US made Predator drones leased by India
Category: Navy
RFP soon on Indian submarine project
After ‘Free & Open’ Indo-Pacific, USS Nimitz exercises with India
India hold key to China’s Malacca Dilemma IDD Bureau Just days after the US Navy carriers, the USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan, led their respective strike groups to show China ‘its place’ in the South China Sea and enforced a ‘free and open’ Indo-Pacific, the US Nimitz had turned west-wards towards the middle east,
India reduces demand for 57 carrier based jets
Locally made jet, to be ready by 2026, will make up numbers IDD Bureau India is now looking to reduce the number of Multi-Role carrier borne fighters jets it wants to source from foreign manufacturers. The numbers could be cut down from the present demand of 57 jets. According to some estimates, the Indian Navy
Indian Coast Guard is now 150 ship strong
IDD Bureau Indian Coast Guard is now a 150 ship force and with 40 more ships at various stages of under construction, making it vital to the Indian maritime infrastructure which has grown since the November 2008 — 26/11 — terror attacks on Mumbai. Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) Sachet (meaning alert) and two interceptor
US okays more Harpoon and Mk54 anti-sub torpedoes for Indian P8I
IDD Bureau Continuing to provide cutting edge equipment to its ally India, the US has notified the possible sale of 10 Harpoon missiles and also 16 MK 54 Torpedoes coupled with three MK 54 exercise Torpedoes kits, collectively costing $ 155 Million ( approx Rs 1162 crore) The AGM-84L Harpoon Block II air launched anti-ship
India’s opts for MH-60R, numbers are just bare minimum
IDD Bureau India’s has finally decided to go ahead with the deal to get 24 of the MH 60R helicopters for $ 2.6 billion ( Rs 18200 crore) from US company Lockheed Martin under the foreign military sales route okayed by the US Administration. The decision was okayed by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS)
MH-60R will provide India an ‘ASW’ edge over China
IDD explainer IDD Bureau Imagine a scenario, a submarine of China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is lurking under the waters either in the Arabian Sea along India’s west coast or in Bay of Bengal which forms the country’s east coast. An Indian Naval warship is within close proximity, its carrying on deck a
F/A-18 for India is a new plane with many upgrades : Boeing
Def-Expo 2020 IDD Bureau US giant Boeing, on Wednesday said, the Super Hornet FA/18 block III fighter jet being offered to India is almost a ‘new plane’. Thomas Breckenridge, Vice President, International Sales at Boeing Strike, Surveillance & Mobility said at the def-expo 2020 at Lucknow “We offer the new plane to have an air
India, China, Japan and Korea step up Asian ‘carrier race’
IDD Perspective paper Just how fast has the Indo-Pacific militarized ? The past twelve months have been of rapid changes. India, China, Japan and now Korea ‘Race’ to make new aircraft carriers or add to their existing fleets. Till a little over three years ago, India was the only country, excluding the US which had
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