Defence general

06 Apr 2009

Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd has categorically rejected claims that it delayed reporting the MR-SAM deal until receipt of advance payment.

06 Apr 2009

Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd has categorically rejected claims that it delayed reporting the MR-SAM deal until receipt of advance payment.

03 Apr 2009

With China and India scrambling for scarce resources, even as they seek to expand their energy programmes, Australia is all set to expand supplies of uranium to the communist country even as it politely declines similar access to India.

02 Apr 2009

02 Apr 2009

02 Apr 2009

The real reason for the rejection of a bid by China Minmetals for OZ Minerals may have been the fact that company mines, located in the proximity of the Pine Gap intelligence facility, would have allowed Chinese spies to intercept transmissions.

02 Apr 2009

A commercial satellite image shows that the missile that North Korea is expected to launch anytime over the weekend appears to have a bulb-shaped nose cone, indicating a satellite payload rather than a warhead.

01 Apr 2009

The influential chairman of the US Senate’s Armed Services Committee, Democratic senator Carl Levin, has expressed his skepticism about a proposal to extend Pakistan a massive $2.8 billion in military aid aimed at helping equip and train its armed forces to fight the Taliban menace.

31 Mar 2009

31 Mar 2009

30 Mar 2009

Tata Power Co Ltd has confirmed it had secured a contract for the supply of 16 indigenously developed, short range Akash missile launchers.

30 Mar 2009

Israel has displaced Russia as the leading weapons partner of India, signing contracts worth more than $1 billion annually for 2007 and 2008. It is also discussing several new defence projects.

30 Mar 2009

Waters have been muddied further in the Rs10,000 crore deal with Israeli armaments firm Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI), with the Israeli armaments giant claiming it did not announce the deal publicly once it was signed on instructions of the “customer,” which means New Delhi.

30 Mar 2009

A news report alleging gross impropriety in awarding a massive Rs10,000 crore air defence missile deal to an Israeli company is beginn9ng to snowball with political parties jumping into the fray.

30 Mar 2009

28 Mar 2009

Reports casting doubts over the validity of defence deals struck in the near past by the UPA government may only be the first shots fired in the gradually heating atmosphere of parliamentary elections, writes Rajiv Singh.

By Rajiv Singh | 25 Mar 2009

Engine installation work on India’s new stealth warship, the INS Shivalik, has commenced with the US government providing clearance to American supplier General Electric to proceed with “operationalising” duties.

25 Mar 2009

25 Mar 2009

25 Mar 2009

24 Mar 2009

India has cancelled a tender for 22 attack helicopters as the three firms vying for the $1-billion deal failed to meet the requirements of the IAF

24 Mar 2009

India has cancelled a tender for 22 attack helicopters as the three firms vying for the $1-billion deal failed to meet the requirements of the IAF

24 Mar 2009

23 Mar 2009

21 Mar 2009