Representatives from SMPP (L) and KNDS shake hands after signing the partnership agreement. (Photo: SMPP)New Delhi: Indian defence manufacturer SMPP and the pan-European land-defence group KNDS signed a teaming agreement on Wednesday to jointly manuf...
New Delhi: India’s indigenous defence production hit an all-time high of ₹1.78 lakh crore in the financial year ending March 2026, the Ministry of Defence announced on Wednesday, marking a 15.6 per cent rise over the previous year's &...
Rafale fighter jets (Photo: IAF)New Delhi: Indian Air Force’s Rafale fighter jets will participate in a multination exercise ‘Pitch Black’ 2026, being hosted by Australia from July 20, wherein a total of 19 countries are partic...
Representational imageMajor military projects typically generate public debate. What makes Gwadar’s naval base planning so striking is the absence of any such discussion. Official planning documents reportedly name a foreign navy as a prospecti...
President Droupadi Murmu with first batch of women officers trained at NDA (Photo: MoD)Dehradun/Dundigal/New Delhi: India commissioned its first batch of women officers trained at the National Defence Academy into the Indian Army and the Indian Air F...
Lt Gen Dhiraj Shet. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth, the current vice-chief of Army staff (VCOAS), has been named the next chief of the Indian Army, the government announced on Saturday. He will succeed General Upendra D...
Rajnath Singh along with DRDO scientists at DRDL, Hyderabad (Photo: MoD) Hyderabad: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh on Thursday inaugurated an Advanced Weapon System Complex at the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), a part o...
This AI-enhanced screengrab of a viral amateur video shows smoke coming out of MT Jalveer after being hit by a US missle.New Delhi: Less than 24 hours after three Indian sailors lost their lives in a US Navy strike on the oil tanker Settebello, anoth...
A Zorawar tank during field trials. (File photo) New Delhi: The Indian Army now expects to induct the indigenous Zorawar light tank between 2028 and 2029, with the Army chief, General Upendra Dwivedi, saying issues identified during development ...