BY : PTI

The Indian Navy on Friday received a severe censure from the Comptroller and Auditor General for buying a 36-year-old warship USS Trenton without undertaking its physical assessment.

The Landing Ship Dock was only delivered in a "safe to steam" condition and would require upgrades and modifications, the facts which, the CAG said in its latest report tabled in Parliament, Navy had kept hidden from competent financial authority.

BY : ANI

The seven day joint exercise of the Indian Air Force and the National Security Guards, Black Eagle, concluded successfully today at Manesar in Haryana.
India’s elite counter-terrorist force NSG and Garud of IAF exercised jointly to hone counter terrorists and hostage rescue skills.
The exercise will provide a new thrust in NSG’s preparedness and ability to combat terrorism or undertake a rescue mission in any form anywhere in the country.
Exercise Black Eagle is the first such teamwork between the two elite forces of the nation.
Air Chief Marshal F.H. Major and Jyoti Krishan Dutt, Director General of the NSG at Manesar jointly witnessed the exercise.

BY : The Hindu

Attempts to initiate India-United States collaboration in defence technologies moved a step closer with the opening of a five-day assessment of futuristic unmanned aerial vehicles in Agra on Tuesday. The significant aspect is the participation by Pentagon’s elite Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Indian defence scientists have frequently spoken about collaborating with the DARPA. On several high level bilateral forums, they have urged greater

BY : Kashmir Times

Marine Commondos of the Indian Navy have been deployed in the Rampur forests of Bandipora. The operation is supervised by Brigadier Bipin Rawath, commander of 5 Sector Rashtriya Rifles (RR) Watlab Sopore.

According to Brigadier Rawath, who talked to Kashmir Times on phone from the spot, a joint operation was launched by a joint column of 15 RR and police on specific information about the presence of militants in Rampur forests of Bandipore

BY : SUJAN DUTTA For The Telegraph

The Indian military will recreate for a global audience a battle from World War II history when it escorts representatives from nearly 65 countries to the desert northwest of Jaisalmer on Monday for an exercise tantalisingly christened Brazen Chariots.

Senior officers in army headquarters often fight shy of explaining the rationale behind the names for military wargames and exercises. But this — Brazen Chariots — is a giveaway. It has been drawn from a book written by a South African major who served in the British army in the second world war.

BY : JANES

BAE Systems and Singapore Technologies (ST) Kinetics are to submit bids by 7 April to supply the Indian Army with 140 ultra-light 155 mm/39 cal howitzers.

However, the two systems are not scheduled to enter trials until 2009, when they will be tested in the Rajasthan desert and at high altitudes.

Representatives from both companies have told Jane's that they were negotiating collaborative agreements with local companies to jointly build the howitzers under licence and satisfy the mandatory offset obligation of 30 per cent of the overall

BY : IANS

Military observers from 94 countries, including China, will witness a joint war game to be conducted by the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force in the deserts of Rajasthan next week - but Pakistan has not been invited. “China will be there, Pakistan will not be there,” an Indian Army spokesman said Thursday of Exercise Brazen Chariots to be conducted at the Pokhran firing range March 19.

“The CBMs (confidence building measures) with Pakistan are not what they were,” the spokesman added.

BY : The Jerusalem Post

Defense Ministry Director-General Pinhas Buchris will travel to the US next week to try to interest the Pentagon in the Israeli-developed Iron Dome missile defense system and to explore procuring the Skyguard laser system to protect Sderot from Kassam rockets, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The Iron Dome system is under development by the Rafael Armaments Authority and was chosen last year by a Defense Ministry committee as Israel's defense system against the short-range Kassam and Katyusha rockets. Israel believes that the US Army might be interested in the system to protect its forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

BY : Eurofighter Typhoon 2008

For the first time, all four Eurofighter Typhoon core Air Forces from Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom combined their skills for a mutual exercise at Morón Air Force Base, near Sevilla, upon invitation of the Spanish Air Force. Codenamed “Typhoon Meet”, the deployment commenced on Monday 10 March and officially ends on Friday 14 March.

In total, 20 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft take part in the exercise: the German Air Force deployed three aircraft from Fighter Wing 73 “Steinhoff” from Rostock-Laage; Italy’s Gruppo XII 36 Stormo, based at Gioia del Colle, and Gruppo IX 4 Stormo, at Grosseto, both sent two aircraft; a total of four weapon systems came out of the

BY : RIA Novosti



The Indian Navy's chief of staff will inspect on Friday the assembly of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D fighters at a plant near Moscow, a Russian military source said.

A group of Indian military officials headed by Admiral Sureesh Mehta arrived in Moscow earlier on Thursday for a week-long visit to discuss military cooperation with Russia.

"After talks with Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky in Moscow,