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The missile was randomly chosen from the production stock and the entire launch activity was carried out by SFC of the Army and monitored by scientists of DRDO as part of the training exercise, official sources said. The downrange teams on board India successfully testfired on Wednesday night...

In this second part of an interview with ET’s Manu Pubby, DRDO Chief G Sateesh Reddy describes the indigenous ASTRA missile as ready for induction and detailed how all components for the Ballistic Missile Defence system are now ready. Two new missile projects by DRDO have stood out – the ASTRA...

India on November 16 conducted successfully the first night trial of Agni-II, its versatile surface-to-surface medium range nuclear-capable missile from Dr Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast yesterday. The missile has a strike range of 2000 km, the sources said soon after it blasted off from a...

Mikhail Pogosyan Mikhail Pogosyan (born 18/04/1956 Mr.) General Director of JSC "Sukhoi Design Bureau", the president of the KLA, General Director of RAC "MiG" Mikhail Pogosyan (Photo roughly 2009-2010, http://pakfa.ucoz.ru ) Chief designer of aircraft: - C-37 ( "Su-47") As a designer...

USS / light multi-purpose aircraft carrier - a variant of restructuring heavy aircraft carrier aircraft carrier with springboard (angle of 12.5 degrees) normal take-off deck aircraft. On the ship dismantled weapons, upgrade equipment. The ship is designed for the Indian Navy, and under the name...

Setbacks for New Delhi’s first homemade aircraft carrier slow efforts to face China on high seas NEW DELHI—When top American naval engineers recently inspected India’s first locally made aircraft carrier they expected to find a near battle-ready ship set to help counter China’s growing sway in...

The surface-to-surface missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher at 10.10 AM from the Abdul Kalam Island India on Tuesday successfully test-fired its indigenously built nuclear capable Agni-I ballistic missile, which can hit a target 700 km away, as part of a user trial by Army from a...

BMP-3 Author: Nayeem Sheikh BMP-3 / Object 688M "Fable" BMP-3K BMP-3MICV BMP-3F Floating infantry fighting vehicle with ATRA. CSC developed the Kurgan Engineering Plant, chief designer - A. Nikonov according to one and A. A.Blagonravov other. Development 2K23 armament system - Instrument...

9K338 Igla-S - SA-24 GRINCH Author: Nayeem Sheikh portable air defense systems (MANPADS). A KBM (Kolomna), Chief Designer - Fokin RV, as modernization 9K38 MANPADS "Igla".MANPADS created using the findings and experience in creating MANPADS "Igla-D" with a collapsible tube launcher and "Igla-H"...

Promising heavy intercontinental ballistic missile. IDB Development is given no later than June 2009 ( according to an interview with the commander RSVN N.Solovtsova, 10.06.2009 ), and plans to create a missile by the end of 2016 ( source - the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces...

Fully deployed 72V6 SPAAGM prototype on BAZ-6909 chassis. This variant incorporates a new VNIIRT designed 1RS2-1E agile beam phased array engagement radar. The primary design aim for this system was the interception of PGMs, especially the AGM-88 HARM and GBUs (Sergei Kuznetsov via Strizhi.ru)...

Over three weeks ago, the United States solemnly remembered the attacks of 9/11 and the 15 years that have passed since that fateful day. America can never forget that day, but with this week comes the opportunity to reflect on what followed the terrorist attacks: the military response, known...

The U.S. military’s phasing construct is ill-suited for today’s challenges. Editor’s Note: This article is the first of a new series in which thinkers from the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) will explore the U.S. military’s phasing construct and the line between war and peace...

A naval interceptor boat caught fire, hurting two at Princep Ghat here, near the Eastern Command Army headquarters, on Tuesday morning. The interceptor speed boat was one of the two boats the Navy hired from a private agency. The two hurt men were of the agency and have been admitted in a city...

PANAJI: Union Home minister Rajnath Singh along with defence minister Manohar Parrikar on Friday commissioned Indian coast guard vessel, ICGS Saarthi at Goa Shipyard Limited, Vasco coast guard had ordered. The first ship was delivered on November 26, 2014. The in-house-designed 105-meter...

When pilot Viktor Belenko defected 40 years ago, he did so in a mysterious Soviet plane – the MiG-25. BBC Future investigates the far-reaching effects of one of the Cold War’s most intriguing events. On 6 September 1976, an aircraft appears out of the clouds near the Japanese city of Hakodate...

State-owned Indian defence company Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) is planning to establish a new facility dedicated to developing and producing night-vision products, the company confirmed to IHS Jane's on 6 September. The new BEL plant will be based in Nimmaluru in the eastern state of...

The Launch Modular Enclosure enables Aegis Ashore's vertical launch system to operate as if it were on a ship, as the original system is. Source: US Missile Defense Agency A US Navy (USN) official told IHS Jane's on 22 December that the first land-based Aegis capability is expected to be ready...

An A-29 Super Tucano on a training sortie in the skies over Georgia in the United States. The Afghan Air Force will begin fielding the aircraft operationally in early 2016. Source: 438th Air Expeditionary Wing The US Air Force (USAF) has graduated the first class of Afghan pilots to be...

Vietnam's new HS-6L UAV, which has 22 m wingspan and an endurance of 35 hours, will greatly improve Vietnam's surveillance capabilities. Source: Via Top81 web page Vietnamese television and other media reports have revealed Vietnam's largest indigenous high-altitude long-endurance (HALE)...