New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) today effected an overhaul of its top brass, with a new officer taking charge as vice chief, apart from a slew of other new appointments the armed forces, including from the Indian Navy. Air Marshal Sandeep Singh, who was till yesterday […]
New Delhi: India today named the present air force vice chief Air Marshal V. R. Chaudhari to take over as the next Chief of Air Staff from Sep 30 afternoon and lead the force of 140,000 personnel and around 500 combat aircraft for at least the next two-and-a-half […]
New Delhi: India today took a few key decisions that will speed up the way its defence acquisitions are done, including reducing the timelines by half. India’s Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar tweeted the decisions, saying the acquisition wing of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Indian […]
(Editor’s Note: The currency conversion in paragraph one has be corrected to reflect accurate figure in US Dollars.) New Delhi: India’s Ministry of Defence today delegated financial powers up to Rs 300 crore ($40 million) to the armed forces to make emergency procurement of weapons and equipment to […]
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 […]
New Delhi: A Delhi-based defence research and development laboratory has designed a new generation war gaming software in collaboration with the Visakhapatnam-based Maritime Warfare Centre to meet the contemporary operation and tactical level requirement of the Indian Navy. The Institute for Systems Studies and Analysis (ISSA), a premier […]