INSV Tarini, the second sailboat of the Indian Navy, on transoceanic sailing expedition set sail from Port Louis, Mauritius on 30 March 24. Notably, the vessel crewed by the resilient duo of Lt Cdr Roopa A and Lt Cdr Dilna K will undertake return voyage to Goa covering a distance of approx 2900 nm. The…
Taiwan tracked six Chinese naval ships and four military aircraft around the nation amid escalating cross-strait tensions on Sunday, Taiwan News reported. Noteworthy, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) said that the Chinese naval ships and aircraft were tracked between 6 am (local time) on Saturday and 6 am (local time) on Sunday. In response,…
Indigenisation, technology absorption and operational capability enhancement will be the focus areas of the army’s Southern Command, according to Lt General Ajai Kumar Singh, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Command. The Southern Command, which celebrates its 130th Raising Day on April 1, is the oldest and the largest command of the Indian Army, covering…
Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Chinook and Mi-17 helicopters will land on a stretch of the national highway linking Kashmir with the rest of the country as part of an Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) drill, the first such exercise in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). According to the officials, around two sorties of the US-manufactured Chinook and…
French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu said France is to deliver “hundreds” of armoured vehicles by the beginning of next year to Ukraine as part of a new package of military aid for the country that just entered its third year since the Russian invasion. In an interview with the French newspaper La Tribune’s Sunday edition,…
Indian Army troops opened fire after observing movement of a Pakistani drone and suspected persons at two different places along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday. While the drone movement was picked up in a forward area in Sunderbani, the suspicious movement of some persons…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine spring military conscription campaign, calling up 150,000 citizens for statutory military service, a document posted on the Kremlin’s website showed. All men in Russia are required to do a year-long military service, or equivalent training during higher education, from the age of 18. In…
Over 1,000 probationary police officers, including 62 deputy superintendents of police, are undergoing a six-week long training at the Army’s counter-terror White Knight Corps battle school in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, officials said. The integrated training programme — a first of its kind in the Union Territory grappling with over three decades of Pakistan-sponsored…
Elbit Systems solution for Artillery C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence) has been selected by a European country. Under the agreement, Elbit Systems will enhance 155mm howitzer battalions with advanced Digital Fires capabilities, by seamlessly integrating its C4ISR Artillery Suite including the Torch-X Fires application and E-LynX Software Defined Radio (SDR) radios. Noteworthy, Torch-X…
The Closing Ceremony of the Bilateral Tri-Service Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Amphibious Exercise between India and US, ‘Tiger Triumph 2024’ was held onboard USS Somerset on 30 Mar 2024. Notably, the exercise signifies the robust strategic partnership between the two countries and was aimed towards sharing best practices and Standard Operating Procedures in…
