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Boeing, Lockheed hail “end-use monitoring” agreement

23 Jul 2009

Boeing, Lockheed hail “end-use monitoring” agreement

23 Jul 2009

Eurojet's EJ200 engine in contention for the LCA Tejas programme

22 Jul 2009

End user monitoring heralds closer Indo-US defence ties: USIBC

21 Jul 2009

India, US sign defence pact; plan strategic dialogue

20 Jul 2009

India today signed three agreements with the United States, including a strategically important defence pact.

Johnny Gurkha gets too expensive for the Royal Army

20 Jul 2009

Clinton eyes defence pact to boost arms trade with India

18 Jul 2009

Negotiations to begin for Rs9,500-cr upgrade programme of IAF Mirage 2000s

17 Jul 2009

India will commence negotiations for the upgrade programme of the Mirage 2000 fighter jets with a French delegation. The upgrade costs may work out to as much as Rs9,500 crore.

MQ-9 Reaper UAV may have new role as missile defence sensor

17 Jul 2009

Former Boeing executive of Chinese origin convicted for espionage

17 Jul 2009

Indian indigenous nuclear sub to be unveiled on 26 July: report

16 Jul 2009

Reports in a section of the media suggest that the secretive Indian nuclear submarine programme, referred to as the Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV), may finally be unveiled at a Vishakhapatnam naval shipyard on 26 July.

Northrop bags Space Fence project to monitor space debris

15 Jul 2009

Tracking and detecting the ever-proliferating space junk has now become a matter of urgency for all space-faring nations, particularly as space-related activities begin to mount in the coming years.

Pradeep Kumar appointed next defence secretary

14 Jul 2009

EADS to build $3.5 billion Saudi fence

13 Jul 2009

Sea trials of Russian nuclear sub for India resume

10 Jul 2009

A Russian nuclear-powered Schucka-B (NATO: Akula II) class submarine, expected to join the Indian Navy by the end of this year, has resumed sea trials on Friday in the Sea of Japan. (See: video)

DARPA to revolutionise supercomputing

08 Jul 2009

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is all set to develop a new breed of supercomputers that will be smarter, faster, and also smaller, requiring much less power than the massive machines in operation today.

Budget 2009-10: A 34 per cent booster shot for defence

06 Jul 2009

After Tibet, Xinjiang erupts - 140 killed, over 800 injured

By Rajiv Singh | 06 Jul 2009

Ethnic Muslim Uighurs in the western China desert region of Xinjiang have clashed heavily with Chinese paramilitary and Han Chinese in the capital city of Urumqui resulting in over a 1,000 casualties.

IAF’s MMRCA tender: Pentagon prevents Saab-IAI collaboration

06 Jul 2009

The US administration may have compelled Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) to pull out from a proposed collaboration with Swedish firm Saab Gripen to develop an advanced model of their multi-role JAS-39 fighter for a $12 billion IAF MMRCA tender.