August 2026 - TheNationBrief

Concept representation of the Indian Navy's Project-18 next-generation destroyer

Project 18: The Biggest Warship India Has Ever Tried to Build

The Indian Navy has finalised a design for Project 18, its next-generation destroyer. Why the 11,000-tonne warship marks a leap from destroyer to cruiser, and what remains unconfirmed

TNB Editorial August 19, 2026

India's Kaveri fighter jet engine on display at Aero India, developed by DRDO's GTRE

Defence

Kaveri 2.0: India’s Forty-Year Fight to Build Its Own Fighter Engine

India's Kaveri engine failed the Tejas for decades. Now a redesigned Kaveri 2.0 targets 90kN of thrust and a place on future fighters. Inside the forty-year fight to build an indigenous fighter engine.

TNB Editorial August 11, 2026

Agni-4 nuclear-capable ballistic missile lifting off during a launch from Odisha

Defence

India Test Fires Agni-4 and the Real Message Is in the Word ‘Trial’

India launched an Agni-4 ballistic missile from Chandipur on 6 August 2026. The detail that matters is not the 4,000 km range but who fired it, and why a user trial says more than a routine test.

TNB Editorial August 11, 2026

A Dassault Rafale fighter jet in flight, the aircraft type at the centre of India's 114-jet deal

Defence

France Has Answered India’s Rafale Question and the Answer Runs Through Four Indian Companies

France's response to India's 114-Rafale proposal includes a first-ever assembly line outside France, with Tata, L&T, Mahindra and HAL each paired to a French partner. What the plan means for indigenous content and India's fleet.

TNB Editorial August 11, 2026

Project 18: The Biggest Warship India Has Ever Tried to Build

Kaveri 2.0: India’s Forty-Year Fight to Build Its Own Fighter Engine

India Test Fires Agni-4 and the Real Message Is in the Word ‘Trial’

France Has Answered India’s Rafale Question and the Answer Runs Through Four Indian Companies

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