DRDO-developed 30kW laser weapon (File photo)New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) expects the first-of-production model (FOPM) of its 30 kW-class directed-energy weapon (DEW) to be ready within a year. It will invite an...
Bengaluru: State-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is flying additional sorties of the Tejas-Mk1A to resolve problems in integrating the aircraft’s radar and missiles, its chairman and managing director, Ravi Kota said.He said HAL was n...
Ask what the Pakistan Navy is built for and the answer has not changed in decades: the Arabian Sea and whatever lies between Karachi and an Indian adversary. Every frigate, submarine and replenishment ship in its inventory has been bought, crewed and...
INS Vikrant (File photo)South of the Nicobar Islands, a Chinese survey ship spends weeks mapping the seabed. Officially, it studies marine geology. In practice, it collects bathymetry, salinity layers and acoustic profiles, the exact data a submarine...
Rajnath Singh at Kargil War Memorial. (Photo: Ministry of Defence)Dras: Operation Sindoor stands as evidence that India can meet Pakistan’s provocations with a force “far beyond its imagination,” the defence minister, Rajnath Singh,...
New Delhi: India took a significant step towards weaning itself off imported air-defence hardware on Thursday, with the Defence Research and Development Organisation carrying out the first flight test of Kusha, its long-range surface-to-air missile, ...
A UAE-flagged ship after being hit with a missile during the current US-Iran war. (Photo: X)New Delhi: The deaths of four Indian seafarers in Russia’s missile strike on the merchant vessel MV Golden Leo have intensified concerns among India&rsq...
MV Leo. (Photo: X/@NEXTA)New Delhi: India has strongly condemned a Russian missile strike on a merchant vessel departing Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa that killed four Indian seafarers, calling the attack on commercial shipping “deplo...
Jean-Brice Dumont. (Photo: Airbus)New Delhi: MBDA, Europe’s largest missile manufacturer, has appointed Jean-Brice Dumont, a senior Airbus executive, as its next chief executive officer, with effect from November 1, 2026. Dumont will succe...