Defence

BENGALURU: Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the IAF Mi 17 V5 chopper crash that took the lives of India’s apex military officer Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 other personnel on December 8, succumbed to his injuries at Air Force Command Hospital in Bengaluru. Confirming the […]

NEW DELHI: Adding yet another feather in its cap, India successfully test-fired a long-range Supersonic Missile Assisted Torpedo (SMART) on Monday.  Designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), SMART was test fired off the coast of Balasore in Odisha. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the teams involved in the successful test […]

NEW DELHI: India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat was cremated with full military honours here today. General Rawat was accorded 17-gun salute as per the protocol of the Indian Armed Forces. His last rites were performed along with his wife Madhulika Rawat at the Brar Square in Delhi Cantonment area, with […]

New Delhi: The Russian made chopper, MI-17-V5 which crashed on Wednesday near Sulur airbase in Tamil Nadu, killing Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife and 12 other men and officers of the Indian armed forces, is considered to be one of the safest aircraft with hardly any vulnerabilities. The MI-17-V5 helicopter that carried […]

COONOOR:The flight data recorder (FDR), commonly known as the black box, of the ill-fated Mi-17V5 helicopter that crashed with India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and others on board on Wednesday, has been recovered from the wreckage site near Coonoor in Nilgiris. Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Chief Marshal VR […]