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Exercise AUSTRAHIND 2026 culminated in a 36-hour Joint Validation Exercise conducted from October 30 to 31 under Chapter VI of the UN Charter, featuring intensive joint operations by the Indian Army and the Australian Defence Force across jungle, island, and coastal terrains.
What is a pilot vehicle?
The Corps of Military Police provides pilot vehicles to Division Commanders, Corps Commanders, Army Commanders and the Chief of the Army Staff. The pilot vehicle drives ahead of the senior commander's car to clear the way and lead it safely through traffic.
Then what is a GUIDE?
Pilot vehicle is authorised only for the few appointments laid down in the rules, so when the Military Police lead anyone else, such as a visiting team, a convoy or a guest who is not entitled to a pilot, the same kind of vehicle goes out marked GUIDE. The job is the same; the plate tells everyone on the road it is not a commander's pilot.
The Navy retired its Sea King Mk42B squadron in June. This 40-year-old still drops troops on beaches.
1 - IN558, a Sea King Mk42C, the troop carrier. Lifts 28 men. India got only six
2 - Fast rope: no harness, no clip. Gloves and grip
3 - First men down kneel facing out, guns up
Meet Air Chief Marshal AP Singh. He hangs up his uniform today after nearly 42 years.
Then: Gp Capt AP Singh, test pilot, flying the Tejas.
Now: the IAF's 28th Chief, still wearing the Tejas Flight Test Team patch and the "22" of the squadron he commanded.
Happy retirement, Sir.
no fan, no compressor, still Mach 3.
Booster fires → Mach 1 → empty booster drops off → air rams into the intake, squeezed by speed alone → fuel burns in it → hot jet out the back → ~3,700 km/h.
Then it skims the sea as low as 10 m so radars see it late.
Army Aviation turns 40 on Sunday (raised 1 Nov 1986).
1. Cheetah: built on the Lama, which set the helicopter altitude record: 12,442 m, 1972
2. Rudra: a Dhruv with teeth
3. Prachand: first attack helicopter to land in Siachen
4. Apache
Neighbours: the high ground has rotors now.
no loader on board. this tank feeds itself.
Fire → carousel under the turret floor spins → brings the next round to the gun → gun tilts up, tray lifts → rammer pushes the shell, then its charge → ready in 5-8 s.
22 rounds wait in that carousel, so only 3 men ride inside.
In 2016, soldiers in Haryana had to carry boards saying ARMY. Rioters took them for police, because everyone wore Army camo.
1. 1960s-70s: olive green
2. 1980s: disruptive pattern (here at Kargil, 1999)
3. Mid-2000s: the most copied
4. 2022: digital. Copy it now and it's illegal
Drone hunting, Ladakh style: one vehicle that can shoot a drone down or jam it out of the sky.
1 - Three gun mounts on one pintle: more lead in the air for a tiny target
2 - Jammer mast: cuts the drone's link to its pilot
no propeller. no steering wheel. still crosses the river.
Soft tyres → no sinking in snow or mud → in water it floats → tyre ridges paddle like oars → two levers speed up one side to turn.
The tyres are pumped up by its own exhaust, at the push of a button.
Meet Major Soiba Maningba Rangnamei, Indian Army Officer from 16 Bihar.
From Senapati, Manipur. First in his village to clear NDA.
The 12th edition of the India–Indonesia Joint Special Forces Exercise: Exercise #GARUDASHAKTI 2026 commenced today at Banyuwangi, Indonesia with a grand Opening Ceremony.
The joint training is aimed at enhancing synergy and strengthening the robust defence partnership between the two nations.
stand behind this and you're dead 💀
Fire → cartridge base blows out → gas splits → shell goes forward, gas jets out the back → recoil cancelled.
The price: a backblast dangerous 30 m behind.
An IAF C-17 in Abuja looked "all taped up". Worn out? No.
1 - Those patches: peeling paint, the photographer later agreed
2 - Airliners use speed tape for this. A 787-9 wing, taped so paint won't peel
3 - An A321 nose
Aluminium tape, holds at 900+ km/h 🇮🇳
Photo 1: ChuckIOM
27 October 1947. Raiders were closing in on Srinagar. That morning, 1 SIKH flew in from Delhi and went straight into battle.
Their CO, Lt Col Dewan Ranjit Rai, fell that same day holding them off near Baramulla: independent India's first Maha Vir Chakra. (1/5)
Photo: MoD
Every 27 October, the Army Chief lays a wreath for the infantry's fallen. The day marks the first troops who landed in Srinagar in 1947.
Photo: Infantry Day, 27 Oct 2010, MoD (4/5)
