The Indian Army is acquiring 28 highly sophisticated India-made Weapon Locating Radars (WLRs) to track and neutralize hostile artillery fire. The radars are being integrated by the state-run Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), set up in 1954 to meet the specialised electronic needs of the Indian armed forces, but a large number of components will come from the private sector, including some Commercially-available Off the Shelf (COTS) from the international market.
According to a report in the July issue of the India Strategic defence magazine, with the indigenous manufacture of the much-needed radars, there is likely to be no further import of the system from the US arms technology major Raytheon, which has supplied 12 radars to the Indian artillery under a 2002 government-to-government deal for around $200 million.
Samtel Display Systems has become the first Indian company to indigenise multi-functional displays (MFDs) for the Sukhoi Su-30 combat jets of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and has received clearance for their flight testing, it was announced here Monday. The MFDs have been jointly developed and manufactured with the Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE), an arm of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
They will now be flight-tested by the Regional Centre for Military Airworthiness (RCMA) at Nashik in Maharashtra, following which the IAF will put them through flight trials.
THE INDIAN Air Force (IAF) will beef up air defence around Colombo for the 15th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). An IAF team will visit Colombo soon to assess the situation before deciding on the nature of deployment.
This was decided by India in the wake of the high-level Indian official team’s confabulations with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse in Colombo during June 20-21.
The Indian delegation, led by National Security Advisor MK Narayanan and comprising Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and Defence Secretary Vijay
A Chinese military helicopter that crashed during earthquake relief efforts last month had suffered engine trouble shortly before going down, a state news agency said Friday.
In an interview with the pilot's widow, the official Xinhua News Agency said the Russian-designed Mi-171 had made a forced landing when its engine overheated during a mission just prior to the March 31 crash.
That revelation suggests mechanical problems might have been a factor in the accident, which killed the five-person flight crew and 14 quake victims the helicopter
The Pakistan Air Force received four refurbished F-16 fighter jets from the United States on Saturday at a simple but impressive ceremony at the PAF Mushaf Base.
Pakistan, a major non-NATO ally of the US, received two of these jets earlier this year and another four last month. Two more planes would be delivered next month, according to private television cannels.
The fighter jets are part of a consignment of 12 refurbished planes that Pakistan would receive from the US. Air Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, deputy operations chief of the air staff, received the fighting falcons from US Air Force Commander Lt General Gary L North.
The batch of the aircrafts has the same operational capability as of the already
The government is known to boast about India's might, but on closer observation one will notice that it is all a veil of deception. India's biggest warships are using defunct missile systems and are not at all ready for battle.
TIMES NOW has gained access to a defence ministry report that reveals that at least four missile systems are malfuctioning.
The warships, which are the pride of the Indian Navy, used to guard thousands of kilometers of India's coastline could find themselves sitting ducks in a battle situation. A Defecne ministry report shows A Defence Ministry report shows that
Defence Minister AK Antony, while inaugurating the new building complex of the Bangalore-based Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE), stressed the need for self reliance in the design, development and manufacture of high precision avionics systems for the Indian Air Force, which is working out a strategy for modernization and augmentation on a massive scale.
Antony has repeatedly expressed his vehement opposition to the blind and wholesale import of defence hardware and advanced technological systems. In fact, he has made it clear that India will clinch a deal for defence hardware and associated technology only as an equal partner. His thesis is that India has technological expertise and an industrial base, resurgent enough to not only absorb and adopt
Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, whose military victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak war led to the creation of Bangladesh, died in Military Hospital in Wellington, Tamil Nadu late lastnight. He was 94.
The Padma Vibhushan and Military Cross awardee, who was admitted in the hospital for some time for "progressive lung disease", had slipped into a coma earlier in the day and the end came just after midnight at 00:30 am, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
Manekshaw had developed "acute bronchopneumonia with associated complications" and was placed under intensive care four days ago after his condition became serious.
In a condolence message to the bereaved family, Defence Minister A K Antony said
Asia’s two burgeoning giants, India and China, have long done battle.
They jostle at the top of the league tables for the title of largest emerging economy and biggest population. They have also fought one war and both are in the process of rapidly modernising air, sea and nuclear capabilities.
But that rivalry may be about to go into orbit, with members of India’s top brass having said the country must accelerate its military space programme to counter
The Sukhoi company intends to strengthen its position on the global aircraft market and to increase the share of Su-brand fighter jets to 12 percent of its production, according to a press released posted on the company’s official website on June 25. It is planned to increase production through 2015 by increasing export deliveries of Su-27SK and Su-30MK fighters and to produce a series of Su-34 and Su-35 complexes. Then, between 2015 and 2025, the entrance of fifth-generation fighters will guarantee the company’s place on the market. Design of the new fighter is underway at present.
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