By Neeraj Rajput and N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times New Delhi: India is sending its Rafale combat jets to France for a multi-nation air exercise. This is the first time the 2020-inducted Indian Air Force (IAF) fighters have flown overseas to join a wargame in a friendly […]
New Delhi: India has removed restrictions to do defence business on Italian arms major Leonardo S. p. A., but with riders including the company not making any financial claims over past deals. India had barred Leonardo in its earlier avatar as Finmeccanica in early 2014, even before Narendra […]
New Delhi: Like all his previous years in the constitutional position, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today celebrated Deepawali with the Indian armed forces. He visited Indian armed forces personnel in Nowshera district in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing the soldier, the prime minister said that spending Deepawali with the […]
New Delhi: India today said it has signed a $56-million contract with the United States to buy torpedo and missile counter-measures for its navy’s P-8I long range maritime surveillance aircraft from the Boeing Co. stable. The Rs 423-crore procurement of the MK 54 Torpedo from American defence firm […]
New Delhi: India‘s air force has placed a $21.2-million order on a domestic Small and Medium Enterprise for a counter-drone system that uses means other than a ‘hard kill’ to destroy hostile unmanned objects. The contract, worth Rs 155 crore, was signed earlier this week between Indian Air […]
Visakhapatnam: The Indian Navy today inducted the indigenously manufactured helicopters for operations from the air base here, providing much needed boost to the domestic aerospace industry and to its capabilities. Eastern Naval Command (ENC) Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Vice Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh inducted the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited-built Advanced […]