World Updates

The nation grieves the loss of Marshal Arjan Singh (IND/1577), who died in Delhi on 16 Sept 2017. His loss will be keenly felt. The editor of the IAF site and author of “The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965” recollects his brief but memorable encounter with the Marshal of the AF three years ago.. Losing […]

Something long overdue, and two years after our major re-design, we have updated our front page to a new look. The front page is a fully ‘Responsive’ Design, that will render both in a Desktop mode or in a mobile phone mode. The 2015 look was not mobile friendly in the first place, and over the […]

This is a mundane post about Medals in the armed forces –  to observe the uniqueness of the current Chief of Army Staff’s Medal entitlement.  Medals offer a fascinating insight into a soldier’s career. As a historian it is fascinating to ‘read’ the medals of an officer and to guess what his service life was. […]

AFCAT 1 2026 Notification AFCAT (1) 2026 Notification. Indian Air Force has release the notification for the courses commencing in January 2027 for grant of Commission in Flying Branch and Ground Duty (Technical and Non-Technical) Branches. Online applications are also invited for NCC Special Entry Scheme. Eligibility Conditions: (a) Nationality: Candidate must be a citizen of India. (b) Age: (i) Flying Branch through AFCAT and […]

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 […]

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. 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. 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. 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 […]

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 […]