Top Space agencies around the world
NASA – 16 Billion Dollars
ESA (European Space Agency) – 4 Billion
CNES (French Space Agency)
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
RKA (Russia Feferal Space Agency) – ROSKOMOS
DLR – German Aerospace Center
ASI – Italian Space Agency
ISRO – Indian Space Research Organization
CNSA – Chinese National Space Administration
BNSC – British National Space Center
Top defence Companies around the world
1 Lockheed Martin U.S.
2 Boeing U.S.
3 Northrop Grumman U.S.
4BAE Systems U.K.
5 Raytheon U.S.
6General Dynamics U.S.
7 EADS France [1]
8 Honeywell U.S.
9 Thales France
10 Halliburton [2] U.S.
Konkan 06 – Joint naval exercise by Indian and British navy on the west coast
TAPP III – 16th nuclear reactor of the country. It is a PHWR using natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as moderant and coolant. 540 MW capacity
TAP I and II were boiling water reactors
AWACS – Airborne Warning and control systems – First country to do it is Isreal recently sweden supplied AWACS to Pak
Operation Maraham – by Indian navy and air force to provide relief for earth quake effected Indonesia
Lohagoan airport base – Pune
SS Norway – A Norwenian ship permitted by SC to enter territorial water of India
FVDA – Fire power defence agreement signed by Singapore, Malaysia, Australia NZ and UK
TYEPEYUNGYANG- korean coast guard patrol vessel taking part in the first ever indo-korean coast exercise of chennai coast.
Kumhari village-Fatehabad dist-Harayana-nuclear power project
Agni 3 – 3500 Km failed – advanced long range ballistic missile.
Taepodong -2 – north korea missile – ICBM
GSLV – FO2 – was a failure which was placing in the orbit INSAT 4c
MI 17 – Helicopters of Russia purchased by india
MV Esparenza – the vessel of green peace which visited Chennai recently
India signed the convention on nuclear terror
UN resolution 1695 – devise the suspension of north Korean nuclear program it also prevents all the UN member states for transfer of financial assistance or technical know how of missile and wmd agenda of north korea
Agosta 90 B – it is an indigenously built class of submarine of Pak
HAmza is the agosta class of sub marine built recently
Operation Sukoon – evacuation of Indians from Lebanon by Indian navy
Fumiyo Kuyama – chief od defence agency of japan
Aroushee ansal – first woman space tourist – USA of Iranian origin
Anza – MK3 – missile of pak – it’s a modified version of QUIAG – WEI 2 of china
Smart 1 – Europes first aircraft to the moon – small mission for advanced research and tech
M –V – is a rocket launched by japan to put a sun observation satellite in orbit
Artificial sun –It is the nickname of the first test of an experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor.
K – 84 – a nuclear powered sub marine of Russia which has successfully launched an ICBM in northern pole
H2-A-Japan’s intelligence gathering satellite
Project rohini – satellite comm. Network for the army
Mars mission – Lockheed martins – to build the next space ship for human ride to mars called orion
T 90 – MBT of Russia and india signed a fresh deal to buy T 90 (390) – Bhisma
T- 80 UD – MBT build by Ukraine and brought by Pak
HAL – ashok bhaveja –signed a venture with IRKUT corp of Russia to manufacture a multirole transport aircraft.
Indra dhanush 2006 – first ever joint exercise in 43 years by Indian air force and royal air force of UK held at Gwalior.
First maritime law coll. – Chennai
Victoria crater on mars being studied by MARS RECONNAISASNCE ORBITOR(MRO)
Pungye-yok – north korea conducted nuclear weapon test
Shatrujith 06 – by Indian and US navy in the semi urban counter terrorism held at belgaum
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is a paramilitary force conceived on October 24, 1962 for the security along the Indo-Tibetan Border covering 2115 km – VK Joshi is the DG
Liquid Propulsion system – TN mahendraghiri
HAFT 3 – Also known as the Ghaznavi – with a range of 290 km short range ballistic missile
HAFT 4 – shaheen 1 of pak – successful –medium range ballistic missile – 700 km
Haft 5 – IRBM – Ghouri – pak – 1300 km
Chashura – power plant under construction in pak with china help under IEAE norms
Cassini space craft t- satrun -7th ring is found of NASA
Defense secretary of US – Donald Rumsfeld was replaced by Robert Gates
Discovery space shuttle launched with seven astraunauts to ISS including Sunita Williams she replaced the german scientist Thomas Reitu Max Polenski is the commander in chief of the mission
Freindship 2006 is the joint exercise by china and pak troops in NW pak. The last such exercise was friendship 2004 on the Chinese side of the border
16th December is celebrated as the 35th vijay diwas commemorating the victory of Indian armed forces in the war against Pak. It was called the operation cactus lilly
INS Shardul and INS Kesari – a landing ship for tanks – large – LST – L
Built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers and this was inducted into Indian naval base INS kadamba – karwar – katrnataka
It is the third in the class the others being – INS margar and INS kharial
GLONASS – Russian Global Navigation system – 17 satellites
Under 2004 agreement india joined it. And agreed to jointly develop the new generation satellites called glonass K
COROT – it stands for Conviction, rotation and planetary transcends it is a first space telescope designed to find the habitual lands orbiting stars in remote solar systems built by French space agency and launched through Soyuz rocket by Baikonor Kazaksthan
Isreal leading developers of arms are –
- Rafel Arms Development Authority
- Isreal Aerospace industries
- Isreal Military Industries
Important missiles of Isreal – Produced by Rafael is Python-5 a short range air to air missile
Derbi – beyond vision range air to air
Spike – E/O is a guidance kit for precise wapon – anti-tank guided missile
Lightening is a targeting and navigational syste,
Spider – surface to air missile system
Ravenet 399 a radio network
RECCELLITE – targeting in reconniscence system
Aero India show – Blore – 6th International aerospace and defence exhibition show in 2007
Quick board – a US satellite owned by the company digital globe
Cobra – the helicopter gun ships produced by US gifted to Pak as a part of the 5 yr security assistance program between them signed in 2003
Sunita Williams – longest space walk – 22 hrs 27 min
Bombardiea – Canadian aircraft manufactures
Brahmos –NPO – MASHINOSTROYENIA and ISRO and DRDO
It was a joint establishment of Brahmos aerospace lt
d through an inter govt agreement with 250 million dollars between india and Russia with 50.5 % india’s contribution
It is a 2 stage missile with 9m height and 3.9 tonne weight already inducted in army
Defence purchases of India in 2007 – 40 Sukhoi from Russia 30 MK aircrafts
Hercules C 130 from Lockheed martin
MI 17 – medium lift helicopters from Russia
12 vip helicopters – contenders are EH 101 – UK , Sukhociski 92 – US
10 cheetah Heli from HAL
6 IL 78 from Russia
Okhinova island – kadina airforce base of japan – F22 of US is landed is there
Expedition 14 is the 14th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Two crew members, Michael Lopez-Alegria, and Mikhail Tyurin were launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on September 18, 2006, 04:09 UTC, aboard Soyuz TMA-9. They joined Thomas Reiter who arrived at the ISS aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-121 on 06 July 2006. In December 2006, Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 delivered Sunita Williams to replace Reiter as the third member of Expedition 14
Action aviation – UK based aircraft distributor setting up it’s unit in bangalore.
Yongboan (pyongsong ) – nuclear reactor which was to be closed by north korea.
Japan – first defence ministry 06( since 2nd world war 2)
TOR MI – Russian air force missile delivered to iran
INS tarangini –it is to participate in the tall ship series challenge in 2007 .it’s voyage is termed
lokayan –07
plans of ISRO – chandrayan mission -1 -08
chandrayan mission 2 -11
to consist of a space craft and landing platform
JIAN 10 –it’s a china’s home made new generation fighter aircraft produced by china aviation industry cooperation (its becomes the 4th country)
SRE – proj director – A .Subramanium
PLSV – c7 -DIR – GEORGE KHOSI
what were the names of the Argentinian and Indonesian Satellites that PSLV -C7 took yesterday?A: Pehunsat-1 and LAPAN-TUBSAT of Indonesia with the Jv of Technical University of Berlin
To which country does GRIPEN belong ?A: this belongs to the Swedish Company SAAB – A fighter air craft and has been in service to the Swedish Air Force, Czech Republic Air Force and has been ordered by Hungary Air Force and South Africa
Does India have a license to manufacture SUkhoi?If yes where is the factory?A: Yes, India has a license to manufacture 140+ Sukhoi aircrafts. its by HAL, Bangalore.
What is Bhishma?A: T-90S Tanks for the Indian Army called Main Battle Tank – MBT
What is the Intermediate rockets ban treaty?Who signed it?What is its implication now?A: To stop the manufacture and use of Intermediate range ballistic missiles signed by US and Russia (the then USSR)
Where is Karwar naval base?A: Karnataka – a Blue water project of the Navy exclusively, code named Seabird – INS Kadamba – Binaga Point to the Anjadip Island is the exact place.
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