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“The robotic machine will help reduce human intervention in tracing explosives,” Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Provision and Transport (J&K Police), Mubashir Latifi said. “Only a few organisations in the country have such equipment. The state police is procuring the muti-crore machinery for the first time.”
Deputy chief of army staff (planning and systems) Lt Gen Sudarshan Hasabnis, along with other serving and retired army officers, including two septuagenarians, participated in an exhilarating para jumping and sky diving exercise at Dighi Hills on Thursday as part of the bicentenary year celebration of the Bombay Engineering Group (BEG) and Centre, also known as the Bombay Sappers.
“During the joint military exercise SAMPRITI-IX, a Command Post Exercise (CPX) and a Field Training Exercise (FTX) will be conducted. For both the CPX and FTX, a scenario where both nations are working together in a Counter-Terrorism environment will be simulated under the UN Charter,” it said.
In a first, an AN-32 twin-engine military aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Friday successfully took-off with a 10% blend of Indian bio-jet fuel in both engines from Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport in Leh, near the border with China.
“Thermal Imaging Night Sights would enable troops to undertake long range accurate engagements in dark and all weather conditions thereby enhancing the night fighting capabilities,” the Defence Ministry was quoted in the report as saying.
According to Ranesh Rajan, a defence analyst, what makes this projectile so different is that a ramjet-powered artillery shell is launched from a artillery gun but it travels at three times the speed of sound powered by ramjet motor and allow the projectile to hit a moving target at long ranges.
“This memorial is the first of its kind in Nagaland, which also has the famous Second World War Cemetery at Kohima. Christened “Veer Samriti”, the memorial is spread over 13,500 sq ft and was built by 44 Assam Rifles,” the officer told . Nagaland has seen decades of insurgency, leading to loss of lives for the security forces and Naga insurgents.
“More than 2,000 air warriors and technicians have been provided to the fighter squadrons in the last few months. These personnel have been drawn from air headquarters and command headquarters where they were not performing technical duties,” top IAF sources told ANI.
India’s internal security surveillance is set to get a boost, with the Centre working towards satellite mapping of all sensitive areas of the country. The development follows other heightened surveillance measures across the country to counter an increase in infiltrations in the recent past.
In an interaction with a select group of journalists including DH, Gen Naravane said that in future the Army would concentrate more on the “conventional warfare” in the Northeast rather than the counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations, which is the norm at the moment.
