not always keep it.
