New Delhi: The United States is negotiating a joint development project for an air-launched drone with India involving both nations’ armed forces and defence research agencies, an American official from the Pentagon has said. At the ‘India Ideas Summit‘ organised by the US-India Business Council yesterday, the official […]
New Delhi: India is searching for an Indian vendor to design, develop and manufacture Minefield Recording Systems (MRS) based on Global Positioning System (GIS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) to prevent casualties among personnel during de-mining operations in the borders with adversarial neighbours. The current requirement projected is […]
(Editor’s Note: First update on June 23 with Department of Defence Production comments on Offset Guidelines in the last paragraph. Second update with details of July 17 amended order keeping the policy on Banking Offsets in abeyance in paragraph one.) New Delhi: India kept in abeyance its June […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Five fully-armed Rafale combat aircraft from France will reach India by end of this month and will be ready for deployment from August. The news comes as a boost to the morale of the Indian armed forces facing an irresponsible and expansionist […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated on July 21 at 3:00 pm with BEML statement on more details of the contract at paragraph eight.) New Delhi: India today (July 20) said it has signed a Rs 557-crore ($75-million) deal with a state-run enterprise for 1,512 mine ploughs for the army’s Russian-origin […]
(Editor’s Note: The currency conversion in paragraph one has be corrected to reflect accurate figure in US Dollars.) New Delhi: India’s Ministry of Defence today delegated financial powers up to Rs 300 crore ($40 million) to the armed forces to make emergency procurement of weapons and equipment to […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: The precarious situation that one of India’s private shipyards finds itself over its debts has put the navy in a quandary over how to proceed with a Rs 20,000-crore ($2.65-billion) tender for building four amphibious warships. One of the options being considered […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India is keeping a decision to cancel a deal for five warships at bay to see if the beleaguered Reliance Naval Engineering Limited (RNEL) is able to revive itself or if a take-over of the debt-ridden shipyard can happen so that the […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: In a strong message to rival China amidst a face-off along Ladakh border, India today decided to buy a 1,000-km range land attack cruise missile, a more potent technology than the locally-made ‘Nirbhay‘ cruise missile, to arm the Indian armed forces. The […]
(Editor’s Note: Opinions expressed are that of the writer’s) By Lieutenant Colonel Manoj K. Channan Since evolution, man has always been fighting a bitter battle for survival. Be it nature, wildlife, fellow human beings and now the minuscule and deadly Coronavirus. From stones to bones and the advent […]
New Delhi: The Indian Army is scouting for multi-purpose tools to arm its infantry soldiers and an open tender will be issued soon for procuring them. Multi-purpose tools will form a part of an individual soldier’s personal equipment. The Indian Army’s Master General of Ordnance branch has on […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated with a copy of order at the end.) New Delhi: India today extended the time for deliveries from domestic defence contractors by four months in view of the extraordinary nationwide lock down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Foreign vendors may approach the Indian Ministry of […]
New Delhi: The Smart World and Communication Business of Indian major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today said it has bagged a a large order from the Indian Army for establishing a first-of-its-kind, state-of-the-art Unified Network Management System to ‘manage, support and operate’ the countrywide Armed Forces Network under […]
By Amit Cowshish The COVID-19 pandemic has, among other things, disrupted the manufacturing activities and left the supply-chain in disarray across the globe. Its impact on the ongoing contracts must be agonising the vendors as they may not be able to adhere to the delivery timelines, potentially exposing […]
By Rahul Bedi The mounting anxiety and steadfast focus on the proliferating Coronavirus pandemic has clearly eclipsed the assortment of material contracts that India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed over the past fortnight, alongside numerous others which are imminent. Starting in late February, when the corona contagion […]
