Defence

News: India and America are together planning to explore the last unknown frontier under the Indo-US deep space exploration mission. India had successful inter-planetary missions, the most recent being Mangalyaan that reached the Martian orbit in 2014 and continues to operate with vigour sending back scientific data to India. The Mars ...

News: Russian Helicopters deal has effectively killed any other light helicopter project for the armed forces, including a process that was initiated for an Indian-led JV to manufacture a new range of choppers. 200 helicopters will be manufactured in the country with the transfer of technology, and licence production, with Russian ...

News: The Indian Air Force will now stand up a new C-130J squadron at Air Force Station (AFS) Panagarh in West Bengal, located approximately 120 kilometers northwest of Kolkata. Lockheed Martin will be contracted to construct the facilities of Panagarh. AFS Panagarh currently serves as an ammo storage facility and ...

News: The Indian Army has shortlisted Bharat Electronics Limited and private Punj Lloyd for a project to upgrade its ageing Zu 23 2B air defence guns. The $100-million contract has been progressed beyond the technical evaluation stage, with commercial bids likely to be opened within the next six months. Ashok Wadhawan, president (manufacturing) at Punj Lloyd, said the company is confident ...

News: Myanmar, considered one of India’s strategic neighbours, shares a 1,640-km-long border with a number of northeastern states including insurgency hit Manipur. Myanmar is India’s gateway to Southeast Asia and key to Modi government’s Act East policy, under which India now wants to conclude the pending development projects at a ...

News: Aspiration of Navy, which currently has 48 ships under construction on various shipyards, is to become a 200-ship Navy by 2027. The only nuclear attack submarine of this kind being produced in Russia, currently is Yasen class. Indian Navy is looking for a newly built, customised, submarine under the ...

News: Indian Navy is aiming to have a 200-ship fleet by 2027 as per a maritime capability perspective plan in order to guard interests and assets of the nation in waters around them, a top Naval officer said. “Today we have 137 ships and submarines… our aspiration is to become ...

News: India’s defence ministry has cleared the purchase of military equipment worth $ 4.74 billion, including 4 long-range patrol aircraft from US aerospace giant Boeing. The Defence Acquisition Council, which approves big-ticket purchases, also approved an order for 428 air defence artillery guns. U.S. displaced traditional ally Russia as India’s ...

News: Indian Navy has no platform available in case one of its submarines meets with a mishap underwater and would be dependent on American rescue equipment that will have to be specially flown in. The Navy for long has operated without a capable submarine rescue vessel, as was evident during ...

News: India’s first ballistic nuclear submarine (SSBN), the INS Arihant (which means destroyer of enemies), has been secretly moved out of harbor for sea trials. Sea trials represent the final stage before being inducted into the Indian Navy. Another three submarines are already under various stages of construction at Visakhapatnam ...