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  India spikes US' Javelin missiles for Israel's 'Spike'

  India | October 25, 2014 19:58 IST

  New Delhi: India today decided to buy 8,356 Spike anti-tank guided missile and 321 launchers from Israel for Rs 3,200 crore, rejecting US offer of Javelin missiles that Washington was lobbying hard for.The decision was

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  Crucial Defence Acquisition Council meeting on Saturday

  India | October 22, 2014 19:00 IST

  New Delhi: Defence Minister Arun Jaitley will this Saturday chair a crucial meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), a high-level body that decides on procurements for the armed forces.A number of “significant” issues are

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  India test-fires Nuclear-capable missile "Nirbhay"

  India | October 17, 2014 13:16 IST

  New Delhi: India today test-fired the indigenously developed sub-sonic long-range cruise missile 'Nirbhay' from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Odisha at 10.03 AM.It is the second launch of the indigenous weapon developed by

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  Food packets being flown from Mysore to Kashmir

  India | September 13, 2014 7:12 IST

  Bangalore: As relief work progresses in flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, food packets made in Mysore are being flown all the way to Srinagar for the flood victimsAFood packets, prepared using the same technique which goes

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  India to develop man-portable anti-tank guided missile

  India | August 26, 2014 8:42 IST

  Hyderabad: India is working on developing a man-portable anti-tank guided missile capable of being fired from shoulders, a top defence official said in Hyderabad on Monday."We are going to have surface-to-air missile which will be

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  Forces have not allowed China to encroach our land: Jaitley

  India | August 20, 2014 17:51 IST

  New Delhi: Against the backdrop of incursions by Chinese troops, India today said its armed forces were taking “more than adequate” action on such incidents and have not allowed China to encroach any part of

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  PM Narendra Modi at DRDO flays 'chalta hai' attitude

  India | August 20, 2014 17:23 IST

  New Delhi: With several of DRDO's programmes being behind schedule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today sent out a strong message to it by flaying the ‘chalta hai' attitude and asked the defence research body to

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  Air Force not keen on Rs. 30,000 crore Indo-French missile deal: Sources

  India | August 04, 2014 9:04 IST

  New Delhi: An Indo-French proposed joint venture expected to be worth around Rs. 30,000 crore to develop short range air defence missiles seems to have run into rough weather as the Indian Air Force feels

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  Indian Navy LCA to soon begin test flights

  India | July 11, 2014 11:32 IST

  New Delhi: The naval variant of India's indegenous light combat aircraft (LCA) is due to soon begin ramp trials.Avinash Chander, scientific adviser to the defence minister and director general Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO),

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  India can export fighter planes, missiles, says DRDO chief

  India | June 23, 2014 8:03 IST

  New Delhi:  With Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressing on the need for increasing arms exports, the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has said India can sell combat aircraft and missiles whose production cost would

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  INS Arihant to testfire BO-5 missiles in sea trials: DRDO

  India | June 20, 2014 16:13 IST

  New Delhi: The indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant is set to be launched for sea trials in a “month or two” and it will testfire the submarine-launched nuclear capable ballistic missile BO-5, DRDO said today.The

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  Akash missile ready for induction into Army: DRDO

  India | June 18, 2014 20:12 IST

  New Delhi: Moving towards induction into operational service, the DRDO-developed Akash air defence missile system was today successfully test-fired by the Army and it hit an unmanned aerial vehicle.Buoyed by the success of the air

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  India to lay down policy for missile exports

  India | June 15, 2014 7:13 IST

  Hyderabad: India has the capability to export missiles and it will soon start laying down policy norms, said Avinash Chander, scientific advisor to the defence minister.He told reporters here Saturday that many countries were sowing

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  India's supersonic Aakash missiles intercepts moving targets in test

  India | May 29, 2014 8:42 IST

  Bhubaneswar: India's supersonic, medium-range surface-to-air Aakash missiles Wednesday successfully intercepted fast moving targets in ripple mode in a test carried out from a defence base in Odisha, an official said.The missiles were launched from the

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  India successfully test-fires new interceptor missile

  India | April 27, 2014 11:42 IST

  Balasore, Odisha:  India today successfully test-fired a new interceptor missile capable of neutralizing any incoming long-range missile at higher altitude. The interceptor, positioned at launch pad-IV of Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island, about 100

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  India successfully test fires surface-to-air Akash missile

  India | April 26, 2014 14:20 IST

  Balasore (Odisha): India today successfully conducted two rounds of trials of its indigenously developed surface-to-air Akash missile as part of a user trial by the air force from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur

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  Vizag incident 'industrial, not related to Navy': DRDO

  India | March 10, 2014 19:18 IST

  Chennai: DRDO, inquiring into the March 8 accident at Visakhapatnam, in which one civilian worker was killed and two injured, today said “it was not related to the Navy but an industrial accident.”"What happened at

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  Armed Forces,DRDO Computers Hacked

  March 07, 2014 17:15 IST

  New Delhi: In a major security breach, around 50 computers belonging to the armed forces and the DRDO were hacked sometime back and classified files could have been compromised. Apparently in view of the development, an

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  50 computers belonging to armed forces and DRDO hacked

  India | March 06, 2014 23:08 IST

  New Delhi: 50 computers of the DRDO containing highly sensitive information have been hacked said the government forces.In a major security infringement, 50 computers and highly classified files had been hacked.The government had ordered a

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  DRDO develops corner-shot rifle for counter-insurgency

  India | February 07, 2014 17:32 IST

  New Delhi: India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a corner-shot rifle for the special forces that provides greater safety during counter-insurgency operations as its user is not in the direct line of