Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to inaugurate Aero India 2025 in Bangalore on February 10th
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Aero India 2025 will showcase two fifth-generation fighter aircraft - the Russian Su-57 and the American F-35 Lightning II   By Ajai Shukla 9th Feb 2025   The 15th edition of Aero India 2025, Asia’s biggest aerospace and defence exhibition, will be inaugurated by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru on February 10, 2025.    Participation of over 900 exhibitors and 90 countries will make it the biggest-ever Aero India. Defence Ministers from 30 countries and over 100 OEMs will attend.   Aero India 2023 was attended by 27 d ..read more
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Photos of some of the aircraft that will fly displays at Aero India 2025
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  Glimpses of the air show at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru, ahead of the 15th Aero India show which begins on February 10th Indian Air Force does a final rehearsal of the inauguration fly-past at the air show in Bengaluru at the 15th Aero India, which begins on February 10 ..read more
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Ministry of Defence gets largest chunk of union budget
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By Ajai Shukla The Wire, 1st Feb 25    Defence allocations as percentage of GDP   (in Rupees crores)   2020-21 (Actual) 2021-22 (Actual) 2022-23 (Actual) 2023-24 (Actual) 2024-25 (RE) 2025-26 (BE)               Total Defence Expenditure 4,84,736 5,00,681 5,73,098 6,09,504 6,41,060 6,81,210               Central Government Expenditure 35,09,836 37,93,801 41,93,157 44,43,447 47,16,487 50,65,349       ..read more
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Looking ahead at the Defence Budget: Just one day to go...
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  India has become the fifth largest economy of the world during the period 2021 to 2024 By Ajai Shukla 31st January 2025   The Budget Session began today with the President's Address to both houses of Parliament. A team from PRS Legislative analysed the President's Address in June 2024 to the Parliament. This note highlights key announcements in the President's Address, and the latest status of the initiatives announced. Here are the key findings that you may find interesting:  1) In the last ten years, India has become the 5th largest economy and has grown at ..read more
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Defence budget: Funding defence in hard times
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In the current year’s budget, less than 13% of government expenditure has been allocated to defence, continuing a multi-year trend of falling budgets By Ajai Shukla Indian Express, 30th Jan 25   The military’s financial planners are awaiting the Union Budget with bated breath. Since the month of September, their various arms, services, directorates and departments have been finalising their financial wish-lists for the year ahead. Soon they will know how much of that will be made available. All that is presently clear is that the military is not amongst the government’s top priorities ..read more
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Senior army officers face a revised policy on promotions
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Lieutenant generals will soon have an additional hoop to jump through before they get promoted   By Ajai Shukla The Mint, 28th January 2025   Amongst the bold reforms that India’s military is embracing, its organizational structure will change from 17 single-service commands to a more functional and operationally responsive network of 3-5 tri-service theatre commands. To ensure that the army-led commands are headed by generals that the government considers suitable, the army is modifying its promotion policy at the highest levels. From 1 April, it will institute a “quantified assess ..read more
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DRDO tests Scramjet engine; takes step towards hypersonic missiles
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Hypersonic missiles travel at speeds greater than Mach 5, that is five times the speed of sound, or more than 5,400 km/hr.    Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), a Hyderabad-based laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is going ahead with developing a long-duration Supersonic Combustion Ramjet (Scramjet) powered hypersonic technology.    DRDL recently developed these technologies and demonstrated a cutting-edge Active Cooled Scramjet Combustor ground test for 120 seconds for the first time in India. The successful ground te ..read more
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Army buys 47 T-72 bridge laying tanks (BLTs) for Rs 1,561 crore from Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF), Avadi
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BLT drives up to a broken bridge and launches its bridge over a damaged segment The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a contract with Heavy Vehicles Factory, Avadi (HVF) -- a unit of Armoured Vehicle Nigam Limited (AVNL) -- for the procurement of 47 x Tank-72 Bridge Laying Tanks (BLT) for the Indian Army at a total cost of Rs 1,560.52 crore.  The contract was inked by senior officials of MoD and HVF/AVNL in the presence of Defence Secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, in New Delhi on January 21, 2025. The BLT is a critical piece of equipment, employed by tank columns to la ..read more
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Three indigenous warships join the navy’s fleet
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The three warships commissioned today -- INS Nilgiri, INS Surat and INS Vagsheer -- demonstrate India’s progress in indigenous shipbuilding By Ajai Shukla Mint, 15th January 2025   The three new warships commissioned into the Indian Navy on 15 January have all been built at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL), India’s premier warship builder.  INS Surat is the fourth and final Visakhapatnam-class destroyer built under Project 15B; INS Nilgiri is the lead ship of Project 17A, a class of seven multi-role frigates; and INS Vagsheer is the sixth and final Scorpene-class submarine ..read more
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DRDO’s 67th Foundation Day: Celebration of homegrown successes
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 By Ajai Shukla 3rd January 2025   The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), on its 67th Foundation Day on January 3rd, paid homage to one of its most venerated sons, former DRDO chief and President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.   The current DRDO Chairman, Dr Samir V Kamat, laid bouquets at the bust of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, who is widely revered as the “Missile Man of India”.    During the event, the DRDO Chairman released several important DRDO documents. These included a Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) on product development, a compilat ..read more
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