View: The 'Make in India' Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicle is once again on the horizonThe FICV has been on the procurement anvil since the Acceptance of Necessity was issued out in October 2009. It saw two Expression of Inter...
27 Jun, 2021, 04.03 PM IST
Indian Army plans to buy 1,750 Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicles, 350 light tanksThe FICV project has been in plans for a long time and the need for a modern troops carrier equipped with tank-busting capabilities was fel...
24 Jun, 2021, 12.28 PM IST
Smart bombs, futuristic combat vehicle in pipeline: OFB headThe first-ever conference of employees of 41 ordnance factories in the country is being held at the National Academy for Defence Production...
11 Jan, 2020, 07.38 PM IST
Armed forces say no to advanced versions of indigenous 'Tejas', 'Arjun'This comes in the backdrop of the defence ministry finalising the SP policy in May to boost the country’s fledgling defence production sect...
15 Jul, 2018, 01.34 PM IST
Project to develop unmanned variant of Tejas planes in worksIndia is also working on a project named AURA to make a futuristic combat drone that would be powered by a modified version of the Kaveri e...
14 Jul, 2018, 09.45 PM IST
Army, DRDO fight it out again over Arjun and futuristic tanksThe force already has 122 Arjun Mark-I tanks, with the bulk of them being grounded at present due to major technical and maintenance proble...
14 Jul, 2018, 09.15 PM IST
Army invites proposals for building FRCV tanks, DRDO surprisedThe move is significant as the country's premier defence research agency DRDO is already working on a futuristic tank -- Future Main Battle...
14 Jul, 2018, 09.13 PM IST
Armed forces lost 48 aircraft, 21 choppers since 2011A total of 48 military aircraft and 21 helicopters were lost to crashes since 2011 in which 79 people were killed, the government told Lok ...
14 Jul, 2018, 08.56 PM IST
Tatas, M&M may participate in Rs 12,700-crore Army fleet upgrade projectThe Army is all set to reverse its decision to hand over the mega upgrade project of its fleet of infantry combat vehicles to the public se...
14 Jul, 2018, 04.25 PM IST
DRDO to be part of Future Ready Combat Vehicle project: Army"The FRCV is planned to be developed on a modular concept so as to support the subsequent development of at least 10 different variants, in...
11 Jul, 2018, 12.42 PM IST
Jindal SHL to make high-nitrogen steel for Defence sectorJSHL said it took almost a decade of R&D by JSHL and Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL) to develop high-nitrogen steel (HNS).
01 Mar, 2017, 06.27 PM IST
Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Limited to foray into defence sectorThe company has signed a licensing agreement with DRDO, an arm of the defence ministry for transfer of technology for manufacturing High Ni...
01 Mar, 2017, 04.21 PM IST
Army to upgrade entire fleet of infantry combat vehiclesWhile infantry combat vehicles may be the poorer tanks, they perform the critical task of carrying soldiers into the battle zone with fire ...
31 Mar, 2013, 10.43 AM IST
Government rejects Mahindra's proposal for Rs 100 crore defence JV with RafaelIn March, M&M and Rafael agreed to form a Joint Venture in India to develop and manufacture products such as Anti Torpedo Defence Systems.
26 Dec, 2012, 01.19 PM IST
- Heard on the street: Talk of $2-b defence deal lifts M&M Stock
The market is abuzz with speculation that the defence ministry has shortlisted M&M for the contract for providing the FICV to the Indian ar...
28 Mar, 2012, 05.53 AM IST
DRDO developing robots to function as soldiersChief Controller (R&D) of Armament and Combat Engineering S Sundaresh said future MBTs should be light weight and set an example to the wor...
12 Dec, 2011, 01.33 PM IST
- India sets in motion plans to build futuristic tanks
To keep up with the trend amongst major powers, Indian army set in motion the process of building a futuristic main battle tank (MBT).
22 Jul, 2008, 02.33 PM IST