Sweden’s Saab and Chennai-based Ashok Leyland have teamed up to manufacture truck simulators in India for defense applications. The 4K computer graphic visualization simulator will be integrated into the Ashok Leyland Stallion 4x4 vehicle, the most widely used in the armed forces and paramilitary forces. The simulator will help improve...
Reliance Defense Acquires SAAB Stake in Pipavav
Security and defense company Saab of Sweden has sold its stake – approximately 3.3 percent – in Pipavav Defense and Offshore Engineering Company Limited to Reliance Defense Systems. The value of the transaction was not revealed, but it forms part of Reliance Defense's efforts to expand its ownership in Pipavav....
India looks to European and American Companies for a Light Fighter to Replace MiG 21
Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar announced that, in addition to the Rafale, India could buy a second foreign fighter, in the lightweight category, to replace several MiG-21 squadrons that will retire this decade. Lockheed Martin’s F-16IN Super Hornet, Swedish company Saab’s Gripen NG, the Russian Yak-13, may be contenders for the...