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A licence agreement was exchanged between GSL and DRDO for transfer of technology in composite technology, especially resin film infusion technology (RFIT) and vacuum assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM). Nagpal also said that GSL has opened an office at Karwar with the aim of bagging contracts for repairs and mid-life upgrades for warships.

“A MiG-29K twin-seater aircraft, on a routine training sortie, encountered a flock of birds after taking off from INS Hansa Air Base at Dabolim Goa at about noon on 16 Nov 2019,” a navy statement released shortly after the incident said. The pilots observed that the left engine had flamed out and the right one had caught fire and an inability to save the aircraft on account of low height caused them to ditch the plane and bail out.

The keel-laying ceremony of two 50-tonne bollard pull tugs, ‘Balram’ and ‘Veeran’ out of a series of four, being built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam for the Indian Navy, was conducted on November 15, a HSL press release said on Friday.

Agni-II has the capability to carry a nuclear warhead weighing up to one tonne. The 20 meters long missile has been designed and developed by the Advanced Systems Laboratory, a unit of the DRDO, in Hyderabad. The missile was part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP) and has appropriate on-board thrusters fitted on the second stage of the missile.

India has told the Russians to review the level of indigenisation to take the local content of the Ka-226Ts to be manufactured at Bengaluru-based Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to beyond the existing figure that stands at around 60%, the first official said.