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Considering the national wealth it commands India’s hard power shouldn’t be dismissed. As a matter of fact, as early as 1947 India possessed the best trained military in Asia. A strong British core was the rock upon which a professional institution was molded and outfitted with a proper navy and...

The Defence Ministry is working on developing indigenous second generation routers in order to secure the armed forces communication networks, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Saturday. Speaking at the golden jubilee celebrations of the Goa Engineering College here, he also offered the...

Indian and Us officials will soon start negotiation process for the purchase of 40 Cost-effective Multi-mission capable Predator XP drones for Maritime Surveillance and for Border Surveillance according to highly reliable sources close to idrw.org . India at present is negotiating for 22...

Indian and Us officials will soon start negotiation process for the purchase of 40 Cost-effective Multi-mission capable Predator XP drones for Maritime Surveillance and for Border Surveillance according to highly reliable sources close to idrw.org . India at present is negotiating for 22...

Even as as 2013 sea trials of India’s first first nuclear submarine INS Arihant were about to begin, we’d begun wondering about a nuclear-powered 65,000-tonne carrier in the future.These are expensive – they can take upwards of $10 billion to build. Even the Royal British Navy is reverting to...

Until recently, the Indian Air Force (IAF) planned for the possibility of United Arab Emirates (UAE) supplying up to a squadron of F-16 fighters to boost the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in an Indo-Pakistan conflict. Now, dramatically signalling the transformed relationship between New Delhi and Abu...

India’s Project 17A stealth frigates will be powered by MAN medium diesels. The Indian Navy has ordered seven of the 149 m guided missile frigates, each equipped with two MAN 12V28/33D STC engines. Construction of the first ship is expected to start by early 2017 with handover to the Indian Navy...

India is in the process of replacing 50 percent of its ageing defence equipment, and is expected to invest over US$ 100 billion (Rs 6,700 billion) over the next five years in capital equipment purchases across air force, navy and army. India and other emerging markets are expected to generate...

Four years after Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE) indigenously developed Akashdeep, a medium-sized aerostat system for aerial surveillance, the laboratory run by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has completed trials of an improved version that is...

Final operational clearance for Tejas likely by year end Published May 18, 2016 SOURCE: TNN The latest on the front of indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft, Tejas is not very heartening. LCA Tejas, which after its aerobatic performance at the Bahrain International Airshow 2016 in...

HT-2 - India's First Powered Aircraft Written by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava During World War II and even for some time after it ended, Hindustan Aircraft Limited (HAL) in Bangalore had mostly overhauled aircraft of the Allies and assembled some fighter and bombers of US origin. Young VM Ghatge...

The scaled-down model of the reusable launch vehicle (RLV) India is planning to build is expected to be shifted from the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here at Thumba to the Sriharikota spaceport by the end of March. If things go as planned, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)...

India’s first nuclear armed submarine is now ready for full fledged operations, having passed several deep sea diving drills as well as weapons launch tests over the past five months and a formal induction into the naval fleet is only a political call away. Multiple officials closely associated...

The longstanding demand of Indian Air Force to allow its Test pilots to flight-test one of Russia’s 5th generation T-50 fighter jet will be met soon after a formal Joint development agreement for the development of FGFA based on T-50/PAk-Fa is signed between India and Russia said UAC President...

Reusable launch vehicle trial in 2016, says ISRO chairman Published December 29, 2015 India’s reusable launch vehicle being developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is slated for trials in 2016 and will help reduce the cost of access to space in the long run, said ISRO...

Defence Ministry to buy bulletproof jackets from two companies Published December 30, 2015 SOURCE: EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE The Defence ministry has decided that Tata Advanced Materials and MKU, the two Indian contenders shortlisted for supplying 50,000 bulletproof jackets, will supply 25,000...

FACTS ABOUT INDIA a.. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history. b.. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta. c.. The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studies...

Navy Chief Commissions INS Vishwakarma Press Trust of India | Updated: Nov 14, 2015 20:40 IST Shipwright School, commissioned as INS Vishwakarma by Navy Chief Admiral RK Dhowan in Vizag. Visakhapatnam: Navy Chief Admiral RK Dhowan today commissioned the erstwhile Shipwright School (SWC) and...

Will leave for sea trails by year end. With project 15A end is in near sight, all eyes will be on project 15B.

Securing Naru’s custody would be a significant breakthrough for the NIA as his interrogation would help establish the chain of Chinese arms supply to North-East insurgent groups. In a major catch for the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Thai national and gunrunner Wuthikorn Naruenartwanich...