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“Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory”: JetSuits - Game changer in military modernisation, Richard Browning - founder of Gravity gave demo of Jetpack to the Indian Army in Agra, Army recently issued requirement to procure 48 such systems
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As the Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced emergency procurement for 48 jet pack suits from Gravity Industries, the only company that exports military jet suits. Richard Browning explains how these Iron Man-like suits work
"Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out": Car belonging to Major serving in the India Army set on fire by miscreants, they attacked his car parked in the house after he complained of loud noise blaring from the nearby hotel
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Major Singh is on a Lucknow visit to see his parents
“Smell the sea & feel the sky, Let your soul and spirit fly”: Creating history, an Indian Air Force woman fighter pilot, squadron leader Avani Chaturvedi, will be part of the Indian contingent for the aerial war games exercise Veer Guardian 2023 in Japan
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The exercise Veer Guardian 2023 will be carried out from January 16 to January 26 in Japan
"The hidden hand of the war will never work without a hidden fist": 24 projects worth over 84,000 crores cleared, Indian Army to receive light tanks under the Project Zorawar, ATGMs, VSHORADs, and combat helmets under Make in India initiative
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The unprecedented initiative will not only modernise the Armed Forces but also provide a substantial boost to the defence industry to achieve the goal of 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat'
“Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not”: Inspired by first solo woman fighter pilot Avni Chaturvedi, Sania Mirza to become India’s first Muslim woman fighter pilot, selected in IAF by securing overall 149th rank in NDA
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Sania Mirza, daughter of a TV mechanic from Mirzapur, has been selected to become a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force and would be the country's first Muslim girl and the state's first IAF pilot
"Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'": Def Min Rajnath Singh in LS, “Our army valiantly fought back & forced Chinese troops to go back to their post. They foiled China’s bid to unilaterally alter status quo along LAC in Tawang sector"
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Our army valiantly fought back & forced Chinese troops to go back to their post. They foiled China's bid to unilaterally alter the status quo along the LAC in the Tawang sector
"It doesn’t get easier. You just get stronger": Historic - 341 Women Agniveer joined the Indian Navy, their induction not done separately but in the same manner as their male counterparts in a uniform method of selection - Navy chief Adm R Hari Kumar
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"We're not inducting women separately. They're being inducted in the same manner as their male counterparts. It's a uniform method of selection. They undergo similar tests," said the Navy chief
"The worst feeling is not being lonely, sometimes it is being forgotten by someone you can't forget": Forgotten legacy - Rakesh Sharma became the 1st Indian to orbit space in 1984, carrying out scientific experiment for the joint Indo-Soviet Space Mission
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Sharma made history on April 3, 1984, when he piloted Soyuz T-11 to the space station Salyut 7 alongside two Soviet cosmonauts, commander Yury Malyshev and flight engineer Gennady Strekalov
“Only the best of friends and the worst of enemies visit us”: Maj. Kuldeep Singh Chandpuri led the Battle of Longewala in 1971 with 120 soldiers successfully defending an isolated post that was attacked by 4000 troops and 45 tanks of the Pakistan Army
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Attack cost Pakistan 34 tanks, a total of 500 vehicles destroyed, and 200 (approximately) jawans in just two days
“This will remain the land of the free so long as it is the home of the brave”: 21-years-old Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat martyred in the Indo-China war, held his post for 72 hours and single-handedly killed 300 Chinese soldiers to save Arunachal Pradesh
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Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat single-handedly held off hundreds of Chinese soldiers for three days in the icy heights of Arunachal Pradesh during the 1962 war between India and China