The recent joint exercise between the US and Indian navies near Diego Garcia marked significant progress in their military partnership, enhancing interoperability in anti-submarine warfare and maritime domain awareness. This collaboration, underpinned by advanced technology and joint operations, reflects a commitment to regional stability amid growing Chinese assertiveness, shaping a new era of defense ties.
By A Correspondent Bengaluru (Karnataka): American aerospace and defence giant Boeing Co. has named Stacie Sire the new chief engineer for India and the head of its engineering and technology centre here. Now based in the city, Sire has taken over strategy and operations for Boeing India Engineering […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: American firm Liquid Robotics, a Boeing company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sagar Defence Engineering Private Limited, an Indian unmanned systems startup, to co-develop and co-produce Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASV). The agreement builds on the joint US-India Roadmap for […]
During AeroIndia 2025, Boeing Defence India managing director Nikhil Joshi tells our editor N. C. Bipindra that the American company’s India sourcing has grown five times in a decade, with over 300 suppliers. Boeing also employs 6.500 engineers, based at its engineering and technology centre at Bengaluru and […]
By A Correspondent Hyderabad (Telangana): Tata Boeing Aerospace Limited (TBAL)has delivered the 300th fuselage for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter from its state-of-the-art facility here. A company statement on Feb. 10, 2025, said, “These fuselages are manufactured for customers around the world, including the US Army.” This includes […]
By N. C. Bipindra Hyderabad (India): Indian precision manufacturing firm Raghu Vamsi Group, a tier 1 supplier to global aerospace majors such as Boeing Co. and GE Aviation, has fully acquired the PMC Group in the United Kingdom to strengthen its core capabilities and expand to the oil […]
By T. S. Shankar Mumbai-based Jet Airways and its founder-chairman Naresh Goyal are hogging the media limelight for his business acumen in building a world-class private airline capitalising on the then Indian government’s ‘open sky policy’ in the early 1990s and then destroying it on a whim. Naresh […]
By Neeraj Rajput and N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times New Delhi: India is sending its Rafale combat jets to France for a multi-nation air exercise. This is the first time the 2020-inducted Indian Air Force (IAF) fighters have flown overseas to join a wargame in a friendly […]
In an interview ahead of DefExpo-2022, Boeing Defense India’s managing director Rear Admiral Surendra Ahuja (Retired) tells our editor N. C. Bipindra that over one-fourth (26 percent) of Boeing’s sourcing from India comes from micro, small and medium enterprises. Boeing’s F/A-18 pitch for the Indian Navy includes a […]
New Delhi: India today said it has signed a $56-million contract with the United States to buy torpedo and missile counter-measures for its navy’s P-8I long range maritime surveillance aircraft from the Boeing Co. stable. The Rs 423-crore procurement of the MK 54 Torpedo from American defence firm […]
New Delhi: Acquisition of new technologies and promotion of indigenisation will be the key result areas of Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, a fighter pilot, who took over as the Indian Air Force (IAF) chief today from Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Bhadauria, who retired from service. […]
Bengaluru: India‘s Dynamatic Technologies Limited will be making the American Boeing Company‘s newest tactical fighter jet F-15EX Eagle II aerostructures at its facility in the southern city of Bengaluru. “Dynamatic Technologies has been awarded a contract for manufacturing assemblies for Boeing’s newest tactical fighter, F-15EX Eagle II. This […]
Hyderabad: Tata Boeing Aerospace Limited (TBAL), a joint venture between the Indian Tata Group and American Boeing Co., today announced the delivery of the 100th fuselage for the AH-64 Apache combat helicopter to Boeing from its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility here. “The fuselage will be transported to Boeing’s AH-64 […]
New Delhi: American aerospace and defence giant Boeing Co. is continuing to expand the Indian Navy’s long-range maritime reconnaissance anti-submarine warfare capabilities with the delivery of the country’s tenth P-8I aircraft. The patrol aircraft is an integral part of the Indian Navy’s fleet and has surpassed 30,000 flight […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the author’s. For the writer’s other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Rajiv Chib A resurgence of COVID-19 cases in India has forced domestic defence companies to reintroduce strict restrictions. It again threatens to increase […]
