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Air Vice Marshal RGK Kapoor Assistant Chief of IAF, Operations, making the first official statement on the matter said, “There is no doubt that two aircraft went down in the aerial engagement on February 27, one was the Bison (MiG 21) of the IAF and the other was a F-16 of PAF, conclusively identified by its electronic signature and radio transcripts.”
BrahMos Aerospace is a joint venture of Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyeniya and India’s Defence Research and Development Organization. The company is producing the world’s fastest cruise missile BrahMos, named after Brahmaputra and Moscow rivers.
How the Pakistani state has managed to clamp down on eyewitness accounts, online videos of the crash and initial ISPR flip flops — to obscure the fact that a PAF F-16 jet was shot down by an Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison on 27 February 2019.
The absence of Mine Countermeasures Vessels (MCMVs) and an inordinate delay in the procurement process has forced the Indian Navy to go in for an emergency procurement of clip-on suites from Thales Australia. These can be fitted on small boats to deal with underwater mines.
“We want to try out the AK-203 in the carbine role. We can remove the rifle’s butt completely to reduce its size and then it can be hidden easily under clothes to be used in close quarter combat operations against terrorists,” top Army sources told ANI.
The 97-meter long, 15-meter wide vessel has a 3.6 m draft and a range of 5,000 nautical miles. It can attain a speed up to 26 knots. The vessel has a compliment of 12 officers and 91 men. The ship is equipped with an ultra-modern navigation and communication system.
The two ships are scheduled to visit Chinese port of Qingdao from April 21 to 26 to participate in an International Fleet Review to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
After successfully testing an anti-satellite (ASat) missile last month , India is now also working to develop other counterspace capabilities like directed energy weapons (DEWs) and co-orbital killers as well as the ability to protect its own satellites from electronic or physical attacks.
“Important issues that are likely to be discussed are management of the extant security dynamics, mitigation of future security threats and enhancement of combat edge over potential adversaries,” the Army said in a statement.
Team Dhaksha is designing drones that find multiple uses, from crowd monitoring and land mapping to rescue and audit of disaster-hit areas
