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On the night of May 6-7 last year, India launched Operation Sindoor, targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The operation was in response to a gruesome terrorist attack at Pahalgam in the Kashmir Valley on April 22, 2025, which left 26 people, all male civilians and mostly Hindu, dead. The Indian government pointed to the “cross-border linkages of the terrorist attack” and blamed Pakistan. Operation Sindoor began with India carrying out air and missile strikes on terrorist camps, including the headquarters of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed. Pakistan retaliated the following day, and the exchanges quickly escalated into…
India’s strategic missile program has reached a decisive moment, with the BJP declaring that the Agni-6 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is “ready to make history” just days after DRDO confirmed its readiness pending government approval, reported TOI.The announcement coincides with India issuing a NOTAM over the Bay of Bengal, signalling preparations for a long-range missile test.The Defence Research and Development Organisation chairman, Dr Samir V Kamath, recently stated that the agency was technologically prepared to conduct the test of India’s first ICBM with a range exceeding 10,000 kilometres.He emphasised that the missile was complete and awaiting the Centre’s authorisation. This statement…
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DENVER ― The Space Force is pumping another $4.4 billion into its contracting pool for next-generation satellites to keep eyes on the heavens, bringing the previous ceiling for awards up from $1.8 billion to $6.2 billion. The service on Monday announced the plan to bolster its new Andromeda space-based space domain awareness program, explaining that the fiscal 2027 Pentagon budget request was “significantly increased” shortly before the original award in April in order to meet “the escalating threat environment projected for CY [calendar year] 2030+.” The original Andromeda award tapping 14 companies to compete for future task orders focused on…
On April 23, U.S. authorities, including the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the Department of State, announced coordinated actions targeting Southeast Asian scam centers and cryptocurrency fraud networks. The operation targeted more than financial structures; authorities also seized a Telegram channel allegedly used to recruit human trafficking victims. Fraud compounds are no longer mere cryptocurrency scams. They are human trafficking hubs where victims are recruited via digital platforms and forced to commit crimes through confinement and violence. The people who lose money through these scams are not the only victims. Another group is…
Operation Sindoor, launched a year ago, has emerged as a defining military milestone that has not only redrawn India’s response thresholds to cross‑border terrorism but also crystallised several hard‑earned lessons for future warfare.The operation has shifted the calculus from strategic restraint to strategic proactiveness, signalling to adversaries that New Delhi is prepared to respond swiftly, deeply and across multiple domains if confronted by similar threats again.Defence and strategic experts stress that the hardest‑won insights lie in the integration of air power, the pervasive role of drone warfare, and the critical need for robust cyber and communications infrastructure in any future…
Charlie Phelps, MWI Of all the hard facts of war, logistics is the hardest. While strategy may be the art of the possible, what is possible is determined first and foremost by the sinews of… Source link
WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard is creating a new Special Missions Command to centralize its deployable specialized forces, the service announced today. The new command, which is slated for official commissioning in October, establishes a single command to house these elite units. That’s a departure from the existing structure, where the Coast Guard’s two area commanders for the Pacific and the Atlantic currently oversee administrative and operational control over the service’s specialized forces units. “The creation of the Special Missions Command is a vital evolution for our service,” Commandant of the Coast Guard Adm. Kevin Lunday said in a statement…
The Air Force is in the early stages of improving its command-and-control system for regional air, space, and cyber forces.The Next-Generation Air Operations Center Weapon System effort aims to upgrade the Air Operations Center (AOC) Weapon System to bring AI-powered tools to planners and operators at combatant commands. Since February, the Air Force has released a request for information and two sets of Q&As.The contract is managed by the Air Operations Center Program Office of Kessel Run, the Air Force software factory now housed under the service’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive for command, control, communications and battle management. Postings on Sam.gov indicate that the service wants a fast, flexible acquisition plan,…
Illustration of a global network of space-based interceptors under Golden Dome. Credit: Wikideas1/ commons.wikimedia.org (Creative Commons) Anduril Industries said that it will head a group of industry partners to develop space-based interceptors for the US Space Force under the Golden Dome missile defence initiative. The company, working with partners such as Impulse Space, Inversion Space, K2 Space, Sandia National Laboratories, and Voyager Technologies, will develop, test, and deliver systems for the Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) programme. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The SBI programme…