Defence Equipment

State-owned BEML Ltd on Wednesday said it has secured a Rs 136-crore contract for the supply of indigenously designed High Mobility Vehicles (HMV) 8x8. These vehicles will play a pivotal role in the Battle Field Surveillance System (BFSS) project, reinforcing India's defence capabilities and advancing the government's vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat, the PSU under the Ministry of Defence said. Manufactured at BEML's facilities, the HMV 8x8 is designed to deliver exceptional reliability and versatility, even in the most challenging environments. Key features of these vehicles include an independent suspension system, a high-power air-cooled engine, a central tyre inflation system, an anti-lock braking system and a backbone tube chassis design. BEML said these features ensure superior mobility, stability and operational safety. The vehicles are capable of operating in extreme climates, from -20 degrees Celsius to +55 degrees Celsius, and at altitudes of up to 5,000 metres above sea ...

India, the world's biggest importer of weapons, has been buying less and less from Russia. Only 36 per cent of India's arms imports came from Russia last year, down from 76 per cent in 2009

This amounts to a ten-fold increase since 2016-17, when exports were Rs 1,521 crore

It may be too early for isolated deals and breakthrough domestic R&D to register on a large scale, but those in the sector talk of winds of change, writes T N Ninan

Though there are some unknowns, Street action suggests big upside

The ministry said the IEWR will be used to test and evaluate airborne electronic warfare (EW) equipment and validate their deployment in an operational scenario

The West's attempt to bring Vladimir Putin to heel by weaponising everything from aircraft spares to finance will have much wider repercussions, writes T N Ninan

Projects under Make-I to be govt-funded; under Make-II, industry-funded

PM Narendra Modi has launched the seven new defence PSUs carved out of the Ordnance Factory Board. In an interview with Business Standard, defence expert Ajai Shukla explains what will change

The Union government has an ambition to create a $5 billion worth of defence equipment by 2025, a senior DRDO official said here on Friday

DRDO's success over the last 15 months has been in its primary role of developing conventional defence equipment and technologies

Defence PSU GRSE has delivered to the Indian Navy the last of the eight landing craft utility ships manufactured by it, providing a major boost to the country's defence preparedness

BEML, Bharat Dynamics and Hindustan Aeronautics were up in the range of 3% to 5% the BSE

A Russian press release on Tuesday formally objected to the overhaul in Ukraine of military equipment built and sold by Russia

The move will give a boost to local manufacturing, be a huge employment generator and check currency imbalances, he said

PSUs, such as BEL, are already seeing good order flows

The air force has for decades been building its fighter and trainer aircraft in India, with the recent exception of the Rafale

Dual goals can lead to compromise

Capacity creation in defence shouldn't wait for a crisis

Measures include negative import list, corporatisation of ordnance factories