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Bogibeel Bridge, the longest rail-cum-road bridge on Brahmaputra river, is all set to be inaugurated on December 25 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi which will facilitate faster movement of troops to Arunachal Pradesh, the country’s eastern-most state that shares border with China.
India will conduct an “India-Africa Field Training Exercise (IAFTX)” in Pune from March 18 to 27 next year, which will see the participation of over a dozen countries ranging from Tanzania and Kenya to Ghana and South Africa, said defence ministry sources on Wednesday.
The Indian Navy has selected the US General Atomics EMALS for its second aircraft carrier, IAC II, which should be operational in about 10 years.
A Russian-origin AN 32 transport plane will be flight tested using a mix of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) and bio-fuel on December 17
The IAF plans to gradually start using this fuel blend for fighter jets like Su-30MKi and Mig-29
The IAF spends about Rs 40,000 crore on ATF annually and by using bio-fuel, it plans to save around 10 per cent on fuel bill
The Indian Navy Wednesday inducted its first ‘Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle’ into service here and was in the process of acquiring one more soon to deploy the vessels permanently at Mumbai and Visakhapatnam.
Ashok Leyland, the largest supplier of wheeled military vehicles to the Indian army, will provide high mobility vehicles for mounting Elbit’s artillery guns.
Indian and Chinese soldiers, who are undertaking joint military drills in Chengdu, took some time off for extracurricular activities on Tuesday. While the debate on who among the two has stronger military can go on, it was Chinese troops who literally danced on Indian tunes to blow some steam off in the middle of the 7th round of their ‘Hand-in-Hand’ military drills.
The government on Wednesday said India has repeatedly called upon Pakistan to immediately vacate all areas under its illegal occupation and it made this assertion to Islamabad last month as well.
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has displayed its proficiency in the demanding field of helicopter design by successfully testing its indigenously developed Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) to an altitude of six kilometres (almost 20,000 feet).
Hasimara is undergoing upgradation in some key areas since the Indian Air Force (IAF) decided to raise a Rafale squadron there to face the Chinese threat. One of them is the runway which was last resurfaced way back in 1993.
