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India successfully test fires user trial version of Brahmos supersonic cruise missile

India successfully test fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile as part of a user trial by the Army from a Chandipur off Odisha coast. The Brahmos missile development is...

July 31, 2012

Indian Army and DRDO collaborate to develop tank-killer Nag missile

Despite differences running b/w the Army and DRDO, the two are trying cooperate in the development of world-class tank-killer missile. What are the problems? The problem with the...

July 18, 2012

India successfully test fires Agni-1 nuke missile user trial

India successfully test-fired its home-built nuclear potent Agni-I ballistic missile off Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island, Odisha coast. Highlighting features of Agni-1: Strike range: 700 km Surface-to-surface...

July 14, 2012

Sukhoi fighters to be integrated with BrahMos missiles

India is heading towards joining the power club of few countries having air-launched cruise missiles with a proposal to equip the Indian Air Force’s vanguard fighter aircraft Su-30...

June 21, 2012

Russia test fires Topol RS -12M

Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, RVSN, test-fired a Topol RS-12M. The missile launched from Kapustin Yar launch site in the southern Russian region of Astrakhan, hit the target successfully...

June 8, 2012

India successfully test fires Air Force version of ‘Akash’ missile

India successfully test fired 2 indigenously-developed surface-to-air ‘Akash’ missiles of Air Force version from Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Odisha. The anti-aircraft missiles have a strike...

June 3, 2012

Pakistan successfully test fires Hatf-9 Nasr missile

Pakistan successfully test-fired a short-range Hatf 9 (Nasr) missile Range: 60 km Capable of carrying nuclear weapons Pakistan’s 3rd ballistic missile test since April 2012, after India successfully...

June 2, 2012

Akash missile test fired successfully

Akash test fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, about 15 km from Balasore in Odisha coast. Akash Surface-to-surface air missile System Indigenously-developed under Integrated Guided...

May 25, 2012

Navy to commission hi-tech warship INS Teg in Russia

Armed with the surface-to-surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, a medium range gun and anti-submarine rockets, guided missile frigate INS Teg will be commissioned into the Indian Navy today...

April 27, 2012

Pak successfully test-fires Hatf IV, Shaheen 1A missile

Pakistan successfully test-fired long-range Hatf IV, Shaheen 1A ballistic missile in the Indian Ocean. The missile’s range and technical parameters have been improved while it is capable of...

April 25, 2012

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