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Officials said that the team departed for Bulgaria a few days back to meet representatives from gun and ammunition manufacturer, ‘Arsenal’. The team would then head to Israel and meet Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) and South Korea’s S&T Motiv. The trio had responded with bids to the Army’s call to procure LMGs under FTP.
Boeing India collaborates with IIT Delhi, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IISc Bangalore, T-Hub Hyderabad KIIT Bhubaneshwar to help start-ups convert their ideas into business offerings to shape the future of aerospace and defense.
A recent notification by the MoD’s Department of Defence Production (DDP) confirmed that under the public procurement order it has fixed an indigenous content level for a range of defence products, with the aim to encourage local industry to build components and subsystems locally.
Skylock of Israel has started scouting for deals in the fledgling sector and is exploring the sale of its systems for securing civilian airports, sources told IANS.
Domain experts said that drones being low-flying objects are certainly a safety risk but their use is unavoidable given the RPAs’ enormous range of applications.
The contribution of these braves is enormous, but we must also recognize that the common soldier, who goes about his task with fortitude and courage, is the real unsung hero of our military. Let me tell his story in the backdrop of the opening of Zojila Pass.
The government is expected to declare certain areas of Ahmedabad district (Dholera SIR), Surendranagar and Kutch and possibly a few parts in north Gujarat and coastal Saurashtra, as defence industries corridor.
Defence sources said that CBU-105 is a sensor fused weapon of 1,000 pound (450Kg) which is dropped with the help of GPS. The best part of the weapon is that it can be used during day or night and even in adverse weather conditions. In 2010 the Indian government placed an order of 512 bombs which were delivered by company.
The Pakistan Air Force has taken out its F-16s from their home bases in Sargodha, Punjab, and Sindh and has deployed them at their satellite fields in a scattered manner, government sources have said.
The UN owes India 38 million US Dollars, among the highest it has to pay to any country, for peacekeeping operations as of March 2019. This was stated by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in April in his report on improving the financial situation of the UN.
Self-certification status would be allowed for only those industrial units who have quality systems that meet the requisite standards. “It encourages them to assume direct responsibility to sustain and improve the standards of quality.
