Australian and Filipino troops held exercises on near South China Sea waters. About 1,200 Australian soldiers and 560 Filipino marines stormed a beach in the drill, arriving in amphibious assault vehicles, by parachute and on US Osprey aircraft. Noteworthy, the exercise came after Chinese coast guard vessels fired water cannon and blocked a Philippine resupply…
EDGE Group PJSC (EDGE), one of the world’s leading advanced technology and defence groups, have signed a strategic agreement with the Brazilian Air Force’s Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DCTA), the national military research centre for aviation and space flight. The signing ceremony took place in the city of São José dos Campos as…
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company signed an agreement with Indonesian aerospace firm PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) to enter into a strategic partnership to pursue a sales agreement of up to 24 Sikorsky S-70M Black Hawk helicopters for the Republic of Indonesia. Noteworthy, the Black Hawk is designed and built to the toughest military standards, and it…
The Indian Navy is planning to procure Counter Drone System (Soft Kill) for use onboard Indian Naval warships; and have issued a RFI regarding the same. With the view to identify probable vendors who can undertake the said project OEMs/Authorized Vendors are requested to forward information on the product which they can offer. Noteworthy, the…
Indian Army has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for the procurement of about quantity 2000 numbers Bus (Type III ACX Medium Capacity Standard Bus) having 40 to 45 +1 seating capacity in 2×2 configuration confirming to AIS-052. The tentative timeline for issue of RFP would be within six months of issue of RFI. The…
BEML has secured a contract worth approx. Rs 101 crore from the Indian Ministry of Defence to supply command post vehicles (CPVs) to the Indian Army. Similarly, the company had bagged an order from the Ministry of Defence for high mobility vehicles (HMVs) in June 2023. The contract value is Rs 423.11 crore. BEML Limited…
Karnataka based DroneAcharya Aerial Innovations has successfully tested a reusable rocket launch vehicle. The vehicle attained an altitude of about 3 km above ground and successfully landed using a parachute mechanism. It had air pressure, heat, internal combustion, air friction sensors (with calculation), and miniature parachute for equipment recovery onboard. The major highlight of this…
Admiral R Hari Kumar, Chief of the Naval Staff of India and CG Admiral Artemio M Abu, Commandant of Philippine Coast Guard signed the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for exchange of White Shipping Information on 23 August 2023. The SOP was signed in New Delhi during ongoing visit of the Commandant, Philippine Coast Guard to…
India’s Chief of Air Staff (CAS) Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari reviewed the status of the (Light Combat Aircraft) LCA programme in Air Headquarters. Also in attendance were senior functionaries from the Ministry of Defence, DRDO, HAL and ADA. Opening the proceedings, the CAS brought out that the LCA has been the flag bearer of…
India successfully fired the indigenous Astra Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile from ‘Tejas’ Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) LSP-7 off the coast of Goa on August 23, 2023. The missile release was successfully carried out from the aircraft at an altitude of about 20,000 ft. Further, all the objectives of the test were met and…
