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Guardian’s worldview promotes the crucial establishment myths of benign British and American power It rarely seeks to investigate or expose UK foreign policies and routinely ignores key aspects of the UK’s role in the world The paper covers some issues relatively well, but also regularly acts as a platform for the British security state New study covers two years of reporting by The Guardian and A leading Guardian columnist wrote an article in February listing the world’s “bad guys�...

UK Warrior upgrade cancellation makes sale of CT40 cannons likely 21 April 2021 by Tim Ripley Surplus CTA International 40 mm CT40 cannons worth over GBP70 million (USD97.7 million) are expected to be put up for sale by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) following the cancellation of the Warrior infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) upgrade programme in the UK government’s 22 March Defence Command Paper. Surplus CTA International CT40 cannons are expected to be put on sale by the UK MoD following the...

NEW DELHI: The IAF will work to incorporate new technologies like AI (artificial intelligence) and 5G into its systems, while enhancing the utilization of the cyber and space domains to bolster its combat effectiveness for the battles of the future. Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria, addressing the IAF commanders’ conference on Friday, said the force also has to continuously update its war-fighting doctrines, tactics and procedures while “reorienting for future challenges across all threat...

Viewpoint: HSR, PRP and TSN – at the cutting edge of embedded military comms Andy Conway, sales manager at military embedded system specialist Recab UK, looks at the critical technologies at the edge of the battlefield and beyond, such as the Ethernet-based HSR, PRP and TSN protocols. Technology becomes more important to military and defence operations with each passing year. We need only look to the UK Government’s recent Defence Command paper and budget review to reaffirm this, with the c...

NEW DELHI: In the run-up to the creation of two new unified commands in the country this year, a third joint logistics node (JLN) of the Army, Navy and IAF was operationalized at Mumbai by chief of defence staff General Bipin Rawat on Thursday. Noting that all future wars will have to be fought by the three Services in an integrated manner, General Rawat said the successful functioning of the three JLNs (first two are at Guwahati and Port Blair) will be “important stepping stones” for open...

Ministry of Defence commits £6.6bn to development of new technologies such as hypersonic missiles and laser weapons 17 March 2021 • 10:00pm Boris Johnson has committed £6.6 billion for novel military research The development of new technologies such as hypersonic missiles and laser weapons is to be given a boost from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with extra money, the Government has announced.    The MoD will invest a significant amount of the extra money it won from the Treasury last ye...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnesses an army exhibition during the Combined Commanders’ Conference at Kevadia on Saturday. (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stressed the need for enhancing “indigenisation” in the entire national security system, even as he reviewed the operational situation along the Pakistan and China fronts as well as the setting up of unified theatre commands in the country. Addressing the valedictory session of the three-day combined c...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnesses an army exhibition during the Combined Commanders’ Conference at Kevadia on Saturday. (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stressed the need for enhancing “indigenisation” in the entire national security system, even as he reviewed the operational situation along the Pakistan and China fronts as well as the setting up of unified theatre commands in the country. Addressing the valedictory session of the three-day combined c...

NEW DELHI: India’s “proactive and resolute responses” led to the troop disengagement with China on both sides of Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh as well as the fresh ceasefire agreement with Pakistan, said defence minister Rajnath Singh on Friday. Addressing the Combined Commanders’ Conference at Kevadia in Gujarat, Singh also expressed the hope that the ongoing diplomatic and military talks with China will head in a positive direction in resolving the remaining friction points in the Go...

India News: A few jawans, sailors and airmen for the first time will take part in one of the sessions of the top-level combined commanders’ conference (CCC) to be