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During the visit, Admiral Swaminathan will meet senior members of the Mauritian government and security establishment for discussions covering maritime security, defence cooperation, capacity building and military-to-military engagement.
Indigenous UAV-to-UAV deployment could allow Indian forces to push reconnaissance, electronic warfare and autonomous systems deeper into contested battlespaces
The proposed agreement brings together India’s state-owned Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) and German submarine specialist ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS). The six submarines are planned to be constructed in India, substantially expanding domestic expertise in designing, integrating and manufacturing advanced underwater platforms.
India and Japan are nevertheless far from strangers when it comes to fighter operations. Their first dedicated bilateral fighter exercise, Veer Guardian 2023, was conducted in Japan from January 16 to 26, 2023. The Indian Air Force sent four Su-30MKI fighters, supported by C-17 transport aircraft and an IL-78 aerial refueller, while Japan fielded four F-2s and four F-15 fighters. The exercise included complex air-combat missions and gave both air forces an opportunity to train against aircraft and tactical philosophies very different from their own.
Delhi-based defence technology company VEDA Aeronautics is developing an underwater decoy for the Indian Navy, with plans to subsequently evolve the platform into a miniature underwater attack drone, opening a potentially important new front in India’s development of autonomous naval warfare systems.
What follows is more than a duel between two powerful beings. It is a rescue mission, an underwater battle, a test of strength, a contest of arrogance and restraint, and ultimately a struggle over whether cosmic order will be restored.
The Ministry of Defence has informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence that it has initiated “concerted” efforts to co-join the sixth-generation fighter development programme. The latest disclosure marks a progression from India’s earlier consideration of both Europe’s FCAS and the UK-Italy-Japan Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).
More recently, AjnaLens devices were also reported among the surveillance technologies deployed by police personnel around Jantar Mantar in New Delhi in July 2026, bringing the technology back into public attention — this time accompaginning to move out of police control rooms and CCTV monitoring centres and directly onto the faces of officers in the field.
TACDE is frequently described as the Indian Air Force’s equivalent of the US Navy’s famous “Top Gun” school, although “Top Gun” is not its official designation. The establishment is one of the IAF’s premier institutions for advanced operational and tactical training.
A compact device is released from a pod and towed hundreds of metres behind the fighter through a strong cable. Connected to the aircraft’s electronic-warfare system, the device transmits a carefully controlled radar response designed to appear more attractive to the missile than the aircraft towing it.
