New Delhi: Shifting its ties with Myanmar to a higher gear, India today officially confirmed it is all set to formally hand over a submarine to its neighbour for boosting its naval capability. India will transfer the Russian-origin Kilo-class, which will be commissioned by Myanmar as its first-ever […]
New Delhi: India‘s lone submarine builder had a dream-like debut on the stock market today, finishing the opening trading day at Rs 173, a cool 19 per cent above its Initial Public Offering (IPO) price of Rs 145, strongly aided by its above par financial performance over the […]
By Atul Kumar Rare Earth Metals (REMs), a suite of 17 chemical elements from the periodic table, are critically vital for the empowerment of the economic growth, as well as the national security of a nation. Also, this suite of REMs can even influence geopolitics. The most recent […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: In order to push India’s strategic-economic interests in the Indo-Pacific Region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched an ambitious project that will connect the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands with the mainland through an undersea Optic Fibre Cable (OFC). The Indian Ocean Region […]
New Delhi: The anti-submarine warfare capability of the Indian Navy received a major boost today with the conclusion of a contract for Advanced Torpedo Decoy System ‘Maareech‘ capable of being fired from all front line warships. Designed and Developed by the Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL) and […]
New Delhi: India’s top officer responsible for defence acquisition has just dropped the bomb: The recently announced hike in the country’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms to 74 per cent will not apply to the Strategic Partnership programmes that the armed forces are pursuing. This is big — […]
By Angad Singh If the annual SIPRI data consistently showing India among the top few arms importing nations in the world is a depressing commentary on the state of India’s military-industrial capability and capacity, the 2020 figures bring some cheer. Although India is second only to Saudi Arabia […]
New Delhi: India’s state-run Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) and private firm Larsen & Toubro have been chosen to battle it out for a Rs 45,000-crore ($6.3 billion) tender for building six next generation conventional submarines for the Indian Navy. Five Original Equipment Manufacturers — French Naval Group, […]
Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu): India today opened a new air base here in Tamil Nadu and deployed the first Sukhoi combat jet squadron in South India at the new fighter aircraft station. The new base of the Indian Air Force will focus on defending the peninsular India and for […]
New Delhi: India today test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile with a 3,500-kilometre range from an under-water pontoon, imitating a nuclear-armed submarine. According to a tweet by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the India-made weapon system, codenamed K-4, was fired off the state’s coast. The […]
New Delhi: Shifting its ties with Myanmar to a higher gear, India will soon formally hand over a submarine to its neighbour for boosting its naval capability. India will transfer the Russian-origin Kilo-class, which will be commissioned by Myanmar as its first-ever submarine to give it the under-water […]
New Delhi: Hit hard by media criticism of slowdown in major defence projects under the ‘Make in India‘ initiative, the Narendra Modi government today said it was expediting the three key procurement programmes for next generation submarines, naval utility helicopters and the 114-combat jets, cumulatively worth $23 billion. […]
New Delhi: India’s highest defence procurement decision-making panel will take up for approval a navy proposal to buy 10 Boeing P8I surveillance aircraft for a whopping $3 billion, people with knowledge of the meeting agenda said today. The Defence Acquisition Council, headed by Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh, […]
New Delhi: India’s efforts to locally develop an Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system for its futuristic indigenous diesel-electric submarine got a boost, with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) operationalising a land-based prototype at Ambernath in Maharashtra today. Air Independent Propulsion has a force multiplier effect on […]
Mumbai: Indian Navy today added a booster shot to its under-water warfare capabilities, by receiving delivery of the second Scorpene-class submarine ‘Khanderi’, which is to be commissioned by Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh on September 29 at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) here. The ‘Acceptance Document’ was […]
