New Delhi: India today successfully conducted the maiden test-launch of its new generation Akash air defence missile off its eastern coast, a weapon system for intercepting highly manoeuverable low radar cross section aerial threats. The country’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) carried out the test from the […]
Bengaluru: In a big boost to indigenisation of defence industrial capability, India‘s state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) today successfully test-fired a Smart Anti Airfield Weapon (SAAW) from the Hawk-i aircraft off the coast of Odisha. The indigenous stand-off weapon developed by Research Centre Imarat (RCI), a laboratory of […]
New Delhi: European military systems firm Thales and India’s missile-maker Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) have signed a teaming agreement to partner on the STARStreak air defence system for the South Asian nation, with support for this tie-up from India and the United Kingdom governments. The teaming agreement was […]
New Delhi: India has locally developed a 9mm machine pistol through indigenous collaborative efforts by the defence scientists and infantry men, a model that could be considered apt for design and development of future weapons and military systems. The 9mm machine pistol — named ‘Asmi‘ that means ‘Pride’, […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: In a significant business opportunity for local companies in the beginning of a new year, India today approved the $6.5-billion locally-made combat jets procurement for the air force, boosting the aerospace and defence industry that has been fighting hard against COVID-induced negative […]
TV Show Series: Makers of Indian Defence towards Atmanirbhar Bharat By defence.capital on January 5, 2021 • ( Leave a comment ) (Editor’s Note: This is a partnered post for a television show series that Defence.Capital is a part of.) Atmanirbhar Bharat, a clarion call given by Prime […]
(Editor’s Note: This is a partnered post for a television show series that Defence.Capital is a part of.) Atmanirbhar Bharat, a clarion call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeks to put India on a path of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, making the nation a bigger and more important […]
New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), India’s state-run defence technology developer, today entered into an arrangement with the Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MAHA-METRO) to adopt and install the former’s indigenous eco-friendly biodigester units at the latter’s facilities, as a means to conserve water and […]
New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence today signed a contract with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for procurement of 10 Lynx U2 fire control systems for front line warships of Indian Navy at a cost of Rs 1,355 crore ($185 million) under Buy (Indian) category of the Defence Procurement […]
New Delhi: State-run Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) today signed a contract with the Indian Navy for initially supplying 20 Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation Dazzlers (Laser Dazzlers). The BEL had earlier this month won the contract beating global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in ‘Buy Global‘ category. […]
New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), along with the Indian Navy, today conducted the successful maiden test trial of ‘SAHAYAK-NG‘ India’s first indigenously designed and developed Air Dropped Container from IL-38SD aircraft of the navy off the coast of Goa. The trial was conducted by […]
New Delhi: Targeting a $5 billion defence exports by 2025, India today approved the export of its indigenous Akash air defence missile systems to friendly nations, in an indication of its growing confidence in its aerospace and defence manufacturing industry. Under the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, India is growing […]
(Editor’s Note: This is a ‘By Invitation’ article written by European missile maker MBDA’s India General Delegate. The article was first published in the Dec. 2020 print edition of Defence.Capital magazine.) By Boris Solomiac As the Indian Navy patrols the seas, it knows it has excellence at its […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India has bought a “small quantity” of the Israeli SPICE 2000 stand-off missiles and the Spike anti-tank guided missiles earlier this month to meet its immediate requirement, amidst a military face-off with China in the Ladakh border. The quantity purchased of the […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Fulfilling a 12-year-old commitment and a two-year rigorous testing, American aerospace and defence major Boeing Co. today said it has “proved” its F/A-18 combat jet can operate off a ski-jump ramp, giving a boost to its pitch for a possible 57-aircraft Indian […]
