By Lt Gen. P. C. Katoch COVID-19 has stormed the world with fatalities in thousands and over 100,000 infected in 124 countries. Dr. Francis Boyle, who drafted the Biological Weapons Act, says COVID-19 is an offensive Biological Warfare (BW) Weapon that WHO knows about. Bio-war is part of […]
New Delhi: India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh today threw open the draft Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2020 that aims at further increasing indigenous manufacturing and reducing timelines for procurement of defence equipment for the public to receive inputs from the stake-holders. The draft DPP, prepared by a high […]
New Delhi: India’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat‘s office is now prioritising procurement proposals of the armed forces based on immediate needs, and purging the approvals granted for acquisition of equipment that are now obsolete and don’t fit into the scheme of military plans. A […]
New Delhi: India today successfully tested an indigenous quick reaction missile system to validate its full capability of destroying targets in mid-air, completing its development trials and ready for induction by 2021. Developed by the Indian military research and development agency, the Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM) was […]
New Delhi: Hari Mohan, an ordnance factory service officer with vast experience in armoured vehicles manufacturing, has taken over as Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) chairman and director general on Dec 1. He has succeeded Saurabh Kumar, who superannuated from the services. Hari Mohan is a 1982-batch Indian Ordnance […]
Moscow: The Russian Helicopters today said it has got its Mi-171A2 helicopter certified in India and Colombia and this allows the state-owned Russian company to start exporting the latest modification of the multirole civilian helicopter soon. Russian Helicopters JSC, part of Rostec State Corporation, said the Indian Civil […]
New Delhi: India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Central University of Jammu (CUJ) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the establishment of Kalam Centre for Science and Technology (KCST) at the university. The MoU signing ceremony was held in the presence of […]
New Delhi: India today commissioned a new Coast Guard vessel at Chennai, built by the local shipyard from Larsen & Toubro. The coastal patrol vessel was christened ICGS Varaha. Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh, speaking at the commissioning ceremony, called for a proactive coordination among all agencies and […]