India-Us Defence Deal: The Ministry of Defence has signed a deal with the US Government for procurement of MK 54 Torpedo and Expendable (Chaff and Flares) for the Indian Navy, under Foreign Military Sale (FMS). FMS is the U.S. Government’s program for transferring defense articles, services, and training to its international partners and international organizations. […]
Category: Defence Current Affairs
Agni 5 Ballistic Missile
Agni 5: India successfully tests nuclear-capable Agni-V ballistic missile. The Agni-V Intercontinental-range Ballistic Missile (ICBM) has been developed by the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Bharat Dynamics Limited. It weighs close to 50,000 kilograms. The missile is 1.75 meters tall with a diameter of two metres. The 1,500-kilogram warhead will be placed on […]
Information Fusion Centre For Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR)
Information Fusion Centre For Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR): The Netherlands is interested in posting a Liaison Officer (LO) at the Indian Navy’s Information Fusion Centre for Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) for Maritime Domain Awareness and information sharing, Vice Admiral René Tas, Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy, says. The IFC has been established at the […]
ABHYAS Vehicle
ABHYAS: ABHYAS – the High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) was successfully flight-tested by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Bay of Bengal in Odisha. The vehicle can be used as an aerial target for evaluation of various missile systems. The performance of the target […]
Exercise Yudh Abhyas And Exercise Mitra Shakti
Exercise Yudh Abhyas And Exercise Mitra Shakti: Exercise Yudh Abhyas The 17th Indo-US Joint Military Exercise “Ex Yudh Abhyas 2021” was held at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska (US). In February 2021, the previous version of the exercise was held in Bikaner’s Mahajan Field Firing Ranges (Rajasthan). It is the largest running joint military training […]
Ordnance Factory Board
Ordnance Factory Board: Seven new defence companies, carved out of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), were dedicated to the Nation at a function organised by Ministry of Defence on the occasion of ‘Vijayadashami’ in New Delhi on October 15, 2021. To enhance functional autonomy, efficiency and unleash new growth potential & innovation, Government had decided […]
Border Security Force (BSF)
Border Security Force (BSF): Such operational powers to the BSF, a Central Armed Police Force under the Union, will also be applicable to the newly created Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, according to a notification published in the Gazette of India on October 11. Earlier, the BSF’s limit was fixed up to […]
Indian Air Force (IAF)
The Indian Air Force (IAF): The Indian Air Force (IAF) have recently taken many steps towards ramping up the air defence ecosystem in order to get strategic advances over their enemy. In a whopping ₹48,000 crore deal with state-run aerospace & defence company Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), the Indian government ordered 83 Light Combat Aircraft […]
JIMEX : 5th Edition
JIMEX : 5th Edition The fifth edition of India – Japan Maritime Bilateral Exercise, JIMEX, between the Indian Navy (IN) and the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), will be held in Arabian Sea from 06 to 08 October 2021. JIMEX series of exercises commenced in January 2012 with special focus on maritime security cooperation. The […]
ARINC818: Armed Forces Products
Armed Forces Products: Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh handed over to the Armed Forces three products/systems indigenously developed by DRDO. These are: ARINC818 Video Processing and Switching Module: The module, developed for the Indian Air Force is a state-of-the-art module with high bandwidth, low latency, channel bonding, easy networking and will cater to 5th generation aircraft […]
