China Assists North Korea with New 300 mm Rocket Artillery System
A Chinese 300mm Multiple Rocket Launcher SystemKey PointsOn 3 March North Korea fired six rounds from its new 300 mm MRL in a show of defiance against new UN Security Council sanctions against...
View ArticleUSN Conducts First Live-Fire Test of SeaRAM Installed on Aegis Destroyer
Raytheon's SeaRAM Anti-Ship Missile Defense System is a spiral development of key attributes of the Phalanx Close-In Weapon System & Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Guided Weapon SystemKey PointsA...
View ArticleThink West: Modi’s Visit to Saudi Arabia
New Delhi has made no secret of its interest in ties with Riyadh.by Kabir TanejaWhen Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a resounding victory in the Indian general elections in 2014, leaders from around...
View ArticleIndia's GPS Version Will Be A Boon for Other Nations As Well
What was ISRO's recent satellite launch aimed at? On Thursday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) launched the sixth navigation satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System...
View ArticleAirbus Plans Global Hub in India for Panther Copters
Europe’s Airbus Group which is competing for aircraft orders from India’s navy and air force Monday said it will build local assembly lines if these projects come through.The final assembly lines to...
View ArticleIDN TAKE: Light Combat Helicopter in the Combat Zone
The Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) was born in a 2006 as an initiative to provide India with an indigenous attack helicopter to fulfill the primary roles both in the Indian Air Force and the Indian...
View ArticleThales Ties Up with Reliance Defence to Make Underwater Systems
NEW DELHI: French defence company Thales, which has major business plans in the region besides a significant offsets obligation that will kick in after the signing of the Rafale fighter deal, has tied...
View ArticleN-Capable Agni-I Test Meets Army Parameters
BALASORE: Indian Army on Monday test-fired nuclear capable surface-to-surface medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) Agni-I from a defence base off the Odisha coast proving its readiness to launch the...
View ArticleChina, Pakistan Ties Driven by Rivalry With India: US Experts
WASHINGTON: The strategic alliance between China and Pakistan is primarily driven by their rivalry with India, eminent US experts have said, with one of them expressing concern over Sino-India border...
View ArticleDRDO’s Robot System Can Handle Mines, IEDs From Afar
DRDO'S Mobile Autonomous Robot System (MARS)Research and Development Establishment (R&DE), a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) based in Pune, has developed an...
View ArticleIDN TAKE: Trials Conducted on INSAS Excalibur Assault Rifle
Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) in association with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), User & Directorate General Quality Assurance (DGQA) has undertaken development of a single...
View ArticleCenter Keeps its Word, Releases Revised Pensions Under OROP
NEW DELHI: Keeping its word, the Modi government on Monday announced that it had credited revised pensionary benefits along with arrears under the One Rank, One Pension (OROP) scheme to more than two...
View ArticleIndia, Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Nepal Confirmed
Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj and her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz will meet in Nepal this week, the first ministerial engagement confirmed on Monday after the Pathankot airbase attack derailed...
View ArticleImage Challenge For the Indian Armed Forces: Take It By the Horns
Lt Gen Syed Ata HasnainTimes could not be worse for the Indian armed forces. In a world of social media, now moving even beyond mainstream print and electronic media, there are pressures from within...
View ArticleMEA Annual Report: No Focus on Any Bilateral Contentious Issue Vis-à-vis China
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) annual report for 2015-16 did not focus on any bilateral contentious issue vis-a-vis China either along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) or in PoK but...
View ArticleSatellites to Help Check Unauthorised Constructions at Monuments
HAMPI World Heritage Site in Karnataka State, South IndiaNEW DELHI: The National Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO has signed an agreement with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for preparing...
View ArticleGoogle Removes SmeshApp Used by Pakistan to Snoop on Indian Troops
NEW DELHI: Google on Tuesday removed the malicious SmeshApp from its playstore after a CNN-IBN investigation revealed that Pakistan was using it to snoop on Indian military personnel. The app was used...
View ArticleTo Match India’s Defence Purchases, Pak Trying to Get more F-16s From U.S:...
Pakistan is trying to get more F-16s from the US as well as looking towards countries like Russia and France for new aircraft to replace old ones to match India’s defence purchases, according to a...
View ArticleIDN TAKE: Rustom-2 - Get Set Go
Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) has announced that the debut flight test of indigenously developed UAV Rustom-2 would take place in the next couple of months. The Rustom drone is being...
View ArticleRussian War Planes Shown Leaving Syria for Russia on State TV
Moscow begins withdrawal of military equipment from Syria: Russia's defence ministryMOSCOW: Russia has begun to withdraw military equipment from Syria, the defence ministry said today, after Moscow...
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