New Delhi: India’s indigenous Light Combat Aircraft ‘Tejas’ could enter a contest against China-Pakistan JF-17 in the Royal Malaysian Air Force‘s tender. If Tejas wins the race to supply 36 new light combat aircraft to Malaysia, this will be India’s first foreign sale and export of the indigenous […]
INS Hansa (Goa): An Indian Navy combat jet today crashed following its engines going up in flames after a bird hit soon after take-off from the air base here. The two pilots ejected to safety after directing the aircraft away from populated areas of Goa. The accident occurred […]
Moscow: India’s Rajnath Singh and Russia’s General Sergei Shoigu met here today when the protocol was signed, an Indian government statement said. However, the details of the protocol were not made public. Here are the top eight takeaways from the bilateral meeting of the 19th India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission […]
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 […]
Moscow: India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh today asked the the Russian industry to jointly manufacture defence platforms and equipment with India that will give a massive boost to the two nations’ exports to third countries. At the ‘India-Russia Defence Industry Cooperation Conference’ here in the presence of […]
Mumbai: India’s government-owned Cochin Shipyard Limited has signed the Phase-3 contract for the construction of the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier. The announced led to the company (BSE: COCHINSHIP) witnessing a spike in prices of 5.28 per cent, closing at Rs. 409.5 on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Friday than […]
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 […]
By Roby Thomas After spending a day at sea on board INS Vikramaditya, on Sep. 29, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh conveyed the essence of sea power by referring to the aircraft carrier as the “Sikandar of Samundar” (emperor of the seas). This statement assumes significance in the context […]
New Delhi: India and the US are making last ditch efforts to revive an already dead Defence Technology and Trade Initiative between the two nations and have signed a ‘Statement of Intent’ at today’s meeting to work on seven futuristic projects, including drone swarms. A sample of the […]
New Delhi: In two back-to-back test firings, the Indian Air Force (IAF) today successfully validated the Indo-Russian BrahMos land-attack cruise missiles for its combat readiness. The IAF conducted the tests of the surface-to-surface cruise missile in combat mode at the Trek Island in Car Nicobar Islands region off […]
New Delhi: In what’s been described as a golden letter day in Indian naval aviation history, the Light Combat Aircraft (Navy) today successfully carried out its first-ever arrested landing at the shore-based test facility at the naval air station INS Hansa in Goa. Developed indigenously by Defence Research […]
New Delhi: India today signed a deal with Russia for upgrading and modernising its Delhi-class of warships’ air defence radars and missile systems. The contract between India’s Ministry of Defence and Russian Federation’s JSC Rosoboronexport was signed here for the modernisation of ‘Air Defence Complex Kashmir and Radar […]
Vladivostok: Russian President Vladimir Putin and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met on the quay of the Far Eastern Federal University on Russky Island, where the Eastern Economic Forum is being held here today. After that, they boarded the corvette Uragan to travel from Ajax Bay to the Zvezda Shipyard in Bolshoi Kamen. During their visit to the Zvezda Shipyard, the Russian President and the Prime Minister of India learned about […]
New Delhi: India today approved the procurement of next generation long range maritime mobile coastal batteries that would use the BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to deliver warhead on inimical forces. The Indian Navy would operate the missile batteries. The decision came at the Defence Acquisition Council meet, the […]
New Delhi: India has signed a 1,500-rupee ($220-million) deal with Russia to arm its fleet of Sukhoi Su-30MKI fleet with the R-27 air-to-air missiles that provide a medium-range stand-off capability to the air force. The missiles, with an extended range, would add to the capabilities of the Su-30 […]
