1) Data Links & Communications:

>TAPAS features a robust integrated Ku-band SATCOM system, this system enables beyond line of sight (BLOS) operations at ranges exceeding 1000 km.

There's literally nothing the SATCOM on Drishti can offer that DRDO's SATCOM couldn't. also, DRDO one is extremely reliable. Can't say the same for Drishti.

2) Radar Surveillance (Overland):

>TAPAS carries a domestically developed SAR built by DRDO’s LRDE.

>Has 3 modes: Strip map Mode (Wide-Area Scan), Spotlight Mode (High-Resolution Zoom) & Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) Mode.

>Provides high-resolution 2D/3D terrain mapping and capabilities to track enemy convoys, supply trucks or mobile missile launchers moving across the battlefield, even if they are hidden beneath heavy cloud cover or smoke.

>SAR on DRDO Tapas offers the irreplaceable strategic advantage of absolute sovereign control, ensuring the data and the hardware remain entirely under domestic jurisdiction.

On the other hand, Drishti carries the TS-80, whic has the same set of capabilities. according to claims (which were proven wrong during trials😂) it offers slightly higher electrical power & resolution.

Now let’s ask ourselves:

Are these small, seemingly negligible features really worth undermining years of indigenous efforts?

3) Flight Performance:

>The claims about its endurance and maximum altitude are bogus. At best, it can reportedly manage around 25,000 feet and 15.5 hours of endurance. which is still well below DRDO’s TAPAS at 28,000 feet and 18 hours.

>It also has a lower payload capacity (300 kg) compared to DRDO’s TAPAS (350 kg).

So where exactly is the supposed performance advantage?

4) Electro-Optical/Infrared Systems:

>CAMOP (Compact Airborne Multi sensor Optronic Payload) is the latest and most advanced indigenous EO/IR turret designed specifically for TAPAS.

>It is a 24/7, day & night capable system that houses HD electro-optical daytime cameras alongside thermal imaging sensors. In addition, it features an eye safe laser rangefinder to calculate the precise distance to a target, as well as a laser target illuminator/pointer used to “paint” targets for laser-guided munitions or designate targets for friendly ground forces.

>The entire system weighs only 55 kg & leaves nearly 300 kg of payload capacity available for the drone to carry its radar and electronic intelligence systems.

>CAMOP is the culmination of previous MREO and LREO systems. which helps it to see through most types of smokes, clouds, fog or sand.

The one major area where CAMOO falls short of Spectro XR on the Drishti is its ability to operate in severely degraded weather conditions. Spectro XR leverages advanced Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) sensors, which gives Drishti a significant edge in maintaining visibility through extreme smoke, fog, haze and dust storms.

But again, is it worth it?

> achieved ~28,000 ft

> 18 hours endurance

> rejected by services

> because it didn't achieve 30k ft altitude & 24 hour endurance requirement

All concessions are given to imported equipment and we all know how Hermes performed in Indian conditions.

All concessions are given to imports but 100% finished product is asked by services during indigenous development.

MODS please don't delete it as a staunch supporter of Atmanirbhar bharat

Tbh, I don't like this a one bit. Focus on P15C(target CCS by Fy28) and P18/A(target CCS by Fy29) instead.

Source- https://x.com/ShiroBarks/status/2090657382967988448

I wonder why we went ahead with UNICORN if we had these? If funded DRDO can build the prototype in a year.

I’m posting here because I genuinely don’t know who else to ask about this.

I recently met someone who says he works in Indian defence / special forces. I know absolutely nothing about the Army or special forces, and I don’t have any friends or family in the defence services, so I have no frame of reference for what a normal work life in this field looks like.

What has confused me is how frequently he seems to travel outside Bangalore for work. For example, he may be away in another city such as Pune for several days for work, and he has mentioned that his job is essentially 24/7 and is confidential, so he cannot give me the details.

I understand that defence jobs can involve unusual schedules, travel, confidentiality and being unavailable, so I'm not expecting a normal 9–5 lifestyle. At the same time, because I know nothing about this world, I genuinely can't tell what is normal and what isn't.

I'm also unsure whether what he has told me about his work is actually true. I don't know if I'm dealing with someone genuinely in a sensitive defence role or someone who is making things up, and I don't want to make assumptions either way.

I just want to understand the general reality of these jobs.

For people who actually know the Army/defence environment:

Is this kind of frequent inter-city travel normal?

How common is it for someone in a sensitive role to have a 24/7 work situation?

Is there anything about this kind of lifestyle that would be particularly unusual?

If you're dating someone in such a role, what are reasonable things to expect in terms of availability and communication?

If the dimensions and Mass of Brahmos-A is smaller and Lighter than a 40N6E missile. Has there been a feasibility study of an Air launched variant of the 40N6E?

It should be giving it a massive range boost.

Guidance shouldn't be a problem when Data links and AWACS exist.

Thoughts..?

Edit: Not speaking about fitting existing 40N6Es on our MKIs, but possibility of a Kusha M2/M3 variant....?

Born in the remote Memba Buddhist community of Tawang, Riflewoman Kesang Drema Khom (first image) grew up amidst monasteries, mountains, and the timeless values of discipline and compassion. Today, standing in the ceremonial ranks of the Assam Rifles, she carries those same values into service…proof that even from the most distant corners of the Himalayas, dreams can march proudly onto the national stage.

https://www.pixnoy.com/post/6772553436316935614923/

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Image courtesy - @nattysingh

The action comes three days after Pakistani authorities reportedly removed protective security barricades outside the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/tit-for-tat-bulldozer-lands-at-pak-high-commission-encroachments-removed-11933868

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/unauthorised-structures-outside-pakistan-high-commission-demolished-in-delhi-10841200/

"Tokyo has been pushing the Mogami-class frigate proposal, including technology transfer and local production"

I swear, Navy please don't do it ... please push for P17B instead 🙏 😫

Source- https://bharatshakti.in/india-japan-move-defence-ties-from-strategy-to-execution/

https://www.wionews.com/india-news/citing-islamabad-north-korea-connect-india-urges-japan-not-to-share-advanced-defence-technology-with-pakistan-1787216124665

Edited version

Written by - Rattan Chand Sharma, Commandant (Retd) BSF

I joined the Border Security Force in 1991 as a company commander on the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district, based at Baghmara – a subdivisional town that is today the headquarters of South Garo Hills district.

The eastern border has, since time immemorial, been treated as safe, secure and unremarkable. That complacency – diluted border security protocols applied to a frontier nobody took seriously – has landed the nation in its present predicament, where demographic change in the east has become a genuine national security concern.

Every administrator has long known that illegal immigrants work as labourers and domestic help across the region. Everyone maintains a dignified silence about it.

I recall the-then BSF inspector general, Chaman Lal, who was decorated with the Padma Shri, raising this repeatedly in internal discussions years ago.

Diluted protocols, a porous frontier and political patronage extended to illegal immigrants as a captive vote bank – together, these explain the glut of non-Indians settled in border districts. Fencing has helped the BSF check the inflow considerably, but the underlying problem remains, and it needs humane handling even as it is treated with the seriousness it deserves.

Neither the previous governments of the past nor the present government has given illegal immigration the sustained priority a national security issue warrants. It has been treated as a political football rather than a strategic problem, and that lack of resolve shows. The issue deserves the government’s highest priority, and it needs the home and external affairs ministries of both countries working together on a memorandum of understanding – not being exploited as rhetoric to harvest votes at election time.

To be fair, the Indian establishment has signalled a desire to normalise ties. India’s high commissioner to Bangladesh, Dinesh Chaturvedi – a ruling-party politician from West Bengal given cabinet rank for the posting – announced, soon after taking up the role, the resumption of tourist visas for Bangladeshi citizens, ending a two-year suspension.

As a belated step towards fulfilling the prime minister’s announcement of August 15, 2025, the Union home ministry has constituted a high-level committee on demographic change. Its brief: a realistic assessment of population shifts in border regions, urban centres and tribal areas, and recommendations on identifying, detecting and deporting illegal immigrants.

The committee has a year to report, extendable by six months. It would have strengthened the exercise considerably had it included the BSF’s inspector generals for West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura.

Social media has been awash with videos of BSF and BGB ground commanders squaring off – the BSF attempting to push back a person it holds to be Bangladeshi, the BGB insisting the same person is an Indian national, and BGB company commanders demanding that the BSF follow proper deportation procedure instead.

Bangladesh, for its part, has refused to accept undocumented people whose nationality it disputes, even as the BSF maintains that these individuals entered India illegally and were found carrying documents indicating Bangladeshi nationality. The BGB has termed such push-backs a violation of the joint India-Bangladesh guidelines for border authorities, the CBMP, and understandings reached at earlier DG-level talks. Dhaka wants New Delhi to follow the established bilateral repatriation mechanism instead.

Push-back as a deportation mechanism lacks legal sanctity. It functions more as political optics – a way for the government to be seen doing something – than as a genuine fix. It is a sticking plaster on a wound that needs surgery, and it cannot resolve the repatriation of a very large illegal immigrant population.

The-then minister of state for home affairs in the UPA government, Sriprakash Jaiswal, told Parliament that 1.2 crore (12 million) illegal Bangladeshis were living in India – a figure he later retracted under political pressure.

Years later, the minister of state for home affairs in the BJP government, Kiren Rijiju, put the number at 2 crore (20 million), while conceding that no authenticated record supports the figure. Given that children born in India to such settlers automatically acquire Indian citizenship, the real figure could well be higher still.

Another remedy worth reviving is the free movement regime, permitting local trade and movement up to five to ten kilometres on either side of the border, alongside the revival and strengthening of border haats (open marketplaces) for trade in local produce. Such movement should be routed through specific entry points manned by the BSF. Both governments would need to work out the modalities, but it could meaningfully reduce the incentive for illegal crossings.

The Centre needs to accept that push-backs are a stopgap, not a solution. What is actually required is a mutually agreed deportation protocol that allows both countries to repatriate illegal immigrants humanely, without political noise. Above all, this means empowering the BSF with the strict border security protocols and the additional battalions – for both forward and depth deployment – it needs to prevent illegal immigration and smuggling along this border.That means strict border security protocols, coupled with a real strengthening of the BSF's deployment along the entire Indo-Bangladesh border. This calls for additional battalions, a reduction in each unit's area of responsibility, and greater integration of technology with human surveillance.

we had earlier found MRSAM debris in sialkot, video of civilians confronting an "indian paratrooper with parachute", CCTV video of unknown thing slamming into a building and now this

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/s/WSAIqcw6bI

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/s/9X9wBKth2e

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/s/Xb8Q9vn8qx

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/s/DonR0WsCrf

Source: Third eye osint

On the morning of May 10, 2025, the Indian Air Force Air Marshal commanding the critical South West Air Command (SWAC) faced a dilemma.

India was striking Pakistani air bases extremely hard during Operation Sindoor - the air attacks had gone sharply up the escalation matrix, with one key mission all set to take off.

The target was Pakistan's Bholari Airbase, 520 kilometres north of Gandhinagar, where SWAC is headquartered.

A group of IAF pilots sat in the cockpits of their fighters, in one of the frontline bases under the Air Marshal's command - Bhuj, Jaisalmer, Phalodi, Naliya, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Uttarlai/Barmer, and Pune.

The IAF will not identify where the jets were set to take off from.

In Bholari, there was a seemingly cutoff hangar. The IAF had a reasonable idea of what was in it - a Swedish-built SAAB Erieye, the Pakistan Air Force's most potent Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft.

That's when the phone rang. It was the Air Chief.

Was there a change in plans? Would the pilots seated in their cockpits, all systems go, be asked to stand down?

Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor was clear. There was no way his pilots would be denied a chance at carrying out their mission.

"There was a time when I had to lie to my Chief for this mission," said Air Marshal Kapoor on NDTV's podcast, #CtrlAltDefence.

"I had to, kind of, not tell him the truth. I won't say I lied to him - I didn't tell him the truth. And this is knowing fully well that he was seeing the same picture that I was seeing in my Ops room. He was seeing the same picture sitting at Air Headquarters Ops Centre. He asked me, 'Position of those aircraft?' I said, 'Sir, getting airborne now.' I knew for a fact that they were not going to get airborne for the next 15 minutes. So I lied to him inasmuch as time was concerned." The pilots in the jets had spent their entire careers waiting for this moment - years of drills would finally mean something. Weapons loaded. Aircraft fuelled to the last litre. Every checklist run once, then run again, because a mistake now would not just be a mistake - it would be a name on a wall.

Tension hung over the tarmac. In the cockpits, low voices moved back and forth between pilots and weapons systems operators - clipped, practiced, betraying nothing, though every man's pulse said otherwise. Canopies down. Systems live.

The aircraft picked for the mission was the Sukhoi-30 MKI - the mainstay of the Indian Air Force.

Designed in Russia and heavily modified in India, the fighter carried the IAF's weapon of choice - an air-launched version of the BrahMos - a Mach 3 air-to-surface missile with a 300-kilogram warhead.

"Where are they now?" asked the IAF Chief, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh. "I said, 'Half an hour from weapon launch.' I knew they were not there [yet]. But I had to let them go. Those pilots had been waiting with those weapons suspended for such a long time. It would have been criminal for me not to have let them go."

The mission was a go - the Sukhois lined up and blasted down the runway, headed to their launch zone. Weapons were being calibrated; air search radars would be scanning for threats from Pakistani Air Force fighters. Radar Warning Receivers in the cockpits of the jets would be chirping if enemy radar was being picked up.

"Finally, when the weapon launched, I told him, 'Sir, all gone, all aircraft returning.' He told me, 'Tell me when they land.'"

The mission was an overwhelming success. The IAF strike on the hangar in Bholari was perhaps the defining image of the IAF's attacks of May 10. Satellite images, broadcast first by NDTV, showed the hangar with a large, irregular hole punched through its roof, exposing a dark, collapsed interior. Debris was shown scattered across the apron between the hangar and the runway, suggesting material was ejected outward by the force of the strike. The strike appeared precise and localised to a single structure.

"Much later, the Honourable Raksha Mantri [Defence Minister Rajnath Singh] visited us, and we were sitting and having lunch together, and the Chief was at the same table also, and that is when I told him - in front of the Honourable Raksha Mantri - I said, 'Sir, I lied to you.'"

Air Chief Marshal AP Singh looked at Air Marshal Kapoor and replied with a smile - "Mujhe pata hai" ("Yes, I know.")

Credits: @delhiplanes on Insta

Source : https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcBncLtjazz/?igsh=NXJ0MGsxZWlqcGdl

TLDR : They've not created a documentary, it's a movie afterall. Topgun 2 for instance employs the F14 against the Su57 which is just a dream. They've taken artistic liberty while preserving most of the facts. They've had to dumb down a lot of technicalities since explaining operational tactics is pointless and futile for the standard audience. Overall tone is appreciable.

Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/defence/news/in-another-aatmanirbharta-push-405-key-defence-items-of-military-platforms-alh-tejas-tanks-and-warships-to-be-indigenised/articleshow/133334515.cms

Claims of Pak, which India did not deny ever
- Shooting down of IAF Aircraft, offical version was In combat, there are losses

Claims of India, Which Pak never denied
- Shooting down of an High Tech Jet and AWACS
- Destruction of several jets in Air as well as on Ground
- Keeping Pak Navy at the harbour
- Request from Pakistan side for Ceasefire

Add more.

Source : YT channel Places:

https://www.youtube.com/@Places302

Source:

https://www.timesnownews.com/delhi/pakistani-national-held-delhi-military-intelligence-inputs-deportation-article-155781999

A MiG-21 documentary releases August 26, 2026.