New Delhi: Acquisition of new technologies and promotion of indigenisation will be the key result areas of Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, a fighter pilot, who took over as the Indian Air Force (IAF) chief today from Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Bhadauria, who retired from service. […]
New Delhi: India today gave its approval for procurement of $1.8-billion worth of weapons and military equipment for its armed forces, focusing on buying domestic products worth $1.55 billion among them. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh, accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) […]
New Delhi: India today said it has successfully tested a new variant of the indigenous air defence missile, Akash Prime, which uses a locally-made Radio Frequency (RF) Seeker to intercept enemy missiles, drones and aircraft. “A new version of the Akash missile — ‘Akash Prime’ — has been […]
New Delhi: India today placed a $1-billion order for 118 locally-made ‘Arjun‘ main battle tanks for its army, boosting self-reliance in the critical area of heavy combat vehicles and boosting its battle readiness against its archrivals China and Pakistan. “(The) Ministry of Defence (MoD) placed the order with […]
New Delhi: In a key impact of Defence.Capital‘s efforts, India’s defence ministry today announced that it has adopted a policy framework for synergised use of simulators by the four armed forces for their training solutions. “The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has promulgated the framework for enhanced and synergised […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the author’s. For the writer’s other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Vishal Nigam In a country as diversified as India, contribution of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to domestic production is unique and […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the author’s. For the writer’s other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Lieutenant General (Dr) V. K. Saxena From the perspective of self-reliance and ‘Atmnirbhar Bharat‘, India has a reason to cheer in the festive […]
New Delhi: In its second test in four days, an India-made Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) system tracked an airborne target accurately and successfully neutralised it, in yet another display of the Indian defence scientists’ mastery in missile technology. “The flight test, second in the series, […]
New Delhi: In just over a year from today, the Indian Navy will add fifth Scorpene submarine to its fleet, a serious addition to the sagging conventional underwater fighting capabilities, taking the strength to 17 by 2021. This has been made possible with the successful launch of the […]
