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  • J-K: 2 Indian Army personnel killed, 4 injured in Rajouri encounter

    J-K: 2 Indian Army personnel killed, 4 injured in Rajouri encounter

    RAJOURI: Two Army personnel were killed and four others were injured in a blast triggered by terrorists during an anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri on Friday, officials said.

    “The terrorists triggered an explosive device in retaliation. The Army team has suffered two fatal casualties with injuries to four more soldiers including an officer,” a statement by Northern Command said. Additional teams from the vicinity have been directed to the site of the encounter. The injured personnel have been evacuated to Command Hospital, Udhampur, it further stated.

    Indian Army is conducting relentless intelligence-based operations to flush out a group of terrorists involved in an ambush on an army truck in the Tota Gali area of Bhata Dhurian in the Jammu region, officials stated.

    “On specific information about the presence of terrorists in the Kandi Forest in the Rajouri Sector, a joint operation was launched on May 3, 2023. At about 7:30 am on May 5, 2023, a search team established contact with a group of terrorists well entrenched in a cave. The area is thickly vegetated with rocky and steep cliffs,” the official release stated. As per initial reports, a group of terrorists are trapped in the area. There is a likelihood of casualties in a terrorist group.

    The operation is underway. Further details are being ascertained, officials said. Earlier in the day, an encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in the Kandi area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri.

  • Indian Army Chief Gen Conveys Best Wishes On Tank Regiment’s 85th Armour Day

    Indian Army Chief Gen Conveys Best Wishes On Tank Regiment’s 85th Armour Day

    Indian Army’s Armoured Corps is celebrating its 85th Armour Day, today, May 1. Chief of army staff General Manoj Pande and all ranks of the Indian army wished the Armoured regiment on its raising day. Armoured Corps is said to be one of the best regiments of the Indian army and every year on May 1 the regiment celebrates its raising day.

    On this day in 1938, the Scindi horse became the first regiment to shed their horses to be equipped with modern weaponry like tanks. It is one of the combat regiments of the Indian Army. This regiment has participated in many battles that India has fought and had a major role to play to ensure India’s victory against Pakistan in the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war.

    General Manoj Pande #COAS and All Ranks of #IndianArmy convey best wishes to All Ranks, Veterans & Families of Armoured Corps on the occasion of 85th #ArmourDay. #IndianArmy #OnPathToTransformation pic.twitter.com/igsccgSW60

    — ADG PI – INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) May 1, 2023
    About Indian Army’s Armoured Corps
    The regiment first originated in 1776. The present corps was formed in the year 1947 i.e. after independence from two-thirds of the assets and personnel of the British Indian Army’s India’s Armoured Corps. It currently consists of 67 armoured regiments. Officers and soldiers who serve as the president’s bodyguard are also chosen from this prestigious regiment of the Indian Army.

    Ahmednagar, Maharashtra is home to the Armoured Corps school. Six armoured companies arrived in the year 1921, and the Royal Tank Corps was founded at Ahmednagar in the following year to train the Royal Tank Corps’ members. The institution served as the precursor to the fighting vehicle school, which started teaching driving and maintenance skills. The current school and facility were created in 1948 by combining the fighting vehicle school, the machine gun school, the training regiments, the recruit training centre, the Armoured Corps Depot, and the Armoured Corps Records.

  • Indian Army Plans Millet Fest In Jammu And Kashmir To Raise Awareness About Crops Among All Ranks

    Indian Army Plans Millet Fest In Jammu And Kashmir To Raise Awareness About Crops Among All Ranks

    As part of its initiative to raise awareness among all ranks and families about benefits of millets in diet, the Northern Command of the Indian Army is mulling to organize a mega ‘Station Millet Festival’ in Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesman said on Sunday.

    The festival will be organized in near future as a culmination of an awareness campaign started by the command with the holding of a workshop at the northern command headquarters in Udhampur on Sunday, the spokesman said. He said the awareness workshop on ‘Mission Millets’ was conducted in collaboration with the Jammu University and was presided by Chief of Staff, Headquarters Northern Command, Lt Gen Anindya Sengupta.

    The Northern Command is also planning various other events as part of ‘Mission Millet’ campaign to include essay, quiz and slogan competition at school level and cooking competition at unit level. The spokesman said millets are not just a nutritious grain, but also a reminder of the “rich agricultural heritage of India” .

    “To harness the untapped potential of millets for food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture, the year 2023 has been declared as ‘International Year of Millets’. The Northern Command has undertaken a noble initiative to raise awareness among all ranks and families highlighting benefits of including millets in diet,” he said.

  • Solar Industries Nagpur beats competitors from Israel and Poland to supply UAV ‘Nagastra’ to Indian Army

    Solar Industries Nagpur beats competitors from Israel and Poland to supply UAV ‘Nagastra’ to Indian Army

    Solar Industries Nagpur on Friday said it has bagged an order to supply unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ‘Nagastra’ to the Indian Army, beating competitors from Israel and Poland. A Solar Industries official said with government’s initiative to bring Atmanirbharta in ammunition and defence systems, the first indigenous Loiter Munition (LM), Nagastra–1, has been designed and developed by Economics Explosives Ltd (EEL), a 100 per cent subsidiary of Solar Industries Nagpur, in association with Z-Motion, Bangalore.

    A model of ‘Nagastra -1’ loitering munition was recently displayed in the Army Commanders conference held in New Delhi. The company said that Nagastra -1 having an indigenous content of more than 75 per cent has many world class features. It said that in a ‘Kamikaze mode’ it can neutralise any hostile threat with GPS enabled precision strike with an accuracy of 2 m. The fixed wing electric UAV has an endurance of 60 min with a man-in-loop range of 15 km and autonomous mode range of 30 km.

    In addition to day-night surveillance cameras the loiter munition is equipped with fragmenting warhead to defeat soft-skin targets. In case a target is not detected or if the mission is aborted, the loiter munition can be called back and made a soft landing with a parachute recovery mechanism enabling it to be reused multiple times.

    It further said that abort, recover and reuse features of this loiter munition make this system superior to similar class of systems developed by advanced countries. Drone technology has proved to be a force multiplier in military operations as evident from its application in various recent conflicts across the world, especially in cases of Armenia-Azerbaijan, Syria, strike on oilfields in Saudi Arabia, and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

    “Even in our context, the recent incidents along the borders have seen a noticeable increase in drone related incidents along the northern borders. “Solar Industries have taken initiatives to develop a wide array of weaponised drones to neutralise various targets using gravity drop bombs, guided missiles or using them in a Kamikaze mode. This will go a long way to boost indigenous capability of using drones/ UAVs as war machinery,” company official said.