DEFENSE CURRENT AFFAIRS MAY 2025

APPOINTMENTS - 

* Air Marshal Asutosh Dixit Has Assumed As The Chief Of Integrated Defence Staff HQ.

* Major General Lisamma PV Assumed As The Additional Director General, Military Nursing Services (MSC) In New Delhi 

* She Succeeds Major General Sheena PD

* Brigadier Yashvir Mathur Assumed As The Commandant At Military Hospital, Prayagraj.

* Air Marshal Tejinder Singh Takes Over As The Air OFFICER Commanding In Chief (AOC-IN) Training Command.

* Air Marshal N Tiwari Has Been Appointed As The Vice Chief Of Air Staff.

* Shri Mahesh Kumar Agarwal Has Been Appointed As The Special DG HQ Eastern Kolkata 

* Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor Has Been Appointed As Chief Of South Western Air Command.

*  Lt Governor Of J& K Appointed Shaleen Kabra As The Official Spokespersons For The UT J&K 

* Colonel Noreen Shanet John Became The First Woman Officer To Command Training a Battalion In The Army 

* President Droupadi Murmu Presented 6 Kirti Chakras And 33 Shaurya Chakras Personal Of Armed Forces.

* Lt Colonel Harsh Gupta And Havildar Surinder Singh Have Designed The Logo OPERATION SINDOOR 

* India Exports Defence Equipment To 90 Countries.

ACHIEVEMENT - 

* Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Has Met Cdr Roopa A & Lt Cdr Dilna ( INSV TARINI) Back To Goa, After Circumnavigating The Earth And Sailing 50k Km, 4 Continents And 3 OCEAN.

UNESCO HONOUR - 

* Brigadier General Amitabh Jha, Who SERVED With The UN Disengagement Observer Force ( UNDOF) And Havilder Sanjay Singh Who Has Deployed With UN Stabilization Mission In The Democratic Republic Of Congo, (MONUSCO) Will Be Honoured Posthumously With The Dag HAMMARSKJOLD Medal.

MOU - 

* BEL And Indian Army Air Defense SIGNED a Contract For IDDIS Counter Drone System.

* Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Has Approved The Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) Programme Execution MODEL.

DEFENSE EXPORTS - 

* India Is The 4th Largest Defence Spender In The World.

* 916 Billion USA 

* 296 Billion China 

* 109 Billion Russia 

* 84 Billion INDIA 

* 76 Billion SAUDI ARABIA 

 * India's Defence Exports In FY 2024/25 23622 Crores (34 Times Higher Than FY 2023/24) 

INAUGURATION - 

* Union defence Minister Rajnath Singh Virtually Inaugurated The BrAHMOS AEROSPACE INTEGRATION AND facility Centres At Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 

* The Indian Navy Has Inducted The Ancient Stitched Ship Named INSV KAUNDINYA At Karwar.

*  On 13th May 2025 Indian Army Launched a searched And Destroy Operation - OPERATION KELLER.

*  6th 25T Bollard Pull Tug, Sabal Built By M/s Titagarh Railway System Limited Ltd For Indian Navy Launched At Kolkata.

* Bengaluru Based New SPACE Research & Technologies Has Delivered The First' Batch Of Tethered Drones To Indian Army.

 * Cochin Shipyard limited Laid The Keel Of The 8th ASW SWC + ( Mahe Class Corvette) To INDIAN Navy 

* Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Has Received The First Indigenous Developed Private Sector ICS Compatible Center Fuselage Of LCA Tejas Mk1A 

BOOKS = 

* UNION DEFENCE MINISTER RAJNATH SINGH HAS LAUNCHED THE BOOK 

READY RELEVANT AND RESURGENT - : A BLUEPRINT FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF INDIA'S MILITARY 

BOOK AUTHOR - GEN ANIL CHAUHAN 

LAUNCHED - 

* ARNALA - The First of The 8th ASW SWC (Anti Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft) Indigenously Designed And Built By GRSE, Kolkata Delivered To Indian Navy, Kattupalli.

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TESTED - 

* Nagpur Based Solar Defence (SDAL) Has Successfully Conducted The 2nd Test Of Indigenous BHARGA ASTRA Counter Drone System At Gopalpur, Odisha On 13th May 2025 

OPERATION SINDOOR - 

* Indian Armed Forces Launched Operation SINDOOR Against Pakistan Terrorists, Which Is The Rebellion Attack, Terrorists Attack on Pahalgam.

* Wing Commander Vyomika Singh Took Command Of Indian Air Force 

* Col Sophia Qureshi Took Command Of Indian Armed Forces 

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PERSON PASSED AWAY - 

* Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir Additional Deputy Commissioner Raj Kumar Thapa Passed away 

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ACHIEVED - 

*  The Indo -Tibet Border Police Has Climbed The Mt Makalu) ( 8,485 Meter) Fifth Highest in World 

* A Team From National Institute Of Mountaineering And Adventure SPORTS (NIMAS) In Arunachal Pradesh Dirang Became First From India Climbed Khangchendzonga (3rd Highest)

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