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  • 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.

  • Poland To Keep Helping Ukraine Fight Off Russia: Polish President To Zelenskyy

    Poland To Keep Helping Ukraine Fight Off Russia: Polish President To Zelenskyy

    Poland has emerged as one of Ukraine’s most ardent supporters during Russia’s invasion despite historical grievances between the neighbouring nations that stir up bad feelings to this day.

    The tensions between the country at war and its staunch ally were acknowledged Wednesday when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a state visit to Poland, where President Andrzej Duda received him with honours.

    Duda promised that Poland would keep helping Ukraine fight off Russia’s aggression, but he also acknowledged at a joint news conference with Zelesnkyy that the relationship was complicated.

    ”There are still open wounds in the memory of many people,” Duda said, an obvious reference to the massacres of some 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during the 1940s. Poland considers the killings genocide.

    The difficult part in Poland-Ukraine relations goes back even further than that. In a part of Europe where entire nations have disappeared from maps for generations before returning from the ashes of collapsed empires, sometimes at the expense of neighbors, Poles and Ukrainians share a history of the existential rivalry.

  • US Army Sets Up First Permanent Garrison In Poland Amid Russia-Ukraine War

    US Army Sets Up First Permanent Garrison In Poland Amid Russia-Ukraine War

    The first permanent garrison has been set up by US Army in Poland, as per TASS news agency. The announcement has been made by Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak on Tuesday at a ceremony at Camp Kosciuszko in the city of Poznan. Notably, the announcement comes amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. “The garrison in Poznan is active as of today,” Blaszczak said. Further, he added that the country has been pushing for a permanent presence of US troops for years. The US Land Forces V Corps command has been operating from Camp Kosciuszko since 2020, reported TASS news agency.

    “Its main task is to coordinate activities and supervise US land forces in Europe and cooperation and synchronization of American forces with NATO troops,” said the Polish Defense Ministry in a statement.

    Taking to Twitter, US Embassy in Warsaw wrote: “Today was the official appointment of the U.S. Army Garrison Poland, which will be the first permanent US Army garrison in. In his speech, Ambassador Brzezinski emphasized that the USA is committed to Poland and the NATO alliance and that we are united in the face of Russian aggression.”

    In a separate tweet, the US Embassy in Warsaw wrote: “‘Camp Kościuszko’ is a milestone in defense co-operation – the first ever Garrison of the US Armed Forces permanently stationed in Poland was named in honor of the hero of both nations, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and its role will be i.a. management of advanced military outposts in Poland.”