Defence Industry

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has ordered four additional Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft for the Royal Saudi Arabia Air Force (RSAF). The first of these aircraft will enter...

New Delhi: Announcing that India has achieved its highest-ever growth in defence production in 2023-24,  Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on July 5 highlighted the significant progress of the Make in India initiative and new...

Moscow: ROSOBORONEXPORT JSC (part of Rostec State Corporation) has established manufacturing of 3VBM17 Mango armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding-sabot (APFSDS) rounds in India. The ammunition is designed to defeat armoured vehicles fitted with composite armour. The...

New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence, under the Defence Testing Infrastructure Scheme (DTIS), on signed an MoU on July 2, 2024 to establish three state-of-the-art testing facilities in Chennai for the Tamil Nadu...

New Delhi: Giving a strategic push to its India operations, Dassault Aviation SA is in the process of acquiring land near Jewar international airport for a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility for India’s...

Tel Aviv: The clear vulnerability of MALE UAVs over an area saturated with air defence systems and the possible need of an Israeli action against Iran has accelerated the evaluation of the operational pattern of these...

ST. LOUIS. Boeing has completed the upgrade and life extension of the first two service life modification (SLM) F/A-18 Block III Super Hornets, delivering them to the US Navy one month ahead of schedule...

TOYOTA, Japan. SkyDrive Inc., a leading Japanese eVTOL aircraft manufacturer based in Japan, Saha Pathana Inter-Holding Public Company Limited (SPI) and Saha Tokyu Corporation Company Limited (Saha Tokyu) on June 28 announced that they...

Bengaluru: Navratna Defence PSU, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), has signed a contract valued at Rs 3,172 crore  with Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited (AVNL) on June 28, 2024, at AVNL Headquarters in Chennai. The project entails...

Sweden. Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for ten combat boats. The order value is approximately SEK 400 million. The contract period begins in 2024 and deliveries will...

SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and Lockheed Martin are collaborating to provide Net-Enabled Weapons (NEW) capability for GA-ASI’s MQ-9B SeaGuardian® Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The addition of NEW capability for SeaGuardian...

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida.Two of the U.S. Army’s T901 Improved Turbine Engines (ITE) arrived at Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), signaling a new phase of Black Hawk® helicopter modernization efforts. The T901 engine,...

Sweden. Saab has today signed a contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) regarding delivery of a third GlobalEye airborne early warning and control aircraft to Sweden. The order value is approximately SEK...