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JAISALMER: The second land-to-land preliminarily trial of 'fire and forget' third generation anti-tank Nag missile's upgraded land version — 'Helina' — was carried out on Sunday at the Pokhran field firing range. The target was fired in the presence of Defence Research and...

NEW DELHI: After a long running saga of hard-nosed negotiations since the late-1990s, cost escalations, refit delays and mishaps, aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya has finally completed its extensive sea trials in Russia. The 44,570-tonne warship, or the refurbished Admiral Gorshkov, is now all...

MUMBAI: The operation to salvage the sunken submarine INS Sindhurakshak is estimated to cost Rs 500 crore and take a while since 90% of the ordnance on the vessel is still intact, according to military sources. Five companies are currently engaged in sending trained divers into the sea to...

Pakistan on Tuesday accused Indian jets of briefly violating its airspace, days after India said one of its soldiers had been killed by Pakistani troops. The Pakistan Air Force said it scrambled two fighter jets after two "high-speed" Indian planes crossed the border over its eastern province...

ABOARD FNS MONTCALM (MORMUGAO, GOA): After hitting rough waters for several years with bribery allegations, the first of the six Scorpene submarines, ordered by the Indian Navy as part of technology transfer from France, is to be delivered in 2014, French ambassador Francois Richier said on...

Seems things are back to normal at border. Here is good news::smokin: JAIPUR/BIKANER/JAISALMER: A seven-year-old girl, PoojaMeghwal, who strayed into Pakistani territory on Friday while grazing cattle was handed over to BSF officials by Pakistani Rangers on Monday evening. The girl is hale...

NEW DELHI: India is undertaking an ambitious programme to upgrade its entire fleet of over 2,000 infantry combat vehicles with advanced weaponry and night-fighting capabilities, even as it inducts more T-90S main-battle tanks, upgrades its T-72 fleet and plans a futuristic "smart" tank for...

DHAKA: India and Bangladesh took a significant step towards finalizing a land boundary agreement (LBA), with visiting foreign minister Salman Khurshid and his counterpart Dipu Moni exchanging strip maps of the boundary areas. Talking to journalists later, Khurshid said the government had readied...

DRDO Design and development of three stage 5:1 pressure ratio all Blisk fan for 75/110 kN thrust class engine. Mass flow rate 85-87 kg/s Pressure Ratio 4.8-5.0 Isentropic efficiency 83-84% 5% growth potential should be available. GTRE would like to participate in the design process...

So hrere is the catfight. Dont know why they are choosing public platforms to bash each other. Did some one saw Browne's satement? Was he complaining only about delays or after service issue also? Sorry I havent seen yet, bit if it was about service issues also, then he got the full right to...

On a modernization spree post-26/11 attacks, the National Security Guards (NSG) has embarked on a project to create a super commando, what it calls the "future black cat", who will be armed with such state-of-the-art gadgets that will give live streaming of audio-visuals of a terror situation to...

Seems 197 Utility helocpoter deal hit another roadblock. The Eurocopters did not meet required standards during the trials. Chindits: 197 Chopper Deal Heads For Second Cancellation!!

NEW DELHI: With India and Japan in the process of further cranking up their military ties across the entire spectrum, Army chief General Bikram Singh will be heading for Tokyo on a four-day visit later this month. "The strategic-military partnership with Japan is evolving to a new level...

Found this article on times of India. So can we have some healthy discussion about the things learnt by IAF during kargil, the new capabilities and how can IAF respond differently to situations on those heights with new platforms it has added and even as PAF also have got some new machines. I am...

MUMBAI: Indian Space Research Organization (Isro)'s Oscat radio scatterometer on board its 960kg Oceansat-2 remote sensing satellite had tracked ocean surface winds of Hurricane Sandy that wrought havoc in eastern US on Monday, a Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory announcement has said. Nasa had...

NEW DELHI: The US' 'pivot-to-Asia' policy, Iran, China-Japan maritime dispute and South China Sea will be among the issues to be discussed during the 3rd round of India-US-Japan Trilateral dialogue here on Monday apart from finding areas of cooperation between the three countries. According...

BEIJING: Chinese officials are worried that the growing relationship between India and Japan, its main rival, is meant to contain and counter it. This revelation comes from two Chinese experts at a time when China is engaged in a serious conflict with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands. "India's...

Within a decade, Indian private shipyards may manufacture conventional submarines for Indian Navy as a section within the Navy is keen on permitting submarine manufacturing in these yards to accelerate the laggard acquisition process. With the Navy keen on getting submarines in adequate...

The chief executive officer of BrahMos Aerospace, A Sivathanu Pillai, on Friday said the next target of the Indo-Russian joint venture is to develop a hypersonic cruise missile with a speed of Mach 7. While delivering the 26th CSIR NAL Foundation Day lecture on self-reliance in aerospace...

COLOMBO: In the strongest reaction yet to India's contentious support to a US sponsored resolution at the UNHRC against Sri Lanka earlier this year, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has broken his silence by calling upon the Indian government to have a relook at its dealings with its neighbours. In...