Defence Industry

  New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on November 22 welcomed the synergy being created between Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and industry for boosting the indigenous development of defence systems and technologies. In a...

  New Delhi: The government intends speeding up indigenous early warning aircraft being impressed by the performance of home-developed early warning aircraft during the Balakot air strikes earlier this year. The acquisition of two larger platforms...

  New Delhi: Budgetary constraints and speeding up of deliveries appear to have made the Indian Army plan to buy just 1,800 state-of-the-art sniper rifles and 2.7 million rounds of ammunition -- less than a...

New Delhi: French firm Naval Group has called the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) as its natural partner for the Rs 45,000 crore submarine project citing the example of production of Scorpene class submarines...

  New Delhi: In a move to bring closer coordination between premier technical and scientific institutions and the defence and security needs, the government has set up a national task force. The task force on ‘DRDO-Academia...

New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed defence offset contracts with a cumulative value of US$ 5.67 billion in the last three years, Lok Sabha was told on November 20. In a written...

  MARIETTA. The Lockheed Martin LM-100J commercial freighter received its type design update certification from the Federal Aviation Administration on November 15. This particular FAA certification allows the LM-100J to operate from any commercial airfield...

  The United Arab Emirates announce recently at the Dubai Airshow, that they intend to conclude a contract amendment for the purchase of two additional GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft from Saab. According to...

  New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on November 19 exhorted manufacturing companies participating at the Defence & Security Exhibition 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand to become part of Make in India reaffirming the Government’s commitment...

  Kolkata. Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE), a Miniratna Category 1 and a leading warship building company in the country under the administrative control of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) achieved yet another...

  Koblenz, Germany. Eurospike, a joint venture among Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd, Diehl Defence GmbH and Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH has signed a multi-year framework contract for the supply of SPIKE (also known as MELLS...

  Dubai. JSC Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec State Corporation) is demonstrating Russian systems, designed for the counteraction to unmanned aerial vehicles of all types, within the international aviation and space exhibition Dubai Airshow 2019. On November...

Dubai: India was delaying inking of a firm agreement for purchase of 200 helicopters, said Chief Executive Andey Boginsky of the Russian state-owned conglomerate Rostec adding that this was despite providing all information. He said...