By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: The Indian Army is planning to procure 198 Wheeled Armoured Fighting Vehicle Recce and Support for its forces deployed with battalions posted in the plains of Rajasthan and Punjab along Pakistan border. To identify probable vendors, the Indian Army today issued a […]
New Delhi: India’s Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs) have a healthy order book worth Rs 2,31,981 crore ($32.5 billion) that could help them stay in business for a period ranging from two years to 10 years. The details of the order book for each of the DPSUs is […]
Snapshot Snipers posted with counter-insurgency troops in Kashmir to get new rifles Money constraints, failed earlier effort to buy sniper rifles results in lowering need By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India has been forced to reduce its requirement to just 1,800 sniper rifles and 2.7-million ammunition — […]
New Delhi: India’s Ministry of Defence today signed a Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion/$2.8 billion) contract with the state-run Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) to licence-build 464 additional T-90S main battle tanks for the Indian Army. The indent for the 464 of these tanks were issued to the […]
New Delhi: India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh will leave for Tashkent, Uzbekistan tomorrow to attend a key meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and participate in bilateral engagements with the Uzbekistan government. Rajnath Singh will represent India in the meeting of Council of Heads of Government […]
New Delhi: India’s Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat today received the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) baton from outgoing Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa at a brief ceremony here. The outgoing Chairman COSC, Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, with […]
New Delhi: In a major boost for the Indian Army‘s capability building, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) today successfully flight tested indigenously developed low-weight, fire-and-forget Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile in the ranges of Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh. The missile was launched from a man portable tripod launcher […]
India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh has approved certain decisions regarding re-organisation of Army headquarters (HQ). The approval has been given based on a detailed internal study conducted by the Army headquarters. The decisions are as follows: A separate Vigilance Cell under COAS with Tri-Services representation – At […]
Chandipur (Balasore, Odisha): India today successfully flight-tested indigenous Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (or QRSAM) against live targets, validating the technology. India’s Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) tested the missiles against an aerial target, this time a Meggitt‘s Banshee target drone for aerial target practice, from the Integrated Test […]
