Important
Events of
January, February & March 2015
Defence
[Jan – Mar, 2015]
TROPEX
Ø The
Indian Navy concluded its annual Theatre Level Readiness and Operational
Exercise (TROPEX).
Surya Kiran
Ø The
Eighth India-Nepal Battalion level Combined Military Training named Exercise
Surya Kiran-VIII, commenced at Integrated Army Training Centre, Saljhandi,
Nepal
Prithvi II
Ø India
successfully test-fired nuclear weapons capable, surface-to-surface Prithvi-II
missile from Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore district, Odisha
Ø The
missile was tested for a shortened range of 250 km as against its full range of
350 km. Launched
INSV Mhadei
Ø Indian
Navy Sailing Vessel Mhadei has sailed 1,00,000 nautical miles, a major feat for
a sail boat used for adventure and training.
Ø Special
ceremony was held in Goa to celebrate this
Ø Earlier,
Commander Dilip Donde became the first Indian to accomplish a solo
circumnavigation around the globe in a sail boat.
Ø He
set sail from Mumbai on August 19, 2009 and returned on May 19, 2010 with four
halts.
Ø Later,
in April 2013, Lt. Commander Abhilash Tomy completed the first unassisted,
non-stop, solo circumnavigation by an Indian in a sail boat.
BrahMos
Ø India
successfully test-fired a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from Indian Navy's
latest destroyer INS Kolkata.
Ø The
launch off the Goa coast was flawless as the missile met all its designed
parameters.
Ø BrahMos
is a missile with a range of 290 kilometers and can carry a conventional
warhead of up to 300 kilograms.
Ø It
has a top speed of Mach 2.8, which is three times faster than the US subsonic
Tomahawk cruise missile
Ø India
successfully test-fired indigenously developed canister-based inter-continental
ballistic missile (ICBM) Agni-5 from Wheeler's Island off Odisha coast.
Ø Agni-5
is a surface-to-surface nuclear capable missile.
Ø Agni-5
missile is a three stage solid propellant missile with strike range of over
5000 kilometer and capable of carrying nuclear warhead of over one tonne.
Ø It
is about 17 meters long, 2 meters wide and has a launch weight of around 50
tonnes.
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USA
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India
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Russia
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Saudi Arabia
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China
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China
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Germany
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UAE
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France
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Pakistan
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Astra
Ø Indigenously
developed Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile, Astra, was successfully
test fired
Ø Form
the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur in Odisha
Ø It
was test-fired aboard a Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft. The present test was a part
of the series of tests planned to test the missile’s subsystems like
propulsion, navigation and guidance and the smooth separation of the missile
from the aircraft, etc.
Ø Astra is India’s
first BVR air-to-air missile. The all-weather missile was indigenously designed
and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
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