DEFENCE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• India's indigenously built Light Combat  Aircraft Tejas has been inducted into the Indian Air Force on December 
• India test-fired its nuclear-capable Agni-III ballistic missiles with a strike range of over 3,000 km from Odisha coast 
• Indian Air Force has bid farewell to MiG-21 FL - its first supersonic combat jet aircraft that served it for over five decades.
• India has signed a mega contract of $1.01 billion with USA for six more C-130J "Super Hercules" jumbo military cargo aircrafts.
• India offers to train Sri Lankan Navy officers.
• China's lunar probe Chang'e-3 landed on the moon, carrying the "Jade Rabbit" or Yu Tu rover.
• A US space agency rover rambling on the dry surface of Mars has for the first time discovered evidence of what used to be a freshwater lake.
• Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, a re-fitted versoin of Russian ship Admiral Gorshkov, inducted into the Indian Navy at INS Kadamba at KArwar, Karnataka.
• The Indian and  US navies conducted their annual Malabar joint exercises in the Bay of Bangal, off the coast of Tamil Nadu, from Nov.
• The Indian Army tested an  advanced version of Brahmos supersonic cruisemissile system (block III  variant) successfully at the Pokhran, Rajasthan.