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...
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,...
VAdm Swaminathan currently serves as FOC-in-C of the Western Naval Command (Photo: MoD)New Delhi: The government has appointed Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan as the next chief of naval staff, setting in motion a leadership transition at the top of ...
Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari (8L), and the country’s navy chief, Admiral Naveed Ashraf (10R), during the commissioning ceremony of PNS/M Hangor in China’s Sanya, on April 30, 2026. (Photo: Pakistan Navy/Handout)New Delhi: ...
INS Taragiri. (Photo: Indian Navy)Visakhapatnam: India expanded its naval combat capability on Friday when the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, commissioned INS Taragiri, at a ceremony here in Vizag. As reported by India Sentinels earlier, this is th...
Senior GRSE officials and Indian Navy officers during the handing-over ceremony of the three warships. (Photo: GRSE)Kolkata: In a rare display of shipbuilding momentum, the Indian Navy took delivery of three indigenously built vessels from Garden Rea...
Taragiri during its sea trials. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: The Indian Navy is set to commission its latest stealth frigate, F41, on April 3 in a ceremony to be presided over by the defence minister, Rajnath Singh. The frigate will be christened I...
VEM and TKMS executives after signing the agreement. (Photo: VEM-TKMS/Handout)Hyderabad: German naval giant ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has signed a teaming agreement with Hyderabad-based VEM Technologies Private Limited for the joint producti...
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile has been one of India’s most lethal arms exports. (File photo)New Delhi: The volume of major arms transferred between states reached its highest level in more than a decade in 2021–25, rising 9.2 per ...
INS Khanderi. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: India’s second Kalvari-class submarine, INS Khanderi, is scheduled to be fitted with an indigenously developed air-independent propulsion (AIP) system before the end of 2026, in what would mark a sig...