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Russian Deputy Chief of Mission Roman Babushkin added that all S-400 air defence missile systems will be delivered to India by 2025. The production of S-400 missiles to be delivered to India has started, he said. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit Russia on March 22 and March 23 to attend a meeting of the Russia-Indian-China trilateral, Kudashev said.
Sources said the CCS last week cleared the over Rs 6,150 crore acquisition cost of a wide range of advanced weapon systems and sensors for the four 7,300-tonne destroyers being constructed under ‘Project-15B’. The first of the destroyers, INS Visakhapatnam, is likely to be commissioned in 2021-2022 after some delay. It will be followed by her sister warships, INS Mormugao and INS Imphal, while the fourth is yet to be named.
The multidimensional exercise was preceded by a series of intense preparation involving the movement of special forces and rallying up of transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force starting from January 6, the Army said in a statement.
“India cannot remain dependent on arms import. We have set a target of achieving a turnover of $26 billion by 2025 in defence production. This involves an investment of $10 billion in this sector and generation of two-three million employment opportunities,” he said addressing the gathering.
Earlier on Wednesday, the official account of Chinar Corps – Indian Army tweeted a video of jawans carrying a pregnant woman on a stretcher through heavy snow in the Kashmir Valley. The video went viral within no time and PM Modi retweeted the video and hailed the army personnel for helping the woman.
The concept of Integrated Battle Groups (IBG) is being given shape in the newly-raised 17 Corps to meet the current challenges in the northern borders, Eastern Command chief Lt Gen Anil Chauhan said on Wednesday. The 17 Corps carried out ‘Him-Vijay’, a mega exercise at a height of around 15,000 ft in Arunachal Pradesh in October last year.
He said the decision was taken in view of an improvement in the situation in the insurgency-hit states. “As far as the security situation in the insurgency-affected states is concerned, it is rather stable and all parameters concerning violence have come down drastically,” Lt General Chauhan told reporters here after a wreath-laying ceremony on Army Day at Fort William, the Eastern Command headquarter.
The Jan. 13 transfer order accessed by IANS stated, “The officers are hereby transferred from the Department of Defence to the newly created Department of Military Affairs with immediate effect.” A total of 13 deputy secretaries, 25 under secretaries and 22 section officers were transferred to the DMA.
CISF, with about 1.6 lakh personnel, was first tasked with the security of airports in the aftermath of the 1999 hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft. The federal force now guards 61 of the operational about 100 civil airports across the country.
“We expect [signing the agreement] sometime in April or May,” Brahmos General Manager for Marketing, Praveen Pathak told reporters on Monday, without elaborating what country plans to acquire the Russian-Indian cruise missile.
