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Iron Dome of Israel
Recently, Israel and Palestine engaged in air strikes. It all began with Israeli Police installing a barricade at the Damascus Gate. Later the tensions escalated due to the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Israeli police. To this, the Hamas group from Gaza retaliated with rockets. These rockets were intercepted by Israeli Iron Dome. It ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021
Category: Defence Current Affairs • International Current Affairs
Topics: Air Defence Systems • Damascus • Gaza Strip • iron dome • israel • Israel-Palestine • Missiles
QRSAM: successfully test-fired by DRDO
Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted two back-to-back flight tests of its state of the art Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missiles (QRSAM) from Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur in Odisha. The test was conducted against live aerial targets. Key Highlights of Test Two missiles were tested against two live targets and met complete mission objectives ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2019
Category: Defence Current Affairs
Topics: Air Defence Systems • Chandipur • Defence Research and Development Organisation • Indian Army • Inertial navigation system • Integrated Test Range (ITR) • Missile Test • Odisha • QRSAM • Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air missiles
NASAMS-II: India plans to procure advanced air defence system from US
India is in talks with United States to procure National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System-II (NASAMS-II), an advanced air defence system at $1 billion to defend National Capital Region (NCR) from aerial attacks. The proposal is in Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) stage now which was approved by Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2018
Category: Defence Current Affairs
Topics: Air Defence Systems • Defence Acquisition council • India-US • NASAMS-II • Nirmala Sitharaman
Russia, India ink defence deal on S-400 Air Defence Systems
India has signed a defence deal worth nearly Rs 39,000 crore with Russia to purchase five state of art S-400 ‘Triumf’ air defence systems. Besides, India also announced to collaborate in making four stealth frigates and setting up a joint production facility for making Kamov helicopters under Make in India. In this regard, inter-governmental agreements ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2016
Topics: Air Defence Systems • Defence • India-Russia • National • S-400