New Delhi: India today signed a contract with a domestic defence major to supply 1,300 Light Specialist Vehicles at a cost of $146 million for its army. These vehicles would be inducted in the Indian Army in four years. India’s Ministry of Defence firmed up and signed the […]
New Delhi: India’s defence public sector undertaking BEML Limited has bagged export orders from central African nation Cameroon and neighbour Bangladesh under Lines of Credit extended by the Indian government to buy construction equipment. BEML Limited is a ‘Schedule A’ company under India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) and […]
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 […]
Larsen & Toubro’s whole-time director and senior executive vice president (defence and smart technologies) J. D. Patil, in this exclusive interview, tells Defence.Capital editor N. C. Bipindra that lack of warship building orders is killing India’s private sector shipyards. Ques. Please provide our readers with an overview of […]
India’s Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh tells Defence.Capital editor N. C. Bipindra in this Part 1 of an exclusive interaction earlier this month that the Indian Navy‘s modernisation focus is based on ‘Ordnance on Target’ as an important measure of combat effectiveness; and acquisition of mission-capable […]
New Delhi: India‘s army is scouting for Indian vendors to meet its needs for three different types of ammunition, all of them over a 10-year period. The requirement will be met through private sector only. The Master General of Sustenance of the Indian Army has issued the Requests […]
New Delhi: India‘s leading engineering, procurement and construction projects, manufacturing, defence and services conglomerate Larsen & Toubro‘s (L&T’s) defence arm was today awarded the coveted ‘Green Channel‘ status for major naval weapon delivery systems. The Ministry of Defence‘s (MoD’s) Directorate General Quality Assurance (DGQA) accorded the status to […]
New Delhi: India today inducted its fourth anti-submarine warfare warship in six years, shoring up navy’s fighting capabilities against underwater threats, primarily from China‘s submarines that have sneaked too close to its territorial waters in the recent years. Indian Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane commissioned INS Kavaratti, […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated at 5 pm on Sep. 30 with New DAP 2020 document at the end, and previously updated at 9 pm on Sep. 28 with the defence minister’s remarks and reactions from the industry on DAP-220 at the end.) New Delhi: India’s new acquisition rules for […]
New Delhi: The Indian Army has sought vendor responses to buy 804 night sights with thermal imaging capability for 30mm automatic anti-personnel grenade launchers, to enhance their utilisation during operations. The AGS-30 — as the grenade launcher is called in the Infantry Directorate — engagements at present are […]
By Anurag Garg Formation of Defence Industrial Corridors (DICs) is one of the most significant steps in pursuit of local capability development and capacity creation by the Indian government. DICs announced for states of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu can prove a boon for these states’ economy, just […]
Hazira (Gujarat): India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh today flagged off the 51st K9 VAJRA-T howitzers for the Indian Army manufactured by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) at its facility here, marking a success in the ‘make in India’ project for the South Korean-origin weapon system. At the ceremony, […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: The Indian Navy has come up with the latest edition of its ‘Naval Aviation Indigenisation Road‘ (NAIR) for a three-year period till 2022, which includes spares and parts for its aviation assets including the Russian-origin MiG29K variants and the US-made P8I maritime […]
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has approved purchase of $260-million worth of defence equipment, including an anti-tank missile, from the Indian industry, the Parliament of India was informed today. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), headed by the defence minister, has given approval of Capital procurement for the […]
New Delhi: India has set a target of $26-billion defence industry by 2025 and to achieve this target, the Narendra Modi government has taken several policy measures through the Ministry of Defence. Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik told members of Parliament of India from the Council […]
