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From the announcement of raising its six regiments in August to the successful test of Enhanced Pinaka Mk-1 last week, a lot has happened in the long-running development of Pinaka rocket systems and its upgrades. Now, the development of the Guided version of Pinaka, with almost double the original range, is nearing completion, said an official of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
In an endeavour to further strengthen the bilateral relations between the two Countries in general and between the two Armies in particular, the Indian Army gifted 20 fully trained military horses and 10 mine detection dogs to Bangladesh Army. These equines and canines were trained by the Remount and Veterinary Corps of Indian Army.
India is providing assistance to friendly foreign countries to overcome natural calamities and COVID-19 pandemic and for this purpose, INS Airavat is carrying food aid for the people of Eritrea.
The government has directed the security forces that “data base of all the private aircraft suitable for efficient and quick movements be collated and used for movement by NSG when required in emergency situations”.
France has agreed to equip Indian Rafale fighters with air-to-surface Hammer all-weather smart weapon apart from air-to-air MICA, METEOR missiles and air-to-ground SCALP stand-off weapon. The Hammer is a fire and forget weapon that can be launched from a very short range to a very long range of 70 kilometres without availability of GPS and has high resistance to jamming and target location errors.
Government of India took the historic decision to implement One Rank One Pension, OROPby issuing an order on 7.11.2015, benefit effective from 01.07.2014, despite huge financial burden demonstrating its commitment to the welfare of ex-servicemen.
It is known to everyone that HMI imparts training in mountain climbing and other adventure activities; and, it fills our hearts with pride to announce that since inception the Institute has trained more than 45000 trainees in various disciplines of adventure activities including mountain climbing. The figure also includes more than 1500 trainees from overseas countries.
The submarines would come from French shipbuilder Naval Group, which “will formulate an offer that goes very far in the Make in India direction,” said a source familiar with the company’s preparation for the submarine procurement tender under the Indian Navy’s P75I category.
The Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) conducted a three-day joint services exercise code named ”Bull Strike” at the remotely located Teressa Island, military officials said on Thursday.
In a slew of new reforms related to manpower in the armed forces initiated by Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, the retirement age of officers and jawans from technical branches is proposed to be increased. As part of the initiatives, the Department of Military Affairs under General Bipin Rawat has also proposed that in order to retain highly-skilled manpower in the defence forces, pension entitlements of the officers taking premature retirement would be revised.
