Lockheed Meets Goal of Delivering 45 F-35 Jets in 2015: Pentagon
WASHINGTON: Lockheed Martin Corp met its goal of delivering 45 F-35 fighter jets to the U.S. government and key allies in 2015, a 25 percent increase from 2014 that brought the total number of jets...
View ArticleStrengthen Sanctions Regime Against Terrorists: India to UNSC
UNITED NATIONS: Afghan peace talks without "perceptible reduction" in violence by the Taliban will not eliminate risks to reconciliation, India has said as it called on the Security Council to...
View ArticleRoads Being Upgraded Along International Borders with Bangladesh, Pakistan,...
NEW DELHI: India is constructing and upgrading roads along the borders with Bangladesh, Pakistan, China and Nepal and plans similar action along the Indo-Bhutan and Indo-Myanmar border as well,...
View ArticleIn a first, Indian and Chinese Troops to Hold Joint Exercise Along Disputed...
NEW DELHI: Troops from India and China will for the first time meet in a joint military exercise on the heavily manned, disputed border that has been the reason for several armed face-offs and a major...
View ArticleWill Try to Indigenize 40% of Military Needs: Manohar Parrikar
MAKE IN INDIA: Larsen & Toubro is involved in the design, development and Manufacture of Military Avionics & Defence Electronics for Aircraft, Helicopters & Missile programsNEW DELHI: The...
View ArticlePM Modi’s Visit to Russia: Are India’s Defence Eggs Still in the Russian Basket?
by Anil ChopraSince the early 1960s, Soviet Union/Russia has been India’s largest defence weapons supplier. At the height of the Cold war, 85% of Indian Navy, 75% of Indian Air Force and over 50% of...
View ArticleGovernment Fails to Attract FDI in Defence Industry, only Rs 56 Lakh Since...
NEW DELHI: Despite vigirous efforts to market India as a defence manufacturing hub, the government has failed to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the sector with a paltry amount of Rs 56 lakh...
View ArticleWorst Attack in 18 Months Shocks U.S. Military
The Taliban weren’t supposed to able to get to American forces like this. But somehow, a suicide bomber, riding a motorcycle, just took out a half-dozen U.S. troops.Six U.S. troops were killed while on...
View ArticleIndia to Fence Sensitive Patch Along 'Open' Bhutan Border
NEW DELHI: In a first, government has decided to erect fencing along a "sensitive" and notorious border patch between India and Bhutan in order to keep control on activities of insurgent and militant...
View ArticleVietnam to Get Fifth Kilo Submarine from Russia in Early 2016
The fifth of the six Kilo-class submarines that Vietnam bought from Russia left a Danish port on Sunday heading for Vietnam, local media outlets reported December 21.According to Thanh Nien News, the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Indian Navy - Combined Commanders Conference on INS Vikramaditya
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on 15th December 2015 chaired the Combined Commanders Conference on board INS Vikramaditya at Sea, off the coast of Kochi.This is the first time that the...
View ArticleChinese Submarine Simulates Cruise Missile Attack on US Aircraft Carrier
A Chinese attack sub purportedly used the USS Ronald Reagan for ‘targeting practice’ near the Sea of Japanby Franz-Stefan GadyAn unidentified Chinese attack submarine simulated a cruise missile attack...
View ArticleNetaji Files, Missiles, Terrorism and More: PM Modi’s Russia Agenda
Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves for Moscow on Wednesday on a two-day visit to attend the 16th India-Russia annual summit, with expectations riding high on major agreements in the defence and...
View ArticleTop MEA, DAE Officials Trash Reports of Secret Nuke City, Radioactive Leaks
NEW DELHI: Trashing reports of India building a secret nuclear city in Mysore and radioactive leaks at Jaduguda's uranium mines, top government officials today termed them as "deliberate distortion of...
View ArticleF-16, F/A-18, Su-30 Ranked World’s Most Sold Fighter Aircraft
US F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-18 and Sukhoi Su-27/30 family of fighter jets are ranked most popular combat aircraft in the world.According to a report published by Flight International analytical center...
View ArticleISRO’s Takes Small Steps Towards Developing its Own Reusable Rocket
New Delhi: On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s aerospace manufacturer company SpaceX sent a Falcon rocket toward orbit with 11 small satellites, and then landed the 15-story leftover booster back on Earth...
View ArticleProcedures were more Important than Target in Last 10 Years: Manohar Parrikar
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar Monday said that over the past 10 years, the procedures had become more important than the target in the functioning of the defence ministry. Launching a ‘Make in...
View ArticleSamtel Avionics Takes to the Skies
Samtel Avionics is among the few companies that got on to the Make in India wagon almost a decade ago, before such a concentrated campaign was launched in the countrySamtel Avionics, a defence MSME...
View ArticleIndia Inc Heads to be Part of PM Modi’s Team in Russia
Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani, Godrej Industries Chairman Adi Godrej, Bharat Forge Limited CMD Baba Kalyani are set to accompany Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of a high-powered delegation...
View ArticleWhy We Must Design And Develop In India, Not Just 'Make': A Defence Perspective
A teardown report on the Apple iPhone 6 claimed that the bill of material for the smartphone was $200 and the gross margin was around $450. And the major part of this gross margin is captured by Apple....
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