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Source: W&G

For anyone who missed it, the official War Thunder YouTube channel have a feature looking at Indian military forces and vehicles.

Has anyone else checked it out yet? What did you think?

https://youtu.be/GJv2-R_AE40?si=hrLTeaNQn0Ugf-wO

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https://www.etvbharat.com/en/state/explosives-harmful-chemicals-recovered-from-abandoned-car-in-west-bengal-enn26102202936

https://www.outlookindia.com/national/man-detained-after-bengal-police-seizes-chemicals-suspected-to-be-meant-for-explosives

PRC, it's done bro!

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https://x.com/ajitkdubey/status/2113199528824496331

Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan, Indonesia sign defence cooperation accord, Ankara says | Reuters

Turkey and Pakistan seem to be creating another pan islamic alliance across diverse geographical zones. This time it is to try and find a means to scale defence manufacturing and make the production more viable.

Last time when a similar sort of alliance was tried by Turkey and Pakistan , Saudi did not like it. The Malaysia, Turkey and Pakistan alliance never went far. Saudi is having a tough time and then there is a Mecca alliance with two of these partners.

Though this is just formalizing the existing relationship of Turkey.

Qatar and Indonesia have JV with Turkish firma for R&D or local production.Pakistan is also now tied up with Turkey for drones and EW systems.

The signatories were the four defence ministries, Pakistan's Defence Industrial Production Organization, and Turkeys Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB). The Turkish and Pakistani defence ministers and Qatar's defence minister signed, while Indonesia sent its deputy defence minister.

Pakistan gains because on their own they don't have much offer to these other alliance partners. Pakistan had bilateral ties and sales interest with both, but not the capital or advanced technology to anchor an industrial framework.Turkey has stepped in, supplied that and given them a seat in the table.

But we need to see how the dynamics will work within the partnership , who owns the IP and who makes the money. Turkey owns the technology and thus the product map. Will Turkey share the core electronic systems, software and design capabilities?

Will Pakistan be able to bring the kind of capital investment other countries can do? Pakistan might be a testing partner as they always have ongoing conflict zones. Turkey already uses North African conflict zones to test its wares.

Pakistan overall seems to be the weakest and most invested of all partners, this with minimal room for negotiation and in need of funding by the other parties involved.

What is proposed for cooperation is also interesting, if it is drones then they are modular, easy to set up for local production and customizable.

There is likely no immediate impact for India as there is no change in status quo but in the long term this could provide a helping hand to cash strapped Pakistan. But remember when China and Pakistan started working together we didn't pay much attention as to the USA or UK or Germany. So we need to be careful.

When we talk about military heroism, we usually think of infantrymen, special forces operators or soldiers fighting on the front line. But Major Laishram Jyotin Singh's story is a reminder that courage isn't restricted to any particular branch of the military.

Major Singh was a doctor in the Army Medical Corps (AMC), originally a metei from Bishnupur district in Manipur. He graduated from the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal in 1996 and was commissioned into the Army Medical Corps in 2003. In February 2010, he was posted to Kabul as part of the Indian Medical Mission.

On the morning of 26 February 2010, the residential compound housing Indian personnel came under a coordinated terrorist attack. A suicide car bomb struck the entrance, killing three security personnel and allowing other attackers to enter the compound. One of the terrorists advanced through the building, firing his weapon and throwing grenades.

Several Indian officers were trapped inside a room that caught fire after a grenade attack. Others were sheltering in a bathroom. Major Singh himself had been caught in the destruction caused by the assault.

Then he heard his colleagues shouting for help.

Despite being injured and unarmed, he crawled out from beneath the debris and charged at the armed terrorist. He grappled with him at close quarters and pinned him down, preventing him from continuing to fire at the trapped personnel or throw more grenades. The terrorist eventually detonated his suicide vest, killing both himself and Major Singh.

From a tactical perspective, this was an extraordinarily dangerous situation. Singh had no firearm, protective equipment or safe distance from the explosive threat. Engaging the attacker at such close range left him with virtually no protection against the blast. Yet, by physically confronting the terrorist, he disrupted the attack at a critical moment and gave his colleagues a chance to survive.

The official citation credits his actions with saving 10 colleagues. His sacrifice also helped protect other people still alive inside the compound.

On 15 August 2010, Major Singh was announced as a posthumous recipient of the Ashok Chakra , India's highest peacetime gallantry award. It was formally conferred on 26 January 2011, during the Republic Day parade.

There is another remarkable detail: published accounts identify him as the first and only officer from the Army Medical Corps to receive the Ashok Chakra.

Think about that for a moment. He was a medical officer whose professional role was to preserve life. When his colleagues were trapped and facing an armed attacker, he put himself directly in harm's way to protect them.

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Interesting to see EAM S. Jaishankar heading to Azerbaijan. His visit comes at a time when the geopolitics of the South Caucasus is becoming increasingly important, especially with Russia, Türkiye, Iran and the West all having their own interests in the region.

India and Azerbaijan have existing economic ties, particularly in energy. ONGC Videsh has invested over $1.2 billion in Azerbaijan’s oil fields and the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline. Bilateral trade also reached around $401 million in 2025.

The interesting part is the wider strategic picture. Azerbaijan sits at the crossroads of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, making it relevant to energy security, connectivity and regional diplomacy.

India’s relations with Baku have also faced complications over Azerbaijan’s close relationship with Pakistan and its positions on issues involving India. So this visit will be worth watching to see whether both sides can keep those disagreements from limiting practical cooperation.

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/vidhanasabha-uda-diya-bengaluru-police-arrest-bihar-man-over-ai-generated-vidhana-soudha-blast-video/articleshow/135095263.cms

https://www.etvbharat.com/en/state/bihar-youth-arrested-for-posting-ai-generated-video-falsely-depicting-blast-at-karnataka-vidhana-soudha-enn26102200771

A discussion about PAF and Pak army officers losses. During SAM Hits and airbases getting hit How many officers did PAF and the PAK army had lost there is a figure of 10 to 12 but I think there are more losses but I can't Find the Number ISPR reported 11 loses but according to osint and news there might be more because a c2 site at Nur khan and murid were hit and there were also losses in the air with 2 fighter jet pilots dead of a EX RJAF F16 Block 15 and were there more losses

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This entire article is on economic warfare and kind of explains what is worrying the leaders of western capitals.

Mostly I find this analysis casting China in negative hypocrisy by an EU author as China seems to be following the template created by the USA and EU themselves.

However, I think it should also worry India and we on our own and in partnership with other nations identify and develop strategic industries to create building blocks required for our industries.

Now it's just not the final product but the whole supply chain that must be created. I feel the current process is reactive and mostly following the crowd rather than identifying true future potential.

We ourselves as a nation have failed to create and develop similar dependency as China or US or EU or Japan (all listed in article) for our trading partners and others on us. Simply put we cannot do China with the USA or the EU. I feel there's a reason G2 is squeezing us from both ends, as we are projected to be their rival if we grow in the current trajectory and that's a trajectory they would like to delay.

Take an example of how we are already at the mercy of others for aircraft engines, marine engines, precision engineering, active agents, etc. This calls for immediate action. Many of our successful industries including service industries have critical dependency on external suppliers and providers.

I believe the current economic squeeze also provides us with enough motivation, learning and an opportunity to present ourselves as an alternative. We need not outmatch China or the USA or EU or Japan ; we need to build enough for ourselves and our market size allows scale ;; we can be a reliable primary or secondary supplier to our partner/ friendly nations for contingency. We however need to invest in ourselves and build on our own. We should not close ourselves to competition but promote local technical investment and research or similar criteria for our market access as much as possible.

The government must also draft and periodically review policies to create, retain and develop critical industries in the ever evolving geopolitical environment. Our investment in R&D must increase, the government can incentivise R&D with tax cuts for registered and commercialized patents, or other identifiable IP outputs based on value generated as they add to the nation's gross capital anyway and allow us to build more future revenue or capital.

India must also create incentive for those Indians working abroad to comeback to India to assist the nation in these key strategic areas.

We need more of Homi and Vikram committed to a cause. I think it is a strategic failure if the government is not paying enough to retain key researchers or subject matter experts within our nation and system. Remittances don't make up for all the IP we are losing out because we could not provide the expected working environment, infrastructure, autonomy or support.

We must devise partnership programs to monetize our research, thus creating funding for more research and development . For pure science, there must be credible peer- reviewed outputs with tangible outcomes such as further citations, patents, or applications in industrial or academic environments. India today has global organizations of local origin who can be leveraged to partner with our key research institutions. A technology or material developed for space, marine, or military application can find different use case and application with a white goods manufacturer or engineering company. These exchanges must be actively promoted to create more value and opportunities within the nation.

India must revitalize the technical institutions from the 50's, 60's and 70's to perform the tasks they were created to perform. We must create new institutions for the future on applied and fundamental science, technology and mathematics. The actual spending of the Department of science and technology in the year 2023-2024 was half its budget estimate. That measure doesn't sound positive.

The idea is not to rename and rebrand . The institution heads should not be political appointments but professionals accountable to show results in terms of revenue or deployment targets for applied labs and peer-reviewed outputs for basic science. Adequate funding must be provided so that we keep up with the world. Allow industrial partnerships and cooperation to get the funds and develop courses which fit market requirements. Our curriculum, and assessment process must be timely, modern and acceptable to the industry.Supply and demand elasticity must be maintained.

If we don't evolve ourselves and start industrialization in scale by building our factories and workshops we will be squeezed to a slow death, where we will remain at the mercy of our rival and competitor for critical supplies be it defence or civilian. Economic warfare is now the most potent but effective system, this allows a rival to soften its target over a period of time before other forms of warfare are introduced. We must be prepared to fight and strategies to overcome. Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Libya, Iraq, North Korea, China are all examples, some continue to survive, fight back while others have failed.

Till now our efforts have been very limited and this is a cause of worry. I hope we realize for a better future that there are no true friends but only self and mutual interest in relationships between nations.

Courtesy - Siddh Dhuri

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Video 👇 Courtesy - Vishwa Kiran

https://www.pixnoy.com/post/6826393425622353262762/

Hello guys. In 2002, over the span of approximately a year, the BBC produced a documentary featuring the training of SF officers under then Major Deep Bhagat. I came across his Instagram page and found some snippets.

The trouble is that I cannot find it anywhere else. There is no platform that has it and the Internet Archive didn't turn up with anything.

So I'm asking here in hopes that someone has looked for it before and found it, or is actively looking for it.

https://www.pixnoy.com/post/6848531463251613316328/

Courtesy - Vishwa Kiran.