A navy team, led by Everest summiteer Satyabrata Dam, will go to the North Pole in 2008.
Dam was present in the city on Saturday to narrate his experience on the navy's successful expedition to the South Pole and Greenland. Organised by the Himalayan Club, Calcutta, Dam presented his topic, ‘Journey to the end of the world Arctic and Antarctica', before an audience at the Rotary Sadan.
BY : IANS An Indian American Army pilot is breaking new ground by becoming the first Hindu to be deployed in Iraq for combat operation.
Parag Desai, a resident of Minnesota, is a US Army reserve pilot going to serve in Iraq for the next one year.
On Sunday, around 300 Hindu community members came together to give a warm send-off to Desai. They were proud that he was doing his duty as an American and as a Hindu.
CHINA'S army helicopter forces yesterday flew to Russia for a joint anti-terrorism drill run by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Sixteen helicopters took off from northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for a 2,700-kilometer flight to the drill venue, said Major General Ma Xiangsheng, one of the top Chinese officers in charge of the drill.
India is on the threshold of joining a select band of advanced countries by putting into orbit a dedicated military satellite.
The military-specific reconnaissance satellite CARTOSAT-2A will be launched on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) by the end of this year, ISRO officials said.
The satellite will give India the capability to keep tabs on missile launches in its neighbourhood.
Vice Admiral S K Damle took over as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command from Vice Admiral J S Bedi at a ceremonial parade held at the naval base here today.
The Admiral, who was received by Vice Admiral J S Bedi, inspected a 50-men Guard of Honour with President's Colours and the 18 platoons on parade, commanded by Cdr Atul Nag.
Islamabad, with its neatly laid out streets and installations, is famously said to be 15 minutes from Pakistan. But after Pak troops first stormed the Lal Masjid on July 10 to flush out terrorists, the loudest effects are being heard and felt on the unruly border with Afghanistan. And no one’s facing the heat as much as the Pakistan Army.
more than 70 of its soldiers have been killed in suicide bombings and ambushes in just a fortnight after the Lal Masjid operation. In fact, according to estimates by the United States and independent terror monitors, over 600 soldiers have died fighting militancy since Islamabad joined the US led “war on terror” along the Afghan border.
Pakistan's cruise missiles that can hit hundreds of miles inside India prompted New Delhi to accept an Israeli plan to develop a cruise missile interceptor.
The Indian government has accepted the Israeli offer in principle. An initial agreement was signed but the final details, including the scope, content and price of the project are yet to be concluded, an Israeli official close to the negotiations told United Press International on condition of anonymity.
Taliban militants have used a heat-seeking surface-to-air missile to attack a Western aircraft over Afghanistan for the first time.
The attack with a weapon believed to have been smuggled across the border with Iran represents a worrying increase in the capability of the militants which Western commanders had long feared.
The Daily Telegraph has learnt that the Taliban attempted to bring down an American C-130 Hercules aircraft flying over the south-western province of Nimroz on July 22. The crew reported that a missile system locked on to their aircraft and that a missile was fired.
Tehran and the Russian Rosoboronexport arms group are about to sign a mammoth arms deal running into tens of billions of dollars for the sale to Tehran of 250 Su-30MKM warplanes and 20 IL-78 MKI fuel tankers. DEBKAfile’s military sources report Iran has stipulated delivery of the first aircraft before the end of 2007.
The transaction, Russia’s largest arms deal in 30 years, will endow Iran with a long-range aerial assault capability. The Sukhoi can sustain a four-and-a-half hour raid at its maximum range of 3,000 km against long-distance, marine and low-lying
Japan's plan to replace its aging squadron of fighter jets with state-of-the-art F-22 Raptors was dealt a serious blow by the passage of a defense appropriations bill in Washington.
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday passed the defense appropriations bill for fiscal 2008 with a provision banning F-22 sales to any foreign nation.
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