By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India is planning to hand over operations of its Army Base Workshop (ABW) in Delhi Cantonment to the private corporate with experience handling operations at industrial units. The move is one of the recommendations from the Lieutenant General D. B. Shekatkar panel […]
New Delhi: To boost the defence and aerospace manufacturing sectors, India has approved the launch of a testing infrastructure scheme with funding scope for Rs 400 crore ($53 million) to create the capability locally. “In order to give a boost to domestic defence and aerospace manufacturing, India’s Minister […]
New Delhi: India’s coast guard today got its 150th ship in its fleet inducted into the force, when defence minister Rajnath Singh commissioned three vessels via video conferencing due to the social distancing restrictions imposed by the government in view of the COVID-19 global crisis. Rajnath Singh, based […]
New Delhi: India’s Ministry of Defence today said it has signed a Rs 1,200 crore ($160 million) contract with Indian company Tata Power SED for the second phase of the military infrastructure modernisation programme to cover 37 of the air force, navy, and coast guard airfields. Approved by […]
By Amit Cowshish The COVID-19 pandemic has, among other things, disrupted the manufacturing activities and left the supply-chain in disarray across the globe. Its impact on the ongoing contracts must be agonising the vendors as they may not be able to adhere to the delivery timelines, potentially exposing […]
By Rahul Bedi The mounting anxiety and steadfast focus on the proliferating Coronavirus pandemic has clearly eclipsed the assortment of material contracts that India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed over the past fortnight, alongside numerous others which are imminent. Starting in late February, when the corona contagion […]
New Delhi: India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh today threw open the draft Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2020 that aims at further increasing indigenous manufacturing and reducing timelines for procurement of defence equipment for the public to receive inputs from the stake-holders. The draft DPP, prepared by a high […]
New Delhi: India today signed a contract with Israel Weapon Industries for buying 16,479 of its ‘Negev‘ light machine guns, meeting a long-standing need to modernise standard issue weapons for its armed forces. “The Acquisition Wing of Ministry of Defence has signed the capital acquisition contract with Israel […]
New Delhi: India will soon buy 83 Tejas Mk1A Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) for its air force that will boost the sagging combat fleet numbers of its fighter jets and energise the depleting order book of the state-run aircraft maker Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). The proposal to buy […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India will next week take a decision on the domestic and foreign companies eligible to compete for the $3-billion Naval Utility Helicopters contest, for which the Indian Navy had issued an Expression of Interest (EOI) in February 2019. The Defence Acquisition Council […]
New Delhi: India’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat‘s office is now prioritising procurement proposals of the armed forces based on immediate needs, and purging the approvals granted for acquisition of equipment that are now obsolete and don’t fit into the scheme of military plans. A […]
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 […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India has concluded a contract for putting in place 38 more static radars all along the 7,500-km coastline to plug the existing gaps in its Coastal Surveillance Network. The deal is for the Phase II of the project approved by the government […]
Lucknow: India-developed Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) from the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) stable received its Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) today, as the Indian armed forces see a large demand for the three-ton class of rotary wing assets to boost their aviation operations. With the IOC in place, […]
New Delhi: India will spend Rs 323,053 crore ($45.2 billion) on its armed forces from April 2020. The defence allocation for the year 2020-21 has been set at just 1.43 per cent of India’s GDP, one of the lowest in the recent years, as has been the trend […]
