Defense

In its rich history of 200 years, the battalion has participated in various epic battles all across the globe and also earned 27 Battle/Theatre honours and over 200 gallantry awards both before and after the independence including one Victoria Cross, 19 Military Cross, one Kirti Chakra, three Vir Chakra and three Shaurya Chakras and more than 50 Sena Medals for bravery and innumerable awards for meritorious and distinguished service.

Defence PSU Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) on Tuesday delivered its fourth anti-submarine warfare stealth corvette to the Indian Navy, an official said. With 90 per cent indigenous content, the P-28 class ships are equipped to fight in nuclear, biological and chemical warfare conditions and featured the integration of a host of weapons and sensors.

On 05/10/2018 Prime Minister Modi of India and President Putin of Russia signed in a deal that will see Russia supply 5 units of the strategic Air defense missile system S400 delivered to India for use by the Indian Air Force starting 2020. This system along with the BARAK 8 (deliveries from 2020) will in many ways usher in a paradigm shift for the IAF

The 10 earth observation (EO) satellites include the high-tech Geo Imaging Satellite Gisat-1 that has the capability to do real-time earth imaging. “Gisat-1 will do a full rotation of the Earth and come to the same point after every 2 hours.

“I wholeheartedly welcome Supreme Court’s judgement on giving Women officers permanent commission in Armed Forces. PM Modi has supported the idea of the permanent commission for women&announced change in policy in his Independence Day speech in 2018,” Rajnath Singh said tweet.
Singh called it a historic decision and said this was announced earlier by then defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

The factories form an integrated base for indigenous production of defence hardware and equipment, with the primary objective of self-reliance in equipping the armed forces with state of the art battlefield equipment.

Defence deals between Indian and Russia are likely to cross USD 16 billion by 2025 after the two countries signed 14 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) during the recent DefExpo 2020 in Lucknow. Development and production of land, air and naval systems were covered under the memorandums signed during the DefExpo 2020.