New Delhi: – The union cabinet has approved the export of Aakash missiles to the allies. This decision was taken in a cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India has set a target to export defence equipment worth USD 5 billion in the times to come. This decision to permit the export […]
New Delhi: – Indian ‘Maritime Theatre Command’, responsible for the security of the seven and a half thousand long coastline, will be active in the next year. Since the last few years, large scale restructuring has been undertaken to increase the war capabilities of the defence forces and Maritime Theatre Command is considered to be […]
Kolkata: – INS Himgiri, a stealth warship from the Nilgiri class, has been launched. Defence Chief General Bipin Rawat attended the ceremony where he asserted that the Indian defence forces are fully prepared to defend its land, marine and aerial borders. Seven stealth warships are being built under the Project 17 of the Indian Navy and INS Nilgiri, the […]
Canberra/Washington: – Australia has indicated to strengthen its military cooperation with the United States, against the background of the increasing Chinese domination activities and threats. Australia will be developing Hypersonic Cruise Missiles, in collaboration with the United States and the Australian Defence Minister asserted that this project has a game-changing capability. The US Department of […]
New Delhi: – India assured Vietnam of complete cooperation for the modernisation of its defence forces. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held discussions with Vietnamese Defence Minister Ngô Xuân Lịch via videoconferencing. At this time, stress was given on strengthening defence ties between India and Vietnam. This is the third such meeting held between the defence, commerce and […]
New Delhi – The second phase of Malabar war exercise of the QUAD countries with 70 warships, submarines and the aircraft carriers, USS Nimitz of the United States and INS Vikramaditya of the Indian Navy, started on Tuesday. As per analysts, India, the United States, Japan and Australia have delivered a direct message with these […]
New Delhi: ‘Malabar 2020’, the joint naval exercises of the QUAD countries, India, Japan, the United States and Australia have started. Leading warships and submarines form the QUAD countries are participating, in the first phase of the exercises, being conducted in the Bay of Bengal. Moreover, on Thursday, the Joint Command of Indian defence forces, […]
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) declared that the BrahMos supersonic missile was successfully tested from the Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jet. It is claimed that the BrahMos missile hit the target at 400 kilometres in the Bay of Bengal with precision. This is the first time that the BrahMos missile hit the target located at such a distance after being launched […]
New Delhi: Indian and Sri Lankan navies started war exercises named SLINEX-20, in the Indian Ocean, from Monday. This is the eighth bilateral war exercise between the two navies. The exercise is being held at Trincomalee in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had said a few days ago, that Sri Lanka is opposed […]
New Delhi: – India tested the naval version of the supersonic BrahMos cruise missile on Sunday. The missile was launched from the indigenously built stealth destroyer, INS Chennai, and BrahMos hit the target in the Arabian Sea with precision. The INS Chennai, built with stealth technology, cannot be detected on the enemy radar and the […]