A comprehensive annual maintenance contract for the S-400 long-range air-defence missile system also received approval.New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence’s Defence Acquisition Council has approved a comprehensive military modernization package ...
Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan taking salute from a ceremonial guard of honour after assuming charge as FOC-in-C, Western Naval Command. (Photo: Indian Navy)Mumbai: Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan took charge as the new flag officer commanding-in-...
Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, a gunnery and missile systems specialist with extensive triservices experience, assumed charge as the vice-chief of naval staff in a ceremony at New Delhi, on ...
GRSE and Indian Navy officials on board the frigate Himgiri during the warship’s handing-over ceremony. (Photo: GRSE) New Delhi: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers delivered the advanced guided-missile frigate Himgiri to the Ind...
An Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Air Force’s remaining MiG-21 Bison squadrons will be decommissioned by mid-September, defence officials said on Tuesday. This will bring the curtains down on the longest-servin...
The terrorist attack at Pahalgam on April 22 changed everything. Twenty-six innocent tourists, segregated by religion and murdered in cold blood by Pakistan-based terrorists, triggered a chain of events that would fundamentally alter how we understan...
File photo of a warship being built at the MDL shipbuilding yard in Mumbai.New Delhi: Mazagon Dockyard Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) is set to reclaim an additional 10 acres of land near its Mumbai facility as part of an ambitious ₹5,000 crore inf...
User trials of Extended Range Anti-Submarine Rocket conducted from INS Kavaratti (Photo: DRDO)New Delhi: The Indian Navy has successfully completed user trials of the extended-range anti-submarine rocket (ERASR), the Ministry of Defence said in a rel...
Rear Admiral Janak Bevli presents "Wings of Gold" to Sub Lt Aastha Poonia (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: Breaking barriers and ushering in a new era for women fighter pilots in the Indian Navy, Sub Lieutenant Aastha Poonia has become the fi...
Troops of Indian Army and French Army during Exercise Shakti (Photo: Indian Army) New Delhi: The militaries of India and France have concluded their two-week bilateral exercise Shakti – VIII at Camp Larzac, La Cavalerie in France, aim...