Defense

Philippines Navy Chief Giovanni Carlo J. Bacordo has expressed gratitude to the Indian Navy for its “invaluable assistance” for helping out one of its navy ship after a fire broke out in engine room which injured two Philippines navy personnel.

Through unique eye- and face-tracking sensor technologies, with a key focus on alertness and attention, Seeing Machines technology enables key data and metrics to understand and improve human performance. This technology is unique. It is a non-wearable, unobtrusive system that can be adapted and integrated into various real-world environments to provide new data to optimise training and operational monitoring.

On 12 June 2001, a relatively unknown missile, jointly developed by India and Russia, blasted off from its canister at the Integrated Test Range in Orissa’s Chandipur and roared majestically into a clear sky breathing out orange plume and leaving behind a cloud of smoke. It was perhaps the first time that the defence minister and all the service chiefs were present to witness the test launch of a missile.

A Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) complex was inaugurated at Visakhapatnam by Vice-Admiral Atul Kumar Jain, flag officer commanding-in -hief of Eastern Naval Command (ENC) on Wednesday. The DSRV Complex is designed to accommodate the newly-inducted Submarine Rescue System with state-of-the-art facilities to store DSRV assets in a rescue-ready state.

After becoming the first defence shipyard in the country to export a ship (to Mauritius), a Fast Patrol Vessel (FPV) built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) in Kolkata has been selected for the Seychelles Coast Guard. The export will take place after necessary formalities are completed by the governments of the two countries.

Almost eight months after a theft on board the indigenous aircraft carrier in Kerala”s Cochin Shipyard, where INS Vikrant, is under construction, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested two suspects from Bihar and Rajasthan.

India’s premier warship builder Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd of Kolkata has delivered ICGS Kanaklata Barua, the fifth and final ship in the series of Fast Patrol Vessels (FPV) for the Indian Coast Guard. This is the 105th vessel delivered by the Miniratna Category 1 Defence PSU shipyard.

Indian and Chinese troops have disengaged on the ground at multiple locations in Eastern Ladakh, as both the nations gear up for the next round of military talks scheduled to commence this week, according to sources. The Chinese Army has also pulled back its troops from the Galwan valley, PP-15 and Hot Springs in Eastern Ladakh area by 2 to 2.5 kilometres, Zee News has come to know.

India has the world’s largest and most experienced troops trained for high-altitude battles, a military expert affiliated to China’s leading maker of equipment for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has said, adding that mountaineering is an “essential skill” for each Indian soldier deployed in the mountains.