Defence

News The four ships of Project-28 built by GRSE, Kolkata have been designed indigenously by the Directorate of Naval Design, New Delhi and bear testimony to the acclaimed legacy of Naval Designers. The ships have been constructed using high grade steel (DMR 249A) produced in India. Kavaratti will also be ...

News The commissioning of INS Sardar Patel at Porbandar would enable the Navy to augment its infrastructure and organisational effectiveness in Gujarat. It would improve coordination and synergy with other maritime agencies. The base would improve the logistic support being provided to the Indian Navy units deployed in the Northern ...

News Army today inducted the indigenously- developed supersonic surface-to-air missile Akash, more than three decades after the project was initiated . The Army has initially ordered two Akash regiments, with six firing batteries. The total cost of the order which includes hundreds of missiles is about Rs 19,500 crore. They ...

News The Indian Navy on April 20th 2015 , launched the stealth destroyer INS Vishakhapatnam at Mumbai’s Mazagon dock. The total cost of the project is little over Rs 29,600 Crores. At 7,300 tonnes, Visakhapatnam will be the largest destroyer commissioned by the Indian Navy and will be equipped with the ...

News India proposes to counter China’s maritime ambitions with a ‘Cotton Route’ to help forge economic and strategic partnerships with other countries by reviving ancient Indian Ocean pathways through which the fabric was exported to both the east and west. Mindful of Chinese initiatives launched since 2013 to connect coastal states, ...

News The Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has developed the electronically upgraded desi version of the original Swedish 155mm Bofors howitzer, and the guns are currently at the trial stage. The Army wants 414 such guns. They have been upgraded to 45-calibre from the original 39-calibre to give the new howitzer ...

News 349 Indians on Wednesday reached Djibouti after being evacuated on a Navy vessel from strife-torn Yemen’s Aden city late on Tuesday night. Evacuation took place after India got permission to dock its offshore patrol vessel INS Sumitra at the Aden harbour as the government launched a massive air and ...

News Enhancing Coast Guard’s capability in ensuring maritime safety and security, a Fast Patrol Vessel (FPV) and two interceptor boats were commissioned into the CG’s Eastern fleet on March 29, 2015. ICGS C-430 and C-417 are among 36 interceptor boats being built and inducted into the Coast Guard. Benefit These ...

News Tebma Shipyards  said its indigenously built dredger is ready to be inducted in the Indian Navy. The dredger sailed out on March 25, 2015, after successfully completing all the trials in ship builders yard to Mumbai for its formal induction to the Naval fleet under Western naval command. The ...

News The government sanctioned a Rs 5,113 crore project to develop a next-generation Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), which will act as a 360-degree ‘Eye in the Sky’, and also approved purchase of two Airbus A330 aircraft for the same. The eventual plan is to induct eight such aircraft ...