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06/11/2022

🔴 is working on a new Long Range Precision weapons for Attack Helicopter. It will may have Range close to 25Kms.

24/05/2022

INS Kolkata, INS Delhi, INS Chennai of Indian navy

23/05/2022

ISRO-built GSAT-24 satellite for Tata Sky to be launched by French rocket on June 22

GSAT-24, an Indian communication satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for satellite television service provider TataSky, will be placed in orbit on June 22, by the French Ariane 5 rocket.

The launch of the four-ton GSAT-24, dubbed ‘VA257’, would be carried out from Guiana Space Centre, Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Once placed in the geostationary orbit, GSAT-24 will provide high-quality television, telecommunications and broadcasting services.

Arianespace, the launch service provider, shared a picture of the container carrying the satellite being offloaded from a military transport aircraft, and stated, “We’ll let you know once the beast is awake”.

Notably, this launch is what India’s state-run Department of Space calls the “first demand driven communication satellite mission” of the New Space India Limited (NSIL), the commercial arm of ISRO.

NSIL was incorporated in March 2019 and was later mandated to undertake operational satellite missions on a “demand driven” model. It is responsible to build, launch, own & operate the satellite and provide services to its committed customer.

As part of the GSAT-24 mission, NSIL is getting the four-ton class Ku- band satellite built by ISRO and will be launching it using Ariane-5 launcher operated by s Arianespace.

The entire satellite capacity on-board GSAT-24 will be leased to its committed customer Tata Sky for meeting their DTH application needs.

NSIL has entered into a necessary agreement with Tata Sky for utilising the satellite capacity on-board GSAT-24 and with M/s Arianespace for seeking the launch services. GSAT-24 satellite will be owned and operated by NSIL on a commercial basis. GSAT-24 satellite mission will be fully funded by NSIL.

While India launches the indigenously-built satellites for national requirements and customer-built satellites on-board its own rockets, the country also uses the services of the French launcher Ariane to fulfil certain missions from foreign soil.

Significantly, GSAT-24 will be the 25th Indian satellite orbited by Arianespace, highlighting the longstanding partnership.

India’s ties with launch provider Arianespace date back to 1981, when an Ariane 1 rocket launched the Indian satellite APPLE.

01/05/2022

Indian Army has released a RFI for 105mm/37cal Mounted Gun System to be used in high altitude operations.

The requirements in RFI match perfectly to the Garuda 105 system developed by Indian private defense giant Kalyani which has already been tested successfully in high altitude areas.

19/04/2022

Navy to place orders for 60 Customized Naval-ALH

To meet its long pending requirement of Naval Utility Helicopters (NUH), the Navy is looking to procure variants of the indigenous Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) and Light Utility Helicopters (LUH) modified for ship-based operations, according to defence sources.

The tender for 111 NUH was earlier being processed through the Strategic Partnership (SP) route of the procedure which last week was included by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the third positive indigenisation list.

Based on the suggestions of a joint study with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) last October, the Navy has issued its broad requirements to HAL in January for acquisition of 60 utility helicopters based on the ALH for maritime operations, defence sources said.

“The detailed project report covering the helicopter configuration and the overall cost including performance based logistics is under preparation by HAL, which will be submitted to Service Headquarters and MoD shortly,” two defence sources confirmed.

The Navy has been looking to procure new utility helicopters for well over a decade but the attempts did not make progress.

First deal

In November 2018, Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for procurement of 111 NUH under the SP model, the first deal to be processed under the ambitious model meant to promote domestic private sector participating in defence manufacturing. Subsequently, the Request for Expression of Interest (REoI) to Original Equipment Manufacturers and Strategic Partners were issued in February 2019.

However, the process has since been held up as HAL jumped into the fray proposing wheeled landing gear variant of ALH with adaptations, officials said. A key requirement of the NUH was folding rotors for the helicopter to be able to fit into the ship hanger.

A defence source explained that in October 2021, the Navy and HAL carried out a joint study to exploit ALH to maximum potential for naval operations by optimising it to 5.7 tonnes, reducing the empty weight by choice of light weight avionics and mission sensors, higher payload capability upto 600 kg for deck operations, reduced stowage dimensions to meet requirement with foldable two segment blades and modified upper control system and ASIST (Aircraft Ship Integrated Secure and Traverse) traversing interface for ship deck.

Detailed report

The official added that based on the suggestions in the joint study report, the Navy has issued its broad requirements to HAL in January for acquisition of 60 utility helicopters for maritime operations as per Buy-Indian IDDM (Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured) route of Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020. HAL would submit the detailed project report very soon, the company sources said.

In the first major helicopter induction in decades, the Navy is set to induct the first batch of three MH-60R Multi-Role Helicopters, 24 of which were contracted from the US, this June. These are a replacement of the Sea King 42/42A helicopters which have been phased out in the 1990s.

However, a contract to procure six Ka-31 early warning helicopters which was in advanced stages as well as the case for six more P-8I long range maritime patrol aircraft have been deferred by the MoD during the review of all direct import deals, officials stated.

The NUH will replace the ageing Chetak fleet in service in urgent need of replacement. In addition to the Chetak, the Navy operates Russian Kamov 28/31s which have been upgraded, shore based ALH Dhruvs and ageing Sea Kings and six Sikorsky UH-3Hs.

13/04/2022

08/04/2022

: The mastermind of the 26/11 attack, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, has been sentenced to 31 years by Pakistan's anti-terrorism court on Friday, Pakistani media has reported. The court has also fined him Rs 3,40,000 and ordered all his assets to be seized.

Saeed is the co-founder of the terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba and the chief of another terror outfit, Jamaat-ud-Dawah. Earlier in five such cases, the 71-year-old terrorist had already been convicted of 36 years imprisonment.

In 2020, he was sentenced to over 15 years in jail in one of the several terror financing cases against him. In two terror financing instances, he was then sentenced to 11 years in prison by an anti-terrorism court in February 2021. Hafiz Saeed was the mastermind behind the devastating 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people.

31/03/2022

LCA LEAD-IN FIGHTER-TRAINER

Courtesy:- Harsh Vardhan Thakur

26/03/2022

💣 ⚔ Tankmen - a ForTheBerets production.

25/03/2022

Footage of test firing of BrahMos ER supersonic cruise missile by IAF at Port Blair (ANC)

25/03/2022

Today, IAF successfully test fired Brahmos ER surface to surface missile at Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The missile hit the target with pinpoint accuracy.

Commander of Air Staff, VR Chaudhari & Commander-in-Chief of Andaman and Nicobar Command, Ajai Singh witnessed the successful launch.

25/03/2022

Two indigenously built Advanced Light Helicopters (ALH) were formally inducted at Indian Naval Air Station, INS Parundu at Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu today. The Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command, VAdm Biswajit Dasgupta, was the Chief Guest of the Ceremony.

23/03/2022

PAF Trainer aircraft PAC MFI-17 Supermushshak crashed in Peshawar.

Both pilots, one of them belonging to Pak Air Force and the other belonging to Pak Navy were reportedly killed.

23/03/2022

23/03/2022

GSAT-7B

GSAT-7B will be India’s 3rd military satellite, the first being GSAT-7 (operated by Indian Navy) and GSAT-7A (operated by Indian Air Force).

The Indian Army does not operate a dedicated satellite to date (30% of GSAT-7A transponder capability is operated by Indian Army) and today’s AoN will help them achieve this capability.

Another Satellite, the GSAT-7R for the Indian Navy was set to launch this year.

18/03/2022

Russia Deploys a Mystery Munition in Ukraine

American intelligence officials have discovered that the barrage of ballistic missiles Russia has fired into Ukraine contain a surprise: decoys that trick air-defense radars and fool heat-seeking missiles.

The devices are each about a foot long, shaped like a dart and white with an orange tail, according to an American intelligence official. They are released by the Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles that Russia is firing from mobile launchers across the border, the official said, when the missile senses that it has been targeted by air defense systems.

Each is packed with electronics and produces radio signals to jam or spoof enemy radars attempting to locate the Iskander-M, and contains a heat source to attract incoming missiles. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about intelligence matters, described the devices on the condition of anonymity.

The use of the decoys may help explain why Ukrainian air-defense weapons have had difficulty intercepting Russia’s Iskander missiles.

Powered by a solid-fuel rocket motor, the Iskander can reach targets more than 200 miles away, according to U.S. government documents. Each mobile launcher can fire two Iskanders before it must be reloaded.

Photographs of the dart-shaped munitions began circulating on social media two weeks ago. They had stumped experts and open-source intelligence analysts — many of whom mistook them for bomblets from cluster weapons based on their size and shape.

Richard Stevens, who spent 22 years in the British Army as an explosive ordnance disposal soldier, and later worked as a civilian bomb technician for 10 years in southern Iraq, Africa and other regions, said he had been exposed “to plenty of Chinese and Russian munitions, but I had never seen this.”

Mr. Stevens posted photos of the munitions to a site for military and civilian bomb disposal experts that he started in 2011, and found that no one else seemed to have seen these mystery munitions before either.

“That Russia is using that size of weapon — the Iskander-M — and quite a few of them I believe, that’s why we’re seeing this now,” Mr. Stevens added. “It’s just that, post-conflict in the past 10 to 15 years, no one has had the opportunity to see this.”

The devices are similar to Cold War decoys called “pe*******on aids,” the intelligence official said, that have accompanied nuclear warheads since the 1970s and were designed to evade antimissile systems and allow individual warheads to reach their targets. The incorporation of the devices into weapons like the Iskander-M that have conventional warheads has not been previously documented in military arsenals.

“The minute people came up with missiles, people started trying to shoot them down, and the minute people started trying to shoot them down, people started thinking about pe*******on aids,” Jeffrey Lewis, a professor of nonproliferation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, Calif., said in an interview. “But we never see them because they’re highly secret — if you know how they work, you can counteract them.”

The use of the decoys may point to some level of carelessness or urgency by Russian military leadership, Mr. Lewis said, given that Russia knows they will inevitably be collected and studied by Western intelligence services so that NATO air defenses can be programmed to defeat the Iskander’s countermeasures.

And it is highly unlikely, he said, that the version of the Iskander that Russia has sold to other countries would contain these decoys.

“That suggests to me that the Russians place some value on keeping that technology close to home and that this war is important enough to them to give that up,” Mr. Lewis said. “They’re digging deep, and maybe they no longer care, but I would care if I were them.”

07/03/2022

An extended-range land attack BrahMos supersonic cruise missile dug in at its target, showcasing its pinpoint accuracy after it was fired without a warhead from sea. Missile was fired from Andaman Sea recently at an uninhabited island in Andaman&Nicobar Islands: Defence officials

Moment Just Before Impact!

03/03/2022

🇷🇺⚡️🇺🇦 Maps of the military situation on the territory of Ukraine as of March 2.

03/03/2022

🇷🇺❗️🇺🇦 The battle on the bridge in Kherson between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, filmed from a civilian drone.

03/03/2022

While Indian flag remains, flags of US, Japan, UK removed from a Russian space rocket from Russian launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

Dmitry Rogozin, chief of Russian space agency says our team, "at Baikonur decided that our rocket would look better without the flags of certain countries"

02/03/2022

The forces of the Donetsk People's Republic seized NLAW anti-tank weapons of the 🇺🇦 Armed Forces of Ukraine near the city of Mariupol.

02/03/2022

🏳 Taliban conducted a search operation in Kabul. As a result of the search operation, four heavy and light weapons, five vehicles, hundreds of bullets, chargers, binoculars and military uniforms were recovered.

01/03/2022

Russian Air strikes targeted the Tower of Ukraine 24 TV in Kyiv/Kiev!

01/03/2022

New 9/11 Footage.

Interesting that this is being released now.

01/03/2022

🇷🇺⚡️🇺🇦 Satellite imagery of the Russian military convoy on the outskirts of Kiev that stretched for at least 15 km, in some places even in 4 rows.

01/03/2022

🇺🇦❗️🇷🇺 A footage of attacks by Ukrainian UAVs on Russian equipment was released, and they also conducted an attack on a train that was carrying fuel for parts of the Russian Armed Forces in the Chernihiv region.

26/02/2022

Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba shares a picture of Kyiv, asks the world to "isolate Russia"

(Source: Dmytro Kuleba)

24/02/2022

Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine.