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MOST IMPORTANT DEFENCE & SECURITY CURRENT AFFAIRS NOTES 2024
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Indian Air Force demonstration exercise Vayu-Shakti 2024 was held at the Pokhran Range near Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. This year’s Vayu-Shakti exercise featured joint operations with the Indian Army.
The 12th edition of biennial MILAN 2024 kickstarted in Visakhapatnam. India's largest multilateral naval exercise, MILAN, was first held in 1995 at the Andaman and Nicobar Command.
Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi assumed charge as Vice Chief of the Army Staff. Instagram
Indian Air Force demonstration exercise Vayu-Shakti 2024 was held at the Pokhran Range near Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. This year’s Vayu-Shakti exercise featured joint operations with the Indian Army.
Eight Indian navy veterans who had been in Qatari custody since August 30, 2022 were released on 11 Feb in Doha.
Senior NCC cadet, captain Ulfat Khan from Uri, J&K made history by becoming the first-ever female cadet selected as Parade Commander at this year's Republic Day.
The first edition of India-Saudi Arabia joint military exercise ‘SADA TANSEEQ’ commenced on January 29th in Rajasthan. The Indian contingent has 45 personnel from a Mechanised Infantry battalion.
Havildar Preeti Rajak, who won silver medal in women's team trap shooting event at Asian Games, has been promoted to become the first woman Subedar in the Indian Army. Image
For the first time, an all-women Armed Forces Medical Services contingent was headed by Major Srishti Khullar in the Republic Day 2024 parade.
Republic Day 2024: A first-ever all-women tri-service contingent marched down the Kartavya Path. The contingent was led by Captain Sandhya of Military Police.
India, UAE, and France conducted the “Desert Knight” exercise over the Arabian Sea. The IAF contingent included Sukhoi-30MKI, MiG-29 and Jaguar fighters.
The 60 Parachute Field Hospital in Uttar Pradesh, which provided medical aid during the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey & Syria in 2023, has been selected for Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-2024 (institutional category).
Indian Army has developed an indigenously developed “end-to-end secure mobile ecosystem” with instant connectivity on the move. Which has been named 'SAMBHAV' (Secure Army Mobile Bharat Version).
The first bilateral maritime exercise ‘Ayutthaya’ was conducted between the Indian Navy and the Royal Thai Navy (Thailand). Indigenously built Indian Navy ships Kulish and IN LCU 56 participated in this naval exercise.
Indian Navy ships Cheetah, Guldar and Kumbhir have been decommissioned after 4 decades of service. Cheetah, Guldar and Kumbhir were built at the Gdynia Shipyard in Poland. These ships were inducted into the Indian Navy in 1984, 1985 and 1986 respectively.
DRDO conducted a successful flight-test of the New Generation AKASH (AKASH-NG) missile. It is surface-to-air new generation missile that can strike targets up to 40 km.
Adani Defence and Aerospace unveiled its indigenously manufactured Drishti 10 Starliner Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Indian Navy. Drishti 10 Starliner has 36 hours endurance, 450 kg payload capacity, & only all-weather military platform with STANAG 4671 certification.
A C-130J 'Super Hercules' aircraft of the IAF, with a detachment of Garud commandos, carried out a night landing at the high-altitude Kargil airfield near the LoC with Pakistan.
Lucknow will host the 76th Army Day parade at the 11 Gorkha Rifles Regimental Centre in Lucknow Cantonment on January 15. This will be only the 2nd time since Independence that Army Day celebrations are held outside Delhi. In 2023, for the first time the parade was held outside of Delhi in Bengaluru.
Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi assumed charge as Vice Chief of the Navy.
The first Joint Military Exercise 'Desert Cyclone 2024' between India and UAE began in Mahajan, Rajasthan. The first-ever India-UAE Joint Air Forces exercise took place in September 2008.
The Indian Navy unveiled the new design of epaulets that officers will wear, drawing inspiration from Rajmudra of Chhatrapati Shivaji. The current design has been released for the rank of Admiral, Vice Admiral and Rear Admiral. Image here
Qatar Court Reduces Death Sentence Handed to 8 Retired Indian Navy Officers Charged With Spying.
The 8th Naval Chiefs Conference was held in Bangkok under the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium. This symposium will be hosted by India in the year 2025.
The Indian Navy commissioned its newest domestically constructed stealth-guided missile destroyer, INS Imphal. INS Imphal holds the distinction of being the first warship named after a city in the Northeastern region.
INS Tarmugli, a Fast Attack Craft has been commissioned into the Navy. The first Follow-on Water Jet Fast Attack Craft (WJFAC), is an improved version of WJFAC, earlier constructed by GRSE.
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd delivered the largest-ever survey vessel built in the country, INS Sandhayak, to the Indian Navy. The 110-meter-long INS Sandhayak is the reincarnation of a survey vessel commissioned in 1981.
Captain Geetika Koul has become the first woman medical officer in the Indian Army to be deployed at Siachen, the world’s highest battlefield.
Navy Day, which commemorates the daring attack by the Indian Navy on Karachi harbor during the 1971 war, was celebrated on 4 Dec at INS Shivaji, the premier marine engineering training institute of the Indian Navy located at Lonavala.
Commander Prerna Deosthalee will be the first woman officer of the Indian Navy to command an Indian Naval Warship. Commander Prerna Deosthale is presently the First Lieutenant of warship INS Chennai.
The Indian Air Force inducted women in its non-officer cadre for the first time as 153 Agniveervayu (women) passed out from the Airmen Training School Belagavi, Karnataka.
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Squadron Leader Manisha Padhi has been appointed as India's first woman Aide-De-Camp (ADC) to the Governor of Mizoram from the Indian Armed Forces. An Aide-De-Camp is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, including head of state.
President Droupadi Murmu will confer the prestigious 'President's Colour' to the Armed Forces Medical College. President's Colour, aka 'Rashtrapati ka Nishaan', is the highest honour that can be bestowed upon a military unit. AFMC was established in 1948.
The Indian Army, comprising 81 personnel of Gorkha Rifles, departed for Australia to take part in the 2nd edition of Joint Military Exercise AUSTRAHIND-23. It was instituted in 2022, and the 1st edition was conducted in Mahajan, Rajasthan.
The 17th edition of Joint Military Exercise SURYA KIRAN is being conducted in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand. It is a joint military exercise between the Indian army and the Nepali army. The Indian army will be led by a battalion from the Kumaon Regiment.
India and the US on 21 Nov 2023 kicked off the `Vajra Prahar’ combat exercise between their elite Special Forces in Meghalaya. The Indian team is led by Para (Special Forces) commandos from the Eastern Army Command.
Joint military exercise involving the Indian Army, the Indian Navy, and the Indian Air Force began near the western border of Rajasthan in Jaisalmer.
Russia signed a contract to supply Igla-S hand-held anti-aircraft missiles to India and has allowed the production of the Igla under license. It is known in the West as SA-24 Grinch. It has an effective range upto 6 km.
The 9th edition of a joint military exercise, MITRA SHAKTI, between India and Sri Lanka commenced in Pune. The Indian contingent of 120 personnel is being represented mainly by troops from the Maratha Light Infantry Regiment.
The Surya Kiran aerobatic team of the Indian Air Force will perform an air show ahead of the final match of the Cricket World Cup to be played in Gujarat on November 19.
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh visited the Indonesian capital Jakarta to attend the 10th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus). The first ADMM-Plus was convened at Hanoi, Vietnam in 2010.
India successfully test-fired its surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) 'Pralay'. Developed by DRDO, 'Pralay' is a short-range missile with a range of 350-500 km, with a payload of 500-1,000 kg.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a proposal to grant maternity, child care and child adoption leave to women soldiers, sailors and air warriors on par with their officer counterparts.
India & the European Union (EU) carried out their maiden naval exercise in the Gulf of Guinea off the west African coast. During the exercise, INS Sumedha, an offshore patrol vessel, was joined by three EU member states’ ships.
Joint bilateral training exercise “Exercise Harimau Shakti 2023”, between Indian & Malaysian Army commenced in Umroi Cantonment, Meghalaya. The Indian contingent is being represented by a Battalion of THE RAJPUT REGIMENT.
Sadhna Saxena Nair becomes second woman Air Marshal. She took charge as the Director General Hospital Services (Armed Forces), becoming the first woman officer to hold the prestigious post.
Agniveer Gawate Akshay Laxman, a soldier under the Agnipath scheme, died in Siachen Glacier due to medical complications. He is the first casualty since the recruitment scheme began. Unlike regular soldiers, Laxman's family will not receive family pension or ex-servicemen benefits.
Indian Navy has successfully recovered the ISRO Gaganyaan Crew Capsule from Bay of Bengal after the Successful test of In-flight Crew abort test under Gaganyaan Mission.
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited has delivered the third stealth destroyer of Project 15B Class guided missile destroyer, 'Imphal', to the Indian Navy. This warship is the first to have accommodation for women officers & sailors. It is armed with supersonic 'Brahmos' and 'Barak-8' missiles, as well as anti-submarine weapons and sensors.
Govt signed ₹313cr contract with Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) for the mid-life upgrade and re-powering of Indian Navy’s frigate INS Beas. INS Beas is the first of Brahmaputra Class Frigate to be re-powered from steam to diesel propulsion.
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