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DEFENCE - October 2019

Oct 2019

Jun 05, 2020

ITBP Establishes Two New Headquarters to Look after India-China Border

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) issued an order of establishing two command headquarters in Chandigarh and Guwahati. The Chandigarh headquarters will be headed by IG rank official who will work as Additional Director General (ADG) and look after Ladakh, Leh, and Srinagar areas while the Guwahati sector will look after the north-eastern parts. Last year (2019) in October, the Union Cabinet had approved two new headquarters for ITBP along with 60 extra posts. Two new posts of ADG have been sanctioned by the Cabinet. ITBP is majorly responsible for guarding over 3,400 km-long Line of Actual Control with China. Amid tensions with China, the ITBP stepped up its vigil as Chinese choppers violated Indian airspace twice in recent weeks. These two new headquarters will also look after the international border with China.

India Looking to Ink Military Logistics Pact with Japan

India is fast inking reciprocal military logistics pacts with like-minded countries to extend its strategic and naval operational reach in the entire Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and beyond, with an eye firmly on China's expansionist behavior in the Indo-Pacific. After similar agreements with the US, France, South Korea and Singapore, it was India's turn to ink the mutual logistics support arrangement (MLSA) with Australia during the virtual summit between the two PMs.
That's not all. India is set to ink a military logistics pact with Japan next, while similar agreements with Russia and theUK are also being negotiated. The MLSA will enable our warships to get refueling from Australian tankers on the high seas, while also availing of berthing, maintenance and storage facilities at Australian naval bases. It will, of course, be on a reciprocal basis. The Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) inked with the US in 2016 similarly gives India refueling facilities and access to American bases in Djibouti, Diego Garcia, Guam and Subic Bay. The one inked with France in 2018, in turn, also extends the Indian Navy's reach in south-western IOR due to French bases in the Reunion Islands near Madagascar and Djibouti on the Horn of Africa.

Jun 04, 2020

India, Australia Ink Landmark Defence Pact

India and Australia inked a landmark agreement for reciprocal access to military bases for logistics support besides firming up six more pacts to further broad base ties after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison held an online summit.
The Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA) will allow militaries of the two countries to use each other's bases for repair and replenishment of supplies besides facilitating scaling up of overall defense cooperation.
India has already signed similar agreements with the US, France and Singapore.
The other pacts will provide for bilateral cooperation in areas of cyber and cyber-enabled critical technology, mining and minerals, military technology, vocational education, and water resources management.

Jun 02, 2020

Lt. Gen. Manoj Pande Took over as the 15th Commander-in-Chief of the Andaman and Nicobar Command

Lieutenant General Manoj Pande assumed charge as the 15th Commander-in-Chief of the Andaman & Nicobar Command (CLINICIAN) on 1 June 2020.
He replaced Lieutenant General Podali Shankar Rajeshwar PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC. Shankar Rajeshwar was the 14th CINCAN and retired from service on 31 May 2020.
He had a good experience of 37 years of distinguished service. He has taken an active part in Operation Vijay and Parakram.

May 30, 2020

Missile park "Agneeprastha" to be set up at INS Kalinga

The foundation stone for a missile park "Agneeprastha" was laid at INS Kalinga, Naval base in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
The park "Agneeprastha"once completed will be dedicated to all the officers, sailors and support staff of INS Kalinga, who has served in this premier op-support Base of the ENC since its establishment in 1981.
The park also commemorates the award of the prestigious Unit Citation to INS Kalinga for 2018-19 and aims to capture glimpses of missile history of Kalinga since 1981 till date.
The park has been set up with a replica of missiles and ground support equipment (GSE) that showcase the evolution of missiles handled by the unit.
The exhibits have been created from scrap/obsolete inventory which have been reconditioned in-house.

May 26, 2020

DRDO's RCI Develops AI-based Attendance Application

The Research Centre Imarat (RCI), DRDO, here has developed a AI-based Attendance Application (AINA) which allows non-contact based personnel verification, using facial features of the person, in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic making it unsafe to use contact-based biometric verification for attendance marking systems.
AINA can be deployed with minimal upgradation to the legacy attendance infrastructure with RFID readers. AINA can be installed on a normal desktop computer with a GPU based display adapter.

India Helps Uganda to Set Up Military War Game Centre

Indian Association in Uganda, with help of the Indian Military training team, set up a military war game centre in Jinja district.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni inaugurated the war game centre conceptualised by Indian military team for Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF).
The wargame centre was comissioned at the Uganda Senior Command and Staff College in Kimaka in Jinja District.

IAF to Launch its Squadron Number-18 - Flying Bullets With a Fleet of LCA Tejas

The Indian Air Force is set to operationalize its squadron called the Number-18 - Flying Bullets with a fleet of the Light Combat Aircraft, LCA Tejas at its Sulur base near Coimbatore. It will be launched by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria.
It will be the second Indian Air Force squadron to operate with the modern multi-role light fighter aircraft.
The No.18 Squadron was formed in 1965 and has the distinction of being the first to land and operate from Srinagar.
It has also produced a Param Veer Chakra awardee during the 1971 war with Pakistan. It has been revived on the 1st April this year at the Sulur base.

US Navy Successfully Tests a Laser Weapon That can Destroy Aircraft Mid-Flight

A US Navy warship has successfully tested a new high-energy laser weapon that can destroy aircraft mid-flight, the Navy's Pacific Fleet has announced.
Images and videos provided by the Navy show the amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland executing "the first system-level implementation of a high-energy class solid-state laser" to disable an aerial drone aircraft.
It did not give a specific location of the laser weapons system demonstrator (LWSD) test, saying only that it occurred in the Pacific on May 16, 2020.
Navy ships face an increasing number of threats in conducting their missions, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, armed small boats, and adversary intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.

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