It is the joint military exercise conducted between India and Maldives.
It is being conducted every year alternatively in India and Maldives. The latest exercise was conducted in Maldives in Dec 2016.
The Objectives are to enhance defence cooperation and interoperability between the army of both countries with emphasis on Counter Insurgency and Counter Terrorist operations under UN mandate.
Barak 8 Missile
The Barak 8 Missile (Surface to Air) system is jointly developed by India and Israel and it is the upgraded version of Barak Missile system.
Barak 8 Missile consists of Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile (LR-SAM) and Medium Range Surface-to-Air Missile (MR-SAM).
LR-SAM is the Ship Launch Version and Project MR-SAM is the Land Launch Version of Barak 8 Missile system.
The MR-SAM detects the enemy aircraft over 100 km and destroys them at range up to 70 km.
LR-SAM is capable to penetrate in deep water/land to intercept all types of aerial targets like Subsonic & Supersonic Missiles, Fighter Aircraft, Maritime Patrolling Aircraft (MPA), Helicopter and Sea Skimming Missiles.
Shifting from FM to Digital Radio
Norway will become the first country in the world to begin shutting down its entire FM (Frequency Modulation) radio network and replacing it with digital radio,
Digital Audio Broadcasting works by coding sound into digital signals, breaking them up, and then decoding and assembling them at the destination using digital radio receivers.
In DAB, there is minimal loss of audio quality, and sound is reproduced in near CD-like quality. On the other hand, AM/FM suffers with loss of quality from interference caused by signals bouncing off buildings, towers and natural structures like mountains.
Since Norway has many mountains, valleys and fjords, shifting to digital radio will give a steady signal in any topography.
Though DAB has the potential to provide better sound quality than FM, filling up the DAB bandwidth which may divide the bit-rate i.e. the rate of data transfer among the broadcasts will result in drop in quality.
