— By HumaNew Delhi: India has doubled the number of MQ-9B Sea Guardian drones it operates on lease, giving the Indian Navy additional long-endurance surveillance capacity at a time when activity by Chinese naval and research vessels across the ...
Indian and Singaporean warships. (File photo)— By Huma Siddique New Delhi: The second Asean-India Maritime Exercise is set to put an increasingly important question at the center of the Indo-Pacific: how can countries that depend on the se...
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...
Sixth Nilgiri-class stealth frigate -- Mahendragiri. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi/Visakhapatnam: The Indian Navy will commission Mahendragiri, the sixth Nilgiri-class stealth frigate built under the indigenous Project 17A programme, into its Eastern...
HSL's new CMD Rear Admiral Chandrasekharan Raghuram (R).New Delhi/Visakhapatnam: Former Indian Navy officer Rear Admiral Chandrasekharan Raghuram (Retd), took charge as the chairman and managing director of Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) o...
New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence has floated a request for information (RFI) for tactical multi-copter surveillance drones meant to bolster security at naval bases and other sensitive installations. It marks the Indian Navy’s first formal mov...
Indian Navy contingent with P8I aircraft. (Photo: Indian Navy PRO)New Delhi: The Indian Navy has deployed a P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine-warfare aircraft to Hawaii to take part in the Rim of the Pacific (Rimpac) 2026 exe...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi (L) in Delhi. (Photo: MEA)New Delhi: India and Japan on Thursday formally inked an agreement for the joint development of the Unified Complex Radio Antenna – or UNICORN &...
New Delhi: The Indian Navy is set to commission two more indigenously built warships – INS Mahendragiri and INS Malvan – next month, pressing ahead with the fastest sustained fleet expansion in its recent history.The stealth frigate ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indian Navy Chief Admiral K Swaminathan (L) during commissioning of three vessels (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi/Kolkata: In only the second such ceremony in recent years, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, on Sunday c...