RA News Desk

MUMBAI. Industry major Raymond Limited has announced the strategic appointment of Bhanu Prakash Srivastava as the Chief Executive Officer of its defence business. The decision marks a significant step forward in the textile and engineering...

The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), the trilateral effort by the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan to build a sixth-generation stealth fighter, has taken a major financial and technical step forward. On  July 3, 2026,...

Britain's Royal Navy has begun an extended testing programme for XV Excalibur, the largest uncrewed submarine it has ever operated, following a contract notice published on June 25 confirming a £6.68 million ($9 million)...

In a move aimed at giving India's defence manufacturing ecosystem long-term business certainty, the Indian Army has approved a five-year pipeline of restoration and modernisation orders worth more than ₹75,000 crore for its ageing...

A small demonstrator aircraft lifted off a dirt airstrip in western India after rolling forward barely 22 metres - roughly the length of two school buses - in a test that has validated a technology...

Adani Defence & Aerospace, the defence and aerospace arm of Adani Enterprises Limited, formally broke ground on a major missile manufacturing project in Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh, on 5 July 2026. Company officials describe the...

New Delhi: The Indian Navy is set to commission its sixth Project 17A indigenous stealth frigate, Mahendragiri (F38), at Visakhapatnam on July 11, 2026. Named after the majestic Mahendragiri mountain range in the Eastern Ghats,...

Bengaluru: Hical Technologies, a Bengaluru-based precision electromechanical manufacturer serving global aerospace and defence platforms, July 6 announced the groundbreaking of its new 160,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Hosur, Tamil Nadu.  The facility is being developed...

NEW DELHI. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), India's premier decision-making body for military procurement, chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, has accorded critical Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) approvals for capital acquisitions totaling ₹52,000 crore. This wide-ranging...

Long before he was launching constellations into orbit, Awais Ahmed was a curious child in Aldur, a quiet village nestled in Karnataka’s coffee-rich Chikkamagaluru district. In an era when kids his age were beginning...

A new generation of Indian-origin technocrats is reshaping the commercial foundation of the global space sector. At the forefront of this shift is Nebex, a visionary marketplace and financial exchange designed to connect sovereign governments,...

New Delhi: AMD on June 30 announced the AMD Versal™ Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package (MoP) adaptive system-on-chips (SoCs). The MoP architecture integrates up to 32GB of LPDDR5X into a single package, delivering...

Chennai: IPO-bound drone startup Garuda Aerospace has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Micron Instruments Pvt. Ltd., a leading Indian manufacturer of precision fuzes, defence ammunition systems, and critical military components. The partnership brings together two advanced...