India's Rafale jet procurement marks a pivotal shift in defense strategy, balancing assembly capabilities with the need for ...

The dialogue is a structured ministerial-level bilateral meeting to review and guide defence and security cooperation. Prior ...

India’s Defence Acquisition Council approves Rafale jet deal with France; 90 jets to be manufactured domestically. Macron’s ...

The IAF needs the 114 jets to bolster its falling squadron numbers— it has just 29 fighter squadrons against a sanctioned strength of 42, even as adversaries Pakistan and China are bolstering their ...

Rajnath Singh urged his French counterpart to increase the proportion of India-made components in the Rafale deal to 50%. They also discussed co-development and co-production of military equipment.

Safran and DRDO’s Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) have partnered to develop a high-thrust (110-140 kN) engine that ...

India has pitched to France for at least 50 per cent of indigenous components as part of the new Rafale deal pegged at a massive Rs 3.25 lakh crore. These include the production of HAMMER Missiles, ...

The Rafale deal, then, is less a purchase than a referendum on India’s defence industrial strategy. India must be watchful ...

A key item on the agenda is a proposed government-to-government deal worth nearly 40 billion USD, under which India plans to acquire 114 Dassault Rafale fighter jets over the coming months.

Up close, the Indian Air Force Rafale doesn’t just take off — it detonates into motion. Twin Safran M88 engines spool hard ...

Defence minister Rajnath Singh warns India has five to seven years to build a next-generation, sovereign aero engine.