Defence Industry

MARINETTE, Wishington, August 14, 2018. The Lockheed Martin-led industry team officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy's 23rd Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Cooperstown, in a ceremony held at Fincantieri Marinette...

  DALLAS, August 14, 2018. The US Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $218 million contract to produce High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers and associated hardware for an international customer. With this procurement, HIMARS...

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in April 2015 that India will buy 36 French-manufactured Rafale fighter jets off-the-shelf from Dassault Aviation, the French aircraft builder and integrator. It may be noted here that India...

London. Rolls-Royce has signed an agreement with Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s leading port operator, and global towage operator Svitzer, to develop the next generation of technologies which will keep Britain trading. The agreement...

  New Delhi. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met in New Delhi on August 13 and accorded approval for the procurement of six indigenously designed and manufactured Next Generation...

  Aligarh. Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor took off to a great start with an announcement of investment over Rs 3700 crore in defence production at Industry Meet organised at Aligarh on August 11. The event...

  New Delhi. When the ‘Make in India’ initiative was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September 2014 to transform India into a global design and manufacturing hub, Defence Manufacturing was identified as...

NEW DELHI. Korea-India defence cooperation will get a major boost with Korean defence contractors evincing avid interest in investing in India’s defence industrial corridors coming up in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. This was stated...

The prospective PD-35 aircraft engine being developed by United Engine Corporation (UEC, part of Rostec) can potentially be used in a new generation of Russian super-heavy planes that are planned to replace An-124 Ruslan...

  The latest version of Rolls-Royce stabilisation systems adds the potential for ice class ships to benefit from the company’s Stabilisation-at-Rest (SAR) concept. The SAR system, incorporated to both the Aquarius and Neptune ranges of Rolls-Royce...

  The new MTU Onsite Energy 20V 4000 DS3600 genset was recently launched on the market. Based on enhanced MTU Series 4000 engines from Rolls-Royce, the 20V 4000 DS3600 diesel genset significantly outperforms previous offerings...

  JSC Rosoboronexport, part of the Rostec State Corporation, has started promoting the newest Tor-E2 SAM system developed and produced by the Almaz-Antey Air and Space Defense Concern. The Tor-E2 is a long-awaited novelty in the...

  Rome, August 9, 2018. Leonardo, through its German subsidiary Selex ES GmbH, has secured a number of international contracts for its Meteor family of radars in the first half of 2018. The deals follow...