The latest edition of Indian Navy’s multilateral exercise MILAN 2022 is scheduled to commence from 25 Feb 22 in the ‘City of Destiny’, Visakhapatnam. The theme of the MILAN 2022 exercise is ‘Camaraderie – Cohesion – Collaboration’ MILAN 22 will be conducted in two phases over a duration of ...

Boeing delivered the 12th P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to India on Wednesday, February 23, making it the fourth of four additional aircraft delivered under the options contract signed by the Ministry of Defence in 2016. The Ministry of Defence had signed a contract for eight P-8I aircraft ...

Lt Gen GAV Reddy (Lieutenant General GAV Reddy to the Defense Intelligence Agency (Defence Intelligence Agency) has been appointed as the new chief. He was Lieutenant General KJS Dhillon (Lt Gen KJS Dhillon), who retired Monday. The post of the director general is held on a rotation basis ...

Western Naval Command of the Indian Navy conducted a joint maritime exercise Paschim Lehar (XPL-2022) off the West Coast which concluded on January 25, 2022. The exercise continued for 20 days and was conducted with an aim to enhance Inter-Service synergy among the Indian Navy, IAF, ...

Indian Navy and Russian Navy undertook PASSEX exercises at the port of Cochin, in the Arabian Sea.  Indigenously-designed and built guided missile destroyer, INS Kochi, carried out a passage exercise (PASSEX) with Russian Navy’s RFS Admiral Tributs in the Arabian ...

India has invited a total of 46 friendly foreign countries to participate in the multinational naval exercise Milan in Visakhapatnam, scheduled from February 25, 2022. This exercise was initiated in 1995 and held biennially and conducted with friendly navies. The theme of ...

India’s first indigenously built missile corvettes, INS Khukri (P49), was decommissioned after 32 years of service at Visakhapatnam on December 24, 2021. INS Khukri was built by the Mazagon Dock shipbuilders on August 23, 1989. The ship was commissioned in Mumbai by Shri Krishna Chandra Pant, ...

India successfully test-fired Short Range Surface to Air Missile from integrated test range, Chandipur, Odisha. Defense Research and Development Organisation, DRDO said, the launch was conducted from a vertical launcher against an electronic target at a very low altitude. The first trial was ...

Indian shipbuilder Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) has achieved another milestone with the launch of the first Survey Vessel, in the series of four ships under the Survey Vessel (Large) project for the Indian Navy on December 5.  Called Sandhayak, the ...

The Indian Navy formally commissioned the fourth Scorpene-class submarine INS Vela at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai on November 25, 2021. INS Vela is the fourth in the series of six submarines being developed under the Kalvari-class submarine Project-75. INS Vela would form part of the Western ...