• Thales Avionics gains as Dassault Rafale wins MRCA contest Indian periodical The Hindu recently reported that France's Dassault Aviation won a $10 billion contract to supply India with 126 Rafale fighters under the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) program. Dassault will supply the fir..
• Will not sign MRCA deal this financial year says Defence Minister A.K. Antony Dassault Aviation's fighter jet Rafale has emerged as India's choice in the 126 Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) competition. The deal is estimated to be worth USD 10.4 billion making it one of the largest defense deals in the wo..
• MBDA Offers Taurus Missile System to Indian Air Force European consortium MBDA has offered their 300 km-range Taurus stand-off missile system to the Indian Air Force (IAF) for its fighter jets such as the Su-30MKI. "We have received a Request for Information (RFI) from the IAF for a st..
• Dassault Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon Emerge Favorites in Air Force M-MRCA Deal In the past week, a number of mainstream and defense / military specific media sources revealed that the French Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets have made the shortlist while the American Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, Lock..
• Kaveri Engine Production Negotiation With Snecma in Final Stage says Defence Minister India's negotiation with a French firm for developing a production version of its indigenous Kaveri engine for its military aircraft is in the final stage of cost negotiations, Defence Minister A.K. Antony told the Rajya Sabha Wednesda..
• Mazagon Dockyards, DCNS Delay Scorpene Submarines Delivery; First Inductions in 2015 The first of the six Scorpene submarines would now be inducted into the Navy by 2015 against the planned induction in December next year, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. Defence Minister A K Antony said the Government has also g..
• French Army Chief in New Delhi; Military Exercises to be Finalized Seeking to enhance defence cooperation and initiate joint exercises with the Indian Army, French army Chief General Elrick Irastorza arrived on a three day visit in New Delhi. During his visit, Irastorza will finalise the schedule of joint ..
• DRDO-Snecma Kaveri Engine to Power Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) A DRDO project for over two decades, the fighter jet engine Kaveri will be used for powering the home-grown fifth generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA). Being developed by DRDO's Gas Turbine research Establishment (GTRE), t..
• Capability Enhancement for Indian Air Force Jaguar Fleet with MBDA ASRAAMs MBDA's ASRAAM would provide a significant operational capability enhancement for the Indian Air Force Jaguar fleet in both short and within visual range protection. The weapon system's acquisition ranges are phenomenal and would t..
• French Company Areva to Set Up Nuclear Power Plant in Maharashtra The Jaitapur nuclear power project to be set up in collaboration with a French firm in Maharashtra today received clearance from the Environment Ministry here. The green signal for the 9,900 MW project, came in 80 days from the day NPC subm..
• France, Russia Look Towards India for Nuclear Collaboration France and Russia are among several other countries which are looking towards collaborating with India on nuclear power for global markets, principal scientific adviser to the government, R Chidambaram said today. As a result of the Indo-US..
• MBDA Launches Production of the first SIMBAD-RC prototype MBDA has frozen the general definition of its navalized, anti-air SIMBAD-RC turret. The production of the first prototype was launched at the end of summer 2010. This prototype will be available for the first ground-based dynamic tests befo..
• MBDA Prepares for First Test Firing of SCALP Naval in Submarine Configuration During September 2010, a high depth ignition test of SCALP Naval's booster was organized by MBDA. The underwater test, which set the booster in operation for several seconds, was carried out at a significant depth in a Norwegian fjord ..
• Dassault Close to $2 billion Indian Air Force Mirage-2000 Fighters Upgrade Deal Dassault is likely to win a USD $2 billion deal to upgrade 51 Mirage-2000 fighters of the Indian Air Force to the Mirage 2000-5 standard. The deal could be signed as early as December 6th 2010 when French President Nicolas Sarkozy visits..
• French Chief of Defence Admiral Edouard Guillaud Visits Indian Navy Dockyard in Mumbai Admiral Edouard Guillaud, Chief of Defence Staff, France accompanied by a nine-member delegation visited Mumbai today. During his short stay here, the Admiral visited Indian Naval Ships and Submarine at Naval Dockyard Mumbai as well as to t..
• DRDO, IAI, MBDA products to Improve Indian Air Force Air Defence Capabilities In a recent interview, the Indian Air Force Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik had been quoted saying that the Indian Air Force was close to having a 50 percent obsolence level in its equipment. This was largely a reference to the air defence capa..
• French Chief of Defence Admiral Edouard Guillaud to Visit India; Military Ties on the Rise In a bid to enhance military ties between the two countries, French Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Edouard Guillaud will be on a four-day visit to India starting Saturday. The French Admiral is scheduled to hold meetings with top brass of I..
• MBDA Conducts Successful Demonstrations of New Bunker Buster Warhead The second test firing of the Hard and Deeply Buried Target (HARDBUT) Next Generation Multiple Warhead System (NGMWS) was carried out successfully at the Biscarrosse test range of DGA Essais de Missiles on 14th September 2010. The HARDBUT T..
• President Sarkozy to Lobby for Thales, Dassault in Upcoming Visit to New Delhi French President Nicolas Sarkozy will visit India in December, officials said on Tuesday, with an eye on increasing French firms' share of the country's 10-year $50-billion defence spending. Indian Foreign Ministry officials said ..
• Cassidian presents new intrinsically safe TETRAPOL handheld radio prototype On the occasion of the French Fire Brigade congress, Cassidian Systems is presenting a new TETRAPOL handheld radio prototype called TPH700 Ex for explosion-prone areas. TPH700 Ex comes with an ATEX certification for gas, enabling safe an..