Indian Navy to buy Seahawk helicopters from US, plans next paws in Indian Ocean by Shankar Kumar A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US Vice President Mike Pence on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Singapore on November 14, India iss...

A CGI rendering of INS ARIHANT firing a K-5 SLBM by Pradip R Sagar & R Prasannan WHICH SHOULD come first? The weapon, or the drill for using it? Most warriors would say the weapon should come first. Indian defence planners, however, do not seem to ag...

One hundred years since the construction of the world's first aircraft carrier, HMS Hermes, aircraft carriers are still going strong.

China has begun one of the largest naval expansions by any country since the end of the Second World War. In this exclusive interview, Admiral Sunil Lanba, Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, and Chief of Naval Staff, tells Executive Editor Sandeep ...

How 'imported' is India's existing 'Make in India' programme on defence equipment is an oftenly debated question. The success of recent indigenous efforts notwithstanding, the India story has a dichotomy. It has leapfrogged in some areas, but it is s...

The Kolkata-based Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (GRSE), a state-owned supplier to the Indian Navy, expects a three-fold increase in its top-line by 2021-22, riding on a mammoth order book position, according to the Chairman and Managing D...

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will embark on a three-day bilateral visit to US in December first week with the acquisition of weaponized Predator drones and anti-missile shield for Delhi on top of the agenda with Pentagon Defence Minister Nirma...

The pursuit of nuclear-armed submarines reflects a security assessment that is becoming increasingly irrelevant by Suvrat Raju On November 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India's first indigenous ballistic-missile armed nuclear submari...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the highest ranking visitor at the inauguration. By contrast, China's highest-ranking attendee will be culture and tourism minister Luo Shugang. PM Modi's presence signals the end of years of frosty relations beca...

US President Donald Trump's waiver to India for the ongoing project in Chabahar port in Iran was a relief to New Delhi. Especially because this waiver comes in addition to the six-month relief from sanctions on the import of Iranian oil granted to se...

Ships of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) arrived at Visakhapatnam on Friday after an intense sea phase of Singapore India Maritime Bilateral Exercise (SIMBEX) in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

With the INS Arihant completing its maiden deterrence patrol, India took its first steps towards establishing the third leg of a nuclear triad: the ability to launch nuclear weapons from under the sea.

Ahead of President Ram Nath Kovind visit to Vietnam from Nov 18-21, Vietnam on Thursday opposed the "Quad" or quadrilateral coalition among India, the US, Japan and Australia. Topping the agenda of talks between the leaders of India and Vietnam, enha...

Release of "First Day" cover by Admiral Sunil Lanba A special cover was released by the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Sunil Lanba on the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) at Lulu International Convention Centre,...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: "India is committed to enhancing cooperation in the maritime domain with the ASEAN regional bloc." India has reaffirmed its cooperation in the maritime domain and centrality of trade and investments towards the pros...

Maldivian Coast Guard Ship (MCGS) Huravee at Visakhapatnam Naval Dockyard The handing over of the ship comes two days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays a day-long visit to Maldives to attend the swearing-in ceremony of new Maldivian president ...

While Pakistan is one of the 24 member of IONS, it wasn't invited by the Indian government to participate in the program. The IONS has 24 members and 8 other navies which act as observers India has kept Pakistan out of the celebrations in Kochi meant...

With the US waiver for India's acquisition of the Russian S-400 Triumf missile systems hanging in the balance, New Delhi has kicked off the formal process for yet another mega defence deal with Washington as a sweetener for the Trump administration.

India has kept Pakistan out of the celebrations in Kochi meant to mark 10 years of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS), which is described by India as the 21st century's first significant international maritime security initiative launched in Feb...

Naval Power: The launch of INS Arihant has further added nuclear fire-power to Indian defence With Pakistan's India-aimed N-doctrine and China's ambiguity, India needs to boost its land, sea and air-based nuclear arsenal by G Parthasarathy Prime Mini...

China has unveiled its first robot missile boat By itself, a Look Out II-type boat does not boast impressive firepower. But then, robot missile vessels won't operate by themselves by Michael Peck The Look Out II , developed by the Yunzhou Tech compan...

Asserting the Naval version of the indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) does not meet the qualitative requirements of the Indian Navy, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba said the Navy is working with the Defence . . .

Last month, the Indian navy spotted a People's Liberation Army navy (PLAN) submarine in the Indian Ocean, the first sighting of a Chinese sub in the region since the Doklam crisis last year, and the eighth such deployment in the region since 2013, su...

Indian state-owned shipyard Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) has begun work on the second of seven indigenously designed Shivalik II (Project 17A [P17A])-class stealth frigates on order for the Indian Navy (IN).

Chief of Naval Staff Sunil Lanba with Iranian Navy Chief Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi A standing force of the IONS members is being mulled to look after maritime security in the region, Indian Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba said at the conference by...