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Army aviation unit heads to Congo

New Delhi: An Indian Army aviation unit, comprising six light helicopters and 70 personnel, will leave Wednesday for a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Congo’s restive Kivu province.

Ahead of their departure, the team was flagged off here Tuesday. The contingent, led by Colonel Shantanu Kashyap, will stay in the Congo for one year.

The Indian Army aviation contingent, with its Chetak and Cheetah helicopters, will provide air support to the UN peacekeepers, including border and field surveillance, observation and reconnaissance, medical transport and search and rescue flights.

The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo came into effect on September 3, 1999.

Army aviation unit heads to Congo | StratPost

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Army chief visiting Mongolia

New Delhi: Seeking to expand India’s defense ties with Mongolia, army chief General Vijay Kumar Singh Tuesday left for Ulan Bator on a three-day visit, during which he will interact with the security and political top brass of the Central Asian country.

Singh, who will have a brief stop over in Chinese capital Beijing before proceeding towards Ulan Bator, will be the first Indian Army chief after General N.C. Vij to visit the Mongolian capital.

“The visit is taking place after a gap of seven years and is aimed at strengthening bilateral relations and defense cooperation,” an army release said here.

President Prathiba Patil visited Mongolia in July, when a number of important issues were addressed.

“The current visit by the army chief highlights India’s desire to build trust, further people to people contact and defense cooperation. It will have a high military symbolism of solidarity with Mongolia, as it celebrates a hundred years of Mongolian liberation and ninety years of formation of the Mongolian armed forces,” the release said.

During the visit, General Singh will be interacting with Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj and Mongolian armed forces’ Chief of General Staff Byambajav Tserendejid, and will be attending the centenary celebrations of Mongolia’s liberation.

India and Mongolia already have an established military training cooperation which includes the conduct of joint exercises and training of Mongolian armed forces in Indian military establishments.

India has also provided other forms of assistance, like non-lethal military equipment for the Mongolian armed forces in UN assignments.
 
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^^^ interesting to see that RR's RFI for optical rights for their AKs has started to come to fruition.
 
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army during operation in sikkim

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IA rescue ops
Check out 0.38- IA rescuers fast-roping into help.

Bravo! Whenever, wherever- always on-call.
 
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^^ Heartening to see IA in action in relief missions. Really proud of them ! :tup:

PS: Dhruv and C-130 being used for the first time in operations by IAF / IA.
 
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Some excellent photos....

A woman along with her child, rescued by the Army alights from an Indian Army chopper at the Mangan helipad. :):tup: Dhruv.
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An Army contingent taking notes from the villagers at Manul village to reach the remote villages of North Sikkim, the epicentre of the earthquake.
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Offtopic: Guys, did anyone talked to Tsherring? I hope he and his family is safe.
 
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Lenta.ru:

India will create a solar-powered UAV

Organization of Defence Research and Development (DRDO) of India intends to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle with electric motors, which would be powered by solar panels, according to Flightglobal. It is planned that the new device will be able to stay aloft for at least a month.

The new UAV will be used for long-range reconnaissance. The unit to be equipped with data acquisition and transmission of information in real time. At the same channels, which will be sent all the information, including the reverse control channel will be encrypted for security drone from cracking. More information about the new device is not yet known.

Meanwhile, laboratory GTRE, controlled by the DRDO, which develops Kaveri jet engine for a fighter Tejas, today announced that this power plant and is suitable for installation on a UAV. Such devices are powered by jet is designed in India. Presumably, they will serve not only to intelligence tasks, but also be able to put the bomb and missile strikes on enemy targets.

India is currently engaged in developing several types of UAVs, Brigadier, army and tactical level. The devices are created to perform several types of tasks, including intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, precision strikes and application of relaying radio signals. Some of the units have already entered service or will be sent to troops in the near future. In particular, in February 2011, the Army of India adopted the first four UAV Nishant.
 
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