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India has ordered 66,000 Russian 3VBM17 APFSDS (Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot) shells for the 125mm guns on their T-90 tanks. Each of these shells will cost $6,556. The 3VBM17 entered service in 1986, weighs 20.4 kg (45 pounds) and employs a 4.85 kg (10.7 pound) tungsten...

Following incidents of serious security breach at Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) facilities here in the last two years, the Ministry of Home Affairs recently augmented the strength of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) unit guarding these installations. The unit has also...

According to Press Release by Aeronautical Development Agency ( ADA ) Developers of Light combat aircraft ( LCA ) they have informed that Naval-LCA NP-1 on 22-March-2014 successfully completed its first supersonic flight and according to sources close to idrw.org NP-1 achieved Mach 1.1 in its...

India has signed a deal worth over Rs 2,600 crore with Russia to procure 66,000 anti-tank shells to meet the shortfall of critical ammunition faced by its armoured fleet including the latest T-90 tanks. The two sides signed the deal on March 27 for the supply of anti-tank shells to the Army and...

We have IAF & IN ...why we need enemies...

Balasore, Odisha: India today successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi II missile, with a range of 350 km, from a test range near Balasore as part of a user trial by the Army. Integrated Test Range (ITR) Director M V K V Prasad said the...

In 2011, the IAF managed to get the government to revise its sanctioned combat squadron strength upwards to 42 from the previous 39.5. This decision was taken in light of the need to factor in the rising presence of the Chinese Air force (CAF) in Tibet supported by the creation of new ground...

The Indian government and French aerospace major Dassault have sealed a work share agreement in what is being described as a big step forward, almost two years after negotiations began in the deal for 126 Rafale fighter jets to be bought by India. The government's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited...

India is all set to launch its first Shore-based Test Facility (SBTF) for flight-testing various naval fighters that would mandatorily operate from aircraft carriers. Defence Minister A K Antony would lead a top-level delegation to Naval Air Station INS Hansa in Goa on March 1 for the...

2013 was a Excellent year for Tejas not only it was awarded IOC-2 , Tejas team successfully carried out more then 500 accident free test flights and multiple flights on same day by same Aircraft which has increased reliability and maintainability of the Tejas aircraft with normal crew , Gone...

In January, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a non-proliferation organisation of the United States published its second Nuclear Security Indexing report. The first report was published in January 2012. India is ranked 23rd in the group of 25 countries with one kilogramme and more nuclear...

A UK trade body has said that it still sees the potential of supplying the Eurofighter to India, which has postponed till the next fiscal its plan to buy 126 fighter planes from France’s Dassault Aviation. “We are very keen, should the opportunity arise, to offer India a cost effective...

The domain of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has unsurprisingly emerged as a focus area for indigenous military development and production efforts. Indeed domestic UAV programmes are serving as a draw for the private sector with participation from both medium and small scale enterprises (MSME)...

Waiting for Naval Tejas..from last one and half year it's in HAL hanger......

India will be spending more than 50 Billion $ Dollars in next decade to purchase less than 300 fighter aircrafts for Indian air force, even though it will be retiring more aircrafts then that. IAF plans to Purchase 126 French made Rafale and 144 Indo-Russian FGFA which might be cleared by...

With the Indian parliamentary elections looming in the background, fresh defence purchases are likely to be put on hold, even as funds are being diverted to meet the rising operational costs of India’s armed forces. India’s Ministry of Finance had refused to allocate an additional 80 billion...

Since its public debut four years ago, Russia’s first stealth fighter has quietly undergone diligent testing, slowly expanding its flight envelope and steadily working out technical kinks. But for all this hard work there have been precious few indications just how many copies of the Sukhoi T-50...

India is set to become the first country since World War Two to buy a military aircraft from Japan, helping Prime Minister Shinzo Abe end a ban on weapons exports that has kept his country’s defence contractors out of foreign markets. The two countries are in broad agreement on a deal for the...

India’s navy is also interested in Japanese patrol vessels and electronic warfare equipment as Tokyo moves further along in easing its ban on military exports, the Indian officials said. Abe discussed the aircraft deal with Singh during a trip to New Delhi last weekend as ties rapidly warm...

Seven accidents involving frontline warships in as many weeks have exposed major chinks in the Navy armour and punctured the claim of Admiral D K Joshi made last month that the safety record of the force was “not all that bad”. In the latest incident, INS Betwa — a Brahmaputra-class guided...