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SP's MAI Defexpo 2018 Special - Military Updates

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  MILITARY / REPORT
  20 Years of Indo-French partnership
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  During President Macron’s visit, India and France inked 14 key agreements in strategic areas of security, nuclear energy, and protection of classified information, while companies from both countries signed contracts worth $16 billion

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  MILITARY / REPORT
  Can India afford to ‘chill-out’ about China?
  By Arpita Kala

  With a trade corridor that flouts India’s sovereignty in full swing and wounds of Doklam still fresh, former Army Chief General V.P. Malik and former Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major interpret the Sino advances on Indo turf

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  MILITARY / SPOTLIGHT
  Admiral Sunil Lanba, Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of the Naval Staff visits USA

  Admiral Sunil Lanba, Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of the Naval Staff visited USA on a bilateral visit from March 19 to 23, 2018. The visit aimed to consolidate cooperation between the Armed Forces of both India and USA and also to explore new avenues of defence cooperation.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  The Chinese challenge
  By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  Post being anointed President for life, Xi Jinping told 3,000 legislators of the Chinese Parliament on March 20, 2018, “The Chinese people have been indomitable and persistent.

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  Defence Minister urges defence PSUs & ordnance factories to be more dynamic
  By Special Correspondent

  Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, has underlined the need for revitalising defence PSUs and ordnance factories for meeting the ammunition needs of India’s defence forces.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  After the confrontation in Doklam
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  Despite the humiliating defeat in 1962 of the Indian Army at the hands of the People’s Liberation Army, the focus thereafter of not only the Indian Army but also of the Indian Air Force (IAF), remained concentrated on the Indo-Pakistan border.

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  Coming - Chinese robot tanks
  By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  In October 2017, media reports confirmed the government seven-point strategy as prelude to India’s strategic plan for using AI (artificial intelligence), covering issues like developing methods for human machine interactions...

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  MILITARY / UPDATES
  Defence Minister initiates development of Tamil Nadu defence corridor at defence industry meet

  Under the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s larger vision of pushing ‘Make in India’, the Ministry of Defence has taken multiple measures to promote indigenisation in the defence industry.

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  MILITARY / UPDATES
  Dr Subhash Bhamre inaugurates new building Of NIDEM

  Minister of State for Defence Dr Subhash Bhamre recently inaugurated the new building of National Institute of Defence Estates Management (NIDEM) in Delhi.

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  MILITARY / UPDATES
  Just a crore of FDI in defence
  By Rohit Srivastava

  At a time when India is making efforts to reduce its defence import bill and develop defence manufacturing through ‘Make in India’ initiative, the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) figures shared by the government shows little interest of the world in Indian defence sector.

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  MILITARY / UPDATES
  Rear Admiral Puneet Chadha, VSM assumes office as the Deputy Commandant, Indian Naval Academy

  Rear Admiral Puneet Chadha, VSM took over charge as the Deputy Commandant of Indian Naval Academy (INA), Ezhimala, on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.

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  MILITARY / UPDATES
  Successful test firing of Brahmos with indigenous seeker

  BrahMos, the formidable supersonic cruise missile with indigenous seeker was successfully flight tested at 0842 hrs on March 22 at the Pokhran test range in Rajasthan.