Defence Industry

Washinton: The proposed American sale of MK-45 naval guns to India would boost the capability of Indian Navy to meet current and future threats, Pentagon said on December 4. The Trump Administration last month notified...

New Delhi: With a view to boosting defence sector as Uttar Pradesh is one of the two states to have a Defence Industrial Corridor (DIC) and upcoming DefExpo in Lucknow in February next year,...

  Pune: In a move to keep the defence sector updated on developments in the field of science and technology, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman G Satheesh Reddy on December 2 indicated that...

  SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), the world’s leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), has been advised that the Australian Government has selected GA-ASI’s MQ-9B SkyGuardian® variant to provide the...

  Bengaluru. Leading Defence Public Sector Units (DPSUs) Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and BEML Limited at BEL-Bangalore organised a roadshow on December 3 in the run-up to the 11th biennial edition of DefExpo India-2020, scheduled...

  New Delhi: During last three financial years (2016-17 to 2018-19), 149 capital acquisition contracts in procurement of defence equipment have been concluded, out of which 58 contracts worth about Rs 1,38,727.16 crores and 91...

New Delhi: With the aim of encouraging domestic industry, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has offered free access to over 450 patents for commercial exploitation. This unprecedented move is intended to provide a...

  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...