State-owned engineering firm BHEL is not only making India self-reliant in energy and infrastructure sectors but also contributing significantly to defence and space segments, said Union Heavy Industries Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey. The minister inaugurated the newly-constructed BHEL Sadan in Noida on the occasion of BHEL Day on Monday, the company said in a statement….
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) chief Anish Dayal Singh was appointed as the Director General of (Central Reserve Police Force) CRPF. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is a reserve gendarmerie and internal combat force in India under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of the Government of India. It is one among the Central Armed Police Forces. The CRPF’s primary role lies…
IPS officer Rahul Rasgotra took charge as the new director general of the (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) ITBP, a paramilitary force tasked to guard the India-China Line of Actual Control. Rasgotra, a 1989-batch police officer of the Manipur cadre, was handed over the customary baton by his predecessor Anish Dayal Singh. Noteworthy, the new ITBP DG…
NASA has awarded GE Aerospace a contract for Phase 2 of the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC) program, supporting continued technology development for the next-generation of commercial aircraft engines with the aim to significantly improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions compared to engines. The new contract builds on work completed in Phase 1 of HyTEC…
General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada has been awarded four contracts cumulatively valued at up to CA$1.68 billion (US$1.3 billion) by the Government of Canada to support the Land Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) system for the Canadian Army. The four contracts for the Land Command Support System (LCSS) are: System of Systems Engineering &…
The Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) have announced that it has completed the development of new SH-60L naval combat helicopter on order for Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force to succeed the Mitsubishi/Sikorsky SH-60K. Previously known as the XSH-60L or a prototype developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), the SH-60L is Japan’s latest anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter…
T. Mariotti has been awarded the public tender procedure in favour of the Italian Navy for the construction of two auxiliary units of the type Coastal Motor Transport and Lighthouse Servicing (MTC/MTF) and has signed the construction contract with the Naval Armaments Directorate of the General Secretariat of Defence/DNA. The shipyard is currently engaged in…
The Turkish Navy has successfully carried out the first live firing test of the Roketsan-made AKYA heavyweight torpedo with a real warhead in the East Mediterranean. The launch platform was TCG Preveze (S-353), the leading Preveze-class (Type 209/1400) boat, which was recently upgraded with the homegrown MÜREN Combat Management System as part of the “MÜREN…
The Indian Navy has issued a tender for the completion of incomplete work for augmentation for repair and calibration facilities for test and measuring equipment at Naval Dockyard Visakhapatnam (ND V). The estimated cost of the project is Rs. 1090.00 Lakhs while the period of completion is 270 [Two Hundred Seventy] days as indicated in…
The UAE Land Forces contingent comprising 45 personnel have arrived in India to participate in the 1st edition of the India-UAE Joint Military Exercise ‘DESERT CYCLONE’. The Exercise is scheduled to be conducted in Mahajan, Rajasthan from 2nd to 15th January 2024. Notably, the UAE contingent is being represented by troops from the Zayed First Brigade. While,…
