This is the final aircraft to be delivered of an order for four aircraft placed by the Ministry of Defence in 2016, in addition to the initial eight aircraft contracted.
Exercise Milan 22 will be held over nine days in two phases, ‘with the harbour phase scheduled from 25 to 28 February and Sea Phase from 01 to 04 March’.
Five Tejas LCA fighters will fly to the United Kingdom, along with IAF C-17 aircraft to ‘provide the necessary transport support for induction and de-induction’.
The naval version of the Iron Dome defence system was tested from the Israeli corvette INS Sa’ar 6 Magen for a number of scenarios like rockets, cruise missiles and drones.
With GPS-denied environments becoming increasingly common, Sweden’s Saab has put together methods and technologies for combat aircraft to conduct missions in the absence of GPS.
A quiet, hybrid process is underway to buy a reduced number of new fighters for the Indian Navy’s aircraft carriers. But remarkably, some of the fighters being considered can’t operate from aircraft carriers.
According to India’s defence ministry, an order worth INR 5,100 crore (around USD 670 million) has been placed for 6,01,427 AK203 rifles to be manufactured at Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. The 7.62 X 39mm calibre AK203 rifle will replace the INSAS rifle that has been in service for three decades.
Tributes poured in from around the world after India’s Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and 12 others died in a an Indian Air Force (IAF) Mi-17V5 helicopter crash in the Nilgiris in the southern Indian Tamil Nadu state on Wednesday.
The concept is a pilotless jet aircraft with almost the size and range of a conventional fighter that can fly autonomously and deploy a variety of sensors carried in a swappable, modular nose.
INS Visakhapatnam is the lead ship of four Project 15B stealth guided missile Visakhapatnam-class destroyers ‘designed by the Indian Navy’s in-house organisation Directorate of Naval Design and constructed by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited, Mumbai’.
Airbus went home from the Dubai Air Show 2021 with orders for two A400M aircraft from Indonesia and two A330 MRTT from the UAE, and an order for three aircraft from Spain just before the air show.
The MT30 is a marine gas turbine engine, two of which propel the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, forming part of its Integrated Full Electric Propulsion (IFEP) that Rolls-Royce is offering to the Indian Navy.
Boeing confirmed last week that it would offer Conformal Fuel Tanks (CFTs) on the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter to international customers even though the U.S. Navy has declined the option for their order of the aircraft.