Dinakar Peri is a Senior Associate Editor at The Hindu. He covers defence and security issues, with a keen interest in regional and world news, particularly in aviation and aerospace. His work has been featured in notable publications such as CMYK Printech Ltd, Business Standard, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and The Diplomat.
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By: Dinakar Peri
On 5 November, China commissioned its third aircraft carrier, Fujian, at its home port in Sanya on Hainan Island in the presence of President Xi Jinping. Displacing 80,000 tonnes, the carrier is capable of launching fifth-generation J-35 fighter jets and KJ-600 Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft using the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS). This marks a significant moment in global carrier aviation and shipbuilding.
India needs to balance the inexorable logic of force optimisation with making up for the numbers lost
By: Dinakar Peri
The induction of INS Aridhaman, which features several technological enhancements, now gives India the third nuclear ballistic missile submarine to ensure continuous at-sea deterrent.
Russia's recent offer to India for joint production of the SU-57 fifth-generation fighter comes amid India's own AMCA project taking some definitive steps forward.
By: Dinakar Peri
While negotiations for the licensed manufacture of F414 jet engines in India continue, the off-the-shelf procurement cost of some F414 engines for the AMCA prototype has tripled.
By: Dinakar Peri
Given the uncertainty in the region's escalation ladder, IBGs may be the answer if the need for a quick ground retort were to arise.
This is an important milestone in India's evolving multi-layered long-range air defense architecture envisaged under Mission Sudarshan Chakra.
Pakistan would surely try to rally the group and invoke the pact in some form in the event of tensions with India.
An inter-governmental agreement to develop and incorporate integrated full electric propulsion for the Indian Navy's four landing platform docks is underway.
India's ambition to be a developed country by 2047 cannot be realised without a strong naval architecture
