Astra BVR missile successfully tested
Press Release: DRDO has successfully conducted two flight tests of Astra beyond Visual Range Air to Air missile on 13 and 14 Sept 2008 from […]
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Missiles
The Truth about the Rohini radar (from Prasun K Sengupta)
FORCE Magazine/Tempur defence writer Prasun K Sengupta wrote in a few days ago to say, “Before DRDO and BEL take us all to Cloud 9
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Aerospace Command? Yeah, right!
The phrase Aerospace Command has become one of the most ironic phrases in Indian defence today. It is ostensibly to be a touchstone of jointmanship
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INS Sindhuvijay on way home
The long-docked INS Sindhuvijay (Kilo class) submarine, in Russia for a refit since 2005, began its journey back on Wednesday. Here’s a RIA Novosti report:
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IAF gets first Rohini 3D-Surveillance Radar
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), today handed over the first of the 3-dimensional radar ‘Rohini’ to the Indian Air Force. The state-of-the-art Multifunction Medium Range Surveillance
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Photo Released Today: Nag ATGM Testfired
Fake photo release?? Bumped into DRDO’s Dr Prahlada a couple of hours ago at the FORCE magazine anniversary celebrations. He confirmed to me that the
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Nag ready for final trials
Next week, Nag, the indigenously developed third generation anti-tank guided missile (3GATGM) will begin terminal trials at the Pokhran range in Rajasthan. Spread across three
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Price war over Akash missile? (Updated)
This is something I’ve heard from three separate senior folks in the Indian Air Force, but haven’t been able to get an official confirmation yet
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Indo-French Maitri Programme: Don’t repeat BrahMos botch-ups
The Indo-French missile programme Maitri, basically a face-saving bailout of the completely botched Trishul (Dr Prahalada was candid about this when he spoke to me
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Prithvi-II achieves “near perfect” accuracy
Here’s the press release that the Defence Ministry issued this afternoon: The surface-to-surface ballistic missile Prithvi-II was successfully launched from ITR, Chandipur, Balasore off Orissa
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