Sikorsky Signs $905 Million Deal for 24 MH-60R Anti-Submarine Helicopters for Indian Navy
Sikorsky officially signed a contract with the US Navy to provide 24 examples of the MH-60R helicopter to the Indian navy for anti-submarine warfare. The $905 million deal with New Delhi was... Read more
Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane has said while terror launch pads exist across the Line of Control(LoC), Pakistan needs to “change the policy” and “look beyond sho... Read more
India’s Defense Chief Opposes Aircraft Carrier Plans
Last week, India’s Chief of Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat said in an interview to an Indian newspaper that the Indian military is not an expeditionary force and should not be deploying f... Read more
China Upping Ante Across Asia to Stop Exit of Firms
The scaling up of aggression by China on the Indian border is not an isolated case, with an assessment forming that Beijing is upping the ante on territorial disputes across Asia, possibly t... Read more
INS Jalashwa Returns to Male for her Second Repatriation Mission
INS Jalashwa, Indian Naval ship, arrived here on Thursday on her second journey to repatriate Indian nationals to Kochi, Kerala as a part of Operation Samudra Setu. “Back for the second voya... Read more
Revive Work on Biological Defence Programme: NITI Aayog Member to DRDO
NITI Aayog member V K Saraswat, who was earlier associated with the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), exhorted researchers to “revive work on a bio (logical)-defence p... Read more
Tough to ‘Weaponise’ Coronavirus, but can’t Rule Out Attacks: Armed Forces Medical Chief
The possibility of adversaries weaponising or using the coronavirus against the Indian armed forces is remote, but they remain susceptible to such attacks until a vaccine or preventative med... Read more
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Calls for India to Become a Net Exporter of Technology as DRDO Celebrates National Technology Day
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh stressed the need for India to become self-reliant and “net exporter of technology”. He addressed the scientists of Defence Research and Development Organisa... Read more
CDS General Bipin Rawat Bats for the Indian Industry
The chief of defence staff General Bipin Rawat has set the tone for the defence procurements in the coming years with a clear message that the dependence on, if not preference for, import of... Read more
US Defense Firms Hiring Thousands Amid Record Unemployment
As U.S. unemployment reached its highest level since the Great Depression amid the coronavirus pandemic, some of America’s largest defense firms are hiring thousands of workers to build fast... Read more