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...
Indigenous air-droppable container ADC-150 (Photo: DRDO) New Delhi: India’s defence establishment has cleared a key milestone in naval logistics with the successful completion of four in-flight release trials of the air-droppabl...
A model of the H125 helicopter that Tata and Airbus will jointly assemble in Vemagal, Karnataka. (Photo: MoD)New Delhi: The prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, virtually inaugurated India’s first private-se...
DRDO’s Ghatak stealth UAV. (Creative Commons photo for representation.)New Delhi: India is building its first runway designed exclusively for drones and remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. This is seen as a move that ref...
The Rafale deal will be the largest single defence procurement in India’s history, if taken to fruition. (File photo)New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council has cleared one of the largest single-day procurement packages in the country’...
A Royal Thai Air Force Gripen and an Indian Air Force Sukhoi-30MKI.New Delhi: The Indian Air Force and the Royal Thai Air Force are set to hold a joint exercise near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ strategic Malacca Strait on Monday. During th...
Shaktiban and Divyastra systems on Kartavya Path during the Republic Day parade.New Delhi: India’s 77th Republic Day celebrations on Monday, January 26, marked a deliberate institutional shift from ceremonial tradition to operational theatre. T...
C-130J Super Hercules (Photo: Lockheed Martin)New Delhi: The Fuerza Aérea Mexicana (FAM) has announced the acquisition of its first Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Super Hercules tactical airlifter, making Mexico the first country in Latin America t...
DRDO Chairman Samir V Kamat at Foundation Day (Photo: DRDO) New Delhi: As the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) marked its 68th Foundation Day on Thursday, it signed 11 major defence acquisition contracts worth ₹26,000 c...