Major achievements of Indian Defence Sector in last few years.

Hello readers,  Here I'm going to discuss about " Major achievements of Indian Defence sector in last few years." I hope you will enjoy this blog and may be you will get to know new things about the Indian Defence Sector. 

#01. 3 female IAF officers have become fighter pilots , india joins an elite club of nations with woman fighter pilots. In Mig 21 bison and Hawk Aircraft in June 2016.

#02. The Govt. approved the construction of a National War Memorial and a National War Museum. 7 Oct. 2015.

#03. A 16 member NCC cadets team consisting of 11 woman scaled the Mt. Everest in may 2016.16% increase in the number of Female cadetsì amounting to Rs. 3,578 crore have been disbursed to 18,59,083 pensioners so far February 2016.

#4. A long standing demand of ONE RANK ONE PENSION fulfilled. Pension and arrears amounting to Rs. 3,578 crore have been disbursed to 18,59,083 pensioners so far February 2016.

#05. Akash Missile System, India's 1st indigenously built surface to air Defence system inducted into the Army and the Air Force, 5 may 2015

#06. Bramhos Integrated with Sukhoi Su 30 and tested successfully. This integration significantly increases the strike and precision attack capabilities of Su 30.

#07. Rs. 5000 crore contract for 145M777 Howitzers Artillery deal Singned with the US. 25 Artillery guns wiil come to India in working condition. And remain Artillery guns were made in india with Mahindra Defence.

#08. India singned Rafale deal with France ( Dassault Aviation ) in September 2016 for 36 RAFAEL aircraft cost of $7.87 billion. First 5 RAFAEL aircraft arrived in india on 29 July 2020 and inducted in IAF on 10 September 2020.

#09. India had singned Helicopter deal with Boeing company of the US for Apache and Chinook helicopters at cost of $3 billion. 22 Apache Helicopter for the Army and 15 Chinook Helicopter for the Indian Air Force. On 27 July 2019 and 10 Feb. 2019 Apache and Chinook arrived in india respectively.

#10. On 1 Jan. 2020 Former Chief Of Army Staff Gen. Bipin Rawat took charge as the India's first Chief Of Defence Staff ( CDS ).

#11. Sub Lt. Shivangi became Navy's first woman pilot, 23 Nov 2017.

#12. On 3 Sep. 2017 Nirmala Sitaraman became Full Time Woman Defence Minister.

#13. On 2 Nov. 2017 India's first light weight guided bomb, GLIDE BOMB tested successfully.

#14. India's first indigenous fighter aircraft Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas completed all test sorties successfully without any single crash casualty.

#15. HAL has designed and developed HTT 40 ( a basic trainer aircraft ), and its trials flight were completed successfully. With 85 % indigenisation , HTT 40 would be meet the requirements of the Air Force, but also Carries promising export potential.

Author - Prasad N. Kumbhar 

            

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