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India Plans Autonomous Defense Procurement Agency
March 14, 2017 @ 09:08 AMBased on the recommendation of a committee report submitted in February this year, the Indian ministry of defense is likely to set up an independent defense procurement organization. In order to study the setting up of a defence procurement organization, the Ministry of Defence in April 2016 constituted a Committee under the chairmanship of Pritam Singh, Management Expert
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BrahMos Extended Range Missile Hits Target At 400 KM Distance
March 11, 2017 @ 09:47 AMThe Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and BrahMos Aerospace today successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a test range along the Odisha coast. According to the company press release, the cruise missile which is capable of carrying a warhead of 300 kg, precisely hit enemy targets at much higher range than the current range of 290 km, with supersonic speed of 2
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India Looking To Export Home-Made Weapons Locating Radar
March 3, 2017 @ 02:27 PMIndia is looking to export its ‘Swati radar which can provide accurate location of all enemy weapons in a 50-km range. SWATI will track all enemy weapons like mortars, shells and rockets firing within in its effective zone of coverage and simultaneously handle multiple projectiles fired from different weapons at different locations
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India's Jindal To Manufacture High Nitrogen Steel For Armour Applications
March 1, 2017 @ 11:36 AMIndia's Jindal Stainless (Hisar) today has entered into the defence sector by signing the License agreement with Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence which entails transfer of technology for manufacturing High Nitrogen Steel (HNS) for Armour applications. The agreement was signed in the presence of Union Minister of State for Defence, Dr
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India's DRDO Plans Collaboration With Israel For AWACS Development
February 27, 2017 @ 11:59 AMIndia's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), in collaboration with Israel, has planned to develop a long-range Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) with a 360-degree coverage. The system will be similar to the Phalcon A-50 long-range AWACS
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India Clears $2.5 Billion Deal With Israel For MR-SAM Air Defense Missile
February 23, 2017 @ 10:46 AMIndian government has cleared a US$2.5 billion deal for the country's army to buy Medium Range Surface to Air Defence Missile (MR-SAM) system from Israeli Aircraft Industries
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India To Test Fire Home-Made Torpedo From Russian EKM Class Submarine
February 16, 2017 @ 12:58 PMIndia has decided to test domestically developed heavyweight torpedo Varunastra from Russian EKM class submarines. Indias anti-submarine torpedo will be going on trial from INS Sindhughosh submarine soon,
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India's Bharat Electronics Launches Remote-Controlled Weapons Station For Army's Arjun Tanks
February 15, 2017 @ 12:34 PMIndias Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) on Tuesday has launched remote controlled weapon station (RCWS) for the Armys Arjun tanks at Aero India. The RCWS is an improvised version of the manually operated air defence gun that enables the soldier to aim and fire at aerial targets from the safe interiors of the battle tank
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DRDO Plans To Increase Focus on Unmanned Platforms
February 15, 2017 @ 09:48 AMIndias Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO) will increase its focus on developing unmanned platforms for land, sea and air operations in keeping with global trends. “DRDO has developed two robots “Daksh Mini” and “Daksh Scout” that are capable of detecting and defusing improvised explosive devices (IED) on aircraft and trains
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Indian Air Force Inducts Home Made All-weather AEW&C System
February 14, 2017 @ 02:36 PMThe Indian Air Force has inducted today its first indigenously developed airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system, integrated on a Brazilian Embraer-145 jet. It's a Rs 2,400-crore (US$ 359
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