LRLACM during its test-flight from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha’s coast. (Photo: DRDO)New Delhi: India on Monday moved a step closer to fielding a homegrown long-range cruise missile after the Defence Research and Development Organisati...
Adm Dinesh K Tripathi and Adm Krishna Swaminathan (L) at South Block New Delhi: Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi retired on May 31, 2026, as the 26th chief of the naval staff, closing a 25-month tenure that will be remembered for record ...
Admiral Krishna Swaminathan. New Delhi: Admiral Krishna Swaminathan took command on Sunday as the 27th chief of the naval staff. He now steps into the role at a time when the service is pushing hard on modernization and facing intensifying strat...
New Delhi: The ministry of defence is looking for technology companies to design and build a significantly upgraded digital system for managing the Indian Navy’s weapons and armament supply chains. A formal request for information (RFI) has bee...
IAF chief ACM AP Singh in a Rafale simulator (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Air Force is procuring a next-generation multi-domain combat simulation system called Agni – an acronym for air combat, ground planning and network integrated &ndash...
New Delhi: Military institutions across South Asia share a specific institutional assumption that has proven consistently wrong: that the combination of physical security perimeters, rank hierarchy, and institutional discipline is sufficient to ...
Pakistan’s first Hangor-class submarine approaching a naval pier at Kota Kinabalu in East Malaysia (Photo: Royal Malaysian Navy)Pakistan commissioned PNS Hangor on 30 April 2026 in Sanya, China, in a ceremony attended by President Asif Ali Zard...
Mumbai: Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, the chief of integrated defence staff, has said that India's ability to prevail in future conflicts will depend not only on the sophistication of its fighter aircraft or warships but on the strength of its...
Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan. (Photo: Indian Navy) New Delhi: The government has appointed Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan as the next flag officer commanding in chief (FOC-in-C) of the Western Naval Command, headquartered in Mumbai. VAdm Vatsayan,...
Indian Navy helicopter fires NASM-SR missile in the Bay of Bengal (Photo: DRDO)New Delhi: In a boost to the country’s maritime defence capabilities, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy have successfully ...