Prahari App For Border Security Force (BSF): Union Home Minister launched ‘Prahari’ app for Border Security Force (BSF) Jawans. BSF ‘Prahari’ app is a great example of Proactive Governance, now Jawans can get personal and service related information, housing, Ayushman-CAPF and leave related information on their mobile. Features of the app include: Grievance redressal on […]
Category: Defence Current Affairs
Pralay Missile
Pralay Missile: The Ministry of Defense has procured indigenous Short-Range Ballistic Surface-to-Surface (SRBM) Missile Pralay, giving Indian military the heft to its war-fighting capabilities. Pralay’ is India’s first conventional quasi-ballistic missile and is an answer to any conventional missile attack from northern or western borders. A quasi-ballistic missile has a low trajectory, and while it […]
Patriot System
Patriot System: U.S.A recently announced that it would send its most advanced ground-based defence battery (Patriot system ) to Kyiv. Patriot system is one of the most sought-after defence systems and has been deployed in 18 countries, including the U.S. Initially developed as a system to intercept high-flying aircraft by Raytheon Technologies, the Patriot was […]
Russia-China Joint Naval Drills
Russia-China Joint Naval Drills: Russia and China have begun a joint naval exercise in the East China Sea. It involves firing exercises and anti-submarine drills. The main goal of the drills is to strengthen naval cooperation between the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China and to maintain peace and stability in […]
iDEX And Defence India Start-Up Challenge
iDEX And Defence India Start-Up Challenge: Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX), the flagship initiative of Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence, has reached a milestone with the signing of its 150th contract. The contract relates to an Indian Navy project of the Defence India Start-up Challenge (DISC 7) SPRINT edition. iDEX, launched in 2018, […]
ARNALA Ship
ARNALA Ship: The ARNALA ship is inducted into the Indian Navy The ARNALA ship is built under ASW SWC Project. Arnala class of ships will replace the Abhay class ASW Ships of the Indian Navy and are designed to undertake anti-submarine operations in coastal waters and Low-Intensity Maritime Operations (LIMO) including subsurface surveillance in littoral […]
INS Vagir
INS Vagir: The fifth submarine of the Project – 75, Kalvari Class submarines, Yard 11879 was delivered to the Indian Navy on December 20, 2022. INS Vagir: Vagirwas launched into water on November 12, 2020 and commenced sea trials on February 1, 2022. It is having “superior stealth features” like advanced acoustic absorption techniques. The […]
INS Mormugao
INS Mormugao: The Indian Naval Ship (INS)Mormugao, the second warship of the P15B class destroyer ship was recently commissioned. INS Mormugao is named after the historic port city of Goa on the west coast. INS Mormugao is the second of the four ‘Visakhapatnam’ class destroyers, indigenously designed by the Indian Navy’s in-house organization Warship Design […]
Kazind – 2022
Kazind – 2022: The 6th Edition of India – Kazakhstan joint training exercise “KAZIND-22” is being conducted at Umroi (Meghalaya). Kazind – 2022 is a joint annual training exercise with the Kazakhstan Army and was instituted in 2016 as Exercise Prabal Dostyk, which was later upgraded to a company level exercise and renamed as Ex […]
Agni V : Test Trials
Agni V : Test Trials India has successfully conducted night trials of nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni V. It is a surface-to-surface Nuclear Capable Ballistic missile. It can carry both nuclear and traditional weapons. Agni-V, with a range of over 5,000 km, is India’s longest-range ballistic missile and can reach most parts of China, making it […]
