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 …

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 …

Yard 11880, the sixth and last submarine of the Indian Navy’s Kalvari class submarines of Project 75 has been launched today at the Kanhoji Angre Wet Basin of Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL). Dr Ajay Kumar, Defence Secretary was the Chief Guest at the ceremony and the submarine named ‘Vagsheer’ was …

HAL signed a contract with Nigerian Army for imparting Phase-II flying training on Chetak Helicopter for six officers of Nigerian Army Aviation.  This marks the continuation of contract signed in April 2021 for imparting Phase-I flying training to six Nigerian Army aviation officers, which was …

HAL paid the second interim dividend of Rs. 653.36 crores for the FY 2021-22 to the Government of India. The dividend cheque was handed over to the Defence Minister, Mr. Rajnath Singh by Mr. R. Madhavan, CMD, HAL and Mr. C. B. Ananthakrishnan, Director (Finance), HAL in the presence of Dr. Ajay …

HAL has and will continue to play a significant role in India’s current and future space program including the Gaganyaan manned mission to space, given the skills and knowledge base within the company said Mr. S. Somanath, Chairman ISRO. He identified indigenisation and cost reduction as major …

Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has achieved a turnover of about Rs.15000 Cr (Provisional & Unaudited), during the Financial Year 2021-22, against the previous year’s turnover of Rs. 13,818 Cr, despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and global semiconductors …

HAL records highest ever revenue of over Rs. 24,000 crores (provisional and unaudited) for the financial year ended on March 31, 2022 registering a 6% revenue growth over the previous financial year. The corresponding figure for the previous year stood at Rs. 22,755 crores. “Despite the challenges …

Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Army Design Bureau of Indian Army for collaboration in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Defence applications. The MoU was signed by Major General K V Jauhar, VSM, Additional …