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LCA Navy Trainer Prototype NP5 Successfully Completes its Maiden Flight

Bengaluru: The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Naval trainer prototype NP5 successfully completed its maiden flight on August 18. The maiden flight of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Naval Trainer Prototype 'NP5' was successfully conducted on...

India’s Bold Leap into Defence Exports

  "Military strength cannot be built overnight. The process of developing indigenous military technologies and weapon systems takes a much longer time. Building organisations capable of taking up such challenging tasks takes longer still,” says...

Self-Reliance as a Pragmatic Strategy for India’s Defence Sector

  Many compelling rationales underscore the imperative of fostering self-reliance within the Indian defence sector. Strategic autonomy encompasses the notion of self-reliance within the defence sector, allowing a nation to uphold its independence and refrain...

Is India Truly Self-reliant in Defence Production?

  Rising phoenix-like from centuries of subjugation to foreign invaders and colonisers, India has become the fifth largest economy in three-quarters of a century, overtaking its erstwhile colonial masters. It’s well on the way to...

US Congress Notified About GE-F414 Engine Deal by Biden Administration

New Delhi: In what could be a boost to India’s defence, the US State Department has notified the US Congress about the Biden Administration’s decision to manufacture GE-F 414 jet engines through full transfer...

Iran Upgrading its EW, GPS Denial Capabilities with Russia’s Help, Israel on Alert

Tel Aviv: Russia is helping Iran to upgrade its EW capabilities including GPS denial capabilities. This development is being closely followed by Israel and action is being taken to monitor the new development and...

HAL Commences Main Airframe Fatigue Test of LCA Mk1

Bengaluru: Defence Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has commenced the Main Airframe Fatigue Test (MAFT) of LCA Mk1 airframe at its Ground Test Centre of the Aircraft Research and Design Centre...

LCA Navy Successfully Makes Arrested Landing on INS Vikramaditya

New Delhi. After completing extensive trials on the Shore Based Test Facility (SBTF), Naval version of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) successfully made an arrested landing onboard INS Vikramaditya at 1002 hours on January 11....

India’s DRDO Scores Another First with Successful Night Time “Arrested Landing” of LCA by Navy

  New Delhi. India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scored another first with the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) carrying out a successful nighttime “arrested landing" by the Indian Navy at Shore Based Test Facility...

Indigenous Fighter Aircraft Completes Full Cycle from Aircraft Carrier

  New Delhi. Technology in Defence took a major step forward when indigenous aircraft LCA Naval Prototype-2 on September 29 launched off the ski jump at 1621 hours and subsequently “trapped” at 1631 hours on...

LCA to Graduate to Next Level with OBOX

  New Delhi: In yet another feather in its cap, the indigenously-built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas will be graduating to the next level with the installation of the On-board Oxygen (OBOX) generating system by...

Defence Minister Makes History Flying in LCA Tejas as First Minister

  New Delhi: It was “thrilling and special” what Defence Minister Rajnath Singh who scripted history September 19 by becoming the first Defence Minister to fly the fourth-generation indigenously built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) ‘Tejas’...

DRDO’s Aero India International Seminar – 2019 Concludes

  BENGALURU.In the run up to Aero India 2019, the 12th edition of Aero India International Seminar (AIS 2019) was inaugurated at Bengaluru on February 18 by Member NITI Aayog and former Defence Research and...
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