The event marks the growth of India’s indigenous navy LCA program, aimed at achieving an aircraft carrier compatibility technology demonstration.

India’s state-run aircraft maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. has won a $176 million contract to supply 14 Dornier-228 aircraft to the Indian air force.

The first canister-based trial of India’s Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully carried out for the missile’s full range of more than 5,000 km from Wheeler Island off the eastern Odisha coast on Jan. 31.