General Manoj Pande, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC takes over as the 29th Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army from General MM Naravane. He is the first engineer to be the army chief. He was previously serving as the Vice-Chief of Indian Army. Gen Pande was commissioned on December 24, 1982 in the Corps of …

In April, Indian Army sent out a Request for Information (RFI) for procurement for 150 Canister Launched Anti-Armour Loiter Munitions (CALM) Systems for mechanised infantry. The RFI has been released to help “finalise Staff Qualitative Requirements (SQR), decide procurement category and identify …

ORPE “Technologiya” of the Rosteс State Corporation has developed a method for measuring the parameters of radio-transparent materials used in the production of high-speed aircraft. The application of this method will reduce the time for designing and modeling products for aviation and rocketry …

In another setback to the India's next line of six diesel submarine under Project 75I, one of the main contender for tender, the French Naval Group has backed out of it, company has confirmed. Confirming the withdrawal, Company publicist has informed that the company will provide the statement …

As the world is witnessing the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia has begun producing its latest long-range-air-defence missile S-500 Prometheus for equipping its air defence formations. The production of the S-500 began in October last year. Designed and developed by Russian State Corporation …

The excavation of Kaiga 5&6 project at Kaiga, Karnataka commenced with ground break today. Senior officials of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited and contractors were present on the occasion.  Kaiga 5&6 reactors are the first set of the ten indigenous 700 MW Pressurised Heavy Water …

Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh addressed the Senior leadership of the Indian Navy on the concluding day of the Naval Commander’s Conference on 28 April 2022. Minister of State Ajay Bhatt, Defence Secretary and other senior MoD officials were also present. Stating that he has interacted …

HAL has commenced the Main Airframe Fatigue Test (MAFT) of LCA Mk1 airframe at its Ground Test Centre of the Aircraft Resyearch and Design Centre (ARDC) in Bengaluru. The MAFT test facility was inaugurated by Mr. Arup Chatterjee, Dir (Engg. and R&D), HAL.  “Despite the setbacks due to COVID-19 …

HAL and BEL signed a contract for co-development and co-production of Long Range Dual Band Infra-Red Search and Track System (IRST) for Su-30 MKI here today under the MAKE-II procedure of Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020, as part of  the ‘Make in India’ initiative. The proposed IRST system …

To further promote ‘Make in India’ and ‘Aatmanirbharta’ in defence and enable Ease of Doing Business, Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020 has been amended based on the approvals accorded by Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) in respect of the following: ·      Going forward all modernisation …