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LONG BEACH, Calif. — Boeing remains confident of bolstering its C-17 backlog with additional international sales on top of the expected order from India, despite the challenges of maintaining unit cost in the face of reduced production rates, possible gaps in the delivery stream and no new U.S...

BANGALORE: The country's largest aerospace company, Hindustan Aeronautics, will be undergoing a complete overhaul of its top management over the next five months, following the retirement of several of its senior executives. These senior executives are slated to step down beginning May. The...

NTRO to map telecom, power networks for identifying vulnerable points The government has mooted a proposal for a mandatory 30 per cent offset clause in equipment orders for building the country’s fibre optic communication networks, considered crucial for security. It means a foreign...

New Delhi/Kabul, May 12: India and Afghanistan are likely to discuss and assess the impact of Al Qaeda chief. Osama Bin laden's death during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's two-day visit to Kabul from Thursday. "Although it is too early to evaluate the implications of Bin laden's killing...

The government’s attempt to sort out a shortfall in production of gas from the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin faces a new hurdle — from the defence ministry. At least two of four KG basin blocks allotted to developers in the eighth round of the New Exploration and Licensing Policy (Nelp) have...

India will soon place orders worth $5 billion to various US companies. Besides, India shares a wide range of interests with the US. Finally, the Indian government seems to have convinced its domestic detractors that it is indeed ‘non-aligned’ and that its foreign policy is not being crafted...

already posted... http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-defence/107861-drdo-test-military-platforms-armys-ongoing-exercise.html

INS Ranvijay visits Sepanggar Bay Naval Base

The maiden flight of the naval variant of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) will take to the skies in July, exactly a year after it rolled out from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL’s) Aircraft Research and Design Centre hangar in Bangalore. “We would be conducting the first flight of...

New Delhi, May 10 (PTI) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) would be testing some of the new military platforms during the Indian Army''s six day-long ongoing exercise ''Vijayee Bhava'' in northern Rajasthan. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would also be testing its...

^^^ The planned AMCA is supposed to have serpentine intake....Its definitely an achievement on Chinese part but that does not mean India cannot make it....We just have to wait and watch....

Come on, we got to revive those old days of RAW....i hope more resources are provided to them less accountability and less control of politicians....

^^^ Yeah it was really commendable because it reduced any further delay in AC development....We have a huge requirement these products and since Essar is the only company and SAIL has a little experience i think both of them will get huge demands.....

The NIS 158m order brings SDS's backlog to NIS 250 million. SDS has received a NIS 153 million order for three types of night vision equipment for targeting and observation from India's Ministry of Defense. Deliveries will begin in the third quarter and continue through 2012. The order...

Pakistan on Thursday warned the US and India against any further covert operation in Pakistani territory, saying this would lead to a 'terrible catastrophe'. Admitting that the US assault that killed Osama bin Laden did achieve 'important results', Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir told the...

Government planning to set Rs 25,000 crore chip-manufacturing units fearing rogue programs in imported chips KOLKATA: Fearing the possibility of rogue programs getting embedded in imported chips that could compromise security of critical installations, the government is planning to two...

They are among India’s most important people, are regular fixtures on international rich lists and live lives most people would be envious of. Now, they are also looking for the kind of security PM Manmohan Singh and other VIPs in India get. But in this case, they will pay for it. Mumbai’s...

Indian military capabilities shrink rapidly while the threats multiply. Instead of removing poverty, the politician turned poverty into business of vote-bank-politics. Result: Sixty-two years later Maoists control forty per cent of the Indian Territory and the insurgents in the border states...

Essar becomes first Indian co to supply plates for warships - The Times of India

The BAE Systems M777 ultralight field howitzer at the Defexpo 2010 in New Delhi. India is buying 140 of these under the US Foreign Military Sales programme for some Rs 3000 crores. The current crisis of equipment obsolescence within the Indian Army has been brewing since the sharp cuts in...