2011-12-17 An additional 42 Sukhoi frontline fighters will be provided to India by Russia under an agreement inked between the two sides during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit in Moscow. With this pact, the total number of acquired or co..

2011-10-18 European consortium MBDA has offered their 300 km-range Taurus stand-off missile system to the Indian Air Force (IAF) for its fighter jets such as the Su-30MKI. "We have received a Request for Information (RFI) from the IAF for a st..

2011-10-04 In a press conference in New Delhi, the Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne revealed the following: Indian Air Force has the funds for the MMRCA programme. There will be a realignment in committed liab..

2011-10-02 Augmenting its chopper fleet, the Indian Air Force will induct the first batch of Russian-origin Mi-17 V5 helicopters by mid-October. India had in 2008 signed a deal with Russia to induct 80 Mi-17 V5 helicopters for strengthening its chopp..

2011-10-02 The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to acquire six more C-130J Super Hercules special operations aircraft in addition to the six already ordered. The IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne, told India Strategic defence magazin..

2011-10-01 Indian Army soldiers deployed on the Line of Control (LoC) in Machil sector foiled a major infiltration bid by killing five Pakistani terrorists and by capturing one of them alive while he was attempting to flee back to Pakistan Occupied Ka..

2011-10-01 The Indian Navy is looking to upgrade its present fleet of Sea King and Kamov helicopters and purchase new helicopters to replace them in the coming years. Rear Admiral Sudhir Pillai, Flag Officer Commanding Goa Area, told reporters in Pana..

2011-08-02 In anticipation of winning the Indian Air Force's $10.4 billion tender for 126 combat jets, European consortium EADS has offered India a choice to pioneer a project for a naval version of the Eurofighter Typhoon that is in the fray in ..

2011-08-02 Set for induction into the Indian Navy in 2012, the harbour trials of the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya (Admiral Gorshkov) are expected to begin by the end of this month (August 2011) in Russia. These trials are aimed at testing the fun..

2011-08-02 India will get lightweight anti-submarines torpedoes to arm the eight P-8I maritime patrol aircraft it is buying from the US, with the Obama administration notifying the potential sale to the US Congress on Tuesday. The news was welcomed by..

2011-08-02 Raytheon has bagged a USD 23.2 million contract from Tata Power Strategic Electronic Systems to automate air traffic management systems of the Indian Air Force. This was first reported at the Paris Air Show earlier this summer. The contr..

2011-05-11 Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) would be testing some of the new military platforms during the Indian Army's six day-long ongoing exercise -- Vijayee Bhava -- in northern Rajasthan. Indian Space Research Orga..

2011-05-09 Leading defense and aerospace publication FlightGlobal has quoted industry sources confirming the integration of Rafael Derby Air to Air Missiles with India's indigenous HAL Tejas Light Combat Aircraft for the Indian Air Force. Deliver..

2011-05-09 A six-day joint exercise of the Army and the IAF will begin Monday in the deserts of Bikaner and Suratgarh near Pakistan border. "Vihayee Bhav" -- the exercise, will involve tank-to-tank wars, helicopter operations and others, Arm..

2011-05-06 India said Friday its warships and military aircraft had foiled a pirate attack on a Chinese cargo vessel with 24 crew members on board in the Arabian Sea off Karwar in Karnataka and forced the brigands to flee. The Chinese-owned bulk ca..

2011-05-07 In the past week, a number of mainstream and defense / military specific media sources revealed that the French Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets have made the shortlist while the American Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, Lock..

2011-04-21 The Indian Air Force is strengthening itself towards dealing with any sort of threats specially from Pakistan and China , air marshal A K Gogoi, AOC-in-C of South West Air Command (SWAC) said here on Wednesday. Gogoi, who was on a three-day..

2011-04-19 To practice its war-fighting concepts and doctrines, the Indian Army will hold a massive war-game codenamed 'Vijaya Bhava' along the Pakistan border in first week of May. "The Division-level (around 15,000 troops) exercise wo..

2011-04-20 Mi-17 helicopter of Pawan Hans crashed while landing in the mountainous region of Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh today killing 17 persons on board including three crew members but its pilot and five others miraculously survived with serious bu..

2011-04-01 The Indian government has approved the purchase of four more Boeing P-8I maritime patrol aircraft, Dow Jones reported Friday. The four P-8Is come on top of the eight India ordered in 2009, for delivery between 2013 and 2015, and would be..