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Raytheon Wins $20 Million DARPA Contract For Hypersonic Missile Development
April 30, 2015 @ 02:59 PMRaytheon announced Wednesday that it has won a $20 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop and demonstrate technology to enable air-launched hypersonic boost glide systems for missiles for the Tactical Boost Glide program (TBG). The hypersonics will enable missiles to fly more than five times faster than speed of sound
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Indian Navy’s Indigenous Stealth Destroyer Ready For Launch
April 16, 2015 @ 12:20 PMIndian Navys indigenously built INS Visakhapatanam-class stealth destroyer is ready to launch, Free Press Journal reported Thursday. Visakhapatanam (Project-15B) built by the Mazagaon Dockyard Limited (MDL) is an improved stealth, power packed destroyer and more advanced than Kolkata class
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BrahMos Aerospace Offers Missile To Russia
March 24, 2015 @ 10:13 AMThe Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace has proposed to Russian Defense Ministry the sale of a new cruise missile for the countrys armed forces. The corporation's co-director, Alexandr Maxichevy told Prensa Latina, the official news agency of Cuba, on Monday that a goal of BrahMos Aerospace Ltd is exporting this missile to other countries using Su-30 fighter aircraft
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Russia Develops New Fuel For Hypersonic Cruise Missile
February 17, 2015 @ 02:19 PMRussia has developed a fuel that will enable missiles to fly five times faster the speed of sound. If the development is utilized effectively, it would make Russia a major player in a growing hypersonic arms race, a deputy defense minister told The Mascow Times
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Pentagon To Extend Range Of THAAD Missile Interceptors
January 8, 2015 @ 11:55 AMThe Pentagon is planning to upgrade one of its missile interceptors' range designed to shoot down weapons launched by North Korea and Iran, so that it could target super fast Russian and Chinese missiles of the future. Lockheed Martin has been working on modifications to its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors, known as THAAD
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Domestic Firm May Build Parts For BrahMos Missile
January 7, 2015 @ 10:09 AMIndias Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) may bag the order to manufacture components for the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos. The country's biggest integrated engineering complex is in the final round of talks with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and is likely to bag the order early this year, said B K Sharma, general manager (marketing) on Monday
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BrahMos Supersonic Missile To Demonstrate Vertical Dive Capability Next Year
October 17, 2014 @ 08:51 AMIndo-Russian BrahMos supersonic missile will test a near vertical dive and surround capability within a year, The Hindu reported today. The Block –III variant of BrahMos has perfected a surgical strike capability and will further demonstrate vertical dive capability which will allow the Army to inventively approach their operational plans
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US Army To Test Advanced Hypersonic Weapon Technology
March 20, 2014 @ 09:42 AMThe US Army will test its Advanced Hypersonic Weapon Technology Demonstration again in August to help determine the system's future. Lt
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China Announces 12.2 Percent Increase In Defense Budget At $132 Billion
March 5, 2014 @ 08:23 AMChina, in the midst of a massive military modernization, will increase it its annual defense budget to $132 billion, a 12.2 percent increase from the previous year
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China Test Hypersonic Missile Vehicle
January 16, 2014 @ 09:05 AMChina yesterday successfully tested a hypersonic missile vehicle designed to travel several times the speed of a sound, technology that could allow armies to rapidly strike distant targets anywhere around the globe. The flight was conducted on January 9 and the Chinese vehicle, dubbed the WU-14, is supposed to travel at Mach 10, or 10 times the speed of sound, according to a report in The Washington Free Beacon
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