Multinational ‘Aman-17’ Naval Exercise Held
- The multinational ‘Aman-17’ naval exercise with 37 countries, including Pakistan, began in the Arabian Sea near Karachi on February 10, 2017.
- Nine of the participating nations, including Australia, China, Indonesia, Turkey, Sri Lanka, the UK, the USA, Japan and Russia, are taking part with naval assets. The aim of the exercise is to display united resolve against terrorism and crimes in the maritime domain.
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India Successfully Test-fired Interceptor Missile
- India successfully test-fired its interceptor missile off the Odisha coast, achieving a significant milestone in the direction of developing a two-layered Ballistic Missile Defense system on February 10, 2017.
- This mission termed as “PDV mission is for engaging the targets in the exosphere region at an altitude above 50 km of Earth’s atmosphere”,
- The interceptor guided by high accuracy Inertial Navigation System (INS) supported by a Redundant Micro Navigation System moved towards the estimated point of the interception.
- The two-stage PDV missile is part of the two-layered Ballistic Missile Defence System developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Intech DMLS Launched India’s
First Indigenously Developed Jet Engines
- Intech DMLS Limited, a metal 3D-printing provider and metal additive manufacturing establishment in aviation sector, launched the country’s first indigenously developed jet engine series on February 10, 2017.
- Jet engines developed by a private establishment and augurs well for the industry in looking inwards for innovation in the high technology aviation sector Jet engines has been developed by a private establishment and augurs well for the industry in looking inwards for innovation in the high technology aviation sector.
World’s Smallest Pacemaker, Size of a Vitamin Capsule, Unveiled
- The world’s smallest pacemaker, which is about as big as a large vitamin capsule and provides the most advanced pacing technology, has been successfully implanted for the first time in a patient in the USA on February 3, 2017.
- The Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS), recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is a new type of heart device that provides patients with the most advanced pacing technology at one-tenth the size of a traditional pacemaker and is the only leadless pacemaker approved for use in the USA.
- When a lower heart rate is present, the heart is unable to pump enough oxygen-rich blood to the body during normal activity or exercise, causing dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breath or fainting spells.
- Pacemakers are the most common way to treat bradycardia to help restore the heart’s normal rhythm and relieve symptoms by sending electrical impulses to the heart to increase the heart rate.
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