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China’s J-20 Fighter Jet Flies “Stealthily” Indicating its Combat Readiness Our Bureau 549 J-20 jet not equipped with Luneburg lens (via Chinese state media) The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA)’s J-20 fighter jet has flown sans Luneburg lens, a device that makes stealth aircraft “visible” during training operations. “By removing it, the J-20 will go stealth as it was designed to, and this means it is engaged in a real combat scenario-oriented mission. (It indicates that...

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...

Blessing Tunoh     The Chief of Defense Staff General Lucky Irabor on Saturday visited the headquarters of the Theatre Command accompanied by the service chiefs. He asked soldiers to be more resilient in their duties, pushing beyond setbacks and put an end to the counter-insurgency war. “The theatre commander and his officers have been giving us a thorough brief beyond the report that we received at the headquarters,” General Irabor said. “And we can only commend you for the resilience ...

Chinese Navy Inducts 2nd Type 055 Destroyer, Lhasa Our Bureau 2842 The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has commissioned Lhasa, its second 10,000 ton-class Type 055 large destroyer. Naming the ship after the capital of Tibet province, amidst human rights concerns there, has met with opposition from the exiled Tibetan community. The destroyer recently made its first public appearance at a naval base in Qingdao, East Chinas Shandong Province, CCTV reported. It was named after Lha...

Chinese Navy Inducts 2nd Type 055 Destroyer, Lhasa Our Bureau 2844 The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has commissioned Lhasa, its second 10,000 ton-class Type 055 large destroyer. Naming the ship after the capital of Tibet province, amidst human rights concerns there, has met with opposition from the exiled Tibetan community. The destroyer recently made its first public appearance at a naval base in Qingdao, East Chinas Shandong Province, CCTV reported. It was named after Lha...

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

The drills featured long-distance attack exercises and boosted coordination between new and veteran pilots, the CCTV report said. In a follow-up report on Wednesday, CCTV said a naval aviation brigade from Southern Theatre Command had practised air confrontation tactic drills to sharpen real-combat capability. Yue Gang, a retired PLA colonel, said the exercises aimed to counter recent US operations. In February these included dual operations by US aircraft carriers Theodore Roosevelt and Nimitz...