What’s in the news? In a bid to make rail travel safer, the Ministry of Railways has introduced an indigenously developed train collision avoidance system called Kavach, which automatically brings a train to a halt when it detects an obstacle …
Why in News: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is aiming to carry out a landing experiment (LEX), a critical component of the Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstration (RLV-TD) programme About the experiment RLV-LEX involves taking an unmanned, winged prototype to …
What’s in News: The Defence Minister unveiled the second edition of the ‘Mehar Baba’ swarm drone competition by the Indian Air Force (IAF) for Indian start-ups to develop a swarm drone based system to detect foreign objects on aircraft operating …
Why in News: With space junk posing an increasing threat to Indian assets in space, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is building up its orbital debris tracking capability by deploying new radars and optical telescopes under the Network for …
Why in the news? Recently, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by the Defence Minister cleared the Approval for procurement of a GSAT 7B satellite, along with equipment like Night Sight (image intensifier), 4X4 light vehicles, and Air Defence Fire …
Why in News: A corner-shot weapon system (CSWS) designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is at an advanced stage of being inducted by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Jammu and Kashmir police. …
Why in News: Given its successive abstentions during votes on Ukraine in the UN Security Council and elsewhere, India has attracted criticism citing “realpolitik” by critics. Russia provides 60-70 percent of India’s military weaponry. Any disruption in supplies might have …
What are hypersonic weapons They are manoeuvrable weapons that can fly at speeds of at least Mach 5, five times the speed of sound. The speed of sound is Mach 1, and speeds above Mach I are supersonic and speeds …
About the Mission Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018, Gaganyaan is the first Indian Human Space Flight Programme (HSP) with the objective to demonstrate the capability to send humans to low earth orbit on board an Indian launch …