And ur avatar doing just the right stuffOriginally Posted by twinblade
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/a.../1/186248.html
From Dr Saraswat's interview given to India today:-
1.The range of LRTR being extended to 1400 Km.
2. BMD shield phase 1 to be completed by 2013, phase 2 to intercept ICBM by 2016.
3. Cruise missile defence to be taken up once BMD is done with.
4. Arjun 2 rollout in June.
5. LRSAM ( also known as MRSAM for army/ barak 8/ barak ng) to be tested in June in a configuration totally different from what was tested in 2010.
Well with nearly 1.5billion people they should take note!. Imagine how many divisions can you deploy!
You replied to a four year old jingoistic post after the thread crossed two hundred plus pages of meaningful posts containing news, views, images and articles ? Bravo.
http://telegraphindia.com/1120429/js...y_15432138.jsp
Seems like MoD scaled down Indo-US naval excercise "Malabar" so as to not offend the chinese.
http://dnaindia.com/india/report_ind...issile_1682188
A rather major update on Indian missile projects.
1. An indegenous ARM is in works, the article suggests that it would be carried by su-30 suggests that its going to be a big missile.
2. Apart from a long range Astra 2, there is a short range missile under development as well.
3. Pinaka 2 mbrl with a range of 60 km might be tested this year.
Not sure why we should scale down the exercise to please the chinese , Malabar has nothing to do with china but a bilateral exercise.
Not sure why but they are giving mixed signals.
India and Japan to hold joint Naval exercise
twinblade, any update on the realization of the MMRCA deal and details?
sorry to ask about this, but the news seem to die down everywhere, or just me missing it, thanks
The mmrca deal is now moving from tables to tables. For the deal to be finally inked it has to pass via 7-8 committees in MoD and finance, that will take upto december till the fat lady sings.
India to purchase US M777 Howitzers from BAE Systems
http://defense-update.com/20120511_india_clearsm777_howitzers_aquisition.html
http://expressbuzz.com/states/andhra...ls/391607.html
Developed by the Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL), Visakhapatnam with indigenous technology, Varunastra will be tested by the Indian Navy shortly. With this, India is likely to be a part of the select group of nations to operate an underwater weapon with such technology.Weighing around 1.25 tonne, the underwater weapon carries about 250 kg of explosives at a speed of 38 nautical miles per hour. With a circular trajectory, which makes it difficult for the enemy to target it, Varunastra smashes the target (underwater) from both top and bottom. Equipped with the most advanced automatic and remote-controlled guidance system, the weapon uses its own intelligence in tracing the target.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/NE08Df02.html
BANGALORE - The Indian Navy has commissioned a new base, Indian Naval Ship (INS) Dweeprakshak, in the Lakshadweep Islands. Located at Kavaratti, the island chain's capital, Dweeprakshak will provide the navy with a permanent and more robust presence in waters that are threatened by pirates.
The Lakshadweep archipelago (Lakshadweep means a hundred thousand islands in Sanskrit) consists of 36 islands, 12 atolls, three reefs and five submerged banks that are scattered in the
southern Arabian Sea, 200-400 kilometers off the southern Indian coastal state of Kerala.
Since 1980, the Indian Navy has operated a detachment in the Lakshadweep Islands. However, in December 2010 a Coast Guard district headquarters was commissioned at Kavaratti and a Coast Guard station was set up at Minicoy. A second Coast Guard station was set up at Androth Island in April this year.
The facilities at Lakshadweep have been scaled up now to a full-fledged naval base.
INS Dweeprakshak is India's sixth naval base and the fourth protecting the country's western flank. It is India's second base in island territories, the other being the base at the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Dweeprakshak will come under the Southern Naval Command.
http://www.business-standard.com/ind...hips/146455/on
Mazagaon Dock, Pipavav ink JV to build warships
Press Trust of India / Mumbai Sep 12, 2011, 14:59 IST
Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Company (formerly Pipavav Shipyard) today said it will form a joint venture company with state-run Mazagaon Dock (MDL) for building warships for the Indian Navy.
"The Board unanimously approved setting up of the joint venture company with MDL to be named as 'Mazagon Dock Pipavav Ltd'," it said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
The PSU has selected it as the joint venture partner for building warships for the Navy, it added.
It is for the first time post independence that a private sector company has been selected by Defence Ministry- controlled PSU to build warships together, the filing said.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/indi...outh-china-sea
Fri, 04 May 2012 22:20:06 GMT
Indian warships to sail through South China Sea
New Delhi: India's warships will be on a two-month-long deployment in South East Asia, visiting ports in the region and passing through the South China Sea -- which China claims as its backyard threatening in the past warships of other nations from entering the area.
India's Visakhapatnam-based Eastern Naval Command is sending four of its warships to ports in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and other nations in the region, as part of its annual long distance deployment of its surface combatants.The warships that will be on the tour are a Rajput-class destroyer, a Shivalik-class frigate, a Kora class corvette and a tanker. "The deployment is part of Indian Navy's annual plans to deploy warships on long distance friendly port calls on both, the eastern and western seaboard," a navy officer said here Friday. The four warships will leave on their voyage early next week and the deployment will culminate in a port call in Japan about a month from now
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