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Jan 29, 2020

Operation Vanilla: India Sends Naval Ship to Provide Aid to Disaster-hit Madagascar

Indian Navy launched Operation Vanilla in a bid to support the people of island nation Madagascar in the face of a natural disaster.
Indian Navy said, 'As the first respondent, Indian Navy Ship Airavat, which was en-route to Seychelles has been diverted to Madagascar for rendering assistance.'
The ship is carrying victualing, clothing and stores along with medicines. The ship is scheduled to reach Madagascar by 30 January 2020. As per the Navy, the ship will be able to provide clothing, emergency food, medical assistance, diving and communication assistance and undertake transportation and evacuation of personnel using its four large and two medium-sized boats.

Jan 28, 2020

Centre Tells States to Buy Indigenous Rifles

The Union home ministry asked eight Left-wing Extremism (LWE)-hit states to purchase indigenously built instead of foreign made weapons for their police forces involved in anti-Maoist operations.
The issue was discussed at a meeting of top officers from the eight states on police modernisation. The ministry's additional secretary (police modernisation), Vivek Bhardwaj, chaired the meeting. Several Ordinance factories such as in Jabalpur and Rae Bareli in India have been manufacturing weapons, which can be used both by the security personnel and military. Special director general, R. K. Vij, who is in charge of police modernisation in Chhattisgarh, said that the ministry's representatives at the meeting emphasised on the need for using locally made automatic rifles. These rifles include Trichy Assault Rifles and AK-203 automatic rifles, which are better than self-loading rifles [SLRs] and AK-47s.
The ministry has classified Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala as LWE-affected states in varying degrees.

Taurus Signs Deal with Steel Group Jindal to Produce Guns in India

Brazilian gun maker Taurus Armas SA signed a joint venture with Indian steelmaker Jindal Group to produce and sell guns in India.
Under the agreement, Jindal will hold a 51% stake in the venture and Taurus the remaining shares.
The deal was signed during Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's visit to India.

Jan 27, 2020

Army Stocking up Ammunitions for 40-day War

The 13-lakh strong Army is now slowly but steadily building its ammunition stocks ranging from rockets and missiles to high-caliber tank and artillery shells to ensure it can comfortably fight a full-blown war for over 10 days, with the eventual aim to have adequate stockpiles in place to last 40 days.
As per defence ministry sources, all the different types of ammunition for the Army will be built up to "10(I) levels", which mean adequate stocks to undertake 10 days of "intensive" full-spectrum fighting, by 2022-2023, as per the latest assessment.
The next target will be to gradually achieve 40(I) levels after some major rationalisation because not all types of ammunition are needed in such large numbers. Holding large reserves is neither economically nor logistically feasible.
The MoD is also in the process of contracting the domestic private sector to manufacture with foreign collaboration eight different types of tank, artillery and infantry ammunition worth around Rs 1,700 crore per year for a decade from 2022-2023 onwards.

Anti-drone System Used for First Time this R-Day Parade

National security planners deployed anti-drone weapons to secure VVIPs during the Republic Day parade — the first instance of India attempting to neutralise the growing threat from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

India Plans 5,000-km Range Submarine-launched Ballistic Missile

With the K-4 submarine-launched ballistic missile completing the development stage and ready for induction, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has gone back to the drawing board to develop a 5,000km-range submarine-launched platform that matches the surface-to-surface Agni-V missile.
The 5,000km-range submarine-launched ballistic missile will carry the same K-series label and will cover all of Asia, parts of Africa, Europe and Indo-Pacific including South China Sea.

Indian Navy to Soon Get First Batch of Indigenously-built Torpedo Varunastra

Indian Navy will soon get the first batch of indigenously-built heavyweight anti-submarine torpedo Varunastra, giving it crucial firepower to the naval forces. The first batch will be delivered to the Navy soon and will be fitted onto Sindhu class submarines and other navy ships. This will make India one of the eight countries to have such indigenously-designed and built system.
Varunastra is capable to destroy any target, including ships and submarines, up to the range of 40 kilometres in waters. The torpedo was successfully inducted in the navy in July 2018, following which an order of 63 such systems for Rs. 1187 crore was placed.

Jan 25, 2020

CONTROP to Supply Indian Army with iSky 50HD uav Electro-optic System

CONTROP Precision Technologies Ltd. a company specialising in the field of electro-optics and infrared (EO/IR) for defence and homeland security solutions, has won a tender by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the supply of its iSky-50HD systems, for use on unmanned air platforms.
The iSky-50HD is a member of CONTROP's iSky family of lightweight, compact EO/IR observation systems, which have been specifically designed for use in challenging airborne environments. The iSky-50HD features highly-sensitive multi-spectral sensors, which are gyro-stabilized and have advanced image processing algorithms,thereby providing maximum sensor ranges and performance,for a variety of airborne defence applications. In daily operation around the world since the 1990s, the iSky systems are integrated into a wide variety of UAV, helicopter, fixed-wing aircraft and aerostat platforms.
"Winning this tender confirms CONTROP's leadership in the field of electro-optic systems," says Mr. Hagay Azani, CONTROP's CEO & President. "We are very proud to havebeen awarded this strategic tender, which reflects our deep commitment to supporting the Indian Armed Forces with the latest technology. The DRDO tested several systems and concluded that our technology and pricing was best suited to meet India's defence requirements. We thank the DRDO for the confidence which they have shown in our products and technologies, and hope that this collaboration will lead to further projects in the future."

Jan 24, 2020

Pakistan Successfully Conducts Surface-to-surface Training Launch of Missile Ghaznavi

Pakistan conducted a successful training launch of surface-to-surface ballistic missile (SSBM) Ghaznavi. This launch was carried out as part of a training exercise of Army Strategic Forces Command aimed at rehearsing operational readiness procedures during day and night.
The President, Prime Minister, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and services chiefs have congratulated the nation on this landmark achievement.
As per the military's media wing, missile Ghaznavi is capable of delivering multiple types of warheads up to a range of 290 kilometres.
In November 2019, Pakistan carried out a successful training launch of ballistic missile Shaheen-I which was also an SSBM.

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