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In a first, IndiGo uses Indian navigation system to land aircraft
The test flight that landed at Kishangarh is a part of the approval process with aviation safety regulator DGCA, which includes training of pilots, validation of approach and simulator sessions.
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Maybe L&T?
L&T does have an R&D metallurgy lab working on submarine steel. It collaborated with SAIL. SAIL started producing DMR292 series submarine steel at Rourkela plant past few years if I'm not wrong.
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Wouldn't be surprising given K9 thunder as well.
DMRL may also be involved.
It will be good if this is advanced more with SK in both naval realm and general armoured realm too.... K9 thunder is very good springboard for armoured vehicles and materials technology cooperation more broadly. Light tanks, FICV, FRCV etc.
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Developed by ADD, the exact name of this Ultra-high hardness armor steel is Nano crystal armor steel, a high-hardness steel material used as the main material for front armor in Japanese Type 10 tank. I personally dislike this word called Nano Crystal Armor because it seems to be promoted as something of a super technology. If think about it really simply, it's just hardness steel that combines nano technology with armor steel.
Currently, planning to upgrade the K2, K9, and K21 to new armor packages, but as you said, armor steel can be applied to various military equipment.
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Heh, actually metallurgy was first large scale discovery + application in the nano-realm (before we even knew/defined what nano was, much less what atoms and atomic science were).
Blending a tiny amount of a different metal into another causes (by various electron shell sizes of these elements) various dislocation phenomenon in the otherwise earlier pristine structure.
It is that dislocation in the lattice that causes a huge increase in resistance to strain in various stress plane directions.
So even regular carbon steel (which quickly was byproduct of iron making in ancient times given carbon was primarily the source of high energy) is essentially a nano-scale physical phenomenon.
The carbon atoms are placed "just enough" in the lattice to stop the iron from easily deforming around it....vastly improving the qualities of the steel over pure iron.
It just often sounds cool to say "nano" now....but our capability in modern times also concurrently does increase in understanding and more purposely applying in this scale directly too.
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Pure Indian science and technology, verging on purely Bengaluru science and technology. Almost all the design work was done in NAL (National Aeronautical Laboratory, an ISRO-like organisation in Bengaluru). Brilliant guys, insulated from politics, from cross-currents, totally focussed on R&D.
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DRDO to produce world's lightest bullet proof fabric
DRDO to produce world's lightest bullet proof fabric - Times of India
India Business News: CHENNAI: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will soon produce the world's lightest bullet proof fabric in collaboration with aca.
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In a significant move, the defence ministry on Monday approved the procurement of military equipment and platforms worth Rs 76,390 crore ($9.82 billion) from domestic industries. The procurement proposals were approved by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the ministry said.
For the Indian Navy, the DAC accorded approval for the procurement of next generation corvettes (NGCs) at an estimated cost of around Rs 36,000 crore ($4.6 billion), it said. These NGCs will be versatile platforms for a variety of roles namely surveillance missions, escort operations, deterrence, Surface Action Group (SAG) operations, search and attack and coastal defence.
The NGCs would be constructed based on a new in-house design of the Indian Navy, using latest technology of ship building, the ministry said in a statement. The DAC also approved a proposal for the manufacture of Dornier aircraft and Su-30 MKI aero-engines by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) with a focus on enhancing indigenisation.
For the Indian Army, the DAC accorded a fresh approval for the procurement of Rough Terrain Fork Lift Trucks (RTFLTs), Bridge Laying Tanks (BLTs), Wheeled Armoured Fighting Vehicles (Wh AFVs) with Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGMs) and Weapon Locating Radars (WLRs) through domestic sources, with an emphasis on indigenous design and development. “In pursuance of the government’s vision for digital transformation in defence, ‘Digital Coast Guard’ project under ‘Buy’ (Indian) category has been approved by the DAC," the ministry said.
“Under this project, a pan-India secure network for digitising of various surface and aviation operations, logistics, finance and HR processes in Coast Guard will be established," it added.
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So it appears the NGC multipurpose corvettes will not be a foreign design after all.
WhAP ATGM carrier (I guess this supersedes the NAMICA based on tracked BMP-2 platform):
For the Indian Navy, the DAC accorded approval for the procurement of next generation corvettes (NGCs) at an estimated cost of around Rs 36,000 crore ($4.6 billion), it said. These NGCs will be versatile platforms for a variety of roles namely surveillance missions, escort operations, deterrence, Surface Action Group (SAG) operations, search and attack and coastal defence.
The NGCs would be constructed based on a new in-house design of the Indian Navy, using latest technology of ship building, the ministry said in a statement. The DAC also approved a proposal for the manufacture of Dornier aircraft and Su-30 MKI aero-engines by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) with a focus on enhancing indigenisation.
For the Indian Army, the DAC accorded a fresh approval for the procurement of Rough Terrain Fork Lift Trucks (RTFLTs), Bridge Laying Tanks (BLTs), Wheeled Armoured Fighting Vehicles (Wh AFVs) with Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGMs) and Weapon Locating Radars (WLRs) through domestic sources, with an emphasis on indigenous design and development. “In pursuance of the government’s vision for digital transformation in defence, ‘Digital Coast Guard’ project under ‘Buy’ (Indian) category has been approved by the DAC," the ministry said.
“Under this project, a pan-India secure network for digitising of various surface and aviation operations, logistics, finance and HR processes in Coast Guard will be established," it added.
DAC Approves Procurement of Military Equipment, Platforms Worth Rs 76,390 Cr - News18
The procurement proposals were approved by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the ministry said
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So it appears the NGC multipurpose corvettes will not be a foreign design after all.
WhAP ATGM carrier (I guess this supersedes the NAMICA based on tracked BMP-2 platform):
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No confirmation yet but I'm hearing the approval was for 8 corvettes instead of 7 as previously thought. Combined with the 6 x NGMVs this should give us 14 multipurpose corvettes of roughly 2500/3000-ton displacement equipped with SSMs, Torpedoes, SAMs & APARs.
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...number of tank destroyers based on WhAP 8x8 platform cleared is apparently 105
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DST scientists get breakthrough in developing solid-state batteries that charge faster and cost cheaper
DST scientists get breakthrough in developing solid-state batteries that charge faster and cost cheaper - ET Government
Dst: Replacing the liquid electrolyte in a conventional Li-ion battery with a ceramic solid electrolyte and simultaneously replacing the graphite anode with a metallic lithium anode could enable safer Li-ion batteries that also last long on a single charge.
