Category: Defence

India successfully test-fires BrahMos missile

BrahMos missile
  • India successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, from the Indian Navy’s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai.

India-Sri Lanka Maritime Exercise SLINEX-20 to begin

INDRA NAVY
  • The eighth edition of annual Indian Navy (IN) and Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) bilateral maritime exercise SLINEX-20 is scheduled to be held off Trincomalee in Sri Lanka from 19 to 21 October 2020.

Defence Minister confers Raksha Mantri Trophy to best Command Hospitals

Raksha Mantri Trophy
  • Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh awarded the Raksha Mantri Trophy to the top Command Hospitals of the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) for the year 2019 on October 16, 2020.

Coastal security exercise “Sagar Kavach” concludes

Sagar Kavach
  • The Indian Navy along with Indian Coast Guard and all stakeholders involved in Coastal Security has conducted a two-day Coastal Security Exercise namely ‘Sagar Kavach’ conducted from the coast of Kerala.

DRDO test fires Nirbhay Cruise Missile successfully

Nirbhay Cruise Missile
  • The Defence Research Development Organization successfully fired the Nirbhay Cruise Missile. The missile has a Ring Laser Gyroscope based guidance and MEMS based inertial navigation system. MEMS is Micro Electro Mechanical System.

India’s First Anti-Radiation Missile named Rudram 1 successfully tested

Rudram 1
  • India’s First Anti-Radiation Missile named Rudram 1 successfully tested. This Missile is Developed by DRDO and it is a new generation anti-radiation missile.

DRDO successfully flight tests “Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo”

Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo
  • The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully flight tested the “Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo” (SMART) from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha.

India successfully test-fires “Shaurya Missile” from Odisha coast

Shaurya Missile
  • Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test-fired a new version of the surface-to-surface nuclear-capable ballistic missile “Shaurya” at Balasore, off the coast of Odisha.

India-Bangladesh Navy Bilateral Exercise “Bongosagar”

India-Bangladesh Navy Bilateral Exercise “Bongosagar”
  • The second edition of Indian Navy (IN) – Bangladesh Navy (BN) Bilateral Exercise Bongosagar commences in Northern Bay of Bengal.

LASER Guided anti-tank missile successfully test fired by DRDO

DRDO
  • LASER Guided anti-tank missile successfully test fired by Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO). It is designed to defeat Explosive Reactive Armour protected armour vehicles from a distance of 1 km to 1.5 km.