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The Indian Air Force (IAF) has invited responses by 7 August from local manufacturers to its request for information (RfI) for high-mobility vehicles (HMVs), on which to mount very short-range air defence systems (VSHORADS).

Nearly 2,000 horses, dogs and mules have been ‘disposed of’ by the army in the last three years. In a written reply to a query in Lok Sabha, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said disposal of animals is done in accordance with regulations for the army. Asked how many animals have been …

Acknowledging that the Indian Army is short of critical ammunition, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said the government has taken steps to mitigate the deficiencies. “The government has taken into consideration the deficiencies in some of the critical ammunition on priority and has also taken effective steps to mitigate the …

In a setback for Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the Indian Air Force (IAF) has asked the state-owned firm to stop its efforts to produce the Intermediate Jet Trainers (IJT). This comes close on the heels of the recent accident of the advanced jet trainer Hawk, which is currently being produced …

In a dock opening onto the Hooghly River near central Kolkata, one of India’s most lethal new weapons is going through a final outfit. The Kadmatt is a submarine killer, bristling with technology to sniff out and destroy underwater predators. It’s the second of four warships in India’s first dedicated anti-submarine …

Gunmen dressed in Indian Army uniforms opened fire on a civilian bus and then took over a police station in the northern state of Punjab early on Monday, killing at least five people, the police said, in a region that has been mostly calm since India quelled a Sikh insurgency …

Myanmar has deployed an additional brigade comprising around 6,000 men and officers along the border with India, apparently to prevent any more surgical strikes by the Indian Army inside its territory, The Hindu newspaper quoted senior Indian government official as saying.

Sixteen years after Pakistan sprang a surprise on the Indian Army and triggered a war in the mountains of Kargil, army chief General Dalbir Singh on Friday said India had reinforced its security architecture significantly to avert a repeat of 1999. Singh said, “We have beefed up our capabilities and deployments …

From shopping mall in South Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir’s Drass sector, the Army has planned a series of events to honour the martyrs of the 1999 Kargil War. The main event, which would mark the 16th anniversary of the victory, is scheduled to be held at Kargil War Memorial in …

Indian army’s Lieutenant General KH Singh on Monday warned “certain elements in Pakistan” of “unexpected damages” in the wake of repeated exchanges of fire between Indian and Pakistani border forces along the Line of Control and Working Boundary over the past week, according to a report on the media.