DRDO Tests India’s First Glide Weapon in TARA Flight Trial
DRDO and the IAF conducted the maiden flight trial of TARA – India's first indigenous glide weapon kit – off Odisha on 7 May, converting...
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India Tests Agni MIRV Missile for Second Time
India flight-tested an Advanced Agni missile with MIRV from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island on 8 May – the second MIRV-capable Agni test after Mission...
Türkiye Unveils 42,000-lbf Güçhan Turbofan at SAHA 2026
Türkiye's MSB R&D Centre unveiled the Güçhan – a 42,000-lbf afterburning turbofan with six prototypes produced and qualification tests scheduled for 2026 – at SAHA...
DRDO Runs Scramjet Combustor for 1,200 Seconds in Ground Test
DRDL conducted a 1,200-second ground test of a full-scale actively cooled scramjet combustor at its SCPT facility in Hyderabad on 9 May – nearly doubling...
Turkey’s Defence Industry Is Real, but Scale Will Slow It Plus Pro
Turkey's defence advancements are genuine, anchored in decades of gradual R&D investment and Western industrial integration — but without consortium partners like Pakistan, Indonesia, and...
The Shahed Blueprint: Pakistan’s Small-Factory Drone Model
Pakistan's loitering munition portfolio is growing fast, but the designs are too complex for the country's industrial base. The Shahed model – fiberglass moulds, piston...
US-Iran War 2026: Operation Epic Fury and the Hormuz Crisis
Comprehensive analysis of the 2026 US-Iran war — Operation Epic Fury, Iran's missile campaign, Strait of Hormuz closure, THAAD depletion, and CRINK alliance. The consensus...
Shahed Drone: Iran’s Attrition Weapon and the 2026 Cost Crisis
Iran’s Shahed family of one-way attack (OWA) drones has emerged as the single most consequential asymmetric weapon system of the 2026 US-Iran war. Across six...
Why Washington’s Pakistan Missile Alarm Isn’t About ICBMs
When the US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 18 that Pakistan “potentially could” develop ICBMs capable of...
How Iranian Shahed Drones Are Rewriting the Rules of Defence
In the season premiere of Defence Uncut (S02E01), Bilal Khan and Arslan Khan examine the operational lessons emerging from the US-Iran war – from the...