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Singh explained that India cannot restrict its defence cooperation to a few countries. He thereafter announced the creation of 10 new defence wings so that 10 more defence attaches could be appointed. “This will further strengthen India’s defence diplomacy,” he said, addressing the third Defence Attaches conference here.
The Shipyard has undertaken a massive modernisation programme and is in the league of the best-equipped shipyards in the region. Its focus ahead is on two major contracts for building two advanced missile frigates and Mine Counter-Measure Vessels. Captain D K Sharma (Retd) of Bharatshakti.in interviewed Commodore BBNagpal (Retd), CMD, GSL to take stock of GSL’s strengths and current commitments.
The Indian Navy completed its first-ever exercise in inland waters on Sunday by charting a route for its boats along river Matla in the Sunderbans. This is the Indo-Bangladesh trade protocol route and the Navy has always been apprehensive of barges moving along it unchecked.
India has successfully completed modernization of 30 airfields used by the Indian Air Force, widening its operational footprint for all weather conditions all helped by secure communications, navigation aids, landing aids, direction finding instruments and automated air traffic management systems.
This technology is not part of the regular chipsets or other receivers developed as part of IRNSS programme. This will be part of ‘Restricted Service’ (IRNSS-RS), developed specifically for strategic users of the country, a source from the department of space, said.
Department of Military Affairs (DMA) with Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) as Secretary was created to facilitate optimal utilization of resources and promote jointness among the three Services. As per the Second Schedule to Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules 1961, the following subjects were allocated to DMA:-
With an eye on domestic and global markets, LTMMSL has set up the assembly, inert integration (without explosives) and testing facility for Missile Sub-systems and Missile Weapon Launch Systems spread across an area of 16,000 sq. meter in a Special Economic Zone at Coimbatore.
The strategic placement of the new Milkor India office in New Delhi, India, is an informed choice and is a good fit geographically for the company for ease of operations into neighbouring countries as well as those who are members of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) organisation, Milkor said.
INS Pondicherry, the first minesweeper of her class (Yard No. 852), was handed over by Rear Admiral Pranze, Deputy C-in-C, Baltic Sea Fleet, on behalf of the Government of erstwhile USSR at Riga to Commodore MN Vasudeva, AVSM, Naval Attache, Embassy of India, Moscow, on 02 February 1978.
The purpose of the road map is to come up with proposal of integrating the Air Defence resources of the different services under a single agency, so as to ensure jointness and optimisation of resources, procedures and communication arrangements.
