Context
A Bengaluru-based venture has produced a rugged tactical battery that it is now planning to sell to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) forces in Europe.
What is Pravaig Field Pack?
- It’s a portable, heavy-duty power bank that weights 14 kg.
- It’s especially useful for today’s digitally connected military and Special Forces personnel who have to work in high-risk areas while utilising gadgets that demand constant power.
- India conceived, engineered, and manufactured these batteries.
- A MacBook may be charged 60 times using the field pack.
Significance of Pravaig
- This supply is a defining moment in India’s defence landscape, a turning point in the country’s high-tech defence industry’s transformation from users to developers, importers to exporters.
- The field pack can be used to re-energize military personnel in the field and to install remote sensors.
- A powerful tactical battery can be used to operate larger military equipment like drones, as well as assisting in the coordination of tactical operations involving several weapons systems.
About North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance created in 1949.
- It Aims to provide collective security against Soviet expansionism and to encourage European political integration in the aftermath of World War II.
- It serves as a collective security system, wherein its member states agree to mutually defend any attack on a member party.
- There are 30 countries that are currently part of NATO.
- Two countries in North America and 28 European countries, including several former Soviet nations.
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