Foreign Affairs

The US Navy has opened a competition for a new low-cost interceptor designed to counter drones, cruise missiles and other mass aerial threats without relying exclusively on expensive, traditional missiles. The service issued a...

Paris: The United Kingdom must strengthen naval readiness to keep the Atlantic open and protect the sea lanes, undersea cables and energy infrastructure vital to the country, the chief of the Royal Navy said. Britain...

Cologne: The defence leaders of Germany and the United States have signed an agreement positioning Germany as an additional production hub where workers can make scarce munitions for American weapons if stateside US firms...

After a hectic two-day deliberation at the leadership level, the 18th BRICS summit concluded successfully, overcoming the concern that geopolitical differences between the UAE and Iran might act against the unanimous adoption of a...

Tel Aviv: After the success of the Israeli Iron Dome air defence systems deployed in the UAE during the recent war when Iran targeted different facilities in the kingdom, discussions about the purchase of...

LOS ANGELES. Hermeus is developing a new expendable, ramjet-powered vehicle designed to provide sustained high-Mach flight testing without the cost and complexity of building a bespoke aircraft for every experiment. Called Ramjet-X, the vehicle will...

Russia is expanding defence cooperation with India through a combination of private-sector and state-owned manufacturers, as New Delhi places greater emphasis on local production, technology transfer and co-development. Adani Defence & Aerospace, Hindustan Aeronautics...

Paris. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 10 outlined India’s long-term space ambitions at the first International Space Summit in Paris, announcing plans to establish an indigenous space station by 2035 and send an...

Rosh-HaAyin / Tel Aviv, Israel: A day after the Israeli Defence Forces Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Eyal Zamir announced that there is a plan to launch a new branch dedicated to "unmanned systems...

India will host the 18th edition of the BRICS Summit over two days on September 12 and 13 at a time at a time when trade tensions, supply-chain disruptions, geopolitical conflicts and rapid technological...

Ahead of a possible Summit meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the upcoming BRICS Summit in New Delhi, a meeting was held between the Indian and Chinese armies...

India and Belgium have signed 10 defence-industrial agreements covering ammunition production, rocket assembly, naval mine-countermeasure systems, counter-drone technology, electro-optics and armoured-vehicle systems. The agreements were concluded in New Delhi on September 3 during Belgian...

Much has happened in five years since Afghanistan Taliban 2.0 came into existence on August 14, 2021 and Indo-Afghan relations appear to have taken a positive turn and the relations assumes significance in the...