Month: January 2024

In a significant achievement, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), India has granted Chennai based drone startup company Garuda Aerospace authorization for Remote Pilot Training Organization (RPTO) for Small and Medium Class drones. The company statement claims that this recognition makes Garuda Aerospace the sole drone company in India with a dual certification for both training…

About 350 NCC cadets have joined the Indian Navy as Agniveers over the last year, Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar said on Saturday, asserting that the Corps has consistently produced dedicated and determined bravehearts who “excel in the service of Bharat”. Addressing a group of cadets during a function at the NCC Republic Day…

North Korea’s military fired over 60 artillery rounds from the northwest area of Yeonpyeong Island on Saturday afternoon between approximately 16:00 and 17:00 (0700 to 0800 GMT), officials in Seoul said. This comes just a day after both sides staged live-fire drills in the same area, near their contested maritime border. Earlier, on Friday, North…

Russia plans to produce more than 32,000 drones each year by 2030 and for domestic producers to account for 70% of the market, the TASS news agency cited First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov as saying on Saturday. Drones have been widely used by Moscow and Kyiv since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and…

Denmark’s transfer of 19 US manufactured F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine will take place in the second quarter of 2024, once Ukrainian pilots have completed training. “Based on the current timetable, the donation should take place in the second quarter of 2024,” the Danish ministry said in a statement. “It’s mainly an issue of finishing…

RTX announced Phil Jasper has been appointed president of Raytheon and will report to President and Chief Operating Officer Christopher T. Calio. Jasper, a 31-year aerospace and defense veteran, succeeds Wesley D. Kremer who will retire from the company at the end of Q1 2024. As president of Raytheon, Jasper, 55, will serve as a…

Patria and the Finnish Defence Forces have signed a service agreement on building the capabilities of Finland’s F-35 programme. The industrial participation capabilities of the F-35 solution will ensure the management of the F-35 solution’s maintenance reliability-critical know-how and technology in Finland in both normal and state of emergency situations. The direct employment impact of…

PTC India Limited entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nasmyth (UK) to collaborate on providing solutions to defence and aerospace customers, both in India and on a global scale. The partnership aims to develop expertise in casting, machining, assembly, and thermal precision engineering. Notably, the primary focus of this collaboration is to align…

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday successfully performed the final manoeuvre to inject Aditya-L1 spacecraft – the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun — into its final destination orbit, nearly 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth. Noteworthy, Halo-Orbit Insertion (HOI) of its solar observatory spacecraft, Aditya-L1 was accomplished at 16.00 Hrs…