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*Newly appointed Chief of the Indian Air Force
Ans : Air Chief Marshal BirenderSingh Dhanoa
*First malayali who has been appointed as the -Deputy Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Airforce
Ans : Air Marshal Reghunath Nambiar
*First Indian airforce officer to get Param Vir Chakra
Ans : N.J.S. Sekhon (Indo Pakistan war of 1971)
*First Indian airforce officer to get Ashoka Chakra
Ans : Fit. Lt. Suhas Biswas (Second was Sqn Ldr. Rakesh Sharma in 1984 for Space Flight)
*First person to get Honarary rank of Group Captain by Indian Airforce
Ans : J.R.D. Tata
*J.R.D. Tata was conferred the honarary rank of Air Vice Marshal in
Ans : 1 April 1974
MISSILES
*The father of Indian Missile Technology
Ans : APJ Abdul Kalam
*Missile Launching Pad of India is at
Ans : Chandipur (Odisha)
*The first missile developed under the programme of DRDO
Ans : Prithvi
*India’s Surface to surface missile
Ans : Prithvi
*First indigenously built missile of India
Ans : Prithvi
*Operational Range of Prithvi
Ans : 150-300 km
*Prithvi was inducted into Indian Army in
Ans : 1994
*The variant of Prithvi used in Navy
Ans : Dhanush
*India’s first indigenously developed ship- to-ship missile of 150 km range
Ans : Dhanush
*The indigenously developed howitzer
Ans : Dhanush
*Dhanush was manufactured by
Ans : Kolkata Ordnance Factory
*Dhanush is also known as
Ans : Desi Bofors
*warship in which Dhanush Ballistic missile was successfully test fired
Ans : INS Subadra
Nag
*Anti- tank guided missile developed in India
Ans : Nag (Range 4 to 7 km)
*Nag is the third generation ‘Fire and Forget’ anti- tank missile developed in India.
Brahmos
* Brahmos is a supersonic cruise missile launched from submarines, ships, aircrafts or land.
*Brahmos is a joint venture of India and Russia
*The name Brahmos was given by
Ans : A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
*Brahmos is named after rivers
Ans : Brahmaputra of India and Moskva of Russia
*Speed of Brahmos
Ans : 2.5 - 2.8 mach
*Operational range of Brahmos
Ans : 290 km
