INDIAN ARMED FORCES CHIEFS ON
OUR RELENTLESS AND FOCUSED PUBLISHING EFFORTS

SP's MAI Issue No. 5 | March 1-15, 2017 - Military Updates

• 

  MILITARY / PROFILE
  Arun Jaitley: An articulate personality of multi-role versatility
  By R. Chandrakanth

  The portfolio of defence is key and highly critical one. So is the finance portfolio.

• 

  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Parrikar's exit and its impact on languishing defence projects
  By Lt General V.K. Kapoor (Retd)

  Manohar Parrikar who held the office of the Defence Minister of India for two years and four months has now returned to Goa to take over as the new Chief Minister...

• 

  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Need for a full-time Minister of Defence
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  While the appointment of Manohar Parrikar as the Goa Chief Minister has been dictated by political expediency, this move has implications for the Indian armed forces

• 

  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Change of Defence Minister
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  With Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar having moved to Panaji due to political expediency of the state of Goa, Arun Jaitley has been given additional charge of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

• 

  MILITARY / REPORT
  INS Viraat decommissioned
  By Our Special Correspondent

  glorious era of INS Viraat being the flagship of the Indian Navy came to an end...

• 

  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  India-China strategic dialogue - Hollowness persists
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  On February 22, India and China held their ‘upgraded’ strategic dialogue at Beijing.

• 

  MILITARY / SPOTLIGHT
  Admiral Vladimir Korolev, Commander-in-Chief, Russian Federation Navy, visits India

  Admiral Vladimir Korolev, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation Navy along with a four-member Russian Navy delegation is on an official visit to India...

• 

  MILITARY
  DRDO hands over its products to Indian Army

  The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) handed over three of its products for induction into the Indian Army in a formal function here recently. The products — Weapon Locating Radar (WLR) Swathi; NBC Recce Vehicle and NBC Drugs.

• 

  MILITARY
  Eleventh Indo-Nepal Joint Exercise

  Indo-Nepal Joint Military Exercise Surya Kiran-XI commenced on March 7 at Pithoragarh. In this 14-day exercise, Nepal Army is being represented by the officers and troops of the elite Durga Baksh Battalion...

• 

  MILITARY
  Successful test-firing of AAD endo-atmospheric interceptor missile

  DRDO conducted the successful launch of the interceptor missile Advanced Area Defence (AAD) recently from Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha. The endo-atmospheric missile, capable of intercepting incoming targets at an altitude of 15 to 25 km...

• 

  MILITARY
  INS Tillanchang commissioned at Karwar

  INS Tillanchang, a water jet fast attack craft (WJFAC), was commissioned into the Indian Navy by Vice Admiral Girish Luthra, the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Western Naval Command, at Karwar recently.

• 

  MILITARY
  Indo-Oman Joint Army Exercise Al Nagah-II

  The second edition of the joint exercise between the Indian and Oman Armies commenced with the opening ceremony at Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh. The training contingents comprised of platoon strength from both the armies...

• MILITARY
  Maiden anti-ship missile launch by Kalvari

  The Indian Navy recently successfully conducted the maiden firing of an anti-ship missile from the first of the indigenously built Kalvari class submarines, during a test-firing in the Arabian Sea.