Defence

The Indian delegation led by Vice Admiral SPS Cheema, visited the US Navy’s state-of-the-art aircraft carrier – PCU Gerald Ford – currently under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia, and received briefs on US Navy management of aircraft carrier programmes. The delegation met with senior Pentagon officials, and toured ...

ASTROSAT, satellite for the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission aimed at studying celestial objects, is scheduled for launch on September 28. The satellite is scheduled for launch on board the launch vehicle PSLV C-30, on September 28 morning 10 am. ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) had transported ASTROSAT to the Satish ...

India and China share over 4,000 km of LAC. China claims approximately 90,000 sq km of territory in Arunachal Pradesh besides 38,000 sq km in Jammu and Kashmir sector. A meeting of local commanders of the armies of India and China has been postponed after the recent face-off between the ...

 India’s first annual conference of top military commanders, where national defence policy, doctrine and operational challenges are discussed threadbare, may be held outside the capital – onboard aircraft carrier, most likely INS Vikramaditya. The annual apex meeting of military leaders from the three armed forces has traditionally been held in ...

US Intelligence studies had predicted in 2009 that in the near future China would have a more profound impact on world geopolitical affairs than any other country. This has proven true and we are seeing an increasingly belligerent China, backed by an authoritarian regime, facing off with other countries in different parts ...

India and Thailand vowed to deepen their bilateral defense relationship. India has been attempting to further boost cooperation with Southeast Asian states as part of its “Act East Policy,” a variation on the “Look East Policy” first formulated under Narasimha Rao in 1991. Both sides also agreed that cooperation should ...

The government is planning to do away with the process of awarding contract to lowest bidder while acquiring high-tech defence assets and instead entering into “strategic partnership” with Indian private firms in six critical sectors including missiles. The Defence Ministry has set up a high powered committee headed by former ...

Defence electronics spending in the emerging nations of China, Russia and India are growing fast and by 2022, all the three countries could command a market share of five per cent each, from about two percent in 2012. The United States and Europe hold the dominant market share of global ...

INS Vajrakosh, a naval station near Karwar in Karnataka together with INS Kadamba, 20 km away, it is now the world’s largest naval base east of the Suez Canal, spread out over 1000 acres. The new naval base would be the home base for a bulk of the Indian Navy’s ...

The International 123 Civil Nuclear Agreement which was firmed up by PM Modi and US President Barack Obama on the 25th of Jan 2015, has boosted the capacity of all Indian Nuclear Power Plant to touch 90% power generating capacity. An agreement with the Nuclear Suppliers Group in Sept 2008 ...