At one end of a sparsely lit chamber is a cluster of row desks with computer terminals. Most of the computer screens are off, tiny orange lights indicating they’re only hibernating in ‘power save’ ...

90 minutes after Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman punched out of his MiG-21 Bison fighter near the Line of Control, to be captured later by the Pakistan military, a meme ...

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has fired off a strongly worded public clarification, lashing out at “so-called defence analysts,” “former pilots,” and even “arm-chair critics” for what it calls ...

Having flown HAL produced helicopters right from 1989 till I retired 2008, I have had first-hand experience of the quality of their products, and I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that ‘mazaa ...

French firm Dassault Aviation is gathering big momentum towards an Indian Navy contract for 26 Rafale-M naval fighters intended for operations off the deck of India’s new aicraft carrier INS Vikrant.

When President Donald Trump declared yesterday that the U.S. was “paving the way to ultimately provide India the F-35 stealth fighters”, he changed two decades of history in the India-US defence trade ...

India’s most ambitious military aviation program, the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), is entering a new chapter. Hopefully. India’s dominant military airframer Hindustan Aeronautics Limited ...

At an Indian Air Force seminar in Subroto Park on Tuesday, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh used the hard-won lessons of Operation Sindoor, India’s large-scale punitive strikes earlier this year, to ...

The heart-wrenching sight of the smoke billowing from the crashed Indian Coast Guard (ICG) helicopter at Porbandar on January 5th, 2025 brought back to my mind the struggles we had with HAL when I was ...

India’s Tejas fighter program, already in a steady slipstream of service and onward development, got some very welcome thrust today when India’s prime minister Narendra Modi strapped in for a ...

An Raphe MPhibr MR-20 drone during trials in Leh, Ladakh What you’re looking at is the first public image of the Indian Army’s new cargo drone type, an MR-20, developed by Indian firm Raphe Mphibr.

Nearly half a century after it chose to buy and build German Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) Type 209 submarines for its navy, India has down-selected a new generation submarine offering from the ...