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\nWhat is the news?<\/b><\/p>\n
The Ministry of Defence has launched several initiatives in the year 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n Missiles: <\/b>Brahmos<\/b><\/a>, <\/span>Tejas<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Astra<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Arjun Main Battle Tank<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Shakti<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Indigenous Aircraft Carrier(IAC) \u2018Vikrant\u2019<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>INS Visakhapatnam<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>\u00a0<\/b>INS Vela<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Supersonic Missile Assisted Torpedo(SMART)<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Agni-P<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Vertically Launched Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VL-SRSAM)<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Akash Prime<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Pinaka-ER<\/b><\/a>, <\/b><\/span>Abhyas<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Swarnim Vijay Varsh:<\/b> India celebrated the year-long Swarnim Vijay Varsh, marking Nation\u2019s victory over Pakistan in December 1971 War, which led to creation of Bangladesh.<\/span><\/p>\n Defence Industrial Corridors (DICs):<\/b>Government has set up defence industrial corridors in <\/span>Uttar Pradesh<\/b> and <\/span>Tamil Nadu<\/b>. These defence corridors will facilitate a well-planned and efficient industrial base that will lead to <\/span>increased defence production<\/b> in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n Women in Combat Role<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n National Cadet Corps(NCC)<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Sainik Schools<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Department of Military Affairs(DMA)<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Positive indigenisation list\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n SCG PS Zoroaster:<\/b> It is a Fast Patrol Vessel (FPV) built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE). India has gifted this to Seychelles Coast Guard.<\/span><\/p>\n UN peacekeeping operations<\/b>: The Indian Army currently has approximately 5,300 personnel deployed in eight United Nations (UN) Missions and is currently the third-largest troop contributor to the UN.<\/span><\/p>\n Ordnance Factory Board (OFB)<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Defence India Startup Challenge\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Army Battle Casualties Welfare Fund (ABCWF)\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Permanent Commission for Women<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n NAVDEX 21:<\/b> Indian Navy p<\/span>articipated in the <\/span>NAVDEX 21 (Naval Defence Exhibition)<\/b>.It is <\/span>organised by the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC),<\/b> in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense and the General Command of the UAE Armed Forces.<\/span><\/p>\n Exercise LAPEROUSE: <\/b>The Indian Navy<\/span> participated in the multilateral Ex-Laperouse in Bay of Bengal with French, Australian, Japan and US Navies. <\/span>The first edition of <\/span>La P\u00e9rouse<\/b> joint exercise, <\/span>initiated by France in 2019<\/b>, included ships from Australia, Japan and the US.<\/span><\/p>\n SAGAR<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Operation Sankalp<\/b><\/a> Operation Samudra Setu-II<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Cutlass Express<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Konkan<\/b><\/a> SIMBEX<\/b><\/a> Malabar<\/b><\/a> Konkan Shakti<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Scientific Expedition to Antarctica\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Clean India Programme<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR): <\/b>It has been developed and flight tested by DRDO. Success of SFDR propulsion technology is a significant milestone which paves the way for development of long-range air-to-air missiles in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n ATGMs Helina (Army Version) and Dhruvastra (Air Force Version): <\/b>Helina and Dhruvastra are third generation, Lock On Before Launch (LOBL) fire and forget Anti-Tank Guided Missiles that can engage targets both in direct hit mode as well as top attack mode. The system has all-weather day and night capability and can defeat battle tanks with conventional armour as well as with explosive reactive armour.<\/span><\/p>\n ICGS Ships: <\/b>Vigraha<\/b><\/a>, <\/b><\/span>Sarthak<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Advanced Chaff Technology<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Air-independent propulsion (AIP)<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u2018<\/b>Year End Review \u2013 2021 of Ministry of Defence<\/b>\u2019<\/b> published in <\/span>PIB <\/b>on<\/span> 21st January 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? The Ministry of Defence has launched several initiatives in the year 2021. Initiatives by MoD in 2021 Missiles: Brahmos, Tejas, Astra, Arjun Main Battle Tank, Shakti, Indigenous Aircraft Carrier(IAC) \u2018Vikrant\u2019, INS Visakhapatnam, \u00a0INS Vela, Supersonic Missile Assisted Torpedo(SMART), Agni-P, Vertically Launched Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VL-SRSAM), Akash Prime, Pinaka-ER,… Continue reading Year End Review \u2013 2021 of Ministry of Defence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-163538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704922471},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Initiatives by MoD in 2021
\n<\/b><\/h5>\nProject Himank<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n