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: 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 today said it has signed a $184-million contract with domestic firm Mahindra Defence Systems Limited to supply 14 anti-submarine warfare system to its navy. The contract, worth Rs 1,340 crore in Indian currency, was signed here under the ‘Buy and Make (Indian)‘ category of defence […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India today issued a much-awaited tender documents to two major local shipyards to compete for bagging the $5.9-billion contract for six futuristic attack submarines for the navy. This tender kicks off what is the first-ever defence procurement project under the Strategic Partnership […]
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, […]