Ashish Singh

Rajnath Singh launches Defence India Startup Challenge-4

October 1, 2020

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched the Defence India Startup Challenge 4 (DISC-4) during the iDEX event, featuring the initiatives aimed at expanding the horizons of Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) ecosystem in New Delhi on Tuesday. iDEX4Fauji initiative and Product Management Approach (PMA) guidelines were also launched by the minister...

Rajnath Singh lays foundation stone for IMA Dehradun underpass

September 29, 2020

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh laid the foundation stone for the construction of underpasses at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, via video conferencing from Delhi on Sunday. Addressing the ceremony he said that it is strange that it took 40 years to get a green signal for the construction of these...

INDIAN ARMY CELEBRATES 193RD GUNNERS’ DAY

September 29, 2020

28 September is celebrated as the Gunners’ Day every year as on this day in 1827 Five (Bombay) Mountain Battery equipped with 2.5 inch guns was raised. Presently it forms part of 57 Field Regiment. Artillery has grown in strength and capability with each passing year. Today the Artillery boosts...

A massive push for indigenous production of defence equipment

September 26, 2020

The Cabinet Committee on Security, in its meeting held on 29 July 2020, approved to convert Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), a subordinate office of Ministry of Defence, into one or more than one 100% Government-owned corporate entities, registered under the Companies Act 2013. The corporatisation of OFB will improve its...

Boeing delivers SOCOM’s first next-gen Chinook helicopter

September 25, 2020

Boeing is delivering new technologies and performance improvements to US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) with the Block II Chinook helicopter. Boeing’s Philadelphia team recently delivered the first MH-47G Block II Chinook to SOCOM on time. “This delivery marks a major step for the Chinook programme,” said Andy Builta, vice president...

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is readied to fly to Vandenberg for launch

September 25, 2020

Airbus space engineers are preparing the European ocean satellite “Coper- helicopter nicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich” for its journey to the Vandenberg launch site in California. Next week, the satellite will be loaded into a cargo plane at Munich Airport and flown to the US. The Airbus-built satellite is scheduled for...

Russia’s big CCP Problem

September 25, 2020

Kadri Liik calls them “the offended generation”: The generation of Russians who, post the Soviet breakup, had reposed faith in the West and had great expectations of fairness from the free world. But starting with the expansion of NATO and then the EU, this generation found that the realpolitik of...

Indian Army cares for its bravehearts

September 24, 2020

We don’t know them all, but we owe them all. Braveheart Late Sub Gandhi Ram Rajbongshi of Assam Regt hailing from Mangaldoi in Darrang District lost his life while serving the nation along the northern borders on 18 December 2000, leaving behind his wife Pabitri Rajbongshi along with a 15-year-old...

Laser Guided ATGM Successfully Test-fire

September 24, 2020

Laser-guided Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) was successfully test-fired from MBT Arjun Tank at KK Ranges, Armoured Corps Centre and School (ACC&S), Ahmednagar, on Tuesday. In these tests, the ATGM success- fully defeated a target located at 3 km. Laser-guided ATGMs lock and track the targets with the help of...

INDIA AND AUSTRALIA ALL SET TO KICK OFF NAVAL DRILL IN INDIAN OCEAN TODAY

September 23, 2020

The Indian Navy is scheduled to undertake a Passage Exercise (PASSEX) with Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in the East Indian Ocean Region from 23-24 September 2020. The exercise would involve participation of HMAS Hobart from the Australian side and Indian Naval Ships Sahyadri and Karmuk. In addition, an Indian MPA...

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