Defence Industry

BENGALURU. Pratt & Whitney, a Raytheon Technologies business, today officially opened the doors to its new India Engineering Center (IEC) in Bengaluru. The facility is co-located with Pratt & Whitney’s India Capabilities Center (ICC), which opened...

  DE&S has awarded a £1.6 billion contract to Team Resolute to manufacture the vessels providing munitions, stores and provisions to the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers, destroyers and frigates. Creating 1,200 UK shipyard jobs, hundreds of...

  Tel Aviv: Israeli company XTEND, the developer of XOS - a human-guided autonomous operating system that is revolutionizing ‘human to machine’ interaction, has been awarded a $20 million contract by Israel Ministry of Defense,...

Haifa, Israel: Elbit Systems Ltd. announced January 17 that it signed a contract in an amount of approximately $95 million with the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMoD) to supply and maintain advanced electro-optical systems...

New Delhi: Swedish aerospace and defence company, Saab, which had entered into a partnership with Adani Group to manufacture the Gripen E fighter in India, said on January 16 that it was no longer...

  Moscow / New Delhi: Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited, a joint venture between Russia (Rosoboronexport and Kalashnikov Concern, subsidiaries of the Rostec State Corporation) and India has started producing Kalashnikov assault rifles. "Russia and India are...

Ulm/Germany. Sensor specialist HENSOLDT has promised German Chancellor Olaf Scholz short- and medium-term supplies to expand the capabilities of the Bundeswehr. Commenting on the visit to HENSOLDT's Ulm site, the Chancellor said: "Here in...

Tel Aviv: European countries are showing great interest in the Israel Drone Dome system that protects against threats posed by armed drones. This peak interest is explained by the heavy use of armed UAV...

Kolkata: ICGS Kamla Devi, the Fast Patrol Vessel (FPV) designed, built and delivered by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd to the Indian Coast Guard a few days ago, was commissioned in Kolkata...

Tel Aviv: The Smash Individual Weapon Overmatch Optic (IWOO) system made by Israeli company Smart Shooter reached its final milestone by successfully passing the IWOO Technology Readiness Review (TRR). Two prototype systems were taken...

New Delhi: In a move aimed at narrowing the gap in capability between the Indian Navy and the PLA Navy (PLAN), the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been given permission to develop...

Bhubaneswar: Startup firm IG Drones, which was born out of Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) campus in Odisha’s Sambalpur has developed a 5G-enabled drone that is capable of vertical take-off and landing. The...

New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for three capital acquisitions totalling about Rs 4,276 crore of which two are for the Army...