Indian Air Force (IAF) has operationalised the second squadron of home-grown Tejas fighter jet on Wednesday at Air Force Station (AFS) Sulur

With the rise in presence of Chinese navy in the Indian Ocean Region, India has been developing its southern air base as most modern base, equipped with all the necessary infrastructure. Earlier this year, India had inducted BrahMos equipped Sukhoi at Thanjavaur in southern state of Tamil Nadu.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has operationalised the second squadron of home-grown Tejas fighter jet on Wednesday at Air Force Station (AFS) Sulur, in the southern part of the country. The first squadron of Tejas was formed in 2016.

Indian Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria flew the LCA Tejas fighter with 45 Squadron at Air Force Station Sulur.

Fully Loaded Tejas will play major role while dealing with enemy in the Indian Ocean 

These  tweets today reveal it all:

Region #Tejas pic.twitter.com/OnwVIEp6kP

— Rishikesh Kumar (@rishhikesh) May 27, 2020

Dubbed the Number 18 Squadron Flying Bullets, the fully loaded Tejas fighters will fortify the nation's air power in the Indian Ocean Region , where China has been increasing its presence, with more warships and submarines.

At the programme held at Sulur, Air Chief Marshall RKS Bhadauria flew the single-seater Tejas fighter jet in what was the first major event for the IAF since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Indian defence ministry relayed that the No.18 squadron was formed in 1965 and had participated in the 1971 war with Pakistan. The squadron was revived this year on 1 April at the Sulur base.

The tailless, fourth generation Tejas Fighter Jet is equipped with a fly-by-wire flight control system, integrated digital avionics and multimode radar. The supersonic combat aircraft is equipped with air-to-air refuelling capabilities, close combat guns, additional drop tanks and beyond visual range (BVR) missile capability.

The manufacturer Hindustan Aeronautics Limited is expected to deliver the entire block of 16 fully-loaded Tejas to the IAF by September 2022.

While commissioning its first permanent squadron equipped with BrahMos-armed multirole Su-30MKI in the southern base, the Indian Air Force official had said in January 2020 that the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has an important role to play in regional peace, security, and prosperity.

“The IAF, an intrinsically strategic force, is all set to extend its reach into the vast IOR," Air Marshal Amit Tiwari had said in a statement.

The IAF has developed Sulur Base as one of the most technically well-equipped air bases in the country. The fully-loaded Tejas squadron is the fifth squadron to be based at Sulur.

The development comes against the backdrop of an increased Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean Region, where the 690 naval personnel-strong 35th Task Force of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) were deployed earlier this month to carry out anti-piracy patrols in the Indian Ocean.

serial delivery of Russia's new Broneboyschik (armour piercer) air-launched missiles to the country's army is planned for 2021

The serial delivery of Russia's new Broneboyschik (armour piercer) air-launched missiles to the country's army is planned for 2021, documents for making it operational will soon be drafted, the CEO of Tecmash arms industry company (part of state corporation Rostec) has said in an interview.

"Everything is ready for producing Broneboyschik. Moreover, we have created a batch of these missiles for test exploitation by troops at our own expense. We hope that all the matters will be settled this year, and batch deliveries to the troops will start in 2021", Alexander Kochkin said.

After state tests of the new air-launched missile were finished in 2019, the state customer updated some of the requirements outlined in the design specification, Tecmash CEO recalled.

"All these issues have already been settled with the Defence Ministry. In the next few days, the preparation of documents for passing Broneboyschik into service will start", Kochkin said.

Broneboyschik is designed for planes of the Su-25 family and for Mi-8 military helicopters. These missiles are expected to complement the 80 mm-caliber S-8 unguided missile family.

New Cluster Glide Bomb Drel

Tecmash CEO also revealed that serial deliveries of Russia's new cluster glide bomb Drel to the country's army will start in 2021.

"We are now completing the state tests, we should finish this year. I believe the state customer will order some refinement, but the serial purchase of this item is planned for 2022", Alexander Kochkin said.

Drel can be launched by a carrier without entering the destruction envelope of the enemy weapon, and this is what makes the new cluster bomb unique, Kochkin noted. Apart from that, Drel is capable of reaching a target independently. It is equipped with self-aiming combat elements.

"Even if the bomb cannot find the target, it will destroy itself routinely and will present no threat for the population when combat operations are over", Kochkin explained.

The PBK-500U Drel stealth cluster glide bomb, which can be used round-the-clock regardless of the weather and does not require the aircraft to enter air defense facilities' coverage area, is designed to destroy armored vehicles, ground-based radar stations and control centers.

United States and Saudi Arabia are holding week-long joint military exercises at islands in the northern Persian Gulf

The United States and Saudi Arabia are holding week-long joint military exercises at islands in the northern Persian Gulf, the Navy said on Tuesday.

"The US and Saudi forces are conducting routine and joint sustainment training on and around Karan and Kurayn islands, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 24-30 May 2020", the Navy said in a statement.

US forces in the still ongoing exercise are comprised of the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (BATARG) and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and they are performing mission-essential training and planning with their Saudi partners, the US Navy said.

"The ability to plan and operate with other forces supports our ability to rapidly deploy aviation, maritime, and ground combat elements – all from over the horizon – at a moment’s notice in order to support maritime security, freedom of navigation, and the free flow of commerce”, 26th MEU commander Colonel Trevor Hall said in the report.

In coordination with their Saudi partners, US Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) Task Force (TF) 52 and TF 56, the BATARG and 26th MEU are also conducting well deck operations, underwater beach surveys, maritime patrolling, boat lane security operations in the area, the report said.

French High Council for Public Health (HCSP) and the Agency for the Safety of Health Products (ANSM) had suspended the use of hydroxychloroquine as a means to combat COVID-19

On Tuesday, the French High Council for Public Health (HCSP) and the Agency for the Safety of Health Products (ANSM) had suspended the use of hydroxychloroquine as a means to combat COVID-19
for both the treatment of patients and clinical trials.

The French government has cancelled a decree permitting hospital doctors to administer hydroxychloroquine as a treatment to patients suffering severe forms of coronavirus.

Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) paused an extended trial of the malaria drug due to safety concerns.

At the end of March, France decided to allow the use of hydroxychloroquine in specific situations, and exclusively in hospitals.

The study, published last Friday in The Lancet medical journal, revealed that there was an increased risk of death when the drug was used for patients with COVID-19. The publication prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to halt its clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine on Monday as a precautional measure.

The number of people who have died in France from coronavirus-related complications has reached 28,530, an increase of 315 since the latest previous reported figures last week, the French Public Health Agency (DGS) said.

The last time the DGS released a situation report on the death toll in France was last Thursday. The report stated 28,215 deaths linked to COVID-19.

According to the update, 100,841 people in total have been hospitalized since the beginning of the pandemic, and 16,264 currently remain in hospitals, down from 18,468 last week, including 1,555 patients in intensive care units.

Chaos in DRC law making institution!!Thabwe Mwamba,what went wrong

Over a phone conversation,Defense and security among the points mentioned by Félix Tshisekedi and Benjamin Netanyahu the Prime Minister of Israel. 27/05/2020

The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Félix Antoine Tshisekedi tshilombo exchanged ideas over the phone on

Tuesday, May 2020, 26 with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to the presidential press, the exchanges between the two personalities have focused on the coronavirus pandemic, which has been shaking the world for a few months already.
Félix Tshisekedi and Benjamin Netanyahu also mentioned Israeli investments in the DRC, finance as well as defense and security.
According to the same source, cybersecurity, agriculture, agri-food and watertechnology  were also discussed.
As a reminder, President Tshisekedi had taken advantage of his visit to the United States last March as part of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, (AIPAC), to announce the resumption of diplomatic relations between the DRC and Israel, as well as his support to Donald Trump's controversial peace plan.

Félix Tshisekedi meets and teaches military leaders to "reflect deeply on how to restore security" in the DRC

As a prelude to the meeting of the Superior Council of National Defence, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, supreme commander of FARDC and police, gathered the officials of the civil and military security services, Monday, May 2020, 25,.
For more than 4 hours, issues related to the establishment of security permanently throughout the national territory have been discussed..
Around the Head of State, " All security officials, both civil and military, have thought deeply to prepare for the next meeting of the High Defence Council said Aimé Ngoy I, Minister of National Defence, reporting of the meeting.
" It was a question of thinking deeply to see how to bring security back to other parts of the country, where armed groups still operate he said.
Minister of National Defence and all the other persons responsible for security met on Tuesday, May 2020, 26, on instructions from the Head of State, around the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister from the interior to "think deeply" on how to permanently restore security throughout the national territory, by strengthening the central views that the Head of State has made available to them.

143 new cases confirmed in 6 different provinces of DRC, the accumulation rises to 2546 cases

The response team against the-19 in the DRC, reports 143 new confirmed cases of the disease out of the 410 samples tested, including 95 registered in Kinshasa, 20 in North Kivu, 12 in South Kivu, 11 in Central Kongo, 4 in Haut-Katanga and 1 at Kwilu. The accumulation is now increasing to 2.546 confirmed cases.
On Tuesday,twenty-five (25) new people were declared healed, bringing the total winners to 365. In the rank of death, no additional reports were reported. 67 is so far, the number of deaths in the country.
The newsletter also shows that 567 suspect cases are being investigated and 1679 evolving patients.
Seven of the twenty-six provinces in the country are affected by this pandemic declared in the DRC on March 10th. This is Kinshasa with 2.293, Ituri with 2 cases, of with 2 cases, Haut-Katanga with 21 cases, North Kivu with 35 cases, from South Kivu Kivu with 16 cases and Kongo Central with 176 cases.
.....thanks to our sources.......

54 people killed by the ADF in 2 days in the village Samboko of irumu

It was around 4 am , Tuesday, May 2020, 26 that armed men identified with the Ugandan rebels of the Ugandan rebels made their foray into Samboko, a village located in Chieftainship of Walesse Vonkutu, territory of Irumu more than 130 km south of the city of Bunia.
Local civil society delivering information to
buniaactualite.com says that 14 people were killed this Monday around 4 am and 40 others were killed the next day, making a total of 54 dead in only two days.
" Yesterday at around 4 am, the Ugandan rebels called ADF arrived in the village Samboko, they started shooting in the air. When the population began to run in every way, the ADF started cutting people with machete says Gili Gotabo, coordinator of this citizen structure.
He calls for a strengthening of the military in this border part of Beni (North Kivu), where these out have been running for years.
" The national and provincial government must affect several mileage in the territory to end this kind of situation he says.
Several deaths have been recorded in this part between North Kivu and Ituri since the Congolese army launched in-depth operations against rebel positions.

DRC's first vice president of national aasembly has been impeached by MPs, start of a deep divorce?

Members have removed the first Vice-President of their National Assembly by a very large majority.
The evening will have been heated in the National Assembly and yet the vote of the petition which was to lead to the removal of Jean-Marc Kabund-a-Kabund, also president a.i. of udps by Félix Tshisekedi's only decision, did not do any doubt.
Indeed, since the announcement of Félix Tshisekedi's presidential victory (without any ticket of a voting office has ever been published), the presidential party knows that it is and will always be under the supervision of a legislative power national fully in the hands of Joseph Kabila's Common Front for Congo (FCC).
MLC MP Jean-Jacques Mamba's petition, launched on the grounds that the first vice president of the National Assembly would have negatively affected the image of his institution by publicly providing on the air of a kinoise radio that call a convention to vote the state Health emergency in the face of the coronavirus would cost "$ 7 million", a figure not related to reality, so had every chance to be voted if it collected the 50 votes needed (out of 500 Members) for be able to be dropped.
Indeed, if the opposition left the two components of the coalition in power to tear apart, this petition could only exist if FCC members decided to sign their signature at the bottom of this text. From the moment, among the signing of the petition, there was a large majority of FCC, there was little doubt that the text would go to the end of its process and would therefore lead to the removal of Kabund-a-Kabund. And in fact, out of 315 MPs participating in the vote during this of-19 pandemic, 17 voted against the petition, 9 abstention, while 289 elected officials voted in favor of the text.
Hot spring in Congolese rooms
The tension between Jean-Mard Kabund and Jeanine Mabunda, the very kabiliste president of the National Assembly is no mystery to anyone. The eviction of Kabund, who tried a last wrong to his president when she voted the petition while a dispute was still high on one of the petition's signatures, did not fix anything. Through this hostility, it is the limits of the FCC - cach coalition (of Tshisekedi and... Kamerhe) that appear in the open. And what just played in the National Assembly brings back early May tensions in the Senate when a Senator from Modest Bahati (former FCC member who came closer to cach), Mrs. Jewelry Goya Kitenge, had tried to put into trouble the president of the Upper House, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba. In question of the renovation work of the Chamber and its surroundings through a contract signed voluntarily and without being included in the budget.
If President Thambwe was put in a brief form by a well-conducted and very well-documented statement of the Senator of Haut Katanga, the man, after a little glorious unpacking session, quickly back himself, understanding that he had nothing fear because - although some senators might be tempted to play a pendable tour to the former Justice Minister still very close to the first circle of the kabilie - he had a large majority more than comfortable in the Senate to ensure his tranquility.
The opposite of Kabund and the few "elected" of the cach platform who know and to whom the kabilistes reminded this Monday evening that they depended exclusively on their good will... especially in this hot spring where Kinshasa rustles, as usual , of a thousand rumors.
The first announces an in-depth restructuring of the government. Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga could pack his bags. The name of Matata Ponyo is regularly mentioned. Tshisekedi's DRC has lived on credit for more than a year. The Covid, the drop in export and the melting of raw materials prices make the state crates, which are already hungry, are now almost completely empty and with no prospect of a better in the short term.
The DRC will have to hit quickly on the doors of international donors. The IMF and World Bank have always had a little weakness for the man at the Maniema red tie. The presidential camp has finished burning its last rounds by definitely being unable to - simply - reduce his lifestyle.
What to consider, therefore, the start of the second rumor and the end of the cach-FCC coalition in power for a co-existence that would send back udps and UNC in the opposition and leave Félix Tshisekedi alone in the opposition and leave Félix Tshisekedi alone in front of his current ally. A scenario that should still stir up the discord in udps, deprived of maroquins and having only a few elected officials, and which could also harm the very survival of the UNC, the party of a vital Kamerhe, still held at the of prison as part of the case of diversion of funds during the 100-day program of the head of state.
Kinshasa likes to spread these rumors. Kabila has gone master in their use to gauge their possible impact. Only for sure, Kabund is no longer the first vice president of the National Assembly, Kamerhe is still in prison and state crates are empty every day a little more.