Pak inducts China-built Eagle AWACS into air force
Pakistan air force has inducted the advanced China-built Karakoram Eagle AWACS aircraft, capable of detecting hostile aerial and sea surface targets far before ground-based radars regardless of their height. PAF said the new aircraft were inducted into its premier No 4 Squadron at ceremony held on Thursday at an operational PAF base in Karachi.
The Defence Ministry has shortlisted a consortium of Tata Power-Strategic Electronics Division (SED) and Larsen & Toubro for the battlefield management project, the order value of which in the production phase may be as much as Rs 50,000 crore.
Russia will continue using the International Space Station along with NASA until 2024, its space agency said, after Moscow had threatened to stop financing it in 2020.
The audacious Make-In-India programme, launched by the new Government at the centre, has unfolded a plethora of new opportunities, equations and new ways to make India self-reliant in the coming decade. The Defence sector, which has been listed as one of major areas urgently needing indigenisation, appears to have braced up for consolidation through new mergers and acquisitions.
