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 * MD 530F Cayuse Warrior
 * It is a light scout attack helicopter developed from OH-6 Cayuse. It incorporating simple fixed-forward sighting system, FN Herstal weapons management system, Rohde & Schwarz M3AR tactical mission radio and Dillon Aero mission configurable armament system (MCAS) weapons plank.
 * Performance: Service selling 16000 ft, range 235 nmi, cruising speed 135 nmi per hour.
 * Weapons: Two hardpoints for FN HMP400 gun pod with FN M3P .50 BMG heavy machine gun (1100 rpm firing rate, carries 400 rounds ammo, effective firing range nearly 1,850 m, maximum firing range 6500 m) and/or M260 rocket pod with 7 unguided Hydra 70 rockets (effective firing range 8 km).
 * Afghanistan Air Force is the largest operator of MD 530F Cayuse Warrior.  According to Colonel Qalandari, Afghan Air Force pilot, “It’s unsafe to fly, the engine is too weak, the tail rotor is defective and it’s not armored. If we go down after the enemy we’re going to have enemy return fire, which we can’t survive. If we go up higher, we can’t visually target the enemy".

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VACCINE MAITRI (English: Vaccine Friendship) is a humanitarian and commercial initiative undertaken by the Indian government to provide COVID-19 vaccines to countries around the world. Indian government had started providing vaccines since 20 January 2021. As of 9April 2021, India had delivered around 64.5 million doses of vaccines to 85 countries. Of these, 10.5 million doses were gifted to 45 countries by the Government of India. The remaining 54 million were supplied by the Serum Institute of India under its commercial and COVAX obligations. However, in late March 2021, Modi's government temporarily froze exports of the AstraZeneca vaccine, citing India's own COVID crisis and the domestic need for these vaccines.

While speaking at the UN General Assembly high-level panel on the human rights situation in Syria, India pledged help the United Nations to vaccinate Syria through the Vaccine Maitri policy, as Syria is facing a dire situation compounded by COVID-19, winterisation and food insecurity.

200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines were gifted by India to the UN peacekeepers on 27 March to be distributed to all peacekeeping missions.

Vaccines
India has two approved COVID-19 vaccines: Covishield and Covaxin. Both of them were exported and used in foreign grants by the Government of India.

Covishield
On 1 January 2021, the Drug Controller General of India, approved the emergency or conditional use of Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine (marketed as Covishield). Covishield is developed by the University of Oxford and its spin-out company, Vaccitech. It’s a viral vector vaccine based on replication-deficient Adenovirus that causes cold in Chimpanzees. It can be stored, transported and handled at normal refrigerated conditions (two-eight degrees Celsius/ 36-46 degrees Fahrenheit). It has a shelf-life of at least six months.

Covaxin
On 2 January 2021, BBV152 (marketed as Covaxin), first Indian vaccine, developed by Bharat Biotech in association with the Indian Council of Medical Research and National Institute of Virology received approval from the Drug Controller General of India for its emergency or conditional usage. However, this approval was met with some concern as the vaccine had not then completed phase-3 trials. On 3March 2021, Bharat Biotech announced that interim results of covaxin showed the 81% efficacy. Trial was conducted on the 25,800 people in India.

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The Bangladesh government ordered 30 million doses and paid in advance for 15 million doses. However, Serum supplied only 7 million doses from the tripartite agreement in the first two months of 2021. Bangladesh was supposed to receive 5 million doses per month but not received shipments in March and April. As a result, rollout of vaccine has been disrupted by supply shortfalls. Bangladesh then looked for alternative vaccine sources because India did not supply the vaccines. Bangladesh suspended the first dosing of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from 26 April 2021 due to the supply crunch.

Vaccine supply
India kicked off international shipment of the vaccines on 20 January 2021, only four days after starting its own vaccination program. Bhutan and Maldives were the first countries to receive vaccines as a grant by India. This was quickly followed by shipments to Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Seychelles. By mid-March 2021, India was also supplying vaccines on a commercial basis to countries including Canada, the UK, and Saudi Arabia.

The Serum Institute of India was selected as a key supplier of cost-effective COVID-19 vaccines to the COVAX initiative. Several million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine AZD1222 were supplied by India to various countries through the COVAX initiative.

In May, when COVAX was already short 140 million doses, the Serum Institute announced that it expected to maintain its suspension of vaccine deliveries to COVAX through the end of 2021.

Bangladesh ordered 30 million doses of Covishield and Indian government has given 3.2 million doses to Bangladesh as a gift but India failed to deliver most of the doses as per time line of the commercial agreement. India even failed timely delivery of 15 million doses from the commercial agreement even thought Bangladesh  paid in advance for it. As a result, 1.3 million citizens of Bangladesh could not get the second dose of this vaccine after the first dose. Bangladesh then looked for alternative vaccine sources because India did not supply the vaccine as per the agreement.

Vaccines exported
As of 29 March 2021, India had exported 58 million doses to more than 65 nations. As of 15 March 2021, India had also donated over 8 million doses to 37 countries.

International Organizations

 * WHO: WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom has thanked India and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sharing the crucial commodity, COVID-19 vaccine, across the world in pandemic-ridden times. He also added that "India's commitment to COVAX and sharing COVID-19 vaccine doses is helping more than 60 countries to start vaccinating their health workers and other priority groups."
 * IMF: IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath lauded India for playing a key role during the crisis by dispatching vaccines to many countries. She said "I also want to mention that India really stands out in terms of its vaccine policy. If you look at where exactly is one manufacturing hub for vaccines in the world – that will be India."

Countries

 * 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
 * 🇯🇲 Jamaica of the OACPS has thanked Indian efforts in delivering vaccines to developing and least developed countries.
 * St. Lucia on behalf of CARICOM thanked India for providing vaccine supplies to them.
 * 🇬🇹 Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei thanked the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and External Affair Minister of India S. Jaishankar for accepting the call of assistance to supply Covishield vaccines from India.
 * 🇧🇧 Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the supply of "Made in India" COVID-19 vaccines. She tweeted, "PM Modi made it possible for more than 40,000 persons in Barbados and tens of thousands elsewhere, to receive their 1st dose of COVISHIELD via Vaccine Maitri before receiving his. A genuine demonstration of generosity. Thank you and we wish you continued good health."
 * 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne had thanked Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi "for demonstrating an act of benevolence, kindness and empathy", for sending vaccines to Caribbean countries.
 * After India sent 500,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Canada, billboards with pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and thanking India were put up in the Greater Toronto area. The billboards hailed the Canada-India friendship.

Other Institutions

 * Dr Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said "The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine is 'India's gift' to the world in combating coronavirus and will be remembered as a time when the country stepped up in a major way as a global player in innovation [and] the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines by India in collaboration with leading global institutions has 'rescued the world' from the deadly coronavirus and the contributions by the country must not be underestimated."

Leaders who received vaccines provided by India

 * 🇰🇭 Cambodia – Heng Samrin, Say Chhum
 * 🇳🇵 Nepal – KP Sharma Oli