A misplaced sense of bravado might be getting the better of Pakistan. Late on Wednesday night and early on Thursday, it tried to attack Indian military facilities in 15 cities. These were thwarted by India’s air defence systems, which shot down missiles and drones from across the border. Islamabad’s escalation provoked retaliatory action by Indian…
As during any crossborder conflict, the escalating tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours are expected to boost earnings for domestic defence companies. A strong and resilient export outlook further strengthens the sector’s prospects, said experts. Since the terror attack on tourists in Kashmir’s Pahalgam area on 22 April, the Nifty Defence index has increased 2.99%, significantly…
AS CHILDREN everywhere are delighted to learn in science class, sound can shatter glass. Might it also be possible, then, to use acoustic waves to disrupt the electromechanical sensors that drones require to fly? To find out, four engineering students at the University of Toronto repurposed small car speakers to cobble together a contraption “for…
The drone industry, one of India’s sunrise sectors, wants the government to increase allocations under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme in the upcoming Union Budget for 2025-26. In September 2021, the government announced a PLI scheme for the drone sector for a period of three years with a total financial outlay of â‚ą120 crore….
Innocuous news from China shouldn’t make anyone sit up, but any technological edge it gains over the West in the Cold War II that’s underway should. On Sunday, China test-flew a large unmanned aircraft—or drone— with a payload capacity of 2 tonnes. It’s just a cargo carrier, developed by the state-funded Sichuan Tengden Sci-Tech Innovation…
In an era of wars, weapons proliferation and nuclear threats, missile defence is back in political fashion more than at any time since Ronald Reagan’s pursuit of space-based systems in the 1980s. It is not just MAGA politicians who are keen. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, recently promised “a European…
