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The SC bench asked the ministry to immediately withdraw its January 20 communication, which said OROP arrears will be paid in four instalmentsThe Supreme Court on Monday asked the Ministry of Defence to give a roadmap for the payment of arrears under the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme by next week, saying the government cannot take law in its own hands by issuing communication on payment of
One of MDA’s biggest investments in FY24 is for the Next Generation Interceptor, with $2.1 billion requested.
The plans include selling at least three Americans attack subs in the early 2030s and the UK, Australians producing a brand new sub, filled with American tech, in the 2040s.
The Defense Department’s research, development, test and evaluation budget request represents a 4 percent increase from FY23 levels, according to budget documents.
Indian soldiers to get new AK-203 assault riflesArmy soldiers will now finally get modern assault rifles in bulk. The long-pending project to manufacture over six lakh AK-203 Kalashnikov rifles at the Korwa ordnance factory in Amethi district of UP has kicked off.Kalashnikov AK-203 rifles for Indian armed forces are currently under manufacturing and testing stage at an Indo-Russian joint venture
The Indian government has set a target of achieving defence manufacturing worth Rs 1,75,000 crore, including defence exports of Rs 35,000 crore by 2024-25. Minister of state for Defence Ajay Bhatt said the value of production undertaken by private companies and state-run defence manufacturers in 2021-22 was Rs 86,078 crore while the amount was Rs 88,631 crore in 2020-21 and Rs 63,722 crore in
Prime Minister Modi on the deck of India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier INS VIKRANTThe Indian Navy currently operates two aircraft carriers – the Russian-built 40,000-ton INS Vikramaditya and the 44,000-ton indigenously produced INS VikrantThe government of India should "seriously" consider the navy’s request for a much larger third aircraft carrier, a veteran who served in the country’s
The new budget request seeks the second Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine and two Virginia-class boats, but lacks amphibs, a point sure to irk lawmakers.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI, France has displaced US as India’s second largest arms supplier while half of China’s arms exports went to PakistanNew Delhi: Russia continues to be the largest arms supplier of India, but its share in New Delhi’s total arms imports has come down to 45 percent during the period 2018-2022 from 64 percent earlier,
In comments to Breaking Defense, a Marine Corps spokesman forcefully pushed back against the new budget request’s failure to seek new amphibious warships.