New Delhi: American aerospace and defence giant Boeing Co. is continuing to expand the Indian Navy’s long-range maritime reconnaissance anti-submarine warfare capabilities with the delivery of the country’s tenth P-8I aircraft. The patrol aircraft is an integral part of the Indian Navy’s fleet and has surpassed 30,000 flight […]
New Delhi: India’s defence research and development agency today said it has developed Single Crystal Blades technology and supplied 60 of these blades to the nation’s lone aircraft manufacturer for helicopter engine applications. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said in a statement here that this supply was […]
New Delhi: The United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group 2021, led by HMS Queen Elizabeth, will sail to India in the autumn on its maiden operational deployment. As a representation of the ‘Indo-Pacific tilt’ in the UK’s foreign policy, the HMS Queen Elizabeth Carrier – the largest ship ever built […]
New Delhi: Global defence major BAE Systems has appointed Ravi Nirgudkar as the next managing director of the company in India with immediate effect. His predecessor Nik Khanna has bagged an assignment with the company’s air sector in the United Kingdom and will be taking up the responsibility […]
New Delhi: European military systems firm Thales and India’s missile-maker Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) have signed a teaming agreement to partner on the STARStreak air defence system for the South Asian nation, with support for this tie-up from India and the United Kingdom governments. The teaming agreement was […]
(Editor’s Note: This is a ‘By Invitation’ article written by European missile maker MBDA’s India General Delegate. The article was first published in the Dec. 2020 print edition of Defence.Capital magazine.) By Boris Solomiac As the Indian Navy patrols the seas, it knows it has excellence at its […]
By Ayaskant Das New Delhi: The need for artificial intelligence and unmanned systems in maritime surveillance is being increasingly felt because of the regularity with which the indigenous ship-building industry is delivering platforms to the Indian Navy. The increase in the inventory of platforms with the navy comes […]
By Dr S. Jaishankar We are all here virtually to remember Manohar Parrikar, who would have turned 65 years old today. It is natural for us to express our feelings and recall our associations. I myself had the opportunity of working with him as Foreign Secretary. Quite apart […]
(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 Shokin Chauhan The 1950–1951 invasion of Tibet by the People’s Liberation Army resulted in significant changes in the Chinese relationship with […]
New Delhi: India and Nepal are two nations with one people and for this reason alone, both sides should work on resolving their differences, including the border row, through talks, and work towards a positive transformation in ties, leading experts from both the nations have said. They were […]
New Delhi: Indian private sector technology company, Dynamatic Technologies Limited, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government’s Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIR-CSIO) to jointly design, develop and manufacture futuristic solutions for defence and aerospace, healthcare and agriculture industries. “Our partnership with CSIO is aligned to Government […]
Hyderabad (India): Cyient, a global digital engineering and technology company, has bagged a partnership with SPRINT, a business innovation support programme, to accelerate innovation in the United Kingdom‘s space sector and to strengthen the mutual focus on industry collaboration. The partnership will enable Cyient to identify new business […]
New Delhi: Pakistan has been eliminating its Sikh population for decades through killings, rapes, abductions and forced marriages of young women, yet is funding and fueling Khalistani terrorism and separatist movement globally to achieve it sinister plans to break up India, a Canadian expert, who authored a recently […]
New Delhi: India’s defence corridor in Uttar Pradeh is all set to get a boost with iconic United Kingdom firearms company Webley & Scott all set to begin production at its facility there, the first such development in 30 months. The company, which armed the Allied Powers during […]
New Delhi: The COVID-19 pandemic and the lock down announced by the Narendra Modi government has bled the Civil Aviation industry in India. The government today told Parliament of India that the impact of the COVID-19 lock down was so severe on the aviation industry that the domestic […]
