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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.
The Indian Navy carried out a five-day coastal security exercise, ‘Matla Abhiyaan’, with personnel of two naval boats, holding interactions with all stakeholders along the riverine border with Bangladesh, a Defence official said.
The advanced Heron TP, which belongs to the Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) class with an endurance of over 36 hours, will be manufactured to cater both to Indian requirements for a combat UAV and possibly exports to third nations in the future as well.
“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.
