The aerospace unit of General Electric signed an agreement with India's state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) to make fighter jet engines for the Indian Air Force. GE said that the agreement includes the potential joint production of GE Aerospace's F414 engines in India. India’s quest to manufacture an engine for...
India Set to Approve Purchase of Armed Drones from General Atomics
India is close to approving a deal to purchase high-altitude armed drones from the United States as it looks to counter China on the Himalayan border that both countries share, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, March 1. The decision-making process around the acquisition is gathering momentum in New...
Rajnath Singh: Minister for Defense, India, 2019
Born to a farmer’s family in a village in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh on July 10, 1951, Rajnath Singh began his career as a professor in Physics. He served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state and a Cabinet Minister in the Atal Behari...
Boeing, India's HAL, & Mahindra Propose Manufacturing Hornets in India
Boeing India signed an agreement with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), and Mahindra Defense Systems to manufacture the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft in India for India’s armed forces. The F/A- 18 Super Hornet will fulfill India’s need for a carrier- and land- based multi-role fighter. This partnership will build a...
India's Tata Technologies to Acquire Defense Suppliers
Over the next four years, Tata Technologies, part of India's $116 billion Tata Group, plans to acquire a number of secondary and tertiary defense suppliers as part of a corporate plan to grow revenues from $500 million today to around $1 billion by 2020, reports Defense News. Tata Technologies CEO Warren Harris said...
Saab Willing to Transfer Defense Technology to India
Jan Widerstrom, chairman, Saab India Technologies, told Economic Times in an interview, “I say that I want to be Indian. I want our company to be Indian, and in the right environment, we will be Indian,” he said. “The government is already working to make the business environment right.” Saab...