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  by Air Marshal Harish Masand The tragic events at Galwan River Valley on the night of June 15th resulting in the loss of 20 Indian bravehearts, with perhaps an equal number of casualties on the Chinese side, have once again brought in sharp focus China’s duplicity and deception in the current face-off at the […]

       It is ironical that two countries which are nuclear neighbors’ with modern armies resorted to using primitive means such as sticks, stones and clubs to bludgeon each other to death when their soldiers clashed in the icy heights of Galwan Valley in Eastern Ladakh on 16 Jun. The resultant death of twenty Indian Army […]

Military action has fascinated Sanjay Simha all his life, not only for their precision and planning, but also for the speed at which platforms annihilate assigned targets. A first generation entrepreneur – in the business of Logistics, and Business Process Outsourcing, Sanjay has carried forward his passion by following the armed forces with his camera. […]

If you saw some fantastic photos of Indian military aircraft on the internet with the source being “zone5aviation” then you have stumbled upon the work of Angad Singh, a seasoned aerospace analyst, author and photographer. Angad has worked closely with the Indian Air Force, Navy and Army for over a decade. While not wielding a […]

Back in 2015, the Bharat Rakshak website underwent a significant upgrade. This involved moving several static sections to Joomla’s content management system and making the front page mobile-ready. Despite the considerable effort, the updates for the Army and Navy sections lagged, while the Air Force section continued to receive regular updates. We managed to turn […]

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The U.S. Navy has recovered an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter and an F/A-18F Super Hornet from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz that crashed within half an hour of each other in the South China Sea on Oct. 26. They […]

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Boeing has made good on its promise of completing a first live-fire weapons shot from its MQ-28A Ghost Bat drone, with an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) launched over the sprawling Woomera Range Complex (WRC) in […]

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. A Russian military Antonov An-22 Cock heavy transport aircraft crashed in the Ivanovo region, around 125 miles northeast of Moscow today, killing the entire crew. The incident is notable especially for the fact that the Soviet-era plane […]

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Online flight tracking data shows that a pair of U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets flew right into the center of the Gulf of Venezuela earlier today, and stayed there for some 40 minutes. This is a relatively […]

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Japan and South Korea scrambled jets on Tuesday in response to a joint Chinese-Russian bomber patrol over international waters near both of those nations. Though part of an annual bilateral exercise, the flights come as tensions between […]