A year after India signed a $3.8 billion deal for 31 U.S.-built MQ-9B Sea/SkyGuardian drones for the armed forces, a ...

At an Indian Air Force seminar in Subroto Park on Tuesday, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh used the hard-won lessons of Operation Sindoor, India’s large-scale punitive strikes earlier this year, to ...

After 62 years, across wars, variants and uninterrupted service, the Indian Air Force retired the last of its MiG-21 fighter interceptors last week. And coinciding with what is unanimously the end of ...

India’s most ambitious military aviation program, the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), is entering a new chapter. Hopefully. India’s dominant military airframer Hindustan Aeronautics Limited ...

Even as India and China soften ties and commit to a deescalation of their war-like border standoff that began in 2020, India’s highly anticipated light tank project, Zorawar, is poised to enter a ...

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has fired off a strongly worded public clarification, lashing out at “so-called defence analysts,” “former pilots,” and even “arm-chair critics” for what it calls ...

In the wake of a SECRET report submitted by the Defence Secretary to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), outlining urgent recommendations to address the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) fighter jet crunch, we ...

Having flown HAL produced helicopters right from 1989 till I retired 2008, I have had first-hand experience of the quality of their products, and I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that ‘mazaa ...

This article first appeared in the April 2019 issue of Vayu Aerospace & Defence Review and used here with permission from the publisher. Livefist has decided to re-publish this column in the context ...

The heart-wrenching sight of the smoke billowing from the crashed Indian Coast Guard (ICG) helicopter at Porbandar on January 5th, 2025 brought back to my mind the struggles we had with HAL when I was ...

US President Donald Trump’s offer to sell the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II to India has raised a few eyebrows in Indian defence circles, sparking intense debate about its feasibility and ...

After years of uncertainty and near abandonment, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has successfully resurrected its intermediate jet trainer, the HJT-36 Sitara, rebranded last week as ‘Yashas’—a ...