DEFENSE CURRENT AFFAIRS IN MARCH 2025

RENAME - 

*  DRDO Has Renamed The SDFR - Based ASTRA - 3 Air To Air Missile As GANDIVA.

* Indian Navy s First' Training Squadron Reaches At Phuket Deep Sea Port, Thailand.

*  Indian Army Has Renamed The Kitchener House To Manekshaw House At Vijay Durg.

HOST - 

*  Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh Has Inaugurated The DRDO MHA Collaboration Conference Cum Exhibition.

* 9th Edition Of India - Australia Defense Policy Talk Held At New Delhi.

INAUGURATION - 

* Admiral Dinesh K Tripathy Has Inaugurated The Computational Resource For Artificial Intelligence Testing And Learning (CRYSTAL) 

* India's First AI Data Centre And Lab, At The Indian Navy Incubation Centre For Artificial Intelligence (INICAI) Bengaluru.

* General V K Singh Has Released The Commemorative Postal Stamp Of 5th Battalion Of Rajput Regiment.

* Chief Defense Staff (CDS) Anil Chauhan Inaugurated The TECHKRITI 2025, ASIAN Largest Intercollegiate Technical And Entrepreunial Festival At IIT KANPUR.

UNVEILED - 

* Bharat Dynamic Limited (BDL) Has Unveiled The PRABHA - A New Cutting Edge Laser Beam Rider Guided Missile.

* Bengaluru Based Tonbolmaging Has Launched The Spartan-R Standalone Thermal Weapon. 

* The 4th 25 T BP Tug Yuvan Built By M/S Titagarh Rail System Limited (TRSL) Has Unveiled For Indian Navy.

ECONOMY - 

* India Achieved The Highest Ever Growth In Indigenous Defense Production in 2023/24 Since Implementation Of Make In India (1,27 lakh Crores)

TESTED - 

* Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) Has Successfully Conducted The Test Launch Of HOME GROWN ASTRA, Beyond Visual Range Air To Air Missile (BVRAAM) From LCA AF MK1 Prototype Fighter Aircraft.

* India' Was The 2nd Largest Arm's Importer To Ukraine (8.3%) 

MOU SIGNED - 

* Indian Army And Bank Of India Has Signed A MoU To Commit 3 Years Partnerships To Provide Insurance Cover.

* Ministry Of Defense Has Signed $248 Millions Deal With Russia's ROSOBORON Export To Buy Engines For T-72 Tanks For Indian Army.

* Defense Ministry Has Signed Two MoU with HAL For The Supply Of 156 Light Combat Helicopter ( LCH) PRACHAND Worth Rs 62000 Crores..

* Indian Army Has Signed A MoU With ADRIN In Hyderabad, For The Design And Development Of Location Awareness & Knowledge Based Solution For High Resolution 3D Layer Archive For Precision Targeting.

APPOINTMENTS - 

* Dr Mayank Sharma Assumed As The Controller General Of Defense Account.

FIRST WOMAN - 

* FLYING Officer Tanushka Singh Has Become The First Female Pilot To Fly The Indian Air Force JAGUAR Fighter Jet.

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BOOKS -  

* THE CANTONMENT CONSPIRACY : Book Author - General Manoj Naravane 

* WAFADARI IMAANDARI AND ZIMMEDARI Book Author - Lt General K S Dhillon 

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