The Navy has inked a Rs 306 crore deal for eight “mine counter-measure clip-on influence sweeps” to “mitigate” the critical capability gap ...

In a couple of months, the decommissioned minesweeper will be sunk in the waters 7km off the Puducherry coast to become India’s first under...

Given that the US has implemented sanctions on weapons purchases from Moscow, India could make payments for the ships using the rupee-roubl...

The Navy requires 12 minesweeper ships, but at present has only two, Rear Admiral Rajaram Swaminathan, Assistant Chief of Material, Indian ...

The Navy's existing fleet of six Soviet-origin minesweeping ships will be decommissioned by the end of 2018.

Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba, apart from grappling with the operational void, must have bid adieu to the old warhorses with a heavy heart.

Minesweepers are specialised warships that are used to clear harbours and other critical areas of mines laid by enemy submarines and vessel...

London, May 6 (IANS) Britain's Royal Navy has taken delivery of its first unmanned autonomous minesweeping system, Defence Minister Guto Be...

Congress' Randeep Surjewala said the scrapping of Minesweeper Project and the government's "opaqueness" on INS Arihant are "two glaring exa...

Advanced minesweepers or mine counter-measure vessels (MCMVs) are around 900-tonne specialised warships that detect, track and destroy unde...

Gates had actually uninstalled Minesweeper from his personal computer, because he was sinking too many hours into it, Ryan says.

It was that his high score at the classic Windows game had just been topped by a computer script.

Parrikar, who has a reputation of being a hard task master, has toured military facilities within India extensively but has not travelled a...

He also said that though no decision has been taken on the next course of action as regards the scrapped minesweeper deal with a South Kore...

Today, he held a series of meetings with the top brass in his Ministry and sources said more will be held in the coming days.

Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi, too, has recommended scrapping of the almost decade-old selection process for the MCMVs.

India is now getting all set to ink a major defence contract with the north-east Asian country for acquisition of eight advanced minesweepi...