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MKU expands India’s defence footprint in Africa

Kanpur-based defence technology company MKU Ltd is set to deepen its presence in Africa with a new manufacturing facility in Morocco, taking its nearly five-year engagement with the North African country from supplying defence equipment to local production. Read More

GE Aerospace ships four more F404 engines to HAL for Tejas-Mk1A

GE Aerospace ships 4 more F404 engines to HAL

GE Aerospace has shipped four more F404-IN20 engines to HAL, lifting total supplies to 14 as Tejas-Mk1A production tries to catch up. Read More

DRDO conducts first live jump of high-altitude parachute system at Nyoma

DRDO tests high-altitude parachute at Nyoma

DRDO has conducted the first live jump of its Advanced High-Altitude Parachute at Nyoma, testing a static line system built for paratroopers at altitudes up to 18,000 feet. Read More

DRDO's HAPS: India tests indigenous high-altitude airship that could fill the gap between drones and satellites

DRDO airship hits 21 km in HAPS trial

DRDO’s indigenous High-Altitude Platform airship has reached 21 km and held altitude for over 30 minutes, a step up from its 17 km debut in May 2025. Read More

HSL launches first fleet support ship

Hindustan Shipyard launched FSS-1, the first of five Fleet Support Ships for the Navy, and laid the keel of FSS-5 at Visakhapatnam in the presence of Rajnath Singh. Read More

IIT Roorkee, India Optel Limited sign MoU to boost indigenous defence research

IIT Roorkee, IOL sign MoU to boost defence research

IIT Roorkee and India Optel Limited have signed an MoU to collaborate on defence research, indigenization, training and industry-academia engagement. Read More

Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu inaugurates AKSI Aerospace’s Agni Kalash combat drone at Vijayawada

Naidu inaugurates AKSI’s Agni Kalash combat drone

Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated AKSI Aerospace's Agni Kalash, an indigenous long-range combat drone, at the PanIIT Andhra Pradesh Summit 2026 in Vijayawada. Read More

Mahindra, Embraer pick Nagpur for C-390 final assembly line

Mahindra and Embraer have named Nagpur as the proposed site for a C-390 Millennium assembly line, subject to the aircraft winning the IAF's transport programme. Read More

DRDO’s 30 kW directed-energy weapon set to strengthen India’s Sudarshan Chakra air defence

DRDO’s 30 kW laser weapon nears production

DRDO says the first production model of its 30 kW laser weapon will be ready within a year, with an industry partner to be chosen in six months Read More

Gujarat-based Tirupati Forge Limited gets licence to make artillery shells

Tirupati Forge gets licence to make artillery shells

Gujarat-based Tirupati Forge has received an industrial licence for empty artillery shells in seven calibres and plans pilot production from December 2026. Read More