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Navy and Air Force modernise, Army remains mired in high personnel costs

Budget allocations barely diverge from a simple formula: Give the army 60 per cent, the air force 24 per cent and the remaining 16 per cent to the navy

Lead the way for indigenous manufacturing, Sitharaman tells IAF

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was addressing a meeting of top IAF commanders in Delhi

Internal security: Has India become safer in the five years of BJP govt?

While terrorism remains a threat to a degree, joblessness poses another big challenge to internal security

Start-ups like Big Bang Boom Solutions to drive innovation in weaponry

If Big Bang Boom Solutions manages to translate the Rs 1.5-crore iDEX award into a functional system, it would enhance the combat capability of crews in the Army's 4,000 tanks

Conducted Mission Shakti responsibly, space debris no longer a danger: DRDO

DRDO launched the target satellite in January 2019, with an orbit of under 300 kilometres

US media report says all of Pakistan's F-16s intact; IAF rebuts

IAF maintains it shot down an F-16 aircraft during Feb 27 clash

India successfully tests ASAT missile, joins space superpower club

The tracking and interception capabilities that went into Mission Shakti have been available with the DRDO for over a decade

Meet Dr G Satheesh Reddy, the mastermind behind India's 'Star Wars'

In 2015, Reddy was awarded the prestigious Institution of Engineers (India) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers award

IAF inducts Chinook helicopters as US muscles into Russia's copter monopoly

The contract with Boeing mandates the delivery of 15 Chinooks by March 2020

Indian Navy rejects Pak claim of detecting submarine, calls it 'propaganda'

Indian Navy says it's 'deployed as necessary' after Pakistan says submarine made 'provocative actions'.

Balakot: India's strategic restraint has given way to 'assured retaliation'

It has demonstrated its resolve to punish cross-border terror attacks and must now focus on the alienation in Kashmir

PM Modi inaugurates India-Russia JV to build Kalashnikov rifles in Amethi

The AK-203 will replace the indigenous INSAS rifles and AK-47 rifles that Indian Army soldiers currently carry

Sitharaman urges defence vendors to invest in India, but hurdles remain

Govt has signed 150 contracts worth Rs 1,27,500 crore with Indian vendors for military equipment till October 2018, says defence minister at Aero India 2019

Lockheed Martin unveils 'new' F-21, says fighter configured for IAF

US aerospace giant's jet is a slightly improved F-16 Block 60, an aircraft already in service.

Amid tragedy, Aero India 2019 to take off in Bengaluru on Wednesday

All six vendors in the fray - Boeing and Lockheed Martin, MiG, Dassault, Saab and the Eurofighter GmbH - sent across their fighters to show off their aerobatics capabilities

Vayu Shakti 2019: Air Force demonstrates mega firepower at Pokhran

Exercise Vayu Shakti is conducted once every three years

Indian company to build 111 Naval Utility Helicopters for Rs 21,738 crore

The basic SP policy framework is a part of the Defence Procurement Procedure of 2016 (DPP-2016)

IAF wants to accept Russian offer of 21 surplus MiG-29 fighters

These 21 fighters were built in the 1980s by Russian firm, RAC MiG, for the Russian Air Force, which eventually could not muster up the money to pay for them

Rafale will fly, but the excuses won't

Procedures and institutional mechanisms have been severely undermined in negotiating the deal

Induction of new artillery guns shows promise for indigenous defence firms

Besides imported guns, a bouquet of indigenous guns awaits trials