Defence Industry

Kolkata: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd was accorded Navratna status by the Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, on Friday, June 19, 2026, signifying a monumental milestone in the shipyard’s...

New Delhi: Bharat Forge Limited (BFL) on June 19 signed a ₹425 crore contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), India, for the supply of Gas Turbine Generators (GTGs) to Indian Navy (IN) for onboard...

Paris. Austrian drone manufacturer Schiebel, in collaboration with defence leader Thales, has unveiled an armed variant of its next-generation Camcopter S-301 vertical take-off and landing drone, creating a lethal sensor-to-shooter platform. The rapid transformation of...

Hyderabad. Hyderabad-based aerospace pioneer Abyom SpaceTech and Defence has successfully fired India's first entirely in-house developed reusable liquid rocket engine, unlocking an affordable frontier for the nation's rapidly growing commercial space sector. The global aerospace...

Paris. German defence giant Rheinmetall has introduced a revolutionary shipping container multi-launcher capable of deploying lethal swarms of its newly developed FV-014 attack drones onto highly dynamic modern battlefields. The face of modern attrition warfare...

Paris: Hanwha Aerospace and Thales have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on land-based long-range precision strike capabilities. Hanwha will adapt its Chunmoo guided missiles to be compatible with Thales’ X-Fire launcher platforms. This...

Shirdi (Maharashtra). India's annual defence production hit a record ₹1.78 lakh crore in the 2025-26 fiscal year, highlighting a profound transformation from a weapons importer into an aggressive, sovereign exporter. The long-term trajectory of India's...

Paris. In response to the rapid proliferation of unmanned aerial systems and loitering munitions, Rheinmetall's Skyranger mobile air defence system has rapidly established itself as the premier short-range shield across NATO. The modern battlefield is...

Tel Aviv / Paris: Israeli defence companies exhibiting at Eurosatory 2026, which will conclude on Friday, June 19, attracted significant international interest, welcoming a steady stream of visitors and dozens of official delegations from...

San Fernando (Cádiz). The Navantia shipyard in San Fernando launched on June 18 afternoon the sixth corvette built for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF), named HMS ALMADINAH. This vessel, the first of the second...

Tel Aviv: Israeli defence companies continue to develop counter-UAS systems. Israeli company Rafael, and SpearUAV, an Israeli company developing AI-based encapsulated weapon systems, announced a strategic collaboration to develop and market the Iron Wasp. Iron...

Paris, France. Milanion Group and PT Republik Palindo Internasional (RPAL), a subsidiary of Republikorp, on June 17 announced a significant expansion of their unmanned surface vessel (USV) programme for the Indonesian Navy, signing a...

New Delhi/Eurosatory, Paris: SMPP, one of India’s leading defence and aerospace companies, has entered into a teaming agreement with KNDS, through its subsidiary SMPP Ammunition, to manufacture state-of-the-art Loitering Munitions (LMs) in India. The...