The chief of Integrated Defence Staff has called for urgent acceleration of the Ghatak remotely piloted strike aircraft programme, warning that India risks falling behind adversaries in the emerging domain of manned-unmanned aerial combat teaming. Read More

The Hyderabad-based precision engineering group has signed an MoU with the state’s investment promotion body to build a 100-acre complex focused on micro turbojet engines and unmanned aerial vehicles, promising 3,000 jobs. Read More

The Pune-based autonomous-systems maker, which recently obtained an industrial licence for explosives manufacture, plans to build a full-spectrum defence production hub in the state, backed by a new MoU signed in the presence of the defence minister and chief minister. Read More

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 insulate personnel from external ideological influence. Read More

A new subsidiary, Agneyastra Energetics, will manufacture propellants, rockets and pyrotechnic systems on a 1,000-acre site near Madakasira, as India pushes to cut its dependence on imported munitions. Read More

Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh says the battlefield has already shifted, with unmanned systems no longer a future aspiration but an operational imperative that must be integrated with conventional air power. Read More

Pakistan commissioned PNS Hangor on 30 April 2026 in Sanya, China, in a ceremony attended by President Asif Ali Zardari and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf. It was presented, as every milestone in this programme has been presented, as a moment of national achievement. Read More

The memorandum of association, signed in New Delhi, is designed to institutionalize inter-service cooperation as India pushes for more integrated military operations across domains. Read More

The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, and the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, N Chandrababu Naidu, will jointly inaugurate groundbreaking ceremonies for six projects on May 15, anchoring a renewed push to make the state a hub for military manufacturing. Read More

Bengaluru-based Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace signs a deal with Portugal’s SketchPixel to manufacture the Kaal Bhairava autonomous combat aircraft in Europe, in what it calls the opening move of an ambitious plan to place Indian-origin military hardware in 77 countries across seven continents. Read More