Ajai Shukla
Business Standard
New Delhi, DL, India
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Govt to plug gaps in engine tech expertise, lines up buys worth Rs 1.5 trn
Rajnath Singh: India looking to buy Rs 1.5 trillion worth of aero engines in a decade → Read More
Aero India 2023: Rolls-Royce offers engine co-creation for medium fighter
Similarly, French engine maker, Safran, was unwilling to cooperate with the DRDO to co-create the Kaveri engine → Read More
Biggest Aero India set to take off in Bengaluru with self-reliance pitch
PM Modi to inaugurate expo in Bengaluru today; 809 companies, including 699 Indian, among exhibitors → Read More
Lockheed Martin mulls F-16 aircraft production boost for Ukraine
US has announced intention to transfer F-16 line to India, if the company were declared winner of IAF tender → Read More
Saab scraps agreement with Adani to build fighter aircraft in India
Aircraft: Saab and the Adani Group had announced their partnership on August 31, 2017 → Read More
UK, Italy, Japan team up to build sixth-generation fighter by 2035
Reports indicate the UK held talks with India on joining the coalition → Read More
We're in good position to grow indigenous capability for India: Ted Colbert
'The F/A-18 Super Hornet is right in front of us from a go-forward perspective' → Read More
MGS, Light Tank, WhaP: DRDO presents 3 'Make in India' successes at DefExpo
The DRDO has chosen Larsen & Toubro as a "design cum production partner" → Read More
Five-day DefExpo 2022 all set for launch in Gandhinagar on Tuesday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate DefExpo 22 on Thursday → Read More
Quiet authority: Meet Gen Anil Chauhan, India's new Chief of Defence Staff
Lt Gen Anil Chauhan is known to express his views frankly, not necessarily adopting the conventional approach → Read More
Extended-range BrahMos cruise missile costs under $5 million
Navy buys most advanced version of BrahMos for Project 15B destroyers → Read More
Boeing fighter Super Hornet shows it can operate off Indian carriers
Super Hornet takes off from ski-jump, remotely controls three UAVs → Read More
Agnipath intake 'to grow' from 46K annually in first 4 yrs, to 125K per yr
Scheme's objective is not about cutting costs but to make the military younger and dynamic: Senior Army officer → Read More
Pralay missile successfully launched, raising Indian strike options
Read more about Pralay missile successfully launched, raising Indian strike options on Business Standard. Family of Indian short-range missiles put major Pakistani targets at risk → Read More
Swedish company Saab talks up Gripen fighter, describes offer to Finland
Read more about Swedish company Saab talks up Gripen fighter, describes offer to Finland on Business Standard. Gripen-E fighter priced at euro 100 million each → Read More
Private defence firms pitch their skills to senior military brass
Two private firms explained to the student officers, all of them of general rank, about how their companies were capable of contributing to self-reliance in the linked fields of aerospace and defence → Read More
India, US to set up joint working group on defence industrial security
Read more about India, US to set up joint working group on defence industrial security on Business Standard. To formalise and refine their joint security protocols, Washington and New Delhi held a five-day Industrial Security Agreement summit that began on Monday and ended on Friday in the national capital → Read More
India's intellectuals lay down strategy for the decade ahead
A group of the country's most reputed strategists, historians have identified most important threats, opportunities before India in a report titled 'India's Path to Power: Strategy in a World Adrift' → Read More
India's submarine conundrum: To go nuclear or conventional?
Read more about India's submarine conundrum: To go nuclear or conventional? on Business Standard. Within India's strategic community, a debate rages over the question of whether the Indian Navy should be going in for conventional diesel-electric submarines, or AIP vessels or SSNs → Read More
India signs $2.5-bn contract for 56 Airbus C-295 military aircraft
Read more about India signs $2.5-bn contract for 56 Airbus C-295 military aircraft on Business Standard. Under the terms of the contract, Airbus will deliver the first 16 aircraft in 'fly-away' condition from its final assembly line in Seville, Spain. The remaining 40 planes will be manufactured in India → Read More