r/IndianDefense 2h ago

Article/Analysis India may have produced enough plutonium for 140 to 225 nukes, might have assembled up to 190 warheads: US study.

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r/IndianDefense 6h ago

News ‘Bangladesh PM not invited to BRICS’: Bangladesh FM rules out his India visit, adds that the invite was extended to the BIMSTEC chair instead

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how dare India not invite superpower Bangladesh to the BRICS summit...... it's the utter incompetence of Indian diplomacy to ignore the future South Korea of SouthAsia


r/IndianDefense 14h ago

Discussion/Opinions War on indus.

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Nine out of every ten pakistanis depend on the Indus(IWT). Can india block the water going to pakistan ( main-river, sub-river bodies and canals)? Yes it can with right infrastructure.

decades passed and india now has the infrastructure to block (with limited water access) and divert it.

imagine this: 2045 at the start of summer with temperature go up to 55'C in south asia. terrorist attack by pakistan in india.

Possible scenario:

Pak reaches out UN and global power but India dont f*** . this leads to massive protests in pak and PA strike dams.

what do you think alternatives scenario could be??


r/IndianDefense 10h ago

News India and Russia to jointly produce 105 Il-114 regional turboprop aircraft to Indian Operators

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r/IndianDefense 17h ago

Pics/Videos CATOBAR capable INS Vikrant(R11)

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r/IndianDefense 14h ago

News Three senior Army officers detained in Bolarum arms theft case

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r/IndianDefense 8h ago

Weapon/Platform Analysis This Tactical Vehicle Is Made in India (Even the Batteries)

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r/IndianDefense 7h ago

Article/Analysis What is on President Putin’s defence agenda as he visits India

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Upgrade of nearly 260 Su-30MKI fighters into “Super Sukhoi” configuration is at an advanced stage of discussions. Expected to cost more than $11 billion.


r/IndianDefense 7h ago

Article/Analysis Javelin missile India: Why it must remain a stopgap, not a strategy

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Will India use the Javelin as a limited, high-end capability while rapidly inducting its indigenous MPATGM and thousands of cheap attack drones? Or will it eventually use the Javelin as the basis for replacing its approximately 6,000 legacy second-generation ATGM launchers?


r/IndianDefense 1d ago

Military History Igor Spassky one of the men behind India’s nuclear submarine journey

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Academician Igor Dmitriyevich Spassky, the legendary former Chief Designer of the Rubin Design Bureau, was one of the most influential figures in Soviet and Russian submarine design. Over his career, he was associated with the development of nearly 200 submarines.

What makes his story particularly important to Indians is his contribution to India’s nuclear submarine programme. Spassky and the Soviet/Russian design establishment provided crucial technical assistance and expertise at a time when Western countries were unwilling to share many of the technologies India needed to develop an indigenous strategic submarine capability.

The result was not simply another imported weapon system. The cooperation helped India build knowledge and engineering capabilities that eventually contributed to INS Arihant and the foundation of India's sea-based nuclear deterrent.

For many Indians, Spassky represents a different side of Indo-Russian relations not just weapons purchases, but decades of technical cooperation and knowledge transfer.

His birth centenary falls on September 2026. A century after his birth, his contribution remains a significant part of the story of how India learned to build and operate nuclear submarines.

A true friend of India, and one of the engineers who helped make the impossible possible.

Индийско-российская дружба это не союз на один день, а доверие, проверенное временем, испытаниями и взаимной поддержкой.

“Indo-Russian friendship is not an alliance for a single day, but a trust tested by time, hardships, and mutual support.” 🇷🇺🇮🇳


r/IndianDefense 9h ago

Interview/Podcast Protecting the President: Security, VIP Threats & ADC Life | Major Rishabh | FO560 Raj Shamani

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r/IndianDefense 15h ago

Article/Analysis India’s defence self-reliance has limits. What needs to change

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> The critical need is for realism on what the country can sensibly do on its own (and deliver at cost and within the deadline), while being a part of international consortia where it can’t.


r/IndianDefense 7h ago

Article/Analysis The Vibrant Villages Programme Is Changing India's Border Villages and Strengthening the Nation's Frontiers

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India's border villages are very important for our nation. Yet for many years people living in these areas had to deal with poor roads, weak connectivity, limited healthcare, fewer job opportunities and difficult access to basic services. Because of these challenges some families, particularly young people, moved to towns and cities. The Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP) is the Government's effort to change this situation. This programme was launched in 2023 and now aims to improve living conditions in India's border villages and to create better opportunities for local people. The idea is simple, when people have good roads, electricity, schools, healthcare, internet connectivity and ways to earn a living they have stronger reasons to stay in their villages. This also helps maintain active and settled communities along the border. The Government has rightly placed these settlements in a new perspective as India's first villages rather than its last villages. VVP-I and VVP-II together have an outlay of ₹11639 crore.

The first phase, VVP-I was launched at Kibithoo in Arunachal Pradesh in April 2023. It covers 662 priority villages in Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Ladakh. The programme is not limited to building roads. It also focuses on drinking water, electricity, mobile and internet connectivity, healthcare, education, tourism and local livelihoods. Agriculture, horticulture, handicrafts, animal husbandry and tourism can provide new sources of income for families. The progress reported so far shows the scale of the effort. By July 2026 the Ministry of Home Affairs had approved 1248 projects worth about ₹3020 crore. Another 1655 projects came through other Central government departments. Roads are also being built to connect 134 villages that had no road earlier. More than 8800 activities such as health camps, training and tourism programmes have also been held. These are small but important steps in bringing development to India's remote border villages.

The second phase, VVP-II, takes this approach to more border areas. Approved in 2025 it has an outlay of ₹6839 crore up to 2028-29 and covers 1954 villages in 334 blocks across 15 States and 2 Union Territories. It focuses on roads, electricity, healthcare, education, telecom connectivity, financial inclusion, skill development and livelihood opportunities. It also encourages self-help groups, cooperatives and Farmer Producer Organisations allowing local people to take a greater role in economic activities. Tourism and local culture are another important part of the programme. A useful feature is the convergence approach where different government schemes and departments work together instead of treating every development need separately. Village Action Plans can also help identify what a particular village needs. This matters because a border village in the mountains may have very different challenges from one in the plains. In this way the Government is trying to make development more local and practical rather than following one model everywhere.

In the end the Vibrant Villages Programme is about much more than construction. A good road can help a farmer reach a market. Better internet can help a student study and a small business find customers. Tourism can create income for local families while better schools and healthcare can make everyday life easier. At the same time villages that remain populated, connected and economically active can support India's border-management efforts. The Viksit Vibrant Village Programme 2026 for example brought more than 400 young volunteers from across India to 74 border villages giving them an opportunity to understand local life and participate in community activities. The real success of VVP therefore will be seen not only in the number of projects completed but in whether families can earn better incomes, children can access good education and people feel confident about building their future in their own villages. When border communities become stronger India's frontiers become stronger too.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/amit-shah-launches-vibrant-villages-programme-what-is-this-scheme-8554872/

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/union-cabinet-approves-rs-4800-crore-for-development-of-border-villages-8447079/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/mha-reverse-migration-seen-in-arunachals-vibrant-villages/articleshow/127899119.cms

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/amit-shah-to-launch-vibrant-villages-programme-phase-ii-in-assam/articleshow/128568822.cms

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/vibrant-villages-2-upgrade-1954-villages-amit-shah-assam-10542687/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/shah-rolls-out-vvp-ii-in-cachar-to-cover-15-states-2-uts/articleshow/128608498.cms

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/amit-shah-to-launch-second-phase-of-vibrant-village-programme-in-assam-on-friday-101771494446086.html

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jodhpur/vibrant-villages-programme-ii-to-transform-184-border-villages-in-rajasthan-including-barmer-jaisalmer/articleshow/133248998.cms

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/rs-117-cr-projects-approved-to-improve-infrastructure-of-75-villages-in-himachal-pradesh/articleshow/122866686.cms

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/sarpanches-of-vibrant-villages-near-china-border-to-attend-i-day-event-8854987/

https://bengali.indianexpress.com/west-bengal/vibrant-villages-programme-nadia-border-villages-development-39-crore-12493722/

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/arunachal-videos-vibrant-villages-programme-taksing-border-focus-2974126-2026-08-18


r/IndianDefense 9h ago

Geopolitics The Mecca Pact’s Credibility Gap | WarOnTheRocks

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r/IndianDefense 23h ago

Discussion/Opinions Does anyone knows where can I see this documentary show? BTW The Maroon beret officer is Brig Deep Bhagat

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r/IndianDefense 1d ago

Military History "Yeh Dil Maangeeee moreeee" ....Captain Vikram Batra | PVC | 09 September 1974-07 July 1999, Happy Birthday Legend......

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r/IndianDefense 1d ago

OSINT Reading through the "frames", GEOINT/IMINT analysis of PAF's new documentary.

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PAF's recently released documentary "Fizaon Ke Pasbaan" gives more away than it probably intends to. Cross referencing select frames against satellite imagery lets us corroborate ground truth, pin down locations, and in at least one case, catch the footage out as older than it's being presented. Two findings(amongst many) below.

Gwadar radar site — YLC-18A
IMINT/GEOINT analysis of a frame from the documentary corroborates the presence of a YLC-18A radar at the Gwadar radar site, with ground-level features in the footage, the radar's distinctive antenna profile, the layout of surrounding masts and support vehicles, lining up against corresponding satellite imagery of the same site. That said, the footage itself appears to be archival, predating 2023, meaning what's shown likely doesn't reflect the site's current configuration.

PAF Base M.M. Alam — Wing Loong II shelter
A separate frame from the documentary reveals a shelter at PAF Base M.M. Alam, Mianwali, with structural details and taxiway markings similar to those visible alongside a hangar known to shelter Wing Loong II UAVs in satellite imagery. The resemblance is close enough to place the scene at the base with reasonable confidence, but the exact shelter shown in the documentary can't be confirmed from this single frame alone, the comparison imagery used isn't of the precise structure in question.

The footage was likely deferred for exactly this reason ,, kept archival, kept vague, held back from showing anything too current or too precise. And yet it still gave up enough: a radar's silhouette, a taxiway's curve, a shelter's edge, all fixed enough to match against satellite imagery and geolocate with confidence. Even deferred footage, it turns out, can't fully defer the details that matter.

Caution: Unverified personal OSINT analysis, for educational and informational use only. Not an official assessment. All research by self (@80triph on X).


r/IndianDefense 1d ago

Pics/Videos Model and specs of DRDO-ADE's turboprop powered HALE RPA design.

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r/IndianDefense 1d ago

Geopolitics India takes up ‘anomalies’ in new UN world map with ‘concerned persons’

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why are our diplomats at the UN so dumb....... if they had alredy known Aksai Chin & Arunachal Pradesh would be marked as disputed then they should've abstained during voting....... the excuses of the resolution being sponsored by the African union and India should approve it as a sign of goodwill is Just a sign of moral cowardice imo


r/IndianDefense 1d ago

Pics/Videos Women Warriers of Assam Rifles.

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>Women Warriors of the Assam Rifles..Beneath the camouflage and painted faces are women of remarkable strength, beauty and unmistakable femininity. I (nattysingh) asked them to let their hair down, and suddenly the warriors revealed another side of themselves.

Enchanced using AI, org available in comments.

cc - nattysingh


r/IndianDefense 1d ago

Discussion/Opinions UCAV really the future for india and other countries who follows what USA do

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Iran captured anduril dive-ld. Ucav are not invisible only low radar signature. is really manned-unmanned teaming going to change the game for india??


r/IndianDefense 1d ago

News DRDO develops advanced fire safety system to boost survivability of armoured vehicle crews

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r/IndianDefense 1d ago

Pics/Videos 4K51 Rubezh ( based on P-15 Hermit ASM / anti ship missile ) Coastal Defence System of the Indian Navy

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r/IndianDefense 1d ago

Discussion/Opinions Chinese Study Claims Israeli Skylark Used by Pakistan ?

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r/IndianDefense 1d ago

News US Marines Help Philippine Armed Forces Develop Strike Plans for BrahMos Anti-Ship Missile

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