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The Defence Ministry has signed a 30-month, ₹1,943 crore lease with General Atomics for two additional MQ-9B Sea Guardians — doubling the Navy's rented long-endurance surveillance fleet and bridging the gap until the 31 purchased Predators begin arriving from 2028.
The Defence Ministry's RFP for 60 multirole transport aircraft, worth around Rs 1 lakh crore, opens a Make-in-India race between Tata-Lockheed, Mahindra-Embraer and a revived HAL-Russia tie-up to replace the IAF's ageing AN-32 fleet.
HAL will build 12 new Su-30MKIs at Nashik with over 50 per cent indigenous content, delivering by 2029, as the IAF's largest fighter fleet enters a two-phase upgrade built around an India-made radar, reportedly worth about ₹60,000 crore.
The Defence Ministry has 'initiated efforts' to co-join the France-led FCAS sixth-generation fighter programme, a parliamentary panel reveals — weeks after France and Germany parted ways. What the move means for the IAF and the AMCA.
The Makkah pact couples nuclear-armed Pakistan's military with Saudi finance and Turkey's NATO-grade defence industry. India is examining the implications. What the agreement does — and does not — commit its signatories to.
India's Strategic Forces Command test-fired the 4,000-km-range, nuclear-capable Agni-4 from Chandipur on 6 August, with the Ministry of Defence saying the launch validated all operational and technical parameters.
Russia's August 5 barrage killed 17 in Kyiv with zero missiles intercepted; Zelenskyy says interceptor supplies are at a third of 2025 levels — days after he and Trump discussed a US licence for Ukrainian Patriot interceptor production.
The Safran-GTRE joint venture for a ~120 kN AMCA Mk2 fighter engine with full Indian IP is reported before the Cabinet Committee on Security, with clearance expected by 15 August — a timeline that still awaits official confirmation.
H-6K bombers with supersonic YJ-12 anti-ship missiles drilled 120 nautical miles off Luzon in the first Chinese combat package the Philippine military has verified at Scarborough Shoal, days after allied exercises in the same waters.
China's Type 076 Sichuan, the only amphibious assault ship fitted with an electromagnetic catapult, has entered its final test phase after a dead-load launch — a stealth-drone carrier class the Indian Navy currently has no equivalent to.
DRDO's Kusha long-range interceptor made its maiden flight from Abdul Kalam Island on 23 July, destroying an electronic target simulating a high-speed, high-altitude threat — first hardware proof of India's indigenous S-400-class shield.
Contracts signed on 22 July task AIESL with converting six Airbus A321s to green configuration and name Adani Defence as development-cum-production partner for the Netra Mk2's mission systems, with induction planned for 2032-33.
HAL chief D.K. Sunil says the first 20 Tejas Mk1A jets have finished manufacturing and first-phase flight tests, with about 30 airframes built overall — leaving GE F404 engine supply as the sole barrier to an August-September handover.
Skyroot's Vikram-1 reached a 450 km orbit on its first attempt — making India the third country with private orbital launch capability, and giving New Delhi something it has never had: a second, sovereign road to space.
Four Rafales, two C-17s and 120-plus air warriors have landed in Darwin for Exercise Pitch Black 2026 — with an Il-78 topping up the fighters over Indonesia on the way, a small detail that says as much about India's reach as the exercise itself.
The US has delivered another MH-60R Seahawk to the Indian Navy at Kochi, with two more arriving within days — quiet, steady fleet-building for the ocean India watches most closely.
At the BIMSTEC security chiefs' meeting in Delhi, India's NSA told Myanmar's counterpart plainly that its soil must not host anti-India insurgency, arms smuggling or infiltration — pressure on a neighbour whose ungoverned spaces have become the Northeast's biggest external security problem.
A single-source report says the fifth and last S-400 squadron will reach India in November 2026, completing the $5.43 billion contract signed with Russia in October 2018 after years of Ukraine-war delays. Official corroboration is awaited.
The sixth and final Project 17A stealth frigate joined the Eastern Fleet at Visakhapatnam on 11 July, capping an induction run that put six ships in service in about a year and a half and halved the class's launch-to-delivery timeline.
Reported Project 15C, 17B and 18A plans — sixteen hulls including 14,000-15,000-tonne combatants that would be the largest warships ever built in India — would anchor a decade of order books for Mazagon Dock, Garden Reach and other yards.
The Indian Army has issued an RFP for 450 locally built 84mm Carl Gustaf Mark-IV launchers — sub-7 kg, 350-800 m range — with deliveries to begin within 12 months, likely from Saab's Jhajjar plant, India's first 100% FDI defence project.
NATO's first summit in Ankara locked in €70 billion for Ukraine in 2026 with matching commitments for 2027, saw Trump offer Ukraine a licence to build Patriot interceptors, and launched a $40 billion, five-year drone and counter-drone push.
Pakistan lost 38 security personnel in a week inside its own largest province — and its army's answer, again, was to blame India without producing evidence. The reflex says more about Rawalpindi's unwillingness to face its Balochistan failure than about anything New Delhi has done.
DRDO's 8 July Chandipur trial proved the Pinaka Long Range Guided Rocket at its 60 km minimum range — fired from an unmodified in-service launcher, handing Army rocket regiments a drop-in path to precision strikes out to 120 km.
GE Aerospace has handed HAL its seventh F404-IN20 turbofan, but with close to 30 completed Tejas Mk1A airframes waiting for powerplants, GE's promise of 20 engines by December 2026 is now the pacing item for IAF deliveries.
Signed during PM Modi's 7 July visit, the package makes Indonesia the second BrahMos export customer and the first foreign buyer of the DRDO-developed Astra Mk-1 — with unofficial estimates putting the deal near $630 million.
A PLA ballistic missile submarine fired a JL-2 or JL-3 roughly 7,300 km from the South China Sea into the South Pacific on 6 July — China's first announced SLBM test since 1982, and a new benchmark for India's own sea-based deterrent.
Pakistan's 276th Corps Commanders' Conference pledged 'all measures necessary' to secure the country's share of Indus waters, formally binding the army to a dispute that began when India put the 1960 treaty in abeyance.
The DRDO-Dvipa Defence 7.62 mm battle rifle, built in 100 days, has passed Army GSQR and Home Ministry board trials, clearing the path for CRPF, ITBP and SSB to replace the ageing 5.56 mm INSAS.
A repeat Indonesian request and advancing UAE negotiations would carry India's flagship missile export from Southeast Asia into the Gulf — a test of whether Indian weapons can win in fiercely competitive markets.
Ten domestic firms have bid for the Indian Air Force's 87-UAV programme worth over Rs 30,000 crore — a field wide enough to test whether India's private drone base can absorb, and survive, a contest this large.
A sustainment milestone at Koraput underscores the depth of domestic engine MRO — and renews calls for a dedicated indigenous aero-engine mission before the AL-31FP line winds down.
The weeklong state funeral for the supreme leader killed in the war's opening strike leaves Iran's transition — and a fragile US-Iran peace process — resting on a successor the public has not seen.
At 14.5 kg with a 2.5 km reach, the indigenous fire-and-forget MP-ATGM is set for Indian Army induction after ten-plus years of development, closing an infantry anti-tank gap and trimming reliance on imported missiles.
India's frontline anti-submarine aircraft joins the 30th edition of RIMPAC off Hawaii, folding into a month-long drill with the United States, Japan and Australia as the Navy sharpens its ASW edge in the Indo-Pacific.
India's Defence Acquisition Council granted Acceptance of Necessity for proposals worth about Rs 52,000 crore on 3 July, a tri-service package weighted toward counter-drone weapons and layered air defence.
China's upgraded J-15T is operating from Liaoning, Shandong and Fujian alike. One interchangeable fighter across three decks changes the tempo of Chinese naval aviation — and shortens India's own decision timelines.
A cascading-crisis exercise under President Lai Ching-te confronted officials with a Chinese blockade, a strong earthquake, hijacked broadcasts and a bank run striking together — a sign of how seriously Taiwan now treats invasion.
At their 16th annual summit in New Delhi, India and Japan unveiled their first-ever defence co-development project, a joint economic security declaration and a ¥10 trillion investment target — deepening the Indo-Pacific's democratic axis.
Iran's military has ordered tankers onto approved Hormuz routes while officials push 'service fees' — an attempt to turn wartime leverage into lasting control of the world's most important oil chokepoint, with direct stakes for India.
Hundreds of drones and more than 70 missiles struck Kyiv on 2 July, killing at least 27 people and injuring over 100 — the deadliest strike on the capital this year and, by the mayor's account, the largest air attack of the war.
A mast that can halve a warship's radar cross-section is the object of India and Japan's first-ever military hardware co-development deal, signed in New Delhi on 2 July under Japan's relaxed export rules.
India's long-planned Integrated Battle Groups are finally real: five new formations carved from the XVII Corps, raised in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh and built to strike within 24 hours of orders.
The Philippines answers intensified Chinese coast guard and naval pressure with an air-presence build-up at Thitu Island in the Spratlys and Santa Ana near the Luzon Strait, backed by new patrol aircraft, helicopters and radar.
Deep strikes have achieved what no front-line offensive managed — a nationwide Russian fuel crisis conceded by Putin himself, pushing one of the world's great oil powers into seaborne gasoline imports, including from India.
GE Aerospace has reportedly tripled the price of F414 engines meant for AMCA prototypes, stalling negotiations and casting doubt over schedules for India's fifth-generation fighter and the Tejas Mk2.
Safran and Rolls-Royce have submitted rival proposals to co-develop the AMCA Mk2 engine, each pledging 100% technology transfer. India's choice will decide whether it finally closes its decades-old fighter-engine design gap.
A change of command atop the 1.3-million-strong Indian Army hands General Dhiraj Seth the task of turning his 'VIJAY' vision of a technology-driven, future-ready force into decisions, budgets and timelines.
Open-source analysts now count more than 30 J-35s, with output accelerating. In South Asia the figure reads as a countdown: Pakistan signed for the jet in May, and India's own fifth-generation fighter has yet to fly.
India's largest conventional submarine programme is reportedly one Cabinet decision from contract — and the pending technology transfer review, not the headline price, will decide what the deal is actually worth.
The first of eight Chinese-built AIP boats — and reported plans for Pakistan's first Bay of Bengal submarine deployment since 1971 — sharpen an undersea contest that India's delayed P-75I programme has yet to answer.
Construction of the world's largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo is moving fast near the Arunachal border. The choices India makes while the concrete is still being poured will shape the Brahmaputra for decades.
The charge sheet against a former DRDO lab chief describes a Pakistani honey-trap that reached classified missile data — forcing decisions on how India vets and watches the scientists holding its most sensitive secrets.
Outgoing Army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi cites over 1,100 annual India-China military interactions as the Army formally dismisses reports of PLA camps in Upper Subansiri as 'incorrect and without any basis'.
The seven-year award, among the largest missile-production contracts on record and tied to the Golden Dome build-out, signals that interceptor capacity is now an industrial race — and the United States is paying to win it.
Pakistan says its 29 June border operations killed at least 29 fighters; the Taliban government counts 36 civilian dead — irreconcilable tallies from the heaviest acknowledged cross-border action in a fortnight.
Israel's Rafael is negotiating with multiple Indian private-sector defence firms to manufacture the Iron Dome's Tamir interceptor in India, with output earmarked for Israeli domestic demand and export orders.
A delivered GE F404 engine has developed a snag and another has failed acceptance parameters. With six of 99 engines in hand, India's flagship fighter heads into a September review that will reset its delivery timeline.
INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak and INS Agray joined the fleet together on 21 June — a GRSE production milestone underscoring India's shift from defence buyer to builder as China widens its Indian Ocean footprint.
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