Category: Defence

United States & Bangladesh jointly launch naval exercise ‘CARAT Bangladesh 2020’

November 3, 2020

• The United States and Bangladesh have jointly launched the ‘Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Bangladesh 2020’.
• The CARAT exercise involves a variety of professional exchanges as well as people to people interactions.

Pinaka rockets successfully test fired by DRDO

November 2, 2020

• An advanced version of the Pinaka rocket system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been successfully test-fired.

Malabar Naval Exercise: Australia, India, Japan and US commence the naval exercise in Bay of Bengal

November 1, 2020

• The navies of Japan, India, the US, and Australia on November 3, 2020, started the first phase of four days long Malabar Naval Exercise in the Bay of Bengal.
• The 24th edition of the naval exercise has been scheduled in two phases in November 2020.

Malabar Exercise to be held in Bay of Bengal

October 31, 2020

• The first phase of Malabar Exercise is to be held in Bay of Bengal between November 3, 2020 and November 6, 2020. The navies of India, Japan, US and Australia are to participate in the exercise.

Indian Army launches indigenous mobile application SAI

October 31, 2020

• The Indian Army has launched a secured messaging application platform named ‘Secure Application for the Internet’ (SAI).

Software for Infrastructure Management launched by Indian Army

October 30, 2020

• The Chief of Army Staff inaugurated a unique ‘Infrastructure Management System’ software on the sidelines of the Army Commanders Conference which was held on October 28, 2020.

Indian Army launches Secure Messaging Application

October 30, 2020

• The Indian Army launched a messaging mobile application called the SAI. The application will provide secure voice, video and text calling services to the soldiers of Indian Army.

India conducts a successful final trial of Nag anti-tank guided missile

October 26, 2020

• India successfully carried out the final trial of the Nag anti-tank guided missile with a warhead. The missile has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

Indian Naval Ship Kavaratti is to be commissioned into the Indian Navy

October 22, 2020

• The INS Kavaratti is one of the four indigenously built anti-submarine Warfare stealth corvettes under project 28. The project 28 is also called Kamorta class Corvettes

SANT missile successfully test-fired off the coast of Odisha

October 20, 2020

• Indian successfully test-fired the Stand-off-Anti-tank (SANT) missile off the Odisha coast on October 19, 2020 which was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the Indian Air Force (IAF).