Defence

News: With strategic convergence of India’s Act East policy and America’s re-balance to the Asia Pacific region, the US has developed a three-pronged approach for maritime cooperation with the country that includes upgrading the bilateral partnership in this sphere. This approach includes maintaining a shared vision on maritime security issues, upgrading bilateral ...

News: Hyderabad has a stronger missile base and its foundation was laid after the 1962 Sino-Indian border war. The cabin of the Sikorsky S-92 chopper that ferries the US President Barack Obama is made in Hyderabad, as also some crucial components powering Isro’s inter-planetary craft to Mars, Mangalyaan. Hyderabad’s aerospace ...

News: India and China opertionalised new Border Personal Meeting (BPM) point on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) in cold desert of Ladakh. Defence spokesperson of army’s Northern Command, Colonel S D Goswami, said country’s 69th Independence Day marked a momentous occasion in India-China relation. ...

News: Switzerland based organisation International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) published the names of ten countries listed according to the the number of nuclear arsenal they possess. Russia and United States topped the list with 7,500 and 7,200 nuclear weapons respectively, Pakistan came sixth with 100-120 and India came ...

News: Talking about the new developments in bilateral military ties, the American Ambassador, Richard Verma, noted that India faces a critical shortage of front-line fighter aircraft for keeping India’s air space safe. He also said that the two countries had taken joint action against a “high-profile hacking group” operating in ...

News: The Pinaka has been indigenously developed by the Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE), Pune, a DRDO laboratory. Pinaka II is a complete multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) system with a range of 60 kilometres and its range is 20 kilometres more than Pinaka I version which has already been ...

News: India will refit its largest naval warship next year in a major project that will require dry docking the 44,500-ton Vikramaditya aircraft carrier and carrying out maintenance and repair works. The largest dry docking of a warship in India will take place at its biggest such facility in Gujarat ...

News: The ‘short span bridge’ contract will be awarded to L&T on a single vendor basis as it has acquired the technology for construction of military grade systems. L&T has built significant capability in military mobile bridging systems for the Army in partnership with the Defence Research and Development Organization ...

News: Government is constructing 180 fighting bunkers for troops along the Indo-Pak International Border (IB) in Jammu. “Along the IB in Jammu region, government has approved construction of 179 kilometre composite bundh, which includes fortifying of existing observation posts and construction of 180 number of Naka-cum-machan-cum fighting bunkers inside the ...

News: The Indian Army today said there is a plan to incorporate DRDO as a technological partner in the proposed Future Ready Combat Vehicle (FRCV) project. The army plans to adopt a novel approach for designing and developing its future category of battle tanks. The proposed approach will involve three ...