AMMUNITION PLANT

The Indian Army plans to stop all imports of ammunition from the next financial year, as the domestic industry has increased its capacity to meet demands and potentially gain a share of the global market. The army has found indigenous sources for ne...

Within a week, Ukraine had lost Avdiivka, the city in the Donetsk region that it had been defending since long before Russia's full-scale invasion. Nearly surrounded and vastly outnumbered, the Ukrainians made the decision to withdraw and avoid the ...

The plant, which will initially be set up over 250 acres, is set to be inaugurated next month and will start producing small arms ammunition in the first phase.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is slated to inaugurate the Defence Corridor in Uttar Pradesh, featuring the nearly completed Small Calibre Ammunition Manufacturing Plant by the Adani Group. The administration is actively preparing for the event, inc...

The Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral R Hari Kumar, expressed the Indian Navy's commitment to achieving self-reliance ("aatmanirbharta") by 2047, emphasizing the need for industry support in manufacturing every ship, submarine, aircraft, and weapon syst...

The Indian Defence Ministry has signed a contract worth over Rs 5,300 crore with state-run Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) for the procurement of electronic fuzes for the Indian Army for a 10-year period. The fuzes are essential for medium to heavy cal...

Zelenskyy has pushed for Ukraine to join NATO, but at the organisation's annual summit this summer in Lithuania, members of the trans-Atlantic military alliance pledged more support for Ukraine but stopped short of extending an invitation for the co...

Russia has called on NATO leaders to discuss the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant at their summit this week. According to Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, Ukraine has caused "systematic infliction of damage" to the plant, and thus, ...

The factory - built for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad just after 1900, when the city was a rising coal and railroad powerhouse - has produced large-caliber ammunition for the military going back to the Korean War. But the buildings a...

One of the most important munitions of the Ukraine war comes from a historic factory here in Scranton, where tons of steel rods are brought in by train to be forged into the 155mm shells Kyiv can’t get enough of, and that the U.S. can’t produce fast...

The security forces on Thursday also detected and seized a 15 kg cooker bomb, a claymore mine, three detonators, one Motorola wireless set, two ammunition pouches, and naxal literature in Latehar and Garhwa districts, a police statement said.

Meanwhile a team from the United Nations nuclear watchdog headed to Ukraine to inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - captured by Russian forces in March but still run by Ukrainian staff - that has become a highly dangerous frontline in the war.

Ukraine and Russia again accused each other of shelling the wider region around the nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, which was briefly knocked offline last week.

The U.N. chief and the presidents of Turkey and Ukraine have discussed ways to end the war started by Russia and secure Europe's largest nuclear power station, as Russia and Ukraine traded accusations of new shelling near the plant.

How many Ukrainian fighters were holed up inside was unclear, but the Russians put the number at about 2,000 in recent weeks, and 500 were reported to be wounded. A few hundred civilians also remained there, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Ver...

Video posted by Ukrainian forces showed elderly women and mothers with small children climbing out of the Azovstal steel plant .

Ukrainian authorities said on Monday that no fewer than 1,000 civilians were hiding in underground shelters beneath the vast Azovstal plant, adding that Russia was dropping heavy bombs onto the Ukrainian-held factory in the besieged city.

The fall of Mariupol, which has been reduced to rubble in a seven-week siege, would give Moscow its biggest victory of the war. But a few thousand fighters, by Russia's estimate, hold on to the giant, 11-square-kilometer (4-square-mile) Azovstal ste...

Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Ukraine had asked Russia at talks on Tuesday to allow 97 humanitarian corridors to be established to the worst-hit towns, cities, and villages in Ukraine.