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MoD Mulls Deploying Independent Monitors to Decide on Contract Winner for SPAD Gun Missile

Admin - March 25, 2020

New Delhi: The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) is mulling to deploy independent monitors to prepare a report and submit it on the Self Propelled Air Defence Gun Missile System (SPAD-GMS) deal. “Russia had raised...

OFB Earmarks 285 Beds for Covid-19 Isolation Wards

Admin - March 25, 2020

New Delhi: With a view to helping the government to tackle the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has designated 285 beds for isolation wards handling the cases. Forty beds have been earmarked in...

Transforming Ideas into Reality – Back to the Basics

Abhishek Jain - March 25, 2020

Most of the people reading this article would relate to my experience when I had just finished schooling and wanted to choose the branch in engineering. At that time the opinion of the lead...

6th Generation Aerial Warfare: Will It be Fought Among Autonomous Drones

Admin - March 25, 2020

The squadron idiot said, “drones are getting smarter by the day…., while pilots are getting dumber.” It sounded like a joke at first. But then, there’s an eery truth hidden behind those few words. A...

Israel’s Make with India Strategy

P R Kumaraswamy - March 25, 2020

By reinventing itself to changing situations, Israel has emerged as a critical player in the Make in India campaign of the government in the defence sector. Since the normalisation of relations in 1992, military-security...

What is Holding Russia’s Make in India Spree?

Vinay Shukla - March 24, 2020

With the announcement of Make in India policy by the newly elected government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2014, Russia was one of the first countries to positively react and had expected...

US-India Defence Ties to Gain Belated Fillip with Industrial Security Annex

Kashish Parpiani - March 24, 2020

The US and India recently concluded the second edition of 2+2 consultative ministerial dialogue. Held between the chiefs of India and the United States’ defence and foreign ministries, the consultative platform stands symptomatic of...

Modernisation of Ordnance Factories as per Comprehensive Modernisation Plan Prepared by OFB

Admin - March 23, 2020

New Delhi: Modernisation of Ordnance Factories has been carried out in the last decade by procurement of state-of-the-art machines as per the Comprehensive Modernisation Plan for the 11th and 12th Five Year Plan prepared...

Ministry of Defence Signs Rs 880 Crore Contract with IWI for Modern LMGs

Admin - March 19, 2020

New Delhi: The Armed Forces' long-standing requirement of a modern state-of-the-art Light Machine Gun (LMG) has finally fructified with the Acquisition Wing of Ministry of Defence inking a capital acquisition contract with Israel Weapons...

Reforms have Boosted Defence Exports, Lok Sabha told

Admin - March 19, 2020

New Delhi: The reforms and various steps taken by the government has boosted defence exports with the authorisation for defence exports in the country growing seven folds in the last two years, Lok Sabha...

OFB Exported Two 52 Calibre Barrels to Swedish Company Bofors

Admin - March 19, 2020

New Delhi: Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) said it has exported two 52 calibre barrels to Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors AB from which it had imported 155 mm howitzer guns in the mid-1980s. In the last...

OFB Observes 219th Foundation Day

Admin - March 19, 2020

New Delhi: Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) observed its 219th foundation day on March 18 with the first one known as the ‘Gun and Shell Factory’ at Cossipore in Kolkata being established on this date...

HAL Conducts First Flight for FOC of LCA Tejas

Admin - March 17, 2020

New Delhi: In a major development for the indigenously-developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on March 17 conducted first flight for final operational clearance (FOC) standard (SP-21) variant of the...

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