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India’s Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ties Up With Portugal’s BERD For Building Next Generation Modular Bridges Solutions
India’s Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) has inked a MoU With Portugal’s BERD for building next generation modular Bridges solutions in India. GRSE, one of the largest DPSUs of India which makes complex naval vessels for the Indian Navy has tied up with world's leading engineering entity, BERD for the Methods and Solutions for Bridge Construction.
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Army Chief General Bipin Rawat As The First Chief Of The Defence Staff Begins The New Era Of The Indian Armed Forces
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat is appointed as the first Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) and begins the new era of the Indian Armed Forces. And, he faces the immediate challenges towards the modernization of the Indian Armed Forces along with the budgetary constraints.
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We Know Our Price For Gripen Is Quite Competitive: Ola Rignell, SAAB India
SAAB India raised questions over the process which he said it is about 'control verses responsibility' under the Strategic Partnership(SP) model for the ambitious P75I program for the Indian Navy. Ola Rignell, Chairman & Managing Director, SAAB India speaks with Manish Kumar Jha over such issues and, especially, Gripen E that is about the new Tactical Software and new age weapon integration.
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Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria Will Take Over As The New Chief Of Indian Air Force
Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria will take over as the new Chief of Indian Air Force on September 30. Notably, he has flown 26 types of fighters and transport aircraft and was a chief test pilot for India's home grown LCA Tejas. Imminently, he is tasked to ratchet up the depleting squadron of IAF.
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Manohar Parrikar Was A Very Humane Person
Vice Admiral HCS Bisht remembers the former defence minister as a technically very sound and confident in the matter of defence even though it was a new field for him. But what he felt most that Parrikar was very humane.
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India confirms the return of Wg Cdr Abhinandan Varthaman by tomorrow; One F-16 of PAF was shot down by an IAF MiG-21 Bison and IAF lost one MiG-21
In the aerial combat that ensued one F-16 of PAF was shot down by an IAF MiG-21 Bison. The F-16 crashed and fell across the LOC in POJ&K.The IAF lost one MiG-21 in the aerial engagement and though the Pilot ejected safely his parachute drifted into POJ&K where he was taken into custody by Pakistan Army.
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Aero India 2019: India's Home Grown LCA Tejas Finally Gets The Final Operational Clearance (FOC) For The Enhanced Combat Capabilities
A great day for India's home grown Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas MK I and Indian Air Force (IAF), when the formal declaration of Final Operational Clearance (FOC) of the aircraft was made at Aero India 2019. IAF is ready to order 83 Tejas MK-1A that would give it more firepower.
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Indian Navy Gets The Breakthrough As Defence Ministry Issues Expression of Interest For The Procurement of 111 Naval Utility Helicopters
Indian Navy's modernization gets the biggest boost as MoD has finally issued Expression of Interest for the 111 Naval Utility Helicopters (NUH), mandating the bulk of manufacturing in India.
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I have asked PM Modi to lift the ban of Tatra from the list of defence ministry: Czech PM Andrej Babiš on the defence cooperation with India
In an exclusive chat with BW Businessworld, PM Babiš said that he has asked PM Modi to remove the name of Tatra- a Czech defence entity from the list of banned firms under the ministry of defence (MoD).
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Investments Are Slow In Defence As There Is No Predictability: Rajib Kumar Sen
In an exclusive chat with Manish Kumar Jha, Rajib Kumar Sen talks about the Draft Defence Production Policy and offsets and how changes in it will enable domestic manufacturers to meet high quality military hardware requirements
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Modernisation Means Better Security
BW conference on military modernisation sees India’s armed forces chiefs unveiling the country’s most interactive defence community site
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Building A Positive Sentiment
The defence procurement procedure should be followed in letter and spirit and not just become only a guiding document!
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Decoding Strategic Partnership Policy
Creation of defence industrial ecosystem happens to be the pivotal idea of the strategic partnership policy
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Government staff to get hiked allowances from July: Finance ministry
Union Cabinet had approved recommendations of the CPC with 34 modifications concerning wages of government employees.
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Next Gen Soldiers
In recent days we saw a strange but cogent link between noted historian Ramachandra Guha and Bollywood producer Karan Johar.
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