{"id":7884,"date":"2022-11-22T01:37:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2025-03-28T23:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:05:11","slug":"ballistic-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ballistic-shields\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballistic Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ballistic Shields:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The ballistic shields should have a minimum\u00a0<strong>indigenous content of 50%\u00a0<\/strong>and the manufacturer should provide a 60 months warranty for the ballistic shield and 24 months for the harness.<\/li>\n<li>The shield should have a\u00a0<strong>service life of five years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The shield should be of ambidextrous design with height not less than 860 mm and width not less than 520 mm.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>weight should not be more than 20 kg plus 5%,<\/strong>\u00a0including ballistic view port and accessories attached to the shield.<\/li>\n<li>It should be provided with support harness to enable hands-free carriage of ballistic shield while ensuring unhindered usage of personal weapon and balanced weight distribution once fully worn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Emergency financial powers:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Emergency financial powers were granted to the armed forces by the Defence Ministry in the past on three occasions; post the Uri surgical strikes in 2016, the Balakot air strike in 2019 and the 2020 standoff with China in eastern Ladakh.<\/li>\n<li>Under the FTP route, the forces can procure weapons systems\u00a0<strong>upto \u20b9300 crores<\/strong>\u00a0on an \u201curgent basis without any further clearances to cut short the procurement cycle\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Three tranches of EPs were executed\u00a0<\/strong>under which 68 contracts worth \u20b96,000 crores were placed and the\u00a0<strong>fourth EP for indigenous equipment is underway<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/army-issues-rfps-for-ballistic-shields-and-body-worn-cameras\/article66164832.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballistic Shields are specifically designed to stop bullets and dangerous projectiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}