Defense

London’s The Guardian describes the Seventh Day from which ANI sourced the news as “one of Egypt’s most modern news organisations” and its Editor in Chief Khaled Salah as “an unlikely jihadist”. Writing about his experiences on his website the Egyptian says he “fell for the bait of extremist thoughts… I was ready to be martyred for God’s Sharia”.

The project, which has been moving faster than another mega plan to build 110 fighter jets in India, has been taken forward with the navy sharing its draft requirements with foreign players who are to share technology with Indian partners to produce the next generation of submarines.

During his address at the inauguration ceremony, Lanba complimented the Directorate for their untiring efforts, foresight and initiatives to conceptualise design and execute the project. “This project will facilitate collaborative design reviews for continuous interaction between the designers and the end users to improve design and ergonomics onboard warships,” Admiral Lanba said.

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman added that the attaches were asked to return to India and discuss with the ministry on the defence technologies across the world. “For the first time we had to make it a point for the DAs to come here. Once in a year to sit and consult us as to what we should do…periodic reports also helps those officials who have to plan purchasing of equipment…The defence attache should be alerted of what is happening in different parts of the world on defence equipment,” she said.

The first time the UN deployed an all-women peacekeeping unit was in 2007 when an Indian police unit made up of 105 women was stationed in Liberia.

The Indian Army is simultaneously pursuing the fulfillment of several outstanding tactical vehicle requirements. The Army is poised to continue to acquire locally manufactured tactical vehicles on a large scale over the course of the coming decade as it modernizes its vast transport, logistics and utility vehicle stocks to a more modern standard and replaces its remaining stocks of foreign designs with high-quality indigenous vehicles.

While Tarangini had sailed from Kochi, the other three ships had arrived from Port Beira, Mozambique after undertaking a Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief mission Op Sahayata in the wake of the devastating Cyclone Idai which hit that country.

Qatar and India have held bilateral defense dialogue for several years. And after its Gulf neighbours began a blockade on it in 2017, Qatar has looked eastwards for trade partners.

Larger and offering a higher operating altitude than the EMB-145s, the first two A330 platforms are part of the first phase of the program and will be fitted with an indigenous radar. Based on negotiations related to the first two A330s, four additional A330s are in the pipeline.

The Indian Army’s Field Artillery Rationalisation Programme (FARP) – probably the world’s largest – was approved in 1999 to equip 169 artillery regiments with over 3,000 155 mm guns by 2027.