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The two US Predator drones are operating out of the Indian Navy's INS Rajali airbase and were inducted under a lease agreement with the American vendor in the third week of November. File photo of a US Predator drone. Indian Navy has inducted two American Predator drones on lease from the US to carry out surveillance in the Indian Ocean region. Capable of carrying out surveillance for more than 30 hours, the drones are operating out of Indian Navy's INS Rajali airbase. These drones have been inducted under a lease agreement with the American vendor. As part of the deal, the vendor has deployed a team to guide the personnel operating the Predator drones. In fact, the American Predator drones could also be made available to Indian forces deployed along the LAC in eastern Ladakh where India and China are engaged in a military standoff. Over the past few months, India and the US have been working closely in opposition to Chinese aggression in eastern Ladakh. Under this partnership...

Two years after her husband Major Kaustubh Rane made the supreme sacrifice fighting infiltrators at LOC, she pays this fitting tribute to him. Lieutenant Kanika Rane receiving the stars on her shoulders at OTA, Chennai on November 21 On November 21, two hundred and thirty officer cadets - 181 men and 49 women, passed out from the Officers Training Academy in Chennai. Two years after her husband Major Kaustubh Rane martyred in Kashmir, Kanika Kaustubh Rane paid him a fitting tribute. On Saturday, she was commissioned into the Indian Army after completion of her training at the Indian Army’s Officers Training Academy in Chennai. The 29-year-old Major Rane was martyred during an operation in Kashmir in August 2018 with three other Indian soldiers — rifleman Hameer Singh (28), rifleman Mandeep Singh (26) and Vikramjeet Singh (25). The soldiers had laid down their lives in an attempt to foil an infiltration bid near the Line of Control near Gurez Sector in Bandipora district, about 125 km f...

On Saturday, the festival of Diwali was widely celebrated in India and many other parts of the world. While the controversies over the use of firecrackers and pollution remained the highlight over social media, a contrasting battle raged on at the Line of Actual Control which led to heavy casualties on both sides. Indian Navy releases a video titled 'Fireworks At Sea' on Diwali eve (@indiannavy) The bunker-busting videos by the Indian Army along the LOC emerged on social media, but it was the Indian Navy which drew a lot of attention. In the morning hours of the day, the Indian Navy released a video named “Fireworks at Sea”, flaunting the service’s way of celebrating Diwali with the customary firecrackers. The video showcased the firing of various weapons platforms, including naval guns, anti-submarine rockets, torpedoes, surface-to-surface missiles, and the service’s venerable MiG-29Ks- along with precise cinematic shots of various warships. The most notable systems shown firi...

As India faces challenges from 'LoC to LAC', Indian Army is preparing to give a befitting reply to any misadventures carried out by neighbouring countries. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched NAG Missile Carrier (NAMICA) on August 14. It may be fitting that India sought to boost its firepower on the Independence Day of Pakistan. NAG Missile Carrier NAMICA boosts Indian Army muscle NAMICA has been made by Ordnance Factory in collaboration with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The entire project costs about Rs 3 thousand crore. NAMICA can fire missiles at a target located 7.5 kilometres away. The missiles carrier can be manned by 4 jawans of the Indian Army. NAMICA has hunter-killer capability. Another feature of NAMICA is that its equally effective at night as it is during the day. The missile carrier has amphibious capability. This boosts its manoeuvrability greatly. NAMICA can be used at night as well While NAMICA will be manned by 4 armymen, the co...

The Indian Express brings stories of the riflewomen posted near the Line of Control and monitoring a 10,200-ft-high Pass, learning to live with shelling, and excited about coming snow. In a first, the Indian Army has deployed a platoon of women soldiers near the Line of Control. (Express Photo by Shuaib Masoodi) The first time she heard an artillery shell drop in the valley below, Wanjen and her platoon members rushed to an underground bunker. Backs to the wall, hearts pounding, they did a quick headcount. “We did it several times after that. It is a different feeling each time — the anxiety, the adrenaline rush…,” she says. The 28-year-old senior Assam Rifles riflewoman, who, like her colleagues, doesn’t want her second name revealed, has six years of experience in Nagaland and Meghalaya. But this, she admits, is an entirely new battlefield — 10,200 feet above sea level, with the icy cold winds carrying the boom of artillery shells from down below. “That moment in the bunker is specia...

Representative Image   Saluting the brave Galwan valley martyrs, Times Network , India's premium broadcast network, releases a special documentary, 'Gallantry at Galwan — A Tale Of Valour' this Independence Day. Marking two months to the deadly Galwan clash which witnessed the heroic sacrifice of 20 brave soldiers, who valiantly fought the Chinese transgression into the Indian territory, the special documentary scheduled for telecast on August 15, at 1:00 pm on TIMES NOW, TIMES NOW WORLD and Mirror NOW brings forth the story of grit and raw courage of these soldiers. The 45-minute-long succinct account of factual events that took place in the intervening night of June 15-16 in the Galwan Valley of eastern Ladakh, the documentary analyses the bloodiest engagement between Indian and Chinese troops in 45 years and aims to inform the viewers about the history of ongoing border dispute between the countries and reflects on how tensions unfolded over the years. Acc...

For the first time in history, Indian Army has deployed female soldiers for internal security and combat duties near the line of control with Pakistan, reports TOI.    Zee News   The women platoon is from paramilitary force Assam Rifles and has been stationed in the Tangdhar sector of north Kashmir. These 30 woman soldiers are led by Captain Gursimran Kaur of the Army Service Corps (ASC), who is a third-generation military officer of her family. “Deployed at security checkpoints leading to the LoC, the women soldiers are also being used for crowd control and frisking of women because there are intelligence inputs of weapons and drugs being smuggled across,” TOI quoted the officer as saying. The Indian Army has been recruiting women in small numbers but only as officers till now. Women are also not a part of ‘fighting arms’ of infantry, armoured corps, mechanised infantry and artillery. Incredible! Indian Army Riflewomen deployed for the first time along Line of Control be...

Amid the ongoing dispute with China over boundary issue, the Indian Army is going to place another order of 72,000 Sig 716 assault rifles from the United States. Sig Sauer Assault Rifle The order for the second batch of the assault rifles would be coming after the first lot of 72,000 rifles, has already been delivered to the Army for use by troops in Northern Command and other operational areas. "We are going to place an order for 72,000 more of these rifles under the financial powers granted to the armed forces," Defence sources told ANI. The Indian Army had received the first lot of Sig Sauer assault rifles to boost its counter-terrorism operations. India had acquired the rifles under the fast-track procurement (FTP) programme. The new rifles will replace the existing Indian Small Arms System (INSAS) 5.56x45mm rifles used by the forces and manufactured locally by the Ordnance Factories Board. As per the plan, around 1.5 lakh imported rifles were to be used by the troops in ...

China is frustrated with India in Ladakh because a journey that used to take 16 to 18 days for the Indian Army to reach the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in 1962 takes just a day today. President of Ex-Services League Ladakh Region, Retired Subedar Major honorary Captain Sonam Murup while recalling his days in Ladakh Scouts Regiment of the Indian Army, told IANS that Indian defence is no longer what it used to be in 1962. Representative Image "There were deficiencies during the 1962 war and we lost our land, but now the Indian Army, Air Force and Navy are now fully trained, armed and equipped. But more than that, now we have roads, bridges and other infrastructure which we did not have earlier," the retired soldier said. Disapproving the "Hindi-Chini bhai bhai" (Indian-Chinese brothers) slogan, which was popular before the 1962 war, Murup said, "We will not say it anymore. Instead, all the soldiers will raise only ''Bharat Mata ki Jai'' (Mother I...

Three soldiers of the Indian Army have died and five terrorists killed on Sunday during an anti-infiltration operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said. Sources said four more soldiers have been injured during the operation to flush out infiltrators along the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector of the district, which was launched two days ago.  The army said the operation is still underway.  This joint operation is being conducted by 41 Rashtriya Rifles, 57 Rashtriya Rifles, 160 Territorial Army and Special Operations Group (SOG), Kupwara teams.  The army’s action took place on the fifth day of the search operation in which terrorists were being searched in the forests of Kupwara.  During this campaign, there was an encounter between the army and the terrorists in the Rangdori Bahk area in the forests near the Line of Control on Sunday morning. According to the report, helicopters were seen flying over the forests in search of terrorists. The...