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Lieutenant General Akhilesh Kumar assumed charge as the General Officer Commanding of the Indian Army’s 1 Corps on 1 October 2026. The corps is also known as Strike One Corps and is headquartered at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. He succeeded Lieutenant General V Hariharan in this appointment.
Mahindra Group and Brazilian aerospace company Embraer have identified Nagpur in Maharashtra as the proposed location for a Final Assembly Line for the C-390 Millennium military transport aircraft. The plan is linked to the Indian Air Force Medium Transport Aircraft programme, under which India may procure 60 to 80 aircraft.
The United States Navy awarded a multi-year production contract to RTX subsidiary Raytheon for the Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) interceptor missile on 1 October 2026. The contract is valued at up to $24.4 billion and covers five years with an additional two-year extension option.
India exported the Akash air defence system to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan as of 1 October 2026. Akash is an indigenous short to medium-range surface-to-air missile system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation and produced by Bharat Dynamics Limited and Bharat Electronics Limited.
The Indian Air Force’s No. 17 Squadron, known as the Golden Arrows, completed 75 years on 1 October 2026. The squadron was raised on 1 October 1951 at Air Force Station Ambala, and Flight Lieutenant D. L. Springett served as its first commanding officer.
The Indian Army conducted Exercise Jai Se Vijay on 29 September 2026 near the India-Pakistan International Border in Rajasthan. The drill used a stretch of National Highway-911 near Dantour as a temporary military runway for helicopter operations.
The Second Edition of the Naval Commanders’ Conference 2026 is scheduled from 29 September to 1 October 2026 at Nausena Bhawan in New Delhi. The conference is the apex-level forum of the Indian Navy and brings together senior naval leadership, including operational commanders and area commanders.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated four road infrastructure projects in Delhi on 29 September 2026 with a combined cost of ₹1,941 crore. The projects included the Barapullah Phase 3 elevated corridor, the Mukarba Chowk underpass, and foundation stones for the Modi Mill-Kalkaji flyover and the Savitri Cinema half-flyover.
Indian Naval Ship (INS) Ranvijay, a frontline destroyer of the Indian Navy, made a port call at Salalah in Oman on 29 September 2026. The visit formed part of the ship’s ongoing deployment and was linked with maritime cooperation between India and Oman.
Odisha-based BonV Aero supplied 45 heavy-payload Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to the Indian Army’s Eastern Command on 28 September 2026. The UAVs are meant for tactical logistics and mission-specific operations in Northeast India, where terrain, weather, and limited road access affect surface movement.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah unveiled PRAHAAR, which stands for Policy for Response Against Hostile Activities and Radicalism, as India’s first national counter-terrorism policy and strategy on 23 February 2026. A conference on “PRAHAAR – CT Policy and Strategy” was held in New Delhi on 28 September 2026, and the strategy was discussed as a 10-year institutional framework.
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh flagged-in the First Ascent Mountaineering Expedition in New Delhi on 25 September 2026. The expedition recorded the first-ever summits of 20 unclimbed peaks above 6,000 metres in Ladakh in 23 days.