shields of India

when > it comes to warfare, Weapon System plays a very important role and also it acts as a shield so we are going to know more about the weapons system i;e ships of Indian Navy today in this blog  lets start! 1. Aircraft Carriers the Indian Navy has two aircraft carriers in active service,INS Viraat and INS Vikramaditya. INS Viraat was scheduled to decommission after the induction of the first domestically built Vikrant class aircraft carrier which was launched in 2013 at Cochin shipyard Limited. INS Vikramaditya INS Vikramaditya is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier which entered into service with the Indian Navy in 2013.The ship has been renamed in honour of Vikramaditya,a legendary 1st century BC emperor of Ujjain. Originally built as Baku and commissioned in 1987,the carrier served with the Soviet and Russian navies before being decommissioned  in 1996 as she was too expensive to operate on a post-cold war budget. T...

In the early days of May 1999, after patrols sent in the mountains disappeared indicating something was amiss, the 18th Grenadiers was pulled from the counter insurgency grid in the Valley and ordered to evict the intruders. The initial briefing by the commander of Kargil based 121 Brigade was that there were no more than 8 ƒ?? 10 infiltrators on the tops. " Just go up and bring them by the scruff of the neck " was the casual order. Tololing, a naked mountain, loomed large rising to 16000 feet, overlooking the town of Drass. With no cover a single steep track led to the top zig zagging along a narrow path. There was absolutely no cover for climbing troops. From their concrete bunkers and reinforced sangars the Pakistanis could see every inch of the track. There was nothing to hide behind but the faith of God.From this vantage point, the Pakistanis brought in heavy artillery fire on the National Highway NH 1A which was closest at this point. This brought movement on the highw...

The Pakistani effort to take Kargil occurred after the February 1999 Lahore summit between then Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Indian Prime Minister Atal Bahari Vajpayee. This conference was believed to have de-escalated the tensions that had existed since May 1998. The major motive behind the operation was to help in internationalising the Kashmir issue, and for which global attention had been flagging for some time. The intrusion plan was the brainchild of Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, Gen Pervez Musharraf and Lt Gen Mohammed Aziz, the Chief of General Staff. They obtained only an 'in principle' concurrence, without any specifics, from Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistani Prime Minister. Pakistan's military aim for carr ying out the intrusions was based on exploitation of the large gaps that exist in the defences in the sector both on Indian and Pak side of the Line of Control (LoC). The terrain is extremely rugged with very few tracks leading from the main...