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The extreme ECWS is required by Indian Army for its sustained operations in glacier and Himalayan peaks. The Army, till recently has been importing extreme cold weather clothing and several Special Clothing and Mountaineering Equipment (SCME) items for the troops deployed in high altitude regions.
Paras Defence and Space Technologies Limited has been chosen by the DRDO as one of the Companies for handing over the technology of Border Surveillance Systems as developed by Instruments Research & Development Establishment and Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO).
Vikram Misri, an expert on China’s issue and former Indian Ambassador to Beijing was today appointed as the Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) in the National Security Council Secretariat. Misri, a 1989 batch IPS officer will succeed Pankaj Saran.
The Multi-terrain Artillery Gun is a one of its kind 155-mm, 39-calibre gun system mounted on 4×4 high mobility vehicle (HMV) in the world. The vehicle weighs 18 tonnes and has the capability to be deployed even in mountain regions. The gun system is equipped with shoot and scoot capability, providing advanced technical performance and high integration.
Indian Army’s combat engineers are getting the latest equipment and innovations to ensure tunnels for ammunition storage and nuclear-hardened facilities for the defence forces in forward areas, Engineer-in-Chief Lieutenant General Harpal Singh said on Sunday.
An IED expert of a banned outfit was among four terrorists killed in south Kashmir on Saturday—two at Hardumir village in Awantipora of Tral in Pulwama district and another two in Chowgam, Shopian. This took the number of terrorists killed in the past two days in south Kashmir to five.
The DPB has cleared the purchase of 29, 760 image intensifiers to go with the Sig Sauers for the jawan on the line of control, fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir or even in Ladakh. on the line of actual control. The image intensifier deal will be worth Rs 1410 crore.
As part of yet another deployment undertaken by Indian Navy since May 2020 under Mission SAGAR, Indian Naval Ship Kesari entered Port of Maputo, Mozambique on 25 December 2021. This is the eighth such deployment in consonance with the Hon’ble Prime Ministers vision of Security And Growth for All in the Region and is being conducted in close coordination with the Ministry of External Affairs, and other agencies of the Government of India.
The BRAHMOS Manufacturing Centre, announced by BrahMos Aerospace, is a modern, state-of-art facility in the Lucknow node of UP DIC. It will cover over 200 acres and produce the new BRAHMOS-NG (Next Generation) variant, which carries forward the lineage of the BRAHMOS weapons system. This new centre would be ready over the next two to three years and will commence production at a rate of 80-100 BRAHMOS-NG missiles per year.
Sail Training Ship INS Sudarshini, was deployed to the Gulf as part of Indian Navy’s endeavour to enhance maritime cooperation with the friendly navies in the region. During the month-long deployment, the ship made port calls at Muscat, Dubai and Bandar Abbas and had professional interactions with Royal Oman Navy (RNO), UAE Navy and Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) Navy.
