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  President Droupadi Murmu presents Param Vishisht Seva Medal to Lt Gen Ajith Nilakantan (retd) T HIRUVANANTHAPURAM : President Droupadi Murmu presented Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) to Lieutenant General Ajith Nilakantan (Retired) of The Army Medical Corps for distinguished service of exceptional order, on Friday. He was the Director and Commandant of Army Hospital (R&R) in Delhi before retiring from the service. Lt Gen Nilakantan was born to Nilakantan Nair (late) who retired as Senior Accounts Officer, AG’s Office, Thiruvananthapuram, and professor Kanakavally Amma, who was the Principal of MG College, Thiruvananthapuram, and other NSS colleges, at Shastri Nagar in Karamana. An alumnus of Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, Nilakantan was commissioned into the Army Medical Corps in April 1987.

  Pentagon resumes F-35 deliveries amid software delays and interim upgrades T he United States has resumed taking delivery of the F-35 jets fitted with an interim upgrade following a halt that stretched to months over software delays and will withhold some payments until the remaining enhancements are done, senior officials quoted by Reuters said on Saturday.  The jets have gotten some much-needed upgrades through a Lockheed Martin programme, involving key suppliers, called Technology Refresh 3, or TR-3, which aims to improve the displays and the processing power.  "We are starting to accept deliveries of TR-3...It is a truncated version...and does not have all the functionality that we want, but it is far enough along that we can accept delivery now," Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said. TR-3 includes hardware and software improvements and is just one piece of a broader upgrade to the nation's stealth jet known as Block 4. "The hardware of that seems to b...

  Submarine-based laser weapons can attack Starlink satellites, China warns in new study S cientists of China’s People Liberation Army (PLA), in a study on targetting satellites threatening Beijing's security, have pointed out that submarines can be used in the future to carry out such action. They specifically mention Starlink's satellites in their study, saying that submarine-based laser weapons can solve several issues when it comes to attacking satellites, especially the kind made by Elon Musk's company. “Taking the satellites launched by the Starlink programme as an example, they are numerous, densely packed, and small in size, making the satellite network extremely resilient. Even if a significant number of satellites are destroyed, there are redundancies to replace them. Therefore, using missiles to attack such satellites is highly inefficient,” Wang Dan, a professor at the Naval Submarine Academy, who headed the study, said. The study was published in the Chinese-la...