The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) is organising brainstorming sessions ‘Chintan Shivir’ in New Delhi on June 19 & 20, 2023 to discuss various issues & challenges faced by its departments. The aim of this session is to come out with new ideas for better governance & functioning. The Department of Defence (DoD), Department of Defence…
Date of Issue: 14 June 2023 Response Date: 9 August 2023 Issued For: Indian Navy Brief Details: The Indian Navy is planning to procure 08 x 50 Ton Bollard Pull (BP) Tugs from registered Indian Shipyards and has issued a RFI for the same under Buy (Indian-IDDM) category. As per the RFI, the Indigenous design and…
The Ministry of Defence, India have signed a contract with ICOMM Tele Limited, Hyderabad for the procurement of 1,035 numbers of 5/7.5 Ton Radio Relay Communication equipment containers. The value of the contract under Buy (Indian) Category is nearly Rs 500 crore. The delivery of the containers is scheduled to commence from the current Financial…
Minister of National Defence of Vietnam General Phan Van Giang will be on a visit to India between June 18-19, 2023. Further, the visiting Vietnamese Defence Minister will hold a bilateral meeting with Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on June 19 to carry forward the India-Vietnam defence cooperation. Both sides will also…
The Indian Defence minister Shri Rajnath Singh chaired a meeting of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defence on ‘Self-reliance in Defence Manufacturing’ in Bengaluru, Karnataka on June 16, 2023. During the meeting, the members of the committee from both the Houses of Parliament were apprised about the initiatives taken by the Ministry of Defence…
Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS) visited National Flight Test Centre, Aeronautical Development Agency and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Tejas Division to assess the progress of the indigenous combat aircraft projects. During his visit, the Air Marshal flew the Series Production Trainer-01 of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas, which…
Date of Issue: 14 June 2023 Response Date: 9 August 2023 Issued For: Indian Navy Brief Details: The Indian Navy is planning to procure 05 x 25 Ton Bollard Pull (BP) Tugs from registered Indian Shipyards. With a view to identify probable shipyards who can undertake the construction of 05 x 25 Ton BP Tugs,…
As per the data by the Ministry of Defence, Rs 2,502 Crores has been invested so far in Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor (UP DIC) as on 31st May 2023; while Rs 10,000 Crores investment is being targeted till 2024. Following are the investments announced in Uttar Pradesh Defence Corridor:- About Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial…
On June 13, 2023, two warships INS ‘Anjadip’, the 3rd of eight ships of indigenously built Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC), and INS ‘Sanshodhak’, the 4th and last in the series of Survey Vessels (Large) (SVL) Project, being built by M/s Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) for Indian Navy, was launched at M/s…
Germany has approved an advance payment for the purchase of the Arrow 3 air defense system from Israel for nearly four billion euros ($4.3 billion). The budget committee in the lower house of parliament gave the green light for an initial payment of 560 million euros. The long-range Arrow 3 system, designed to shoot down…
