Defense

Kusha M3 belongs to India’s larger effort to build an indigenous extended-range surface-to-air missile system. The system is often described as India’s answer to the need for a long-range air defence shield that can work alongside existing systems such as S-400, Barak-8, Akash and future Indian air-defence networks. Its importance lies in one simple point: India needs a home-built shield that can defend large airspaces, strategic cities, military bases, industrial corridors and critical infrastructure.

Kamikaze drones, also known as loitering munitions or suicide drones, have changed modern warfare across the world. They combine the eyes of a drone with the destructive effect of a precision munition. A conventional drone observes and returns. A kamikaze drone searches, tracks and strikes the target by destroying itself on impact. This gives commanders a flexible weapon for time-sensitive targets, mobile assets, radar sites, logistics nodes and command positions.

MT Olympic Life is a Marshall Islands-flagged crude oil tanker that was sailing from Fujairah in the UAE to Kochi. The tanker reported an explosion in its hull while it was off the coast of Oman on 26 May 2026. The vessel later reported the presence of unexploded ordnance as it continued its movement towards Kochi. The ship did not have any Indian nationals onboard, but the Indian Navy responded because the situation carried serious maritime safety risks.

The K-15 is also known as Sagarika, B-05 or PJ-08. It belongs to India’s K-series family of underwater-launched missiles. It was developed by DRDO as part of the long effort to complete India’s nuclear triad: land-based missiles, air-delivered weapons and sea-based missiles. The land and air legs give India visible deterrence. The sea leg gives India hidden deterrence. A submarine carrying ballistic missiles can remain concealed beneath the ocean, making it harder for an enemy to destroy India’s retaliatory capability in a first strike.

The strength of SURGE lies in its modular design. Armory has presented the system in handheld, tripod and vehicle-mounted forms. This gives commanders flexibility. A handheld or manpack version can move with soldiers in difficult terrain. A tripod version can protect gates, checkpoints, camps and perimeters. A vehicle-mounted version can move with convoys and patrol columns. This modular approach is important for India because drone threats appear across deserts, mountains, plains, coastal zones, cities and border belts.

The new jammers are meant to protect Indian Navy warships in a maritime battlespace where satellite navigation, precision weapons, drones, unmanned platforms and networked sensors are becoming central to modern combat. Global Navigation Satellite Systems are used for positioning, timing, navigation and target coordination. In a high-threat environment, an adversary’s dependence on such signals becomes a point of vulnerability. The ECGNSS jammers are designed to degrade hostile satellite signal acquisition and tracking, while also supporting spoofing or deceptive jamming against enemy receivers.