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SP's MAI - Issue No. 22 | November 16-30, 2017

Issue Features

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  MILITARY / REPORT
  Regional challenges driving Indo-US relations
  By Dr Vivek Lall

  Both countries have discovered common ground and shared concerns, which have propelled them towards discarding old mistrusts and misconceptions, and adopting methods to establish renewed faith and confidence in each other

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  AEROSPACE / VIEWPOINT
  Politicising defence procurement
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  Through the procurement of 36 Rafale jets, the NDA government has fulfilled the mandate, at least partially, of restoring the operational potential of the combat fleet of the IAF.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Trump Twitter account shut down by employee on last day of work

  Company initially blamed human error for @realdonaldtrump account’s 11-minute outage but then revealed it was done by worker on final day in job. November 3, 2017 02.26 GMT A Twitter employee deactivated Donald Trump’s personal account on their last day of work, the company said on Thursday, likely meaning the action was deliberate.

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  CORPORATE
  IAI and Hankuk Carbon in agreement

  Israel Aerospace Industries and Hankuk Carbon from Korea signed an agreement for establishing a joint venture company in the Republic of Korea.

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  MILITARY / REPORT
  India-Italy to re-engage in defence
  By Ranjit Kumar

  The first Prime Ministerial visit from Italy in a decade was intended to mend the relations with an emerging Asian giant and a rising economic power, which is also set to be the biggest defence market in the coming years.

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  AEROSPACE / SHOW REPORT
  Big two share spoils, bell tolls for the A380
  By Bikram Vohra, Dubai

  They left the surly bonds of earth…and touched the face of god.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Ranji Trophy halted after mystery car breaches Palam's security

  Play during day three of the Ranji Trophy game between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh at the Palam Air Force Ground was halted because a car was driven into the middle of the pitch.

• CORPORATE
  General Atomics acquires assets of Surrey-US, LLC

  General Atomics announced on November 13, 2017, that it has acquired the majority of the assets of Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (Surrey-US), an Englewood, Colorado-based provider of innovative small satellite technologies, systems and services.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Different rifle for infantry and others?
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  Going by media reports, the Army is going in for equipping infantry soldiers with a world-class assault rifle, while non-infantry soldiers would get a cheaper, ‘less effective’, indigenous rifle.

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  AEROSPACE
  Defence Minister visits forward Army and Airforce bases in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh

  Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman visited the forward Army posts in Arunachal Pradesh and Air Force base in Eastern Assam on November 5, 2017.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Man enters Delhi airport using fake ticket to see wife off, held

  A man has been apprehended for entering the Delhi airport allegedly using a fake travel ticket to see his Moscow-bound wife off.

• CORPORATE
  GA-ASI signs MoU with Korean companies

  General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Huneed Technologies Co. Ltd. establishing potential areas of future collaboration.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Afghanistan via Chabahar - Strategic move
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  During the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Iran in May 2016, The trilateral engagement between India, Iran and Afghanistan was historic, expanding avenues of trade for India with Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and Russia...

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  AEROSPACE
  Air Chief inaugurates SWAC Commanders' Conference

  The Annual Commanders’ Conference of South Western Air Command (SWAC) was inaugurated by Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa on November 17, 2017, at Gandhinagar.

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  MILITARY / SPOTLIGHT
  4th JWGACTC meeting in India

  4th JWGACTC meeting in India The 4th meeting of the JWGACTC, constituted under the auspices of the Indo-US Defence Trade and Technology Initiative, was organised in India from October 29, to November 3, 2017.

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  AEROSPACE
  AOC-in-C Southern Air Command flies Tejas

  The induction and operationalisation of the indigenous fighter jet light combat aircraft Tejas received a major boost with Air Marshal R.K.S. Bhadauria, AOC-in-C of the Southern Air Command undertaking a solo flight for 30 minutes from HAL Airport, on November 14, 2017.

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  MILITARY
  Defence Minister receives sacred soil of two martyred soldiers of WWI

  Delegation of Garhwal Rifles Regimental Centre recently returned with the sacred soil from the resting place of two soldiers of 39 Garhwal Rifles.

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  AEROSPACE
  Award of President's Standard to 223 Squadron and 117 Helicopter Unit

  The President of India and the Supreme Commander of Indian Armed Forces, Ram Nath Kovind awarded the prestigious President’s Standard to 223 Squadron and 117 Helicopter Unit during a ceremonial parade held at Air Force Station Adampur on November 16, 2017.

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  MILITARY
  Indo-Bangladesh Exercise 'Sampriti 2017' comes to an end

  Closing ceremony for the seventh Indo-Bangladesh joint exercise Sampriti was held at Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School, Vairengte in Mizoram ton November 17, 2017.

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  MILITARY
  Navika Sagar Parikrama - INSV Tarini departs from Fremantle

  The Indian Naval Sailing Vessel (INSV) Tarini left Fremantle, Australia on November 5, 2017, for its onwards journey to Lyttleton, New Zealand.

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  MILITARY
  Lt General Bipin Puri is DG Armed Forces Medical Service

  Lt General Bipin Puri assumed the apex appointment of Director General Armed Forces Medical Service (DGAFMS) on November 1, 2017. An alumnus of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, the General Officer was commissioned in Indian Army (AMC) on March 30, 1979.

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  MILITARY
  INS Sarvekshak reaches Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

  In an initiative to bolster bilateral relations with friendly foreign countries and navies in the Indian Ocean region, INS Sarvekshak, a hydrographic survey ship of Southern Naval Command, arrived Dar-es-Salaam Tanzania on November 15, 2017...