MMRCA: A do or die contract for Dassault's military business

Union Defence Minister A K Antony on Monday said it was not possible to set a time frame for signing the much-awaited deal for the Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) with French company Dassault Aviation. The contract, said to be worth nearly ...

France will have to accept Indias conditions in the almost $20 billion MMRCA (medium multi-role combat aircraft) project if it wants to eventually bag the contract to supply 126 Rafale fighters to the IAF.

NEW DELHI, May 13: India has kick-started plans to base its most lethal "air dominance fighter in south India to keep a "strategic eye over the Indian Ocean. Indian Defence minister AK Antony will inaugurate the new airbase at Thanjavur in Tamil ...

By Sruthijith KK NEW DELHI: Less than a month after the defence ministry said it was tweaking key policies to give Indian industry a greater role in production, the Indian Air Force has issued a request for proposals (RFP) in a project estimated to ...

New Delhi: Army is planning to procure 100 self-propelled artillery howitzers and three Indian vendors, including two private companies, have been selected for trial of their equipment, Defence Minister AK Antony told the Lok Sabha on Monday. In a ...

In the wake of several lost tenders India's No. 1 weapons supplier, Russia, is likely to change tactics in its efforts to compete, a senior official in New Delhi said. Moscow is "livid" and quite concerned about losing several big ticket Indian ...

The IAF will require 39 combat aircraft units to meet the challenge of fighting a war simultaneously on the Pakistan and China fronts but it has only 34 squadrons, a Parliamentary panel has been informed.In its report, the Standing Committee on ...

A MiG-35 prototype takes off. The maker still hopes for a MiG-35 order from India, and is upgrading the Indian MiG-29 fleet in the meantime. (Photo: RAC MiG) April 26, 2013, 2:24 PM Russia has approached India again with an offer for MiG-35 ...

Exporters Place Restrictions on Military Goods Filed Under NEW DELHI — The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty adopted April 3 has sent shockwaves through India's Defence Ministry as several ongoing projects could be affected. While no MoD official ...