By N. C. Bipindra As a rookie in journalism three decades ago, the first lesson given to us by our seniors and editors was that ‘Dog bites man is not news, but man bites dog is, and that is a goldmine.’ Many of us, who have transitioned from […]
New Delhi: India‘s navy will host the maritime forces chiefs of 12 Indian Ocean littoral nations at the third edition of the Goa Maritime Conclave from Nov. 7 to 9, when it will showcase the nation’s warship building prowess and the Deep Submergence Rescue Vessels for submarines. The […]
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: The Indian Air Force (IAF) today effected an overhaul of its top brass, with a new officer taking charge as vice chief, apart from a slew of other new appointments the armed forces, including from the Indian Navy. Air Marshal Sandeep Singh, who was till yesterday […]
New Delhi: India‘s navy has decided to create a vendor base in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands on its eastern sea board to enable support services for warship maintenance at the naval base there. The decision was taken at the Indian Navy‘s Conference for Mid-Year Refit Review […]
New Delhi: The Indo-American joint venture, Tata Lockheed Martin Aerostructures Limited (TLMAL), has recently delivered the 150th C-130J Super Hercules empennage from its manufacturing facility located at Adibatla in Hyderabad, marking a key milestone in the partnership that has contributed significantly to the Indian aerospace industry. The delivery […]
New Delhi: India has handed over a passenger variant of the Dornier maritime aircraft to the Mauritius coast guard, in a naval diplomacy effort at building capabilities of friendly nations in the Indian Ocean Region. An official ceremony was conducted at the Maritime Air Squadron of National Coast […]
Kolkata: In a forward-looking step towards transition from ‘Make in India’ to ‘Make from India’, state-run shipyard Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with European shipbuilder Naval Group France to collaborate in the surface ship building to cater to the […]
Chennai: India today commissioned a new Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) into the coast guard, enhancing the maritime force’s ability to protect national interest in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and showcasing the maturing of its private shipyard owned by Larsen & Toubro into a reliable defence shipbuilder. Minister […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: In its second effort to procure minesweepers for its navy, India has kick-started the search for a foreign vendor, with sovereign guarantees from their government, for leasing three or four Mine Counter Measure Vessels (MCMVs). The Ministry of Defence issued a Request […]
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 […]
New Delhi: India is all set to commission a new aircraft carrier, the most potent platform of the navy to counter recent Chinese forays in its maritime backyard, in the first half of 2022. India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh today visited the Cochin Shipyard Limited’s facility to […]
Larsen & Toubro’s whole-time director and senior executive vice president (defence and smart technologies) J. D. Patil, in this exclusive interview, tells Defence.Capital editor N. C. Bipindra that lack of warship building orders is killing India’s private sector shipyards. Ques. Please provide our readers with an overview of […]
(Editor’s Note: This is a ‘By Invitation’ article written by European missile maker MBDA’s India General Delegate. The article was first published in the Dec. 2020 print edition of Defence.Capital magazine.) By Boris Solomiac As the Indian Navy patrols the seas, it knows it has excellence at its […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India has bought a “small quantity” of the Israeli SPICE 2000 stand-off missiles and the Spike anti-tank guided missiles earlier this month to meet its immediate requirement, amidst a military face-off with China in the Ladakh border. The quantity purchased of the […]
