The Indian Navy has brought out new rules to restrict the use of social media and smartphones by its personnel, India rejects Chinese claims on the Galwan valley in eastern Ladakh and HAL Management Academy has launched two postgraduate programs in aviation management and production management.
The Indian Navy has made sailors accountable for the actions of their families on social media, superiors responsible for the social media presence of juniors and require details of personal smartphones and other devices from all personnel.
Indian Army orders all personnel to delete their Facebook accounts, Boeing completes delivery of the last five of 22 Apache attack helicopters to the Indian Air Force, Saab begins production of the Gripen in Brazil and the Indian Navy completes Operation Samudra Setu
India’s Supreme Court gives the army a month to offer women officers permanent commissions, Taiwan says the Dalai Lama is welcome to visit the island, Social media giants suspend cooperation with authorities in Hong Kong and the US clears arms sales worth USD 7.5 billion.
The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced approvals for 08 V-22 tiltrotor aircraft to Indonesia, 03 E-2Ds Advanced Hawkeye aircraft to France, 06 UG-60M Black Hawk helicopters to Lithuania and 27 Stryker ICVs to Argentina as part of five separate sales amounting to USD 7.48 billion.
Troop withdrawals have been reported in the Ladakh region that might be the beginning of a reduction in tensions between India and China and two US aircraft carrier battle groups decided to go exercise their freedom of navigation in the South China Sea over the weekend.
Prime Minister Modi visits troops in forward areas in Ladakh, India’s defence ministry approves the purchase of new missiles and fighter aircraft, Japan has changed its laws to secure information shared with friendly militaries and Nepal’s prime minister might have his fate decided on Saturday.
Progress is scarce on a resolution to the Ladakh stand-off
Australia plans to hike defence spending
NATO allies France and Turkey have had a row
Finland’s air force has discarded its old insignia
Germany has disbanded a special forces unit over right wing extremism
No word from India-China corps commanders meet
China passes an authoritarian security law for Hong Kong
Airbus to cut 15,000 jobs
Boeing suffers a 97 aircraft order cancellation
Rude morale patch gets US Navy aviators a scolding
Boris’s ride is back from the body shop
India bans the TikTok smartphone app
Indian and Chinese corps commanders to meet on Tuesday
Japan cancels Aegis Ashore
US-Russian intercepts
New AESA radar for German Eurofighter Typhoons
Saab’s Mats Palmberg gives the details about their INAC/Indian Aircraft Company proposal that is part of their offer of the Gripen to India.
Director General (Acquisitions) Apurva Chandra clarified at a webinar on Friday that ‘We have already launched two programs on it (Chapter 07) and we don’t foresee a change in this (FDI limits)’.
Angad Singh, military author and Project Coordinator at the Observer Research Foundation examines the response of the Indian armed forces to the Covid 19 contagion, its impact on operational availability, defence supplies and defence budgets.
Veteran defence journalist Sujan Dutta explains the setting of the Coronavirus outbreak in the Indian Navy establishment in Mumbai and its implications.
All of them are logistics sailors who come from the same block at INS Angre, which is the base depot ship or offshore administrative hub of the Indian Navy at Mumbai and services multiplying outlining naval units.
