Military
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Myanmar grounds most of China-Pak built JF-17 jets
Cairo – Hany Kamal eldin .. Technical issues have grounded most of the JF-17 fighter jets that the Myanmar regime had purchased from a China-Pakistan joint venture, according to people in the know, creating a potential hurdle for the military axis between the three nations. The lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft inducted by the Myanmar Air Force have structural cracks and…
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Britain says Russia likely removing nuclear warheads from missiles and firing at Ukraine
Cairo – Hany Kamal eldin .. Russia is likely removing nuclear warheads from ageing nuclear cruise missiles and firing unarmed munitions at Ukraine, Britain’s military intelligence said on Saturday. The defense ministry said open source imagery shows wreckage of an air launched cruise missile fired at Ukraine which seem to have been designed in the 1980s as a nuclear delivery…
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Three Maoists killed in encounter with police in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur
Cairo – Hany Kamal eldin .. Three Maoists, including a woman, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday, a police official said. The gunfight took place around 7.30 am in Pomra forest under Mirtur police station limits when joint teams of security forces were out on an anti-Maoist operation, Inspector General of Police…
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Lashkar used Al-Badr in J&K to target migrants: Police
Cairo – Hany Kamal eldin .. Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) backed The Resistance Front (TRF) was using Al-Badr cadres to carry out attacks on migrants labourers and Kashmiri pandits in south Kashmir, said senior police officials citing investigations into the recent incidents of killings in the valley. At Pulwama, the hotbed of terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir police has further devised strategy to…
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Iran sends more troops to Kurdish region as new protest flares
Cairo – Hany Kamal eldin .. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have built up their presence in restive Kurdish regions, state media reported on Friday amid a crackdown on mass protests, as video showed dozens of people demonstrating in minority Baluch areas of the southwest. The mass demonstrations that erupted after the Sept. 16 death in custody of 22-year old Kurdish woman…
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Garuda Shakti: Indian-Indonesian special forces conduct jungle warfare to enhance interoperability
Cairo – Hany Kamal eldin .. With an aim to enhance interoperability during close-quarter battle and room intervention, Indian and Indonesian special forces conducted joint tactical drills as part of the eighth edition of joint military exercise ‘Garuda Shakti’. “Exercise #GarudaShakti 2022 Jungle Warfare training & tactical drills for Room Intervention were practised during the ongoing joint Exercise, to share…
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Pilots hired to help China understand how western planes operate
Cairo – Hany Kamal eldin .. China has recruited more than 30 former British military pilots including those who have flown sophisticated fighter jets. UK’s Defence Ministry said that they are being recruited to train pilots of the Chinese Army. Chinese plans to counter the West and in the worst-case scenario, of a conflict, say over Taiwan, will then have…
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Indian army starts training programme at seven locations for Assam police
Cairo – Hany Kamal eldin .. Indian army has started a training programme for Assam police. The forty weeks of training under the Indian Army has commenced at seven locations in Assam and Meghalaya. A defence spokesperson said that Indian Army and Assam police have been jointly operating to bring peace to the region since 90’s. These joint operations have…
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India successfully test-fires intermediate-range ballistic missile Agni-3
Cairo – Hany Kamal eldin .. India on Wednesday carried out a successful training launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile, Agni-3, from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha. A Defence Ministry official said that the successful test was part of routine user training launches carried out under the aegis of the Strategic Forces Command. The launch…
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Transnational and cross-border terrorism gravest threat: Rajnath Singh
Cairo – Hany Kamal eldin .. Defence minister Rajnath Singh has described transnational and cross-border terrorism as the gravest threat that the world is facing, and called for urgent and resolute intervention by the international community. Singh said, “The gravest threat requiring urgent and resolute intervention by the international community is transnational and cross-border terrorism. Indifference can no longer be…
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