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Tejas has many patrons, no suitors
21 Dec 2013 4:55 AM ISTIndian Air Force (IAF), which is the intended to be the end-user of the aircraft, was being delivered the aircraft after Initial Operational Clearance...
3 yrs on, bids for digital system in Army yet to see light of day
18 Dec 2013 4:56 AM ISTBut on the other hand, its own Master General Ordnance (MGO) is sitting on bids for a contract they issued for Battlefield Management Systems, close...
Defence ministry team set to grill Haschke on 13 Dec
11 Dec 2013 6:02 AM ISTAn informed source of the ministry explained the reason why the team members had earlier said ‘no’ to the questioning. Apparently, the defence...
Proposed 5th gen fighter aircraft JV yet to get defence ministry seal
11 Dec 2013 4:44 AM ISTThe list did not include the T-50 or as Indian Air Force calls it FGFA JV that was to struck between Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and the Sukhoi...
A much-needed change
10 Dec 2013 4:44 AM ISTIf the spectacular performance of the Aam Aadmi Party in the most watched legislative assembly polls of Delhi augurs anything for 2014 general...
Navy working in tandem with DRDO to master three critical technologies
7 Dec 2013 4:55 AM ISTThe service has committed substantial manpower and financial resources to these three areas – air independent propulsion (AIP), sonars and electronic...
Ready for INS Vikramaditya: Navy chief
4 Dec 2013 6:05 AM ISTThe berth is ready where the 44,000 tonne aircraft carrier will be moored. Admiral DK Joshi, the chief of naval staff (CNS), told the media on Tuesday...
Pakistan gets a new army chief, gives India some hope
28 Nov 2013 5:38 AM ISTLieutenant General Raheel Sharif, anointed Wednesday as the chief of Pakistan’s army, might have been a former confidante of Gen Parvez Musharraf, but...
Tejpal’s Bill Clinton moment
25 Nov 2013 12:16 AM ISTAs someone who knows Latin, when asked how the passing year went, had replied. ‘Annus Horribilis.’ In plain English, it meant a ‘horrible year.’ The...
Arjun 130 mm gun: DRDO tastes success
24 Nov 2013 4:32 AM ISTA much pilloried Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is on the verge of an important success – of providing the army a self-propelled...
Indo-Israeli SAM projects in trouble, still recovering
21 Nov 2013 6:37 AM ISTBut Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) sources say, ‘This was a new technology and even for Israel, it was a new arena.’Since the...
Wait over: INS Vikramaditya to be added to Indian navy on 16 November
16 Nov 2013 4:48 AM ISTThis was a time, 1994, soon after the break-up of the Soviet Union, when the new Russian nation was in dire need of money. Indian navy too was going...