Tag Archives: Indian Army

Tour of Duty or ToD scheme has proposed to arrange a tour of duty for youths of the nations. Under this scheme, the youths will be hired in the armed forces for a short span of 3-5 years. Firstly floated as an idea in 2020, the Department of Military Affairs ...

A highly encrypted Cloud system of the Indian Army, similar to that of Google, which will store personnel as well operational data, inaugurated by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in line with the force’s plan to be a “digital army”. The digi-locker of the army is similar to e-Locker of Digital ...

Defence Materials and Stores Research & Development Establishment (DMSRDE), a Kanpur based laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed special protective clothing for soldiers deployed in extreme cold weather and glacier regions, where temperature goes up to – 400 C, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said. Parrikar mentioned ...

From Israeli sniper and assault rifles to European “underwater open-circuit diving equipment”, the Special Forces of the armed forces are slowly but surely inducting specialised weaponry and equipment for their clandestine warfare and counter-terrorism operations. Defence ministry has said the latest acquisition is the Rs 27 crore contract for 65 ...

The government has “in principle” accepted OROP – a demand by India’s defence personnel that uniform pension should be paid to armed force retirees with the same rank and same length of service. As per the global brokerage firm, the existing defence pension bill is likely to go up by ...

News: The ‘short span bridge’ contract will be awarded to L&T on a single vendor basis as it has acquired the technology for construction of military grade systems. L&T has built significant capability in military mobile bridging systems for the Army in partnership with the Defence Research and Development Organization ...

News: The Indian Army today said there is a plan to incorporate DRDO as a technological partner in the proposed Future Ready Combat Vehicle (FRCV) project. The army plans to adopt a novel approach for designing and developing its future category of battle tanks. The proposed approach will involve three ...

News: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said the government has taken steps to mitigate the deficiencies in some of the critical ammunition on priority. Steps taken: Second Five Year Ammunition Roll on indent for the period 2014-19 has been placed on Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). A road map on ammunition has ...

News: Lt Gen Hooda said that 100 militants had been neutralized in 2013 along LoC and the hinterland followed by killing of 150 militants in 2014 and 40 militants this year till now. The Army officer said more than the security situation which need to be looked at, radicalization, youth ...

News: “The majestic Bana Singh Parade Ground at the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regimental Centre showcased its latest batch of 323 passing out recruits from Jammu and Kashmir,” said Lt. Colonel N.N. Joshi, spokesman of the army’s Srinagar-based 15th corps. Marching in precise unison with a singular aim of ...