A wargame conducted last month anticipates higher prices, fewer products and reduced manpower as a result of the corporatisation of process of India’s Ordnance Factory Board that traces its origins to the early 18th century and employs an estimated 80,000-strong workforce.
The acquisition, which has been under consideration since 2010, is expected to be worth an estimated USD 3 billion and will involve the discharge of offset obligations in India. It was approved by the ministry’s Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC) in 2015.
These Contractor Sea Trials will be conducted over the next few months and the Vikrant is expected to be commissioned in the first half of 2022. The navy says the ship’s performance, including hull, main propulsion, PGD and auxiliary equipment would be closely monitored during this maiden sailing.
The training of Indian personnel is underway in Russia, in anticipation of the delivery of the S-400 Triumph air defence missile system that is expected to begin in December without any delays, so far, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last year, Russia sent its Vityaz unmanned submarine to the deepest depths in the ocean and surveyed the Mariana Trench, at a depth of more than 11 kilometres. This is how the Rubin Design Bureau did it.
Both the ships are expected to be launched later this year, followed by their outfitting at Yantar Shipyard, which is expected take 36 months.
Russia is planning to offer its new, reformed diesel-based Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) plant concept onboard the Amur 1650 for the Indian Navy’s Project 75(I) program for six new submarines.
French website Mediapart has revealed an agreement was concluded between Dassault and the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group the day before an Indian defence ministry review overturned the selection of the Rafale as the winning bid in the IAF contest for 126 MMRCA fighter aircraft.
Just a few hours after the first flight of the F-15EX, U.S. aviation giant Boeing will be participating in the biennial Aero India 2021 airshow to be held in Bengaluru, pitching the fighter to the Indian Air Force (IAF).
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The U.S. Navy and Boeing made presentations to the Indian Navy on December 18th explaining how the trials proved F/A-18 Super Hornet could operate from Indian STOBAR carriers.
Nine missiles have been tested since September, an unusually high number. In addition, the defence ministry is playing up something that bothers China — the creation of extensive border infrastructure.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is on a visit to Ladakh a day after India’s foreign ministry categorically said no territory had been ceded in the region. The fire onboard the U.S. Navy’s amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard at San Diego Naval Base has finally been put out, Japan has inducted it’s first Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft and Saudi Arabia has announced a new defence exhibition.
Indian armed forces personnel with less than the qualifying 10 years of service are now eligible for invalid pension, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has delegated powers for urgent purchases of upto INR 300 crore or USD 40 million to the armed forces to meet their emergent operational requirements, U.S. Navy continued firefighting efforts onboard the USS Bonhomme Richard light aircraft carrier for the fourth day, Japan has announced it will operate the Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing F-35B from the helicopter destroyer JS Izumo and former Afghan vice president and ethnic Uzbek warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum has been promoted to the highest military rank of marshal by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
Court: Till we have found reason to entertain the petition and have entertained the petition, the question of granting any such interim relief does not arise especially when the matter has the potential of concerning the safety and security of the country.
China calls US rejection of its claims in the South China Sea completely unjustified, as the United Kingdom makes plans to base an aircraft carrier in the Far East, Boeing has been awarded a USD 1.2 B contract for the first eight F-15EX fighters, the US Navy is still dealing with a fire onboard a forty thousand ton aircraft carrier, the Delhi High Court has rejected a serving Indian Army officer’s plea to allow him to keep his Facebook account and the British government has finally settled the issue and banned equipment supplied by China’s Huawei from it’s 5G networks.
