GE F-414 jet engine (Photo: X)Two GE Aerospace engines – two programmes, two separate crises – have placed India’s indigenous fighter aviation ambitions under a degree of stress that is difficult to explain purely by market forces o...
Netra AEW&C. (Screenshot from IAF video.)New Delhi/Bengaluru: India’s indigenous airborne early warning programme reached a definitive milestone on Wednesday when the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) formally handed...
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 ...
The wreckage of the AN-32 that crashed near Jorhat. (Photo: X)New Delhi/Jorhat: Five Indian Air Force personnel died on Saturday morning when an An-32 twin-engine transport aircraft crashed near Jorhat in Assamduring what the force described as a rou...
Image captionNew Delhi: India could be looking at significant gains on two fronts of its strategic partnership with France – fighter jet technology and civil nuclear energy – as the prime minister, Narendra Modi, prepares for a week-long ...
New Delhi: The defence ministry is considering invoking contractual penalty clauses against state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) over its failure to deliver a single Tejas Mk1A fighter jet to the Indian Air Force (IAF), more than two years...
From left: Richard Marles, John Healey, and Pete Hegseth. (Photo via X/@DefenceHQ)New Delhi: The trilateral security arrangement between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia (Aukus) has announced its most operationally substantive pac...
Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit. (Photo: IDS)New Delhi: The government has appointed Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit the next vice-chief of the air staff (VCAS) of the Indian Air Force, placing one of the service’s most experienced fighter pilots and sen...