Defence Industry

Taipei: Taiwan began major military drills August 5 to test commanders’ ability to fight on the fly when enemy movements defy expectations, while temporarily limiting internet access for the first time, senior Taiwan officials...

Tel Aviv: Israel Ministry of Defence (IMOD) Director General, Maj Gen (Res.) Amir Baram held a brainstorming session with the CEOs of roughly 20 leading defence-tech and startup companies, focused on the Ministry's strategy...

New Delhi: CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories has made significant progress in the indigenous development of carbon fibre reinforced carbon–silicon carbide ceramic matrix composites. These Cf/C-SiC composites have been designed for critical  aerospace applications such as aircraft...

New Delhi: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has inaugurated India’s first indigenous high‑thrust engine test bed at its Koraput Division in Odisha, while also extending the Total Technical Life (TTL) of the AL‑31FP turbofan engine...

Mumbai: Swan Defence and Heavy Industries Limited (SDHI), India’s largest shipbuilding and heavy engineering company, has secured a contract from Denmark-based towage operator Svitzer A/S to construct four advanced TRAnsverse 3200 tugs. Deliveries for the...

Washington: The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) next week will kick off its inaugural Lift Challenge, a weeklong competition that aims to “revolutionise heavy vertical-lift aviation” by finding a drone capable of lifting...

NEW DELHI. In a major push toward modernising India’s national security framework, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has underlined the urgent necessity of deepening integration between the military and civilian components of the Ministry of Defence...

New Delhi: Hyderabad-based  defence start-up Apollyon Dynamics has unveiled the Nightshade ADX-1, a jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle designed to redefine aerial warfare, media reports said. The UAV is engineered for missions in heavily defended airspace,...

Bruges, Belgium. Sol.One, the Belgian developer of autonomous drone systems and defence technology, on August 3 announces three major steps in its growth trajectory. The company's ambition is to rank among the top 5 UAV...

Bengaluru: Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), a Navratna Defence Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Esri India Technologies Private Limited on August 3, 2026, aimed for cooperation in surge deployment...

Tel Aviv: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) of all sorts are playing a greater role in combat. This has been driven by the ongoing war in Ukraine and the recent war with Iran. Israeli company Elbit...

Bengaluru: India's quantum skilling model just changed. Instead of training one classroom at a time, QNu Labs, a global leader in full-stack sovereign quantum cybersecurity, incubated at IIT Madras Research Park and backed by the...

Washington: Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading US artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China’s defence capabilities, according to a Reuters review of...