Inside the Modi-Xi Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam: Prime Minister Modi paired verified LAC disengagement with structural demands to compress India’s $112.16 billion trade deficit…
Defence Industrial Base · Strategic Policy From turnover-based R&D mandates to the 405-item import ban, New Delhi is dismantling the low-margin subcontracting model to build…
Fifty major components. 180 sub-components. Nearly 100 MSMEs. TES unpacks what “100% indigenous” actually meant when IRRPL test-fired the AK-203 Sher — and what the…
Washington’s new drone tariff wall taxes Chinese-linked UAS imports at up to 100%. For Indian manufacturers like ideaForge and Bharat Forge, the fallout is reshaping…
NEW DELHI — India’s Ministry of Defence is expanding private-sector participation in tactical missile development and manufacturing under the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2026, marking…
India’s defence boom is real, backed by global rearmament, domestic procurement and rising exports. But the easy-money phase may be over as BEL, HAL, BDL…
India’s defence story is no longer limited to HAL, BEL and BDL. A wider layer of hidden Indian defence companies is now working inside the…
The GE HAL F414 engine deal is being sold as a diplomatic breakthrough. That is true, but it is only half the story. The bigger…
