SP's MAI Issue No. 2 | January 16-31, 2014 - Military Updates
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MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
Military camouflage towards invisibility
By Lt General (Retd) P.C. KatochThough multiple options are available in military camouflage, costs and other considerations like time and effort needed for implementation are factors that dictate the degree of camouflage that a military may adopt.
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MILITARY / REPORT
Army Chief dispels notion that India has defence capability gap with China
By Staff CorrespondentThe Indian Army Chief General Bikram Singh has emphatically stated...
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MILITARY
Fast patrol vessel ICGS Abhinav commissionedThe Indian Coast Guard Ship Abhinav, the third in the series of 20 fast patrol vessels (FPVs), designed and built by the Cochin Shipyard Limited, was commissioned on January 16 at Kochi...
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MILITARY
India and Japan hold defence talksThe Defence Minister of Japan, Itsunori Onodera, who visited India from January 5-8, 2014, as a follow-up to the India-Japan Defence Ministerial meeting held in November 2011...
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MILITARY
India keen on peace in the Indian Ocean Region: PresidentThe President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, held discussions with Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, the President of Maldives, and hosted a banquet in his honour recently at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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MILITARY
Successful Prithvi launchA missile unit of the elite Strategic Forces Command (SFC) recently launched a Prithvi missile from the test range at Chandipur, off the Odisha coast as part of a scenario based live launch training exercise.
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MILITARY
Harris Corporation bags orders for Falcon radios from NATO countryHarris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has received $21 million in orders...
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MILITARY
Damen cuts steel for first indonesian frigateIn June 2012, the Ministry of Defence of Indonesia and Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) signed the contract for the first SIGMA 10514 PKR Frigate.