Sunday, 31 December 2023

DEFENSE CURRENT AFFAIRS DECEMBER 2023

HOST/SUMMIT - 

* Defense Minister Rajnath Singh Inaugurated The 40th Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Commander's Conference At Coast Guard HQ In New Delhi. 

* Inaugural Edition Of High level Virtual Interaction MAHASAGAR Maritime Heads For Active Security And Growth For All Region.

*  DRDO Is Going To Participate At EGYPT Defense Expo 2023.

*  Indian Army Idea And Innovation Competition And Seminar Titled INNO YODHA 2023 At Manekshaw Center, New Delhi.

* The Indian Coast Guard Is Organising 15th Edition Of Capacity Building Senior Officer's Meeting ( CBSOM-2023) To Strengthen International Cooperation.

* General Manoj Pande Presides The 2nd Mechanised Infantry MECHINF Commander's Conference.

Theme - The Way Ahead Road To 2032 

*  The Indian Army Conducted Millet March : Nourishing The Defenders Of The Nation By Rebooting Ration With Millets.

* Defense Minister Rajnath Singh Addresses The 212th Officers Course At The Airforce Academy In Dundigal, Telengana.

* 12th Edition Of Multinational Naval Exercise MILAN 2024 Planning Conference Held At Vishakapatanam. ( EXERCISE Will Held In February 2024) 

*  Indian Air Force (IAF) And United Service Institution Of India ( USI) Have Jointly Conducted The First Marshal Of Air Force Arjan Singh Annual Lecture At USI, Shankar Vihar. 

*  Indian Navy Deployed Indigenous Guided Missile Destroyer In Gulf Aden Region To Observes Recent Piracy Incident.


NAME - 

* Indian Navy Commissioned INS IMPHAL (Named After North East City) (3rd Vishakapatanam Class Destroyer) In Naval Dockyard Mumbai.

*  Indian Navy Has Unveiled The New Design Of Admirals Epaulettes.


FIRST IN - 

* The Hematology And Stem Cell Department At Army Hospital Achieved First Ever Matched Unrelated Donor (MUD) Bone Marrow Transplant In India.

*  Indian Navy Warships INS Kochi Helped Rescue A Crew Member From  The Hijacked Vessel MV Ruen In Somalia.

* To Commemorate The 2nd Death Anniversary Of Late General Bipin Rawat, The First CDS Of Indian Armed Force, a Memorial Seminar VISHWA-MITRA Series Conducted At Pune International Centre. 


LAUNCHED - 

*  SANDHAYAK, The First Of Four Indigenous Survey Vessel Ship Build By Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited, (GRSE) Kolkata Was Delivered To Indian Navy.

*  AGNI 1 Ballistic Missile Successfully Test Fired From Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha.

* DRDO Successfully Carries Out Flight Trail Of AUTONOMOUS Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator UAV from Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, Karnataka.

*  Indian Air Force (IAF) Has Successfully Carried Out The Firing Trials Of In House Developed SAMAR ( Surface-to-Air Missile For Assured Retaliation) SAM System During The Exercise ASTRA SHAKTI 2023. 

*  Indian Navy Has Installed The Port Propeller Of Decommissioned INS VIRAAT Aircraft Carrier at INS SHIVAJI, Maharashtra.


APPROVAL/SCHEME - 

* The Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) Have Approved Capital Acquisition Proposal Of Worth Rs 2.23 Lakh Crores To Enhanced The Operational Capabilities Of Armed Force.

* Indian Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar Has Released The Naval History Book In 10 Regional Language in Delhi.

* Defense Ministry Approved Rs 2800 Crores Rockets For PINAKA Weapon System


INAUGURATION - 

*  French Defense Major Thales Inaugurated The New Office At Bengaluru.

* Three Anti Submarine Warfare Ships (ASW) Shallow Water Crafts Build By Cochin Shipyard Limited Kerala Has Been Launched By Indian Navy.

* CDS General Anil Chauhan Has Inaugurated Tele MANAS Cell At Armed Forces Medical College In Pune.

* A 30 Feet Model Of India's Latest Indigenous Stealth Missile Guided Destroyer INS MORMUGAO Unveiled At Goa On 18th December 2023. 

* Defense Secretary Giridhar Aramane Inaugurated a New Design And Test Facility At Aero Engine Research And Development Centre ( AERDC) Of HAL In Bengaluru. 


APPOINTMENTS - 

* Squadron Leader Manisha Padhi  ( Odisha) Becomes India's First Woman Aide-De-Camp. 

* Abhinav Kumar Has Took Charge Of New DGP Of Uttarakhand.

* Air Marshal Makarand Ranade Takes Over As Director General ( Inspection & Safety) At AIR HQ. 

* Rear Admiral Prakash Gopalan Assumed Charge As The Deputy Commandant And Chief Instructor Of INDIAN Naval Academy Goa.

* Air Marshal Praveen Keshav Vohra Has Took Charge As Senior Air Staff Officer Of Western Air Command Of IAF.

* Commander Prerana Deosthalee Will Become The FIRST Woman Officer Of INDIAN Navy To Command INDIAN Naval Warships.

* Indian Navy Has Appointed PRERANA DEOSTHALE As The CO Of INS TRINKAT, First Woman To Take Charge).

* Captain GEETIKA KAUL, From Snow Leopard Brigade Has Became The First Woman Medical Officer Of Indian Army To Be Deployed At The World's Highest Battlefield Siachen 

* Western Navy Commander Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi Has Been Appointed As The Next Vice Chief Of INDIAN Navy.

* Vice Admiral Kiran Deshmukh To Be The New Chief Of Material Of Indian Navy.

* Vice Admiral SJ Singh Will Be The Next Western Navy Commander 

* AIR MARSHAL Jeetendra Mishra VSM Has Assumed As Deputy Chief Of Integrated Defense Staff (OPS).

*  Captain Fatima Wasim, Of Siachen Warriors Became The First Woman Medical Officer To Be Deployed On An Operational Post On the Glacier Siachen.

* Dr Payal Chhabra First Woman Army Surgeon To Join Para Commando.

* Lt General RC Tiwari Has Been Appointed As The New Eastern Army Commander Into The Kumaon Regiment.

* Col. Smitha Aiyappa Mandepanda Has Become The FIRST Woman Officer From The KODAVA Community  In Karnataka,To Be Promoted To The Col Rank.

* Cmde Sarvpreet Singh Took Over As Chief Staff Officer ( Operations) Of Southern Naval Command. 

* Senior IPS Officer Maheswar Dayal Took Over The Director General Of Prisons.

* Cmde Pradeep Patel Took Charge As CO Of INS KALINGA.

*  IPS Anish Dayal Singh Has Been Appointed As The Director General Of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

* IPS Rahul Rasgotra Has Been Appointed As The Director General Of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).

* IPS Nina Singh Has Been Appointed As The New Director General Of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).

She Became The First Woman To Head The CISF.

* 1989 Batch IPS Vivek Srivastav Has Been Appointed As The Director General Of Fire Service.

*  Odisha Born Utkal Ranjan Sahu Is The New DGP Of Rajasthan.


MOU - 

* Ministry Of Defense Has Signed Contract With AGNI Semiconductor Private Limited For Design and development Of Advanced Galium Nitride Semiconductor. (Which Will Used As Wireless Transmitter) 

* Ministry Of Defense Has Signed Contract With Telecommunication Consultants India Limited For Digital Coast Guard Project Worth Rs 588.68 Crores.

* Ministry Of Defense Has Signed Contract With Bharat Electronics Limited For supply Of Electronic Fuze For Worth Rs 5336 Crores For Next 10 Years.

* Indian Coast Guard Has Partnerships With Uber To Define Maritime Mobility Solution, Delivering Efficient, Reliable And Secure Transportation

*  INDIAN Navy Has Signed MoU With IIT Kanpur For Technological Collaboration And Research And Development.

* Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) Has Signed a Contract With The Acquisition Wing Of The Ministry Of Defense For The Construction And Delivery Of Six Next Generation Offshore Patrols Vessels For Indian Coast Guard At a Cost Of Rs 1600 Crores. 

* Amazon And Indian Coast Guard Have Signed MoU To Provide Employment Opportunities For Veterans.

* Vizag Based KRASNY DEFENSE Has Bagged A 100 Crores Order From Russia's Largest Commercial Shipbuilders Yard, SSK Zvezda For Electrical Outfitting Of Two Ice Class LNG Tankers.

* BEL Has Bagged An order Of 2676 Crores GSL & GRSE For The Supply Of 14 Types of Sensors For Indian Navy Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessel Project.

* Ministry Of Defense Has Give An Order To Cochin Shipyard Limited Worth Rs 488 Crores For The Repair And Maintenance Of The Equipment System Of Indian Navy Vessel.

* 138 MoU Signed Between Uttar Pradesh Defense Corridor With Investment Of 25000 Crores So Far.

* Godrej Aerospace Has Signed MoU With Hyderabad Based PANINIAN For Developing Small Indigenous Turbojet And Turbofans For Aerospace.


AWARD - 

* President Droupadi Murmu Presents President's Colour To Armed Forces Medical College In Pune, Maharashtra. 

* 3 INDIAN PSUs HAL, BEL And MDL Ranked 41st, 63rd And 89th In World's Top 100 Arms Producing Companies in 2022 Respectively.

*  Captain Hansja Sharma, Has Been Awarded With SILVER CHEETAH Award For Topping The Combat Aviators, She Became The First Woman To Do So.

*  Three Indian Officers Were Awarded The Prestigious Golden Owl Award By Srilanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe  At Colombo. ( Wg Commander Sumeet Mahajan ( IAF), Major Rohit ( Indian Army), And Lt Commander Sunny Sharma ( Indian Navy). 

* INS SHIVAJI, The Premier Training Establishment Of Indian Navy Received The VIR CHAKRA Awarded To Late Vice Admiral Benoy Roy. ( 1971 war) 


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