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Indian Navy’s Second Scorpene-class Stealth Submarine Launched
January 12, 2017 @ 10:04 AMKhanderi, the second of Indian Navys Scorpene class stealth submarine, was ‘launched paving the way for her sea trials. The submarine is expected to be delivered to Navy by the year end
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Achieved Second Nuke Strike Capability With Sub-Launched Cruise Missile: Pak Army
January 11, 2017 @ 09:33 AMPakistan has claimed successful second strike capability with the launch of a submarine-based cruise missile that can carry nuclear missiles upto a 450 km range on Monday. Second strike capability means that Pakistan can respond to a nuclear strike on its soil from a mobile platform located at sea and hit at targets in the enemys territory
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US Navy's Columbia-Class Submarine Enter Engineering Development Phase
January 10, 2017 @ 01:56 PMUS Navys Columbia-class submarine program has cleared milestone B last week, allowing the submarine to move into the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase. During this engineering, Manufacturing development phase, the focus would be achieving an 83 percent design maturity prior to construction start in 2021,
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Safran To Build New Inertial Navigation System For French Ballistic Subs
January 10, 2017 @ 11:50 AMSafran Electronics and Defense has won a contract to design, develop and build an improvised version of global inertial navigation system used on French ballistic missile submarines. The contract from the country's military procurement agency calls for a variant of the system used on Triomphant-class nuclear submarines
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Indian Navy To Induct INS Kalvari Only When Operational Ready
January 10, 2017 @ 10:57 AMIndian defense ministry has plans to commission vessels hereafter, including first Scorpene-class submarine INS Kalvari into service provided only when it is ready for operational deployment. However, the ministry is seeking to change the old practice of inducting incomplete warships,
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Indian Navy’s Second Scorpene-class Submarine To Be Launched This Week
January 10, 2017 @ 10:20 AMIndian Navys second Scorpene class submarine ‘Khanderi will be launched at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) in Mumbai on January 12. The launch will start a trail of events, which will lead to the separation of the submarine from the pontoon on which it is being assembled and its final setting afloat, an official release said
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Leonardo Wins UK MoD £271 Million Wildcat Helicopters Support Contract
January 10, 2017 @ 10:15 AMLeonardo-Finmeccanica has been awarded £271 million contract to support and provide training of 62 AW159 Wildcat helicopters operated by the British Army and Royal Navy. The deal is an important part of the Governments ten-year £178 billion plan to provide its Armed Forces, according to Minister for Defence Procurement, Harriett Baldwin
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S. Korea Rejects Trilateral Anti-Submarine Drill With US, Japan
January 10, 2017 @ 10:05 AMSouth Korea has rejected US and Japanese proposal to conduct trilateral anti-submarine warfare exercise aimed at countering North Koreas submarines, Japanese media reported Tuesday. South Korean side opposed the suggestion saying that it was not the right time for the drills, the
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Pakistan Test Fires Nuclear-capable Submarine-launched Cruise Missile
January 9, 2017 @ 03:42 PMPakistan on Monday test fired a Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM) Babur-3 capable of carrying a nuclear warhead from an undisclosed location in the Indian Ocean. The missile, with a range of 450 kilometers, was fired from an underwater, mobile platform and it has hit its target with precise accuracy
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India Offers Akash Surface-To-Air Missile Systems To Vietnam
January 9, 2017 @ 01:18 PMIndia has offered to sell its home-made Akash Surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems to Vietnam threby elbowing into to the Asian arms market. The South-East Asian nation has in the past purchased ships from India and is averse to China making it easier for New Delhi to sell its defence equipment there
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Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
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