Defense

The commissioning was marked by the hoisting of the Indian National Flag on the flagpost of the submarine. Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh and a host of other dignitaries including senior naval officials were also present on the occasion. The Defence Minister also commissioned the first of India”s P-17 Shivalik-class frigate Nilgiri and the aircraft carrier drydock into the Indian Navy during the ceremony. The aircraft carrier drydock which was commissioned on Saturday is the largest drydock of the Indian Navy. Maintenance work on ships which cannot be carried out while it is out in the seas is undertaken after berthing it in a drydock

“We have manufactured TI- based night vision devices for the Tank Commanders night sight which will be able to pick the enemy tanks from a distance of about three kilometres,” a DRDO official told this newspaper. The DRDO has already supplied 300 TI-NVDs for T-72 tanks, and 2,000 more are to be produced. These indigenous TI-NVDs are being produced in BEL, Vijaywada and OFB Dehradun.

Shillong-based Defence PRO Ratnakar Singh said that, the Rafale aircraft will be inducted in the region soon in addition of Chinook and Apache helicopters. “In the Eastern Command region, we recently operationalized Vijaynagar ALG in Arunachal Pradesh which is now fit for fixed-wing operation. With the completion of the Vijaynagar ALG, the project to operationalize eight ALGs including Along, Walong, Mechuka has been fully successful. As per the new acquisition, the IAF is getting, a number of them are coming to the Eastern Air Command as well,” the Defence PRO said.

Air Marshal HS Arora has been appointed as the Vice Chief of Indian Air Force (IAF).
He will succeed Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria who will take over as the Chief of Air Staff on September 30. Arora currently heads the Gandhinagar headquartered South Western Air Command of the Air Force. Meanwhile, Air Marshal B Suresh has been appointed as Western Air Commander of the Air Force, in New Delhi. Suresh will succeed Kargil war hero Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar on October 31. He is the incumbent AOC-in-C of Southern Air Command.

The symposium achieved great success in building an Army-Industry relationship with the common objective of developing customised and effective solutions for the Indian Army and progress towards self reliance in the Indian defence industry to align with the govt initiative of ‘Make in India

The proposed defence estate office would be harbinger of good fortune for land owners along the border areas of the state, official sources informed here on Wednesday.Union Minister of State Kiren Rijiju, who represent Arunachal West parliamentary seat, had persuaded with the defence ministry to get compensation sanctioned. The ministry provided land compensation payment after more than 56 years of India’s war with China.

The Chairman of the CoSC is responsible for the inter-services synergy between the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy. The senior-most chief from amongst all the three services of the defence forces is selected as the Chairman of CoSC. Rawat, who was commissioned into the Indian Army in December 1978, is at present the senior-most chief from all the three services.

The single-engine Cheetah Helicopter of the Indian Army was on duty en-route from Khirmu(Arunanchal) to Yongfulla(Bhutan) on duty where it crashed. According to Indian Army sources, the Indian Army pilot who died in the crash was of Lieutenant-Colonel rank while the Bhutanese Army pilot was training with the Indian Army.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to issue a formal tender to procure six multi-role tanker transport (MRTT) aircraft after it had terminated a $2 billion contract with Airbus Defence and Space in 2017. India issued a request for information to the European corporation Airbus, US-based Boeing and Russia’s Ilyushin Aviation Complex last year.

Lt Gen Kler said the systems and radars of the Indian armed forces are in place.
“And any military use of any drone, which comes to our side will be shot down by the capabilities of the Indian Air Force and the Army,” he said. Interacting with reporters on the sidelines of a first-of-a-kind seminar on artificial intelligence, at Hisar Military Station, South Western Command chief Lt Gen Alok Singh Kler also said there was “nothing to worry” at the moment.