NEW DELHI: In the 17 months that the NDA government has been in power, the Defence Acquisition Committee (DAC) that vets all big-ticket deals has cleared projects worth a whopping Rs. 3.1 lakh crore ($47 billion), but none of these are anywhere near closure.
Against this, just Rs.1.8 lakh crore...
The move to upgrade the IAF fleet of Jaguar deep-penetration strike aircraft with new, more powerful engines has inched ahead, with some of the hitches in the way being ironed out. The IAF is reportedly going in for the Honeywell 215IN engine to replace the original Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour...
PANAJI: Tata Motors today said it will deliver the first lot of all terrain heavy mobility vehicles to the defence forces by December.
The company has won Rs 900 crore order for over 1,200 all terrain '6 by 6' heavy mobility vehicles from the Defence Ministry to be delivered over next two...
JABALPUR: In what would be a shot in the arm for a force that has not had a new 155mm artillery gun inducted since the Bofors scandal of 1987, the Indian Army is set to soon be handed over the indigenously-developed howitzer 'Dhanush', also known as 'desi bofors'.
"Dhanush, the...
New Delhi. Boeing has agreed to maintain the price offers for Apache and Chinook helicopters for the Indian Air Force (IAF) one last time for another month till the end of September.
According to authoritative sources, this is being done at the request of the IAF to facilitate more time for a...
New Delhi: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar handed over the first of the indigenously-built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas to the Indian Air Force (IAF) in Bengaluru on Saturday.
The ceremony took place in the presence of Air Chief Marshal Anup Raha at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited...
Next generation unmanned aerial vehicle Rustum2, which is capable of operating at an altitude of 30,000 feet and 24-hour endurance with a payload of 350 kg, will be made available within a year, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Secretary Avinash Chander said on Tuesday.
The...
Although a $2.2 billion upgrade of India’s Dassault Mirage 2000 fighters is progressing, around a quarter of the fleet of 49 is grounded because a contract for spares has remained unsigned for years, AIN has learned from sources involved in the program.
“Bureaucratic holdups have caused delays...
MoD clears Rs 20000-crore air defence deal
New Delhi: Facing criticism over delays in military acquisitions, Government on Friday cleared proposals worth over Rs 20,000 crore for the procurement of air defence missile systems for the army and other equipment.
The approval for the eight...
After a three-decade long wait, the Army will soon get to add a 155-mm artillery gun, with the Ordnance Factory-built ‘Dhanush’ successfully clearing its final trials on Friday at Khetolai in Pokhran close to the border along Pakistan in Rajasthan’s desert.
Minister of State for Defence Rao...
The Indian Navy plans to induct state-of-the-art helicopters attached to its warships across the nation as part of its substantial modernisation programme, a senior naval official said here today.
“We are building a modern air arm to add our capacity at sea. The Navy is looking at inducting...
It’s pretty much clear now that future modernization and acquisition plans of Indian air force is heavy depended on imported aircrafts and in next decade or so Indian air force is likely to be less Indigenous than in past decade and local content is unlikely to go up in next two decade of future...
BALASORE: In a perfect launch of the same missile for second day in a row, India on Friday successfully test fired indigenously-developed surface-to-air Akash missile as part of a user trial from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Odisha.
The missile with a strike range of 25 km...