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The primary objective is ensuring that learning together will lead to fighting together as seamlessly as possible and quickly too.
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Rajnath Singh told Parliament last year that the country had lost 25 aircraft and four helicopters from 2016 to 2019. Since then, seven more helicopters and nine aircraft have been lost in accidents.
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General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), his wife and 11 others died in a helicopter crash near Tamil Nadu's Coonoor on December 8, Indian Air Force confirmed. A decorated military man, General Rawat was known for his experience in high-altitude warfare and spent ten years conducting counter-insurgency operations. Here’s a compilation of some of his memorable speeches over last few years
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Brigadier LS Lidder, who died in the helicopter crash, was given a funeral with full military honours, with several VIPs, including Defence Ministers Rajnath Singh and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval attending the solemn ceremony.
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Several social media users said the country’s top leaders personally paying their last respects to General Bipin Rawat is in sharp contrast to what was witnessed after Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw’s death in June 2008.
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The probe into the Mi-17V5 that killed Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat will examine everything from the machinery, flight path, communications, flight data, maintenance records, and possibly information from the OEM to arrive at the most plausible analysis
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Singh informed both the Houses of Parliament that the last rites of CDS Rawat will be performed with full military honours.
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Senior Army officials, Tamil Nadu Ministers and Army veterans laid wreaths and paid floral tributes to the mortal remains of the deceased persons at the Madras Regimental Centre at Wellington near here.
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The Mi-17VH helicopter carrying General Bipin Rawat took from the Sulur IAF station in Coimbatore before it crashed near Coonoor.
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General Rawat, his wife Madhulika, and 11 other people on board an Indian Air Force helicopter died in a crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, the Air Force said.
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The Indian Air Force on December 8 confirmed the demise of Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others who were on board a chopper that crashed near Tamil Nadu's Coonoor earlier in the day.
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General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), comes from a military family with several generations having served in the armed forces.
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General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff, was on his way to the Defence Staff College in Wellington when the helicopter crashed.
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The chopper is manufactured by Kazan Helicopter Plant, part of Russian Helicopters company. By 2018, a total of 151 units of the helicopter had been supplied to India.
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General Bipin Rawat also said there is a possibility of threat to Jammu and Kashmir as well as to the North-eastern region due to the situation in Afghanistan which the Taliban has taken over a few months ago but the threat can be negated by working on internal monitoring.
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Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said: “We were concerned about how terrorist activity from Afghanistan could overflow into India and so to that extent our contingency planning had been ongoing and we are prepared for that.”
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Oxygen cylinders available with armed forces in various establishments will be released for hospitals, CDS Bipin Rawat said.
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A look at how the creation of the post of Chief of Defence Staff — a long-pending reform — has come to bear on decision-making and strategy in the armed forces.
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Before becoming the Army Chief, Gen Rawat handled various operational responsibilities in many areas, including along the LoC with Pakistan, the LAC with China and in the Northeast
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The new department will have under it works relating to the three forces -- Army, Navy and Air Force -- and procurement exclusive to the services, except capital acquisitions, according to prevalent rules and procedures, it said.
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Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said the government has started on a wrong foot on the appointment and only time will unfortunately reveal the implications.
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Gen Rawat was on Monday appointed to the post with a mandate to bring in convergence in functioning of the Army, the Navy and the Indian Air Force and bolster the country's military prowess.
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Before taking charge as vice chief of the Army Staff in September, Lt Gen Naravane was heading the Eastern Command of the Army which takes care of India's nearly 4,000-km border with China.
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CDS will be the single-point military adviser to the government, as suggested by the Kargil Review Committee in 1999
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Over the past five days, there have been 51 violations of the ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LoC) by Pakistani forces in Rajouri and Poonch districts.
