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8 Things to Know About Pokhran II Nuclear Test

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Ravinder Tanwar
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After independence, India got fame from its two nuclear tests, 1st after two decades of independence and another in 1998, which made India to adjust its place in the list of self-reliant and nuclear capable nations. The tests was carried out in secrecy and was revealed after its success. Pokhran which means “Place of 5 Mirages” is the place where both the nuclear tests were carried out. These tests raised a worldwide uproar and registered India’s name in the list of nuclear nations. Talking about the Pokhran II test, India celebrates its anniversary on 11th May. Below are some points that every defence aspirant must know about Pokhran II Nuclear test.

  1. It was the second nuclear test after smiling Budha, which was conducted in 1974. First one was conducted on 18 May, 1974 in the sands of Pokhran, Rajasthan.
  2. It consisted of 5 detonations. First one was fusion and remaining 4 were fission bomb test. The test took 3 days, starting from 11 May.
  3. The test led to the imposition of sanction on India by many developed nations.
  4. P.J. Abdul Kalam was entirely involved in this test. “The Turning Points” of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has a significant part, describing the test and the pre and post scenario of Pokhran II. He is the chief of DRDO and one of the Project Chief Coordinators of this nuclear test.
  5. This test made India 6th nation to have tested a nuclear weapon.
  6. AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) and DRDO (Defense Research and Development Organization) were the authorities behind the test.
  7. The site was built by the Engineer’s Corps of Indian Army. The bombs were taken to the site of tests by Army trucks.
  8. The day of the test i.e. 11 May was remarked as the National Technology Day of India and now it is celebrated by awarding anomalies of science and industries.

Conclusion – Pokhran II test was concluded in 1998 and is always remembered as a day of pride for India. Many known personalities, political anomalies and Indian Military hunks coordinated with each other to carry out this test and made it successful. The test showed the self-dependency of India and still 11 May occupies a special place in calendars of scientists and researchers.

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Cleared CDS I 2016. What Next?

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Ravinder Tanwar
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First of all, SSBCrack congratulates all aspirants who have cleared CDS 1 2016 examination. It is the first stage that you have cleared. But the actual battle is yet to be faced. It is a matter of joy and candidates feel confident after clearing the exam. But don’t leave voids in further plans. Way ahead after examination don’t need books and paper practice, rather need a smart approach to prepare for the interview. SSB is the interview which is different from all other interviews in this nation and preparation for it need a pattern. For helping all SSB aspirants, we are here with some tips to help aspirants to move ahead in the same stream.

  1. Start Preparation For SSB – All aspirants who have cleared CDS written examination, are advised to start preparing for SSB. Basic preparation for SSB means working over communication skills, psychology, improving your physical fitness level etc. expanding your social involvement, writing skills and other basic qualities.
  2. Stay Ready For Next CDS – Don’t pause your preparation for next CDS or other plans for career. Continue your efforts and simultaneously prepare for your SSB. Not only this, continue preparation for other exams also, where you want to settle your career.
  3. Keep All Documents Available For SSB – It is seen many times that candidates deposit their DMCs in post-graduation colleges or in the firms where they are employed. Try to keep all your documents available for SSB. In case of final year candidates, follow the instruction in your call up letter to avail a bonafide from college authorities. Make sure you have all mentioned documents with you, before appearing in SSB. If you neglect any one of them, it can take you into trouble.
  4. Work Over Your Shortcomings – Just preparing for SSB is not sufficient. Candidates must also work over their shortcomings. No one can know you better than yourself. So analyse your qualities and shortcomings. A person who knows himself can be trained in a better way. Repeaters should do some brainstorming efforts to rectify the cause of their previous failed attempts.
  5. Make A Daily Routine – It is advised to all SSB aspirants to make and follow a good daily routine. Starting from the day till the end of it, utilise every second in a judicious way. Manage all your tasks, giving sufficient time to them. Share time for family, friends, colleagues and for personal tasks in a sufficient proportion.

Conclusion – Way ahead has to be covered smartly. IAF candidates will get less time to prepare. While OTA candidates will get sufficient time for preparation. Opportunity Is never served again. Utilize this opportunity as it is the last one. You have to work hard and get the opportunity. Avoid wastage of time and start preparation from this moment. Be punctual and dedicate your full efforts to get a seat in your dream academies.

All The Best for SSB and keep in touch with SSBcrack.com for further updates on SSB dates and centres allotments of respective academies.

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7 Tips To Improve Creativity

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Ravinder Tanwar
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“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s upcoming attractions.”

  •  Albert Einstein

Creativity and imagination play a crucial role in SSB. From the very first day of your personality analysis, i.e. screening, PPDT accesses a candidate’s creativity and imagination and then TAT in psychology tests completely depends on the imagination and creative power of a candidate. It is always said that a creative mind can track different ways to solve a single problem. The Armed Forces have to encounter problems daily and tackle and a creative mind is required for that. To improve your creativity and imagination power, below are some points that will help you to build a creative mind.

  1. Read More – It is always said that reading habit nourishes a mentally fit person. Reading books has got many pros like improvement in communication skill, lustres imagination and creativity, gives knowledge, teaches an effective way of how to pen down your ideas and thoughts in an effective way etc. Reading books and imagining the scenario bolsters your imagination and creativity power.
  2. Give Some Time To Think Creatively – Give some time to think creatively and focus on your imagination. Regular practice will improve your thinking and imagination power. It will take some time to show improvement, but will give you favourable results.
  3. Ignite Curiosity – Your curiosity on every step of life escalates your knowledge and enhances your focus on hidden sources and ways to handle situations. The more you inquire, the more will be your thinking span. Never burry any question in the depth of your mind. Don’t leave any stone unturned. Make it your habit and find sources to clarify your doubts.
  4. Expand Your Interests And Talents – Your interests and talents are the areas where you go deep following your curious attitude. Personal interview of SSB has a significant part of questioning from hobbies and interests. Your attitude of getting more and more knowledge related to your interests constructs a creative mind.
  5. Relax Your Mind – Always manage some time for relaxing your mind. Listen to music, meditate and try cool down your mind from all kinds of thoughts. Rest and breaks are made to improve the performance of everything.
  6. Spend Time With Creative Person And Try New Things – Everybody has creative person around them. Like any good writer, painter or any other knowledge full person. Try to spend time with them to absorb such traits. Try to get into new things and get new experience regardless of its future use.
  7. Keep Your Mind On Active Mode – Observe the day to day tasks and always keep your mind active in causal time. Your observation will influence your mind and will expand your thinking area.

Conclusion – Bringing out new ways of solving a situation depend on the ability of the mind and an officer in the armed forces has to be able enough to handle problems simultaneously. That’s what they need is a creative mind to solve the problems that are beyond causal schedule. So, to give a good performance in psychology tests, just make your mind more creative.

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Analysis Of Success Rate In CDSE And NDA Exam

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Analysis Of Success Rate In CDSE And NDA ExamAnalysis Of Success Rate In CDSE And NDA Exam

UPSC exams are the toughest exams in the country. Given the vacancies and the number of candidates applying for a post, the competition levels are soaring high in UPSC exams. Even the CDSE and NDA witness a large number of people applying for the exams. We bring you the number of candidates applied, appeared and qualified in the CDSE and NDA examinations:

Let us analyse the success in CDSE since 2009:

Year

 Applicants Appeared Interviewed Recommended

CDSE

Year

2

 2006 63,737 38,796 5,224 433
1 2007 64,028 48,746 7,551

293

2

 2007 53,868 30,272 9,320 448
1 2008 51,002 37,897 5,618

341

2

 2008 53,794 30,945 8,276 293
1 2009 63,824 29,352 5,494

210

2

 2009 89,604 52,970 5,572 531
1 2010 86,575 38,742 6,433

450

2

 2010 99,017 50,033 6,046 405
1 2011 99,815 50,152 10,199

392

2

 2011 1,00,043 44,130 – –

1

 2012 1,36,641 50,152 – –
2 2012 1,52,052 75,990 –

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1

 2013 2,08,270 64,626 – –
2 2013 2,01,603 95,397 –

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1

 2014 2,51,392 97,483 –

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2 2014 2,44,911 1,17,314 –

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1 2015 2,55,697 – –

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From these figures, we can say that on an average, there are 0.49% chances of you getting recommended after applying for the exam. Yes, 0.49%, not 49%.

Let us now see the rate of success in NDA exams. However, the candidates getting recommended haven’t been disclosed yet.

Year Applicants Appeared

Interviewed
NDA

Year

1

 2009 2,77,290 1,40,721 –
2 2009 1,50,514 68,001

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1

 2010 3,74,497 1,92,758 –
2 2010 1,93,264 85,854

5992

1

 2011 3,17,489 1,64,829 4252
2 2011 2,11,082 1,07,263

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1

 2012 3,57,507 2,43,216 –
2 2012 2,59,061 1,63,937

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1

 2013 4,00,813 2,98,909 –
2 2013 2,54,437 1,70,377

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1

 2014 5,36,320 3,09,888 –
2 2014 3,90,306 2,59,640

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Analysing this, on an average, there is a mere 0.02 % chance of you to go to interview after you have applied for its exam. And considering every 1 in 2000 making it to the academy, there is a 0.0005% chance that you will make it to the academy after the final merit list. No wonder why NDA is the 8th toughest academy to get into. It has the lowest admission rate of all the military training academies from around the world.

But these odds are narrowed down in reality considering the people not showing up for the examination and not showing up for the interviews. So, calm down, you, in reality, have greater chances of getting recommended that this. But that too comes with a condition – prepare for it. The more you do, the more are your chances of getting selected. These are just the figures. If you are the deserving one, then no one can stop you from working hard and witnessing success.

10 Things to Know About BrahMos II Hypersonic Missile

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BrahMos II Hypersonic Missile

Russia earlier in this March, successfully carried out the first test firing of the hypersonic version of BrahMos missile, The BrahMos II, in Russia. The test was successful and the missile flew at the speed of Mach 6. However, the range and the mode of flight were not mentioned by the authorities.

The test came after the successful test firing of BrahMos missile by India in December last year.

Here’s what you need to know about this development:

  1. The test of BrahMos II was carried out from a land-based testing range.
  2. The speed of BrahMos II is Mach 7 with a range of 290 kilometres.
  3. It can carry warheads up to 300 kg, conventional, shrapnel, or armour piercing and it will be launched from a ship, as the first phase.
  4. The missile will replace the existing P 800 and Kalibr missile from the Russian naval ships. P 800 is known as the base model of BrahMos.
  5. The development trails are believed to be completed by 2018 and the Russian navy will start to induct it by 2019 making Russian Navy the first Navy to get hypersonic missiles for anti-ship missions.
  6. Apart from this, BrahMos Corp is also involved in three bigger projects, namely air-launched version known as BrahMos-A, BrahMos II (the hypersonic variant of BrahMos), and BrahMos NG which is a mini version of the BrahMos.
  7. Both Indian and Russian counterparts work close to achieving the above-said projects, In India they working on the BrahMos-A missile whose carriage trails are scheduled to be the following April, and in Russia they were working on the hypersonic variant with a Ram jet engine to boost the missile speed up to Mach 7.
  8. Indian Armed forces are the only user who uses the BrahMos variants in Army, Navy, and Airforce while Russia is yet to employ their naval ships with BrahMos missile.
  9. BrahMos used in the Navy ships usually to conduct the anti-ship and anti-surface mission with the range of 300 kilometres, and in the lo-lo mode, the missile can strike targets up to 120 kilometres. During lo-lo mode, it’s impossible to intercept the supersonic missile flying at Mach 3 speed.
  10. Indian army also uses the BrahMos in three variants block I, II, and III, those block versions are more advanced variants than its predecessors. The air force also operates land-based launchers, air force operates one or two squadrons of BrahMos missiles.

5 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles Which Can Destroy The World In 30 Minutes

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Vignesh Krishnan
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Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

Missile technology is one important armour that every country wants to have, ICBM or intercontinental ballistic  missile are those missiles which can strike an enemy from a long distance with huge devastation. ICBM are heavily powered to wreck havoc in the place they drop. With the rapid change in warfare, ICBM plays a vital role in destroying the enemy before they know what hit them. There was a rapid growth of missile development during the cold war times, USA and Russia remain the front line of the ICBM in the world. However many countries in the recent past have come into the competition including India. Here is few missile which can travel the distance and pack the needed punch:

1.R-36

The Russian-made ballistic missile stands tall when it comes to the ICBM. The missile has a very long range and is test proved to adhere to the theoretical data. The technology used is for space launch vehicles thus making it more potent.The missile uses decoy warhead technology making it hard for defence technologies to track the warhead. This unique feature makes the anti-ballistic defence look weak.

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ORIGIN: Russia / USSR

RANGE: 16000 km

SPEED: 23+ MACH

GUIDANCE:  Inertial, autonomous

PAYLOAD: 10* 800 kt

2. DF-5

Dongfeng – 5, is yet another reason for the world to fear the Chinese. The highly capable ICBM DF-5 can travel almost around the world strike from on end to another. The missile has a 3-stage separation method.  The missile has one drawback that the design is such that fueling is more time consuming than other ICBMs, but once this fuelling is done, it can send a shiver down the enemy’s spine!

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ORIGIN: China

RANGE: 12000 – 15000 Km

SPEED:  22 MACH

GUIDANCE: Inertial, onboard computers

PAYLOAD: 4-5 Mt

3. LGM-30 MINUTEMAN

This ICBM is from the world’s most technologically advanced country and is highly reliable as it is tested time and again. It is the only land-based ICBM in the US. As the name suggests the missile has a very short prep time and can be quickly launched. It uses 3 smaller warheads instead of one to defeat the anti-ballistic defence systems.

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ORIGIN: United States

RANGE: 13000 Km

SPEED: 23 MACH

GUIDANCE: Inertial, digital computers monitor trajectory

PAYLOAD: 3*170Kt TNT

4. RS-24 YARS

Yet another ICBM of the Russians, tested in 2007 is said to replace the older long range missiles in the Russian arsenal. The thermonuclear weapon is  capable of carrying 10 independently targetable warheads.

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ORIGIN: Russia

RANGE: 11000 km

SPEED: 20 MACH

GUIDANCE: Inertial with GLONASS ( Russian GPS)

PAYLOAD: 4*550 kt

5. AGNI – V

The indigenously made AGNI V is the latest output of the Indian missile development programme. The Missile was tested in 2012, there are many speculations about the range of the missile, but is said it be around 8000km taking India into the league of elite ICBM nations. The missile is solid- fuelled and is expected to have multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle  with each missile capable of carrying 2-10 nuclear warheads.

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ORIGIN: India

RANGE: 8000 Km

SPEED: 24 MACH

GUIDANCE: inertial navigation system, GLONASS/ IRNSS augmented

PAYLOAD: 1500kg

ICBM missile totally relies on the earth’s gravity, the trajectory of the missile is very important for them to be accurate. Over the years, ICBMs have been launched from various platforms ie land, road/ mobile, submarine based. The use of these can be devastating and can cripple the enemy such that there is no chance to recover. All the missiles made are almost nuclear capable and thus are even more potent. The development of the ICBM is constant around the world India on the verge of testing Agni VI, which has a longer range and is more potent as it can carry more payload. Even though cruise missile is quicker the ballistic missile is equally potent when we add up the speed and the firepower it carries making it a very important element in the case of a war.

 

10 Indian Airforce Transport Aircrafts You Must Know

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Vignesh Krishnan
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The Indian air force is the fourth largest airforce in the world, having some of the best fighter jets, transport aircraft and helicopters. For dominance in a war, Transportation is equally important in comparison with any field, any delay in getting the equipment to the required place or failure to get it can be disastrous. The Indian air force has some of the best transport aircraft to help it ground troops . They provide ammunition, ration, equipment and also para drop troops into enemy territory. Below are some of the aircraft that the IAF uses:

1.C- 17 GLOBEMASTER

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ORIGIN: United states

IN SERVICE FROM : 1995

SPEED: 0.74 MACH

CAPACITY: 102 paratroopers/134 troops side walled/tanks

PAYLOAD: 77,519 Kg

This US-made transport aircraft is the best in the world and India got this machine in June 2013. Nicked named as “skylord” the squadron of the Indian airforce is the front line for transportation of man and material. The aircraft is used for medical evacuation, Transporting tanks & guns, Para dropping or landing troops. The do the purpose of strategic airlifting in technical terms.

2. ILYUSHIN II-76

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ORIGIN: Russian

IN SERVICE FROM: 1974

SPEED: 0.82 MACH

CAPACITY: 50000 Kg

PAYLOAD: 42 tonnes

This Russian transport aircraft is also a heavy lift aircraft that is used for strategic airlifts. The aircraft is ideal for short and unprepared airstrips and is designed to lift heavy machinery.There are many version of the aircraft that IAF uses for different purposes. They customised the aircraft to do the purpose of air to air refuelling, communication centre. A customised version of the II-76 serves as a platform for the IAF AWACS, it is called A-50.

3. C-130J SUPER HERCULES

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ORIGIN: United states

IN SERVICE FROM: 1999

SPEED: 0.54 MACH

CAPACITY: 92 troops/ 64 paratroop/ 2-3 armoured carrier

PAYLOAD: 19,050Kg

Probably the best tactical transport aircraft in the world, the c130J is ideal for the special troops of the nation. These transport aircraft focus on delivering men and supply in forward area when the war is on. They have a very small airstrip to land and take off and the turnaround time is very less thus because of its speed it acts as a front line transporter. India landed a C130J in ladakh airstrip thus by making a new feat of taking and landing the aircraft in the highest airstrip of the world.

4. HS 748 HAWKER SIDDELEY

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ORIGIN: United Kingdom

IN SERVICE FROM: 1961

SPEED: 0.3 MACH

CAPACITY: 40-58 passengers

PAYLOAD: 5136 Kg

The HS-748 is a transport aircraft built to transport troops and light ammunition. The fuselage was redesigned as per IAF specification and production was done by HAL. The HS748 is a STOL aircraft , ie short take off landing aircraft, thus highly useful to transport troops to the front.They were also used to mount the early warning system..These are being replaced by C-295s

5. ANTONOV An 32

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ORIGIN: Russia

IN SERVICE FROM: 1976

SPEED: 0.26 MACH

CAPACITY: 42 paratroopers/ 50 troops/ 24 stretchers

PAYLOAD: 7.5 tonnes

The twin-engine turboprop transport aircraft is one of the powerful props fitted aircraft in the world. The aircraft was designed for the IAF to go through some hard transporting, bad weathers, thus, this made the aircraft one of the most durable in the world. The aircraft is right know going through some upgrades in avionic, comm system, oxygen system.The aircraft is ideal for medevac and VIP transport purposes .

6. DORNIER 228

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ORIGIN: Germany

IN SERVICE FROM: 1982

SPEED: 029 MACH

CAPACITY: 19-25 Troops

PAYLOAD: 2340 Kg

Do-228 is a twin-turboprop utility aircraft made in India by HAL under licence of DORNIER. The aircraft has a short take-off landing. The aircraft is used to transport small contingent of troops, comm purposes, recon purposes etc. It is essentially used to deliver food and ration to troops in the war area. Since it is a STOL aircraft it can also be used for medevac purposes too.

7. Boeing 737

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ORIGIN: United States

IN SERVICE FROM: 1968

SPEED: 0.82 MACH

CAPACITY: 38.9 m^3 cargo/ 250 passengers

PAYLOAD: 68000 Kg

The boiling 737 is a transport aircraft ideally used by IAF for officials / VIP transporting. Since it is used for transporting of high-level officials the 737 is fitted with some of the best radars and countermeasure techniques in the world, this includes radar jammers. The 737 is also used for cargo purposes, the cargo is to be light weighted and of specification adhere to the aircraft.

8.EADS CASA C-295

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ORIGIN: Spain

IN SERVICE FROM: 2001

SPEED: 0.46 MACH

CAPACITY: 71 troops

PAYLOAD: 9250 Kg

c-295 are twin turbo military transport aircraft used for transporting personals. The aircraft can also be used to carry anti-ship missile and awacs upon redesigning. The aircraft is said to replace the HS- 748 of the IAF. India will buy 16 of them in fly-away condition and rest 40 will be produced by TATA advanced system.

9. EMBRAER LEGACY 600 

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ORIGIN: Brazil

IN SERVICE FROM: 2002

SPEED: 0.67 MACH

CAPACITY: 19 passengers

PAYLOAD: 22,500 Kg

The commercial jet Embraer 600 is basically a business jet made in brazil. The aircraft is used for the transportation of military officials and foreign dignitaries by the Indian air force.

10. UAC/ HAL I1- 214

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ORIGIN: India- Russia

IN SERVICE FROM: 2017 (expected the first fight)

SPEED: 0.7 MACH

CAPACITY: 70-150 passengers

PAYLOAD: 20,000 Kg

The Indo-Russian collaboration comes ones again into play in the making of the 214 MTA ( multi-role transport aircraft) The aircraft is said to replace the An-32 over a period of time. The aircraft can be a high calibre cargo aircraft, with the design similar to that of II-76 but length will be shorter. The aircraft is expected to have a range of 2500 km and will act as a frontline of transport fleet.

With the rapid change in modern warfare, transportation of arms and personals is vital to hold the ground. The IAF transport fleet is one of the best in the world and puts the troops exactly where they want, at the time they want. With the new C130J coming in they will have advanced mapping technology as per DTTI which the previous ones did not, this enhances their ability to drop troops and equipment further in unknown territory. The Indian air force right now are in a comfort zone when it comes to the transportation zone, and the countries can rely upon them for delivering every time. The motto of 81 squadrons of the IAF says it all ” CAPABLE, POWERFUL, OMNIPRESENT”.

INS VARSHA: India’s Secret Naval Base

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INS Varsha

In line with India developing a secret nuclear city, it is developing secret base for the Indian Navy.

What is INS Varsha?

Project Varsha is one of the secret projects undertaken by Indian government to provide Indian Navy underground secret bases off the east coast of country in an order to protect nuclear powered submarines that would form one of the third nuclear deterrence platforms of India.

It was planned to be located within a radius of approximately 200 kilometres from Visakhapatnam, which are the headquarters of the Navy’s Eastern Naval Command. But the base is being developed at Rambilli, 50 km from Visakhapatnam.

What is the need of INS Varsha?

INS Varsha would de-congest the Visakhapatnam Port, which is used by both the Navy and the civilian Ministry of Shipping. The Navy’s dockyards at Vizag are facing shortage of berthing space due to the rapid expansion of the Eastern fleet, which grew from 15 major warships in 2006 to 46 in 2012, and is still expanding.

What are its advantages?

INS Varsha will have a large near-by facility of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), and will include modern nuclear engineering support facilities and extensive crew accommodation.

It will also have underground pens to hide the submarines from spy satellites and protect them from enemy air attacks. The navy is seeking foreign technical assistance pertaining to nuclear safety features for the base.

INS Varsha would have undisclosed access tunnels on the mouth of deep water base and highly protected shelters along with jetties that are meant for demagnetizing submarines and is a conspicuous addition to the base facilities.

The biggest advantage of having underwater deep bases that the submarines do not need to surface on the water, they can come and go from the base through multiple underwater tunnels that open directly to the deep sea and lead straight from the secret base.

In any kind of conflict submarines are one of the most offensive platform of nuclear deterrence thus they can do their job well while not being detected by adversaries. The underground bases also provide highest protection than the ordinary bases on the coast shores provides, the underground bases are known to maintain top level of secrecy from any kind of threat including the satellite intelligence.

When will it be completed?

The construction of underground base started in 2009 but has struck several times due to finance crunch. INS Varsha would be accompanied by a weapon storage facility called ‘Missile Technical Positions near the underwater base.

₹160 crore were sanctioned for the project in the 2011-12 budgets, of which ₹58 crore were for civil works and the balance were for setting up a VLF communication system.

 

For the security reason, it is still highly classified that how big and capable the underground base would be but the base reportedly could docked some 8-12 nuclear powered submarine that are under construction and are being planned. The Varsha would be capable of housing other vessels of navy in forms of destroyers, frigates and replenishment ships.

China has a similar base in the Hainan Islands.

India Participates In ADMM International Naval Exercise

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ADMM International Naval Exercise

ADMM-Plus Exercise on Maritime Security and Counter Terrorism began in Brunei on May 1, 2016, and will go on until May 9, 2016.

ADMM-Plus is an abbreviation for ‘ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus’. The exercise is a multinational naval exercise conducted under the aegis of ADMM Plus consortium and focuses on Maritime Security and Counter Terrorism (Ex MS & CT).

This edition of ADMM MS & CT FX is being co-hosted by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF). It will culminate at Singapore after conducting with various drills and exercises in the South China Sea.

The exercise seeks to strengthen the strong bilateral ties and extensive maritime interactions between India and ASEAN countries.

It aims at enhancing mutual understanding with respect to maritime security issues and streamlining drills on counter-terrorism operations at sea.

The Indian Navy has been a regular participant in maritime exercises conducted by the ADMM countries. This year Indian warship INS Airavat is participating in it commanded by Commander Jayant Mahadik.

The Indian Naval Ship (INS) Airavat is a Landing Ship Tank, indigenously designed and built in India. The ship has a lift capability of 500 troops, 10 tanks and 11 combat trucks.

The ship was inducted into the Indian Navy on 19 May 2009. It is effectively tasked with a variety of missions ranging from amphibious operations to Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR). An integral helicopter significantly enhances the capability of the ship.

The ADMM exercise began with a harbour phase which included board, search, and seizure (VBSS) skills exchanges, flight deck familiarization and a welcome reception hosted by the Royal Brunei Armed Forces.

The sea phase of the exercise will then be commenced. This phase will feature a maritime security and counterterrorism scenario, both of which include cross-deck helicopter operations, VBSS training, divisional tactics and communications drills.

During the exercise, the Indian Navy would engage with about 14 participating navies from Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, China, Japan, Russia, Australia, Republic of Korea and US, through professional interactions in the harbour and complex operations at sea.

Indian Navy and the navies of ASEAN countries have a mutual interest in promoting peace and prosperity in the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific, given our shared maritime security interests. The participation of INS Airavat aims to bolster India’s ties and enhance inter-operability with the participating navies.

Indian Navy to Retire the Sea Harriers – World’s Only Operational Vertical Take-Off Jet

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With the scheduled decommissioning of INS Virat and great difficulty in maintenance of the ageing Sea Harrier fighters, they are scheduled to be decommissioned on May 11, 2016, at a ceremony at INS Hansa in Goa. Admiral R K Dhowan, Chief of the Naval Staff will be the Chief Guest for the ceremony.

The Indian Navy will induct a new squadron of Russian MiG-29Ks in the ceremony replacing the British Sea Harriers. The MiG-29Ks will operate from the INS Vikramaditya, an aircraft carrier which has been procured from Russia.

India had planned to replace the Sea Harriers with the homemade Light Combat Aircraft (Naval) version but the program is more than 15 years behind schedule.

The Indian Navy bought 30 British-made Sea Harriers in 1983 but only 11 remain now. Over the years, 15 of them crashed killing eight pilots. The last Harrier fatality occurred in August 2009 in the Arabian Sea off the Goa coast.

Here are some interesting facts of the Retiring Sea Harrier:

  1. The Sea Harriers, also called as the White Tigers, were inducted into the Indian Navy following phasing out of then obsolete Seahawks and served since 1983 aboard INS Virat.
  2. The jet fighter can take off vertically giving them the ability to take off and land from a small clearing or the deck of a mid-size aircraft carrier.
  3. The Harrier jump jet is the only fighter jet that is capable of doing that, making Indian Navy one of the handful of operators in the world that flew the magnificent jets.
  4. The flexibility offered by the aircraft’s capability to undertake short/vertical take-offs and landings had enabled it to operate from any fixed wing carrier and had regularly conducted cross-deck landings on ships of foreign navies.
  5. The Sea Harriers had an operational speed of 640 knots or 1,186 kmph.
  6. It has a range of around 800 nautical miles, but, they fell short of exceeding the speed of sound at Mach 1 or 1,235 kmph.
  7. The squadron of White Tigers has embarked on the carrier during Operations Vijay and Parakram providing the essential offensive posture to the country and ensuring readiness to react to any escalation by the enemy.
  8. In last few years, the Harriers had added a new dimension to their operations with the increased multi-national exercises in which the Indian Navy participates.
  9. These exercises have seen the Harriers facing eye-to-eye with the best in the business. The magnificent carriers and the flying machines of the American, French and British Navies have come, exercised and gone back suitably impressed.

The surviving aircraft will probably be mothballed at INS Hansa, the navy’s shore-based facility at Dabolim in Goa, before being dispatched to various naval stations around the country to serve as exhibits.

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