by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 20, 2023 | Defence & Defence Technology
In the post-independence scenario, India had a very little national defence industry. Most of the military weapons and equipment were the ones, that had been manufactured by the British previously. After the Sino-Indian War in 1962, Indian government took up a...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 10, 2023 | Defence & Defence Technology
Indian Naval Ship (INS) Mormugao (Pennant D67), the second warship of the P15B, was commissioned into the Indian Navy by the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai on December 18, 2022. The warship ‘Yard 12705’, named after the Goan port city of...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 19, 2022 | Defence & Defence Technology
On September 2, 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned the first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier, Indian Naval Ship Vikrant (INS Vikrant), at the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), in Kochi. Largest Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) ever built in...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 6, 2022 | Defence & Defence Technology
In August 2022, the Indian Army inducted Autonomous Surveillance and Armed Drone Swarm (ASAD-S) drones into its mechanised forces to face security challenges with better preparedness. The Armoured Corps of the Indian Army has been undertaking modernisation programme...
by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 3, 2022 | Defence & Defence Technology
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on July 1, 2022, successfully carried out its first test flight of a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator, from the Aeronautical Test Range in Chitradurga, in...
by Team Spectrum Books | Apr 9, 2022 | Defence & Defence Technology
Context: The Indian Army, on March 25, 2022, issued a Request for Information (RFI) for the supply of 18 articulated all-terrain vehicles (AATVs) to be deployed in Ladakh and Kutch. Of them, 12 vehicles would be supplied to Nimu in Ladakh and six to Bhuj in Gujarat....
