Articles for Defence Industry

India-Bangladesh Strategic Partnership Can Become A Pillar of Regional Strength And Economic Cooperation: Secretary, Defence Production

India and Bangladesh have the potential to become long-term strategic partners in the fields of production, development and maintenance. Both the nations can build off industrial advantages of each other's economies and collaborate in the arena of defence cooperation for mutual benefit.

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MDL Augmented To Build 11 Submarines And 10 Ships At Any Given Time: RAdmiral AK Saxena, Director, Mazagon Dock

Mazagon Dock's Director Shipbuilding R Admiral A K Saxena speaks with BW Businessworld's Manish Kumar Jha on the occasion of keel laying of India's advance frigate Project-17a. He talks about the design capability, stealth feature and weapon platforms in building warship at MDL for Indian navy. He also brings out MDL's outreach overseas.

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MDL Will Deliver All 6 Scorpene Submarine To Indian Navy By 2023: CMD Vice Admiral Narayan Prasad

On the Keel laying of India’s stealth Frigates Project 17 Alpha at MDL, BW Businessworld’ s Manish Kumar Jha spoke with MDL’s Chairman & Managing director, Vice Admiral, Narayan Prasad. MDL’s IPO has seen the record subscription, receiving bids worth Rs 70000 cr. CMD talks about Indian navy's next generation submarines Project 75 I, collaboration and its core AIP system development stage.

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Why Corporatisation Of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) Is Inescapable Strategic Need of India

One of the key structural reforms in defence manufacturing, Corporatisation of OFBs was announced by the Finance Minister. It is a open fact that OFB has failed in many ways & marked as an inefficient entity that nation can ill afford the loath of underperforming, hiding their inefficiencies under the garb of being defence establishments, firewalled with protectionism to avoid accountability. Time has come to reform.

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India’s Next Generation Stealth Frigate Of Project 17A Takes Off At Mazagon Dock

With the laying of the keel of Advanced Stealth Frigates under Project P17a at Mazagon Dock, India embraces the best in class technology in the world. Loaded with the next generation weapon platform the Barak 8 and hypersonic BrahMos in the P17A warships will be a formidable force of the Indian navy.

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To Boost Defence Industry & Export, We Need to Relook The Make in India Policy: General Rawat

Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Raway while addressing the FICCI ESymposium asked the Industry to seize opportunities in defence manufacturing & make India net exporter of defence equipment

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India's Defence Acquisition Process Should Not Be Aimed at Fault Finding But For Facilitating: Admiral RK Dhowan

Aerospace Maritime and Defence Studies (SAMDeS) & FICCI deliberated the vital aspect of India's defense acquisition process over 1st ever eSymposium on Negotiating Defence Contracts on June 24. Time has come to overhaul the defence contracts in India, infamously known for excruciatingly long process and cut down time & cost.

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Reforms Or Just A Rejig?

The slew of announcements made by FM Sitharaman is intended more as policy tweaks rather than radical reforms to encourage ‘Make in India’ in defence By Manish Kumar Jha

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