By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India’s infantry soldiers will soon get to deploy a third generation Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) designed and developed by the domestic industry, as the army seeks to identify vendors to manufacture 2,330 missiles and 101 launchers, with six simulators for training purposes. […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India’s signature defence exhibition, DefExpo 2020, came to a close today in Lucknow, where the last five days witnessed a slew of agreements and Memorandum of Understanding being signed. India’s Defence Secretary Dr. Ajay Kumar had informed at the event that over […]
Lucknow: India’s lone aircraft maker, state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), today signaled the future of its business, by signing up with Israeli and Indian firms to carry out marketing for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to domestic customers, even as its order book for Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer and […]
Lucknow: India major Bharat Forge Limited (BFL) today signed up a partnership MoU with American firm General Atomics to probe opportunities to develop and integrate power generation, storage, control and distribution technologies to surface and underwater naval platforms to meet Indian requirements. “We have been relentlessly working towards […]
New Delhi: French military and security technology major Thales has offered to digitally transform India’s defence forces and will be showcasing products and technologies that it promises have the potential to enable India’s armed forces to achieve high ambitions and master every decisive moment. “In line with DefExpo-2020‘s […]
New Delhi: India’s defence and security solutions provider, Kanpur-based MKU Limited, will offer its indigenously designed, developed and manufactured products such as night vision weapon sights and body armour to the Indian armed forces and will showcase its domestic military manufacturing capability at this year’s DefExpo in Lucknow […]
New Delhi: India and Brazil today agreed to work jointly on cyber-defence and defence systems, among others, and on an action plan to strengthen their strategic partnership that could shape the way the United Nations’ Security Council (UNSC) could be reformed. After a bilateral meeting between the visiting […]
Kolkata: India’s state-run Garden Research Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) today touched a key milestone under the navy’s next generation frigates project, with a keel laying for the second of the three warships it would build under the programme. India’s Vice Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral G. […]
New Delhi: Israeli CONTROP Precision Technologies Limited, a company specialising in electro-optics and infrared (EO/IR) for defence and homeland security solutions, has won a tender from India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the supply of its iSky-50HD systems, for use on unmanned air platforms. The iSky-50HD […]
New Delhi: India today test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile with a 3,500-kilometre range from an under-water pontoon, imitating a nuclear-armed submarine. According to a tweet by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the India-made weapon system, codenamed K-4, was fired off the state’s coast. The […]
New Delhi: India has demonstrated that its indigenous Light Combat Aircraft‘s naval variant can land on board an aircraft carrier and take-off from a ski-jump runway on the flight deck of the warship, in efforts made yesterday and today. On Jan. 11, the naval variant of the Light […]
New Delhi: In a bid to prepare regulatory framework for long-range drones operations, India will soon conduct ‘beyond visual light of sight’ test flights of unmanned aircraft systems. The Narendra Modi government will also begin registering of drones in a few weeks to bring the operators under the […]
By Ayaskant Das, Staff Writer New Delhi: India plans to procure body armour developed by its army officer indigenously and is readying to identify a global industry to produce the bulletproof jackets, the process for which could begin in March, people with knowledge of the matter said today. […]
New Delhi: India today successfully tested an indigenous quick reaction missile system to validate its full capability of destroying targets in mid-air, completing its development trials and ready for induction by 2021. Developed by the Indian military research and development agency, the Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM) was […]
New Delhi: For the second consecutive day, India today carried out test-firing of the Pinaka missile from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur off Odisha coast, this time at a low-range to test its accuracy. Just yesterday, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) had carried out the […]
