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Fact Sheet: Sea Dragon 23
The Sea Dragon 23 exercise is a biennial coordinated multilateral anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercise for long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft. The exercise is hosted by the United States Navy, and it involves the participation of other friendly navies from Japan, Canada, ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2023
Category: Defence Current Affairs
What is INS Vikrant?
The INS Vikrant is an aircraft carrier currently in use by the Indian Navy. It is the first carrier to be built indigenously, having been constructed by the Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kerala. The vessel is named after India’s inaugural ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2023
Category: Defence Current Affairs
What is YDB-60?
The Indian Navy has received the first fully indigenized fuze YDB-60 for the underwater anti-submarine warfare rocket RGB-60. The fuze was manufactured by the private Indian Industry M/s Economic Explosives Limited (EEL) which is based in Nagpur. Significance of the ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2023
Category: Defence Current Affairs
Gaganyaan Mission: ISRO, Navy undertake trials
The Gaganyaan is a crewed space mission of ISRO. It is expected to be launched in 2024. Indian astronauts received their training from Russia’s ROSCOSMOS to fly to space in the mission. HAL designed and built the crew module. DRDO ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2023
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Indian Navy Launches INS Arnala
The Indian Navy launched the indigenously-built ship INS Arnala at the shipbuilding facility of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in Chennai’s Kattupalli. What is ‘Arnala’? Arnala is the first of the 8 anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft (ASW-SWC) that are currently ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2022
Category: Defence Current Affairs
INS Mormugao
INS Mormugao is set to be commissioned by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on the eve of the Goa Liberation Day 2022. What is INS Mormugao? INS Mormugao is the second ship of the Visakhapatnam-class stealth guided missile destroyers of ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2022
Category: Defence Current Affairs