DEFENCE

Nothing is impossible and no impediment or impairment big enough if one has a clear goal and the courage to follow one’s own convictions.

INS Teg commanded by Captain AY Sardesai is a state-of-the-art guided missile frigate of the Indian Navy, based at Mumbai. With a displacement of 4000 tons and speed of 30 knots, she is armed with the latest weapons and is capable of accomplishing a wide variety of missions.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar targeted Pakistan, saying those who "fear" India's "new posture" have already started reacting.

Feeling let down by the successive Indian governments, Captain Saurabh Kalia's father is now pinning hopes on the Supreme Court. Saurabh was the first to report Pakistani incursion in Kargil in 1999

There is a saying- when the going gets tough, the tough get going. No one deserves the title of a 'hero' more than a soldier who gets up after a debilitating injury or loss limb and overcomes the hardships and handicaps to win the bigger battle of life. Major D.P Singh, was injured in the Kargil war. He was "declared dead" by the Army Hospital.. He survived as an amputee and returned 14 years later as India's first Blade runner.

First class troops--third rate guns. The Indian Armed Forces have always been expected to perform miracles - without a proper gun in their hands

Destroyers of the Kolkata class and improved Kolkata class (Projects 15A and 15B), which include the recently Launched INS Visakhapatnam, are well armed. They are equipped with 16 powerful supersonic anti-ship missiles Brahmos developed jointly with Russia, and air defense systems Barak NG produced together with Israel.

Arunachal Pradesh wants establishment of two more Advanced Landing Grounds (ALG) along the China border, as also optimum utilization of the existing eight ALGs in the state. The state shares 1080 kms of the international boundary with China.

In a written reply to Ramdas Athawalein Parrikar claimed that one - the main reason behind most IAF accidents is human error. Two, according to him no air crash occurred in 2015-16 upto 23.4.2015, though six crashes were reported in 2012-13 and 2013-14 and eight in 2014-15. Both the statements are not true and based on false presumptions.

India needs a General over Generals – someone who understands the services and can decide the best alternative from the national security perspective even when the respective service chiefs have opposite view-points. But will the bureaucrats habitually usurping the powers in the strategic & military affairs without any responsibility allow the remote control to be snatched from their hand.

An Indian Navy Dornier aircraft ditched in the sea. Three officers including one woman were on board the aircraft. One of them has been rescued, but the other two are missing.

Presently, there are approximately 8,000 metric tons of space debris, which include at least 900,000 individual pieces of space debris that are possibly harmful to the health of satellites. It is also important to remove/reduce the existing space debris so that outer space becomes cleaner and safe for satellite operations.