1. Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle inducted into Navy
• The Indian Navy inducted the `Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle` into service at the Western Naval Command in Mumbai.
• Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba inducted the vehicle into the Navy.
• The DSRV has the capability to rescue personnel from a distressed submarine up to a depth of 650 metre and it is the latest in terms of technology and capabilities.
• The vehicle can rescue as many as 14 people in one dive.
2. Successful Test Firing of Long-Range Missile Agni V
• Agni V, a long-range surface-to-surface Nuclear Capable Ballistic missile, was successfully launched from a canister on a road mobile launcher at the Dr Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha.
• All the mission objectives were successfully achieved. This launch comes after a series of successful launches of the missile. It further strengthens the country’s deterrence capability, which has been developed indigenously by assiduous efforts of scientists.
• Agni-V is an intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India.
• Agni V is part of the Agni series of missiles, one of the missile systems under the original Integrated Guided Missile Development Program.
• The DRDO chief V.K. Saraswat initially declined to disclose the exact range of Agni-V.Later, however, he described Agni V as a missile with a range of 5,500–5,800 km. Du Wenlong, a researcher at China’s PLA Academy of Military Sciences, told the Global Times that the missile has a range of around 8,000 kilometres (5,000 mi).