New Delhi: Swedish defence minister Peter Hultqvist strongly pitched for SAAB’s Gripen fighter aircraft as New Delhi looks to acquire 114 fighter aircraft to replace its old fleet as well as make up the...
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh June 7 released an E-booklet titled ’20 Reforms in 2020’, highlighting the major reforms undertaken by Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 2020, in New Delhi on June 07,...
New Delhi. Thales today announced the appointment of Ashish Saraf as Vice-President and Country Director for India with effect from June 1, 2021. In this role, Ashish will lead the company’s India business and...
New Delhi. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), in its meeting held under the Chairmanship of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on June 4, 2021,has approved proposals concerning Capital Acquisitions of various equipment for modernisation and...
New Delhi. The defence ministry has reserved over Rs 17,500 crore this year for procurement from the non-public trade after notifying a unfavourable import checklist, as a part of its measures to encourage home...
Tel Aviv. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) recently signed a US$ 200 million contract to provide unmanned aerial systems (UAS) services to India, that operates the Israeli company's Heron-1 UAS.
Earlier this year India purchased and...
New Delhi: The meeting to review and clear the decision on the second defence negative import list is now expected next week. According to the sources in the defence establishment, the list has been...
New Delhi. With the deadly Covid-19 virus continuing its death march across the world disrupting normal life and offices closed and sports coming to a halt, Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection...
Washington: Even though details of President Joe Biden’s first defence budget won’t be out until May 28, but battle lines are already being drawn by lawmakers on the left and right. For Hill progressives,...
New Delhi: The MMRCA (Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft) tender was issued in 2007 to bridge the gap of declining fighter squadrons in the Indian Air Force (IAF) and fulfill its desired squadron strength of...
On May 22, a MiG-21 Bison jet flown by Squadron Leader Abhinav Choudhary was on a routine training sortie and was returning to Suratgarh when it crashed in a field near Moga, Punjab. In...
Moscow. A top Russian defence expert - Konstantin Makiyenko, Deputy Director and founder of post-Soviet Russia’s first independent think tank - Centre for Analyses of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) was given a tearful farewell...
Washington: Declaring that "America is rising anew" under his leadership, President Joe Biden has told China that the US will maintain a "strong" military presence in the Indo-Pacific "not to start conflict, but to...