Indian Air Force hosted a two day Global Chiefs’ of Air Staff Conclave on 03 & 04 February 21 themed 'Leveraging Aerospace Power for Security and Stability' on Day 2 & 3 of Aero India 21. The three sessions of the CAS Conclave provided a forum to discuss important issues with respect to aerospace strategy, emerging technologies impacting the battle space and issues pertaining to security and stability of the Global Commons.
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Aero India 2021 gets as many as 601 exhibitors - 523 Indian and 78 foreign while 14 countries have confirmed participation at the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bangalore. But the highlight is the biggest ever make in India contract worth Rs 48,000 crores inked formally with Defence Public Sector Undertaking, HAL today.
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India's frontier force, Indian Coast Guard is responsible for the surveillance of vast and vulnerable coastline over 7600Kms. And to cover the vast EEZ of 2.01 million sqKms and 4.6 Million SqKms of Indian Search and Rescue Regions which is more than the entire area of the land mass of the country, has stretched thin on ground both on assets and manpower. Director General, ICG, K. Natarajan puts forth his perspective with BW Businessworld's Manish Kumar Jha on such crucial issues of Coastal security and the role of ICG in averting a major ecological disaster by saving a massive Crude Carrier of 3 Lakh metric tons of crude oil off Sri Lanka Coast among others.
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On the occasion of 72nd Republic Day, a Passing out Parade (POP) was held at Indian Naval Academy (INA), Ezhimala. 62 trainees including 15 women trainees passed out with flying colours, marking the culmination of their ab-initio training.
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he Indian Air Force and French Air and Space Force participated in Ex Desert Knight 2021 at Air Force Station Jodhpur. A first of its kind bilateral exercise (Ex DK-21), Rafale aircraft from both sides along with Su-30 MKI and Mirage 2000 aircraft of the IAF undertook complex missions including Large Force Engagements. Combat enablers included AWACS, AEW&C aircraft of the IAF as well as A400M and A330 based MRTT (Medium Range Tanker and Transport) aircraft of the FASF.
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Vice Admiral Atul Kumar Jain Takes Stock Of Combat Readiness At Eastern Naval Command. Eastern Fleet has maintained a very high ops tempo to meet all National tasking in and beyond the Indian Ocean Region, including events in wake of the Galwan crisis.
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Chief of Army Staff Gen MM Naravane said he was hopeful that through dialogue under the established mechanism, India and China will be able to reach an agreement to resolve the eastern Ladakh standoff. But he also emphatically maintained that such an agreement for disengagement and de-escalation must be based on an approach of mutual and equal security. Chief rebuked the recent report by a Think tank, sighting insufficient sample base of findings among the world's largest 13 lakh strong Indian Army. He also sights incorrect data in the report 'soldiers under pressure’.
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The Ministry of Defence cleared the procurement of 11 next-gen OPVs and 6 AEW&C Block-2 aircraft in the first meeting of the DAC since the implementation of the new Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020.
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