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Ajai Shukla: 'Make in India' on the guillotine

The French have been rewarded for their obstinacy with exactly what they wanted - an order for fully built Rafales without technology transfer

36 Rafales to join Air Force in 2 years

But no clarity on additional fighters

India, France agree on deal for 36 Rafale jets

Aircraft to be procured as full-built units; announcement silent about plan to build the planes at HAL

In torpedo delay lies opportunity to build domestic industry

Star Wars setback as DRDO interceptor missile malfunctions

Seconds into the test, the anti-ballistic missile deviated from its planned path and it quickly became clear that it would not hit the target

Star Wars: India set to test missile defence shield

This will be DRDO's latest test towards developing an anti-ballistic missile shield, to protect Indian targets against nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles fired from Pakistan or China

Defence ministry ignores Russia's requests to discuss fighter project

IAF is focused on Rafale; argues the fifth generation fighter aircraft would not meet Indian expectations

Ajai Shukla: Don't divide the army, Mr Parrikar

Internal simmering in the army has come to a boil after the govt tries to retain a discriminatory promotions policy

Facing dwindling numbers, Jaguar upgrade crucial for Indian Air Force

The IAF is down to 34 squadrons against 42 authorised. This would dip to 30 squadrons by the end of this decade, as nine squadrons of MiG-21 and MiG-27s retire

IAF starts getting upgraded Mirage 2000 fighters

In July 2011, IAF signed a Rs 10,947-crore contract to upgrade its entire fleet of 51 Mirage 2000 fighters

Ajai Shukla: Making 'make' happen

India's defence industry needs to be hand-held if it is to supply defence equipment designed and built specifically for India

Supreme Court rules out high court appeal for soldiers

However, in 2012, the Supreme Court had ruled that military litigants have no vested right of appeal against an AFT judgment

For the armed forces, Budget brings no cheer

The allocation of Rs 94,588 cr for capital investment in 2015-16 is woefully short of the total investment plan of Rs 20 lakh cr of the army, navy and air force

Tribunal strikes down divisive army promotion policy

The discriminatory policy rigged promotions in favour of the two biggest arms - the infantry and artillery - by allocating them an unfairly large number of promotion vacancies at the "commanding offic

Ajai Shukla: Needed - defence budgeting structures

Imaginative budgeting requires a top-down approach, where strategic demands determine procurement priorities

'Make in India' for HAL trainer, import of Swiss trainer capped

Council orders IAF to buy indigenous HTT-40 trainer

Tata, BEL consortia get Rs 40k-crore 'battlefield management system'

This is believed to be army's biggest project ever

Participation in Aero India rises but sales yet to pick up

Going by the babel on the public days, Aero India 2015 is the world's premier air show

US: Decision-making on India insulated from bureaucracy

US says the White House is nurturing defence ties with India so no bureaucrat below the deputy assistant secretary of state or defence can reject release of tech to India

Top officials provide glimpse of future air force

IAF currently has 35 operational fighter squadrons, and another 11 would retire by 2018