Defence Industry

Inspiring men leave you with inspiring thoughts which linger on with you long after you’ve met them. Last week I had the pleasure of being in the same room as Lt General Satish Dua,...

New Delhi. Following the outbreak of Covid-19 across the globe, DEFEA – Defence Exhibition Athens, scheduled to be held at Athens in Greece from June 22-24 this year has been moved to May 11-13...

TEL AVIV. RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems Ltd posted record sales of US$2.7 billion (9.7 billion Shekels) in 2019, which is an increase of 3.9 per cent compared to the corresponding period in the 2018,...

  New Delhi. Rosoboronexport and UralVagonZavod (UVZ), both part of Rostec State Corporation, have for the first time demonstrated the combat capabilities of the 155mm Msta-S self-propelled howitzer. The demonstration of the self-propelled gun system to...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...