A B-1B Lancer bomber aircraft from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, deployed in support of Aero India 2021, showcasing the long-range strike platform’s capabilities in a live demonstration. The airplane flew alongside the India's Light Combat Aircraft, the Tejas, which uses a General Electric engine. The last time...
Defense Secretary Austin: First Biden Cabinet Member to Visit India
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will visit India this month. He will meet his counterpart his Indian counterpart Defense Minister Rajnath Singh. A meeting with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar (who was previously India's Ambassador to the United States) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also planned. Lloyd James...
U.S, India Sign Another Defense Pact
Just one week before the presidential election, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed a major military agreement last Tuesday in India. He was accompanied by Defense Secretary Mark Esper. The pact, known as BECA, or the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement on Geospatial Cooperation, enables India and the United...
India to Fund Over 250 Defense Startups
Aiming to incorporate the latest technologies in weapons for India's armed forces, the country's ministry of defense will fund over 250 defense startups in the next five years. The Ministry of Defense plans to achieve at least 50 tangible innovations that can be inducted in the near future, and, under...
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...
Nirmala Sitharaman Is India's First Woman Full-Time Defense Minister
On September 3, Nirmala Sitharaman, who served as Minister for Commerce and Industry, was chosen for the biggest promotion in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet reshuffle on the weekend, and was given independent charge of the Defense Ministry. Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was the first woman to hold this...