Defence Update
Russia on Wednesday agreed to India’s request to constitute specific teams to ensure proper maintenance support and supply of spares for crucial weapon platforms, ranging from the S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile systems to Sukhoi-30MKI...
Netra is developed by India’s DRDO and it was the operational brain during February 2019 Anti-terror airstrikes that guided the Indian Air Force Mirage 2000-5 fighters as they flew towards Pakistan’s Balakot, 80 km...
The Indian Army, which began inducting the indigenously upgraded Dhanush artillery guns, will have the first regiment in place by March 2020 and will get all 114 guns by 2022, Army sources said. Dhanush...
The DRDO on Wednesday tested a land-based prototype of an Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) submarine. The prototype operation at the Naval Materials Research Laboratory in Ambernath, Maharashtra, is considered to give a boost to...
If one side is immune from attack, it raises the risk of conflict because mutually-assured-destruction no longer holds. India says it has successfully tested an interceptor capable of shooting down ballistic missiles. But could...
While India operates one aircraft carrier at the moment, New Delhi is planning to operate at least three such ships, provided it will have the funds. The construction of such a large machine is...
With the IAF now fully backing the indigenous development of a fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA), it’s all systems go for the desi stealth jet. The defence establishment plans to seek the Cabinet Committee on...
AIR CHIEF MARSHAL R.K.S. Bhadauria recently said that the days of importing jets were over, and that the 36 Rafale jets, from France, could be the last of such imports. The statement came at...
Russia and India have signed a contract for the delivery of 1000 R-27 air to air missiles of a number of variants, which are currently the longest ranged platforms in service deployed by Russian...
S-400 Triumf is a high altitude air defence interceptor missile, which is capable of bringing down the most advanced fighters like Sukhoi, F-18 Super Hornet, F-15 Eagle; the deadliest bombers like B-1B Lancer, B-52...