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Why in news? A defence-sector report on 10 October 2026 drew attention to further trials of India's Vertically-Launched Short-Range Surface-to-Air Mis...
Why in news?France conducted an acceptance firing of an M51.3 missile from the submarine Le Vigilant on 6 October 2026. The launch took place off Fini...
Why in news?Indiaβs Defence Research and Development Organisation conducted a maiden live jump with its Advanced High-Altitude Parachute on 6 Octobe...
Why in news? Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched Surya, the programme's first Fleet Support Ship, at Visakhapatnam on 6 October 2026. Hindustan Sh...
Why in news? Indian and United Arab Emirates soldiers began Exercise Mountain Guardian 2026 at Chaubatia in Uttarakhand on 5 October. The joint army e...
Why in news? An assessment published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has drawn attention to the estimated size of India's nuclear arsenal. It...
Why in news? The United States military plans to bring its Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS, to Japan's Yonaguni Island. ...
Why in news? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the first combat use of the domestically developed FP-7 missile on 1 October 2026. Built...
Why in news? The second Association of Southeast Asian NationsβIndia Maritime Exercise began at Subic Bay in the Philippines on 28 September 2026. I...
Why in news? Reports on 29β30 September 2026 identified apparent Misagh-2 systems with Russian mobile air-defence groups in the Rostov region. Milit...
Why in news? A senior Japanese defence official urged faster Indian processing of the joint Unified Complex Radio Antenna project, according to The Hi...
Why in news?A sixty-member Indian Armed Forces contingent departed for Oskemen, Kazakhstan, on 28 September for the ninth KAZIND exercise. The IndiaοΏ½...
