DefenceTalkAn Indian MiG-29 naval jet landed on a refitted former Soviet aircraft carrier Friday, marking the first such operation since the ship was delivered by Russia to the south Asian nation earlier this year. “An exciting event took place today – the first landing of an [Indian] MiG-29 piloted by an Indian pilot on the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/first-indian-mig-29-fighter-jet-lands-on-vikramaditya-50685/

DefenceTalkA missile unit of the elite Strategic Forces Command (SFC) successfully launched a Prithvi missile today from the test range at Chandipur, off the Odisha Coast as part of a scenario based live launch training exercise. The launch was flawless and achieved all its targeting and technical parameters set out for the training exercise. ‘The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-test-fires-another-prithvi-irbm-50030/

DefenceTalkIndia cancelled on Wednesday a 556-million-euro ($753 million) contract with Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland to buy luxury helicopters for VIPs amid bribery allegations. The deal signed in February 2010 was scrapped after Defence Minister A. K. Antony held a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh whose Congress-led government has been buffeted by a string of corruption […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-scraps-agustawestland-chopper-deal-over-bribe-allegations-50019/

DefenceTalkDefence minister A K Antony has finally bitten the bullet. With the CBI deciding to close the infamous seven-year-old Barak kickbacks case for lack of evidence, the defence ministry on Monday cleared the long-pending “critical” naval procurement of an additional 262 Israeli Barak-I missiles for Rs 880 crore. The Antony-led Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC) also […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-to-buy-israeli-barak-missiles-49996/

DefenceTalkFrance’s Dassault Aviation and Reliance Industries are planning to set up a facility to produce wings of Rafale combat aircraft selected by IAF for meeting its requirement of 126 fighter planes. The two firms are planning to set up a Rs. 1,000-crore facility for producing the wings of the Rafale combat aircraft and it is […]https://www.defencetalk.com/dassault-plans-to-make-rafale-wings-in-india-49913/

DefenceTalkThe indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has undertaken 2,400 sorties to meet the requirements of the IAF, which is set to induct the aircraft on December 20. “The LCA has clocked over 2400 flights till now with highest ever number of sorties achieved in the current year. The programme has achieved highest ever […]https://www.defencetalk.com/indias-light-combat-aircraft-tejas-completes-2400-sorties-49909/

DefenceTalkThe deafening roar of the Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-21 FL afterburner, an iconic delta-wing fighter aircraft that heralded the ‘supersonic era’ in Indian Air Force (IAF) will no longer be heard after December 11, 2013, the day it is set to fly into the annals of military aviation history. Four Mig-21 FL aircraft flown by pilots from […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-to-retire-last-mig-21fl-fighter-aircraft-49877/

DefenceTalkIndia has expanded a secretive site that could be used to enrich more uranium for nuclear weapons, a US think tank said Wednesday, citing satellite imagery. The Institute for Science and International Security, a private group opposed to nuclear proliferation, said that India appeared to be finishing a second gas centrifuge facility at its Rare […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-expands-nuclear-weapons-site-think-tank-49834/

DefenceTalkRussia on Saturday ceremonially handed over a refurbished ex-Soviet aircraft carrier to India after a refit that overran by five years and went vastly over budget, damaging ties between the countries. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony took part in a ceremony at the Arctic port of Severodvinsk on […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-hands-india-long-awaited-aircraft-carrier-49666/

DefenceTalkIndia’s share in research-and-development work for the joint Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) project with Russia is currently limited by India’s domestic industrial capabilities but will gradually increase with the project’s implementation, a Russian military expert said Friday. India’s The Economic Times newspaper reported on October 17 that Indian military officials were concerned over the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/indias-share-in-joint-fighter-project-with-russia-likely-to-grow-49507/