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Union Home Minister Amit Shah has directed authorities to enforce a strict zero-tolerance policy against illegal constructions within 15 kilometres of India’s international border with Pakistan.Chairing a high-level security review meeting in Bikaner, Rajasthan, he instructed District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police from five border districts to demolish all unauthorised structures in the designated zone.The meeting was convened to comprehensively assess security challenges along the Pakistan frontier and to strengthen border management through coordinated efforts.The meeting was attended by Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, Chief Secretary V. Srinivas, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, Secretary (Border Management) Rajendra Kumar, and…

NextGenDefense The TRV 150 logistics drone has been armed with a 70mm rocket launcher, bringing precision strike capability to battalion-level operations. Source link

Australia’s foreign minister, Penny Wong, traveled to New Delhi this week for the latest meeting of the Quad foreign ministers. Despite concerns that the grouping would not hold amid the current realignment of worldview in the United States under President Donald Trump, the meeting made clear that the Quad could still prove useful to each of its members through a focus on economic resilience, technological coordination, and supply chain security. The bloc is increasingly concerned with regional systems, rather than conventional defense.  For Australia, this shift is particularly significant. Canberra has long argued that Indo-Pacific stability depends not only on…

Red Balloon Aerospace has successfully debuted India’s first indigenous super pressure balloon (SPB), marking a major milestone in near-space technology. The maiden mission, Mission SANA, carried payloads capable of 25–75 cm imaging resolution and operated at altitudes between 20 and 40 kilometres, providing persistent wide-area coverage for telecommunications, disaster monitoring, and strategic observation.The debut mission was launched from Indira Gandhi Stadium in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, using the company’s VISTA platform. The balloon ascended to nearly 25 kilometres into the stratosphere, where it carried payloads from seven national and international partners.These included biological experiment systems, propulsion technology demonstrations, onboard computing platforms, earth…

CIMSEC Recent conflicts in the Middle East highlight how maritime kill chains from ashore impose risk on global shipping. However, Western navies have yet to fully grasp that within these… Source link

WASHINGTON — BAE Systems was awarded the Army’s Soft Kill Active Protection System (APS) program of record, aimed at equipping the service’s ground vehicles with electronic warfare capabilities suited to defeat threats ranging from missiles to drones, the company announced. The soft-kill system — a system that deploys non-kinetic effects — uses BAE’s Rapid Optical Observation and Kill (ROOK) program, which takes down threats by “confusing” or jamming missile systems or drones before they can reach the vehicles, the company said in a release Wednesday.  “Modern ground warfare demands a layered defense, and soft-kill technologies are a critical, complementary component,”…

Within a couple of years of its incubation in 2023, Manus, an autonomous agentic AI start-up, made headlines in December 2025, when Meta announced its acquisition for $2 billion. Although the Chinese authorities rushed to order a probe into the deal, it took four months to finally unwind the transaction. Since the 2020 regulatory crackdown on technology enterprises, Beijing has been closely monitoring and directing the growth of tech startups. Despite that, China had to retroactively unwind the deal after the transaction had been consummated. The belated quashing of the Manus acquisition will create challenges in effectively disentangling the transfer…

The Indian Air Force has signed three contracts with IIT-Bombay to introduce predictive, prognostic, and prescriptive maintenance systems for its Su-30MKI fleet, marking a major step towards indigenous, data-driven aerospace technology.This collaboration will enhance operational readiness, reduce downtime, and strengthen India’s push for self-reliance in defence technologies.The Indian Air Force formalised three contracts with IIT-Bombay on 27 May 2026 to adopt predictive maintenance for the Su-30MKI fighter aircraft. The signing ceremony was presided over by Air Marshal KAA Sanjeeb, AVSM, VSM, Director General (Aircraft), IAF, and Shireesh B Kedare, Director of IIT-Bombay.This partnership is aimed at developing fully indigenous systems…

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WASHINGTON ― The loss of Space Force capabilities during Operation Epic Fury in Iran has highlighted the need for the service to invest in disaggregating its ground-based space operations centers and new “tactical” electronic warfare (EW) centers both at home and abroad, according to one of the service’s top budget planners. “We’ve seen in Operation Epic Fury, for the first time, that our space capabilities have been targeted and destroyed,” Brig. Gen. Christopher Fernengel, told the State of Space Industrial Base (SSIB) conference in New Mexico today. “We expect that to happen more, whether that be OCONUS [outside the continental…