Cmde Ranjit B Rai (Retd.)

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Cmde Ranjit B Rai Retd MBIM(UK) was Director of Naval Operations and Intelligence and is an author and writes on naval and strategic affairs. * Views and analysis are personal.

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How NAVAC direct entry engineers made India’s Nuclear Submarine dreams come true

This bunch of engineers above belonged to the 1978-1980 batches of Technical Direct Entry topper graduates who joined a 'make shift' Naval Academy (NAVAC)...

CNS Admiral Karambir Singh discussed the philosophy of the Maritime challenges India faces in the Indo-Pacific

On 28th August, the United Service Institution (USI) hosted the Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh, the last in the series of...

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Russia Prepares Industrial Testing of TM16 Gas Turbine in 2026  

In 2025, Russia finalized the development and performed bench...

 Russia Breaks U.S. Monopoly in Critical Aircraft Avionics

For many decades, the international market for essential aircraft...

Why Russia Abandoned a New Wide-Body Jet to Rescue the MC-21  

The Russian government has sanctioned a major reallocation of...

Why Russia’s IL-96 Maker in Voronezh Is Cutting Jobs—And Why That’s Not the Full Story

The Voronezh Aircraft Plant named after S. V. Ilyushin—commonly...