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by : The financial express Denying strongly the reports of armed forces defying government over the pay commission issues, the chief of Indian Air Force (IAF) has said that in a decade’s time, the face of the force would be completely changed with its modernisation programme going full steam...

by : defense news Indo-U.S. strategic ties take a quantum jump Oct. 4, when U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee sign the 123 agreement. The Indo-U.S. civil nuclear cooperation agreement took three years before the final obstacle was...

by : Defense News India said on Oct. 3 it was gearing up to seal military contracts worth billions of dollars, including a massive fighter jet deal that has prompted a dogfight among global aeronautical giants. India's move to buy 126 fighter jets worth $12 billion was in its final...

India confirmed Monday it will buy 347 T-90 battle tanks from Russia and said it will consider a demand from Moscow that it pay an additional US$1.2 billion because of delays in a deal for a Soviet-built aircraft carrier and 16 fighter jets. Visiting Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov...

Today Indian Army is functioning with 12000 officers less, Indian Air Force with 1124 officers less and Indian navy with 429 officers less. Current Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor has even talked about conscription as an option on a future date if things do not improve. Career in Armed Forces...

India's Special Forces doctrine, released Sept. 30, details the dominant role special forces units are expected to play for all three services in future wars. Adm. Sureesh Mehta, chairman, Chief of Staff Committee, and chief of the Naval Staff, formally released the "Joint Doctrine for...

The Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) being jointly developed by India and Russia will look substantially different for the two countries. While the Russian version will be a single-pilot fighter, the Indian variant will have a twin-seat configuration based on its operational doctrine...

Clearly unhappy with the Pay Commission, the armed forces (Army, Navy, Air Force) have decided not to implement the recommendations alleging discrepancies in parity and status in comparison to their counterparts in civil services and Central police organisations, media reports said. To...

Hey Friends have you heard ? Kapil Dev Nikhanj the man under whose captaincy India won the 1983 world cup has been commissioned as Lt.Col in 150 Infantry Battalion ( territorial army) affiliated to the Punjab regeiment He is Lieutenant Colonel Kapil Dev now Jai Hind

Hyderabad, Sept. 24 With an intention to make the country’s missiles lighter, cost-effective and possess greater hit power, the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) is augmenting its composite materials facilities and capabilities. An independent centre for composite testing...

The Indian government has cleared the indigenous Agni-3 ballistic missile for induction into the defense forces, Defence Ministry sources said. Agni-3, regarded as a nuclear-capable ballistic missile developed with the Chinese threat in mind, was first tested in late 2006. Production of the...

by : Defense News India's private sector defense industry has urged the government to raise the cap on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the defense sector from the current level of 26 percent to 49 percent. Even as the lobbying agency of the Indian private sector companies, the...

by : PTI With terrorists striking Delhi and some major cities, the country's premier R&D institution, DRDO, is hard selling three of its anti-explosive devices to the Home Ministry to tackle the threat. "We are in discussions with the Home Ministry to sell our three devices -- a remotely...

by : Telegraph The United States has increasingly found it has more in common with democratic India, previously a friend of the Soviet Union, than with its Cold War ally against Moscow, Communist China. This crucial shift has left the two Asian giants on opposite geopolitical sides and...

India's military spending is set to overtake Britain's present defence budget within five years as the country transforms its armed forces to counter-balance China. This rivalry between the world's largest rising powers lies behind an inexorable shift in global military power away from...

Two teams from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) are leaving for Russia in a bid to fast track the custom made Russian engine AL-55I (‘I’ for Indian) that will power the indigenous, but delayed Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT). While a team will be tasked with the acceptance of three...

As terror threats spread far and wide, scientists in UK claimed to have developed a scanner that can pinpoint explosives and weapons hidden in the shoes, clothing and luggage of terrorists as they walk around airport terminals. The system - created by researchers led by Professor Wuqiang Yang...

BY : PTI India's indigenously developed, beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air missile 'Astra' was today successfully test-fired from the integrated test range (ITR) at Chandipur in Orissa. The missile was test-fired from a launcher in the launch pad number 2 of the ITR complex at about...

by: Indo Daily The Pentagon said Tuesday it has notified the US Congress of a possible sale to India of two dozen Harpoon air to ground anti-ship missiles. Such a deal would be worth as much as 170 million dollars, the Defence Security Cooperation Agency said. "India intends to use the...

New tech to boost missile range by 40% Indian scientists have developed path-breaking technology that has the potential to increase the range of missiles and satellite launch vehicles by at least 40%, a member of the team which achieved the technological breakthrough said. India’s...