The defence ministry signed a long-term contract with the state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited for the procurement of electronic fuzes for the Indian Army’s indigenously made artillery ammunition. Read More

Lockheed Martin said it has delivered the sixth MH-60R “Romeo” helicopter to the Indian Navy. The US-based defence behemoth also said it expects to complete the delivery of all the MH-60R choppers that India ordered by 2025. Read More

The new Maldivian government of the pro-China president, Mohamed Muizzu, has cancelled an agreement that the Maldives National Defence Force signed with the Indian Navy during the previous government of Ibrahim Mohamed Solih to carry out extensive hydrographic surveys in the atoll nation. Read More

The Indian Navy formally recommissioned INS Tarmugli, a refurbished 22-year-old fast-attack craft with a unique history spanning two nations and three names, at the naval dockyard in Visakhapatnam. Vice Admiral Sandeep Naithani, the Navy’s chief of materiel, was the chief guest of the event. Read More

The defence ministry’s Defence Acquisition Council has given the green signal to the Indian Army’s proposal to procure 6,400 new rockets worth an estimated ₹2,600 crore for the Pinaka weapon system for deployment along the Pakistan and China borders. Read More

Amid tension between the Philippines and China in the South China sea, Indian Navy’s corvette INS Kadmatt arrived at Manila. The INS warship’s port call to the capital of the Philippines is a part of the Navy’s ongoing long-range operational deployment. Read More

The state-owned Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited has submitted its bid in response to the defence ministry’s tender for building three additional Kalvari-class submarines for the Indian Navy. Read More

India strongly rejected the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s call for the resolution of the Kashmir issue in accordance with UN security council resolutions. This development comes in the wake of the recent Supreme Court verdict that upheld the government’s 2019 move to abrogate the special status given to the erstwhile state. Read More

India seems to have changed its recent stand on the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and voted in favour of a United Nations general assembly resolution along with 153 other nations calling for a ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian enclave. Ten countries voted against it while 23 abstained. Read More

The Defence Acquisition Council has given the go-ahead to the Indian Army to procure another 73,000 SIG Sauer’s SIG 716 assault rifles. This comes at a time when the manufacturing of AK-203 rifles, a part of the Army’s F-INSAS programme, under a Russia-India joint venture has been delayed. Read More