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Russia Key To BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile Part Three Washington (UPI) Mar 10, 2008 
The Russians are freely sharing with India the full secrets of one of their proudest, most cherished and crucial military technologies with India -- supersonic cruise missiles that fly at Mach 2.8 -- apparently confident it will not leak to the United States. And they have flatly refused to contemplate any similar co-production of these BrahMos series of cruise missiles with China.
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India awards Russia billion dollar MiG-29 upgrade
New Delhi (AFP) March 10, 2008India has awarded Russia a 965-million-dollar contract to upgrade its multi-role MiG-29 warplanes, officials said on Monday. The two post-Cold War allies Saturday signed the deal to extend the life of India's fleet of 70 MiG-29 jets another 15 years from their current 25 years, an air force official said. "The project entails two to three years and only six of them would be re-fitted in ... more BrahMos-2 Production Plans Lay Ground Work For Indian Cruise Missile 
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 07, 2007The rapid development of the BrahMos joint Indian-Russian supersonic cruise missile project documents important and usually overlooked truths about the triangular Russian-U.S.-Indian strategic relationship. First - despite all the optimism of the Bush administration and all its efforts over the past seven years - India remains fundamentally allied to Russia rather than the United States ... more Super Hornets For India With A Carrier On The Side 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 10, 2008The $1.5 billion contract signed by Russia's Sevmash Corp. to refit the aircraft carrier or air capable cruiser Admiral Gorshkov for the Indian navy hugely underestimated the true costs of modernization.The plunge of the dollar and the subsequent surge in prices of equipment and skilled labor, as well as high requirements set by the Indian navy, made the project unrealizable. ... more Indian minister rejects snap polls amid US nuke deal trouble 
New Delhi (AFP) March 8, 2008India's foreign minister Saturday ruled out early polls after new threats by the government's communist allies to withdraw their support if the ruling party concludes a nuclear pact with Washington. Describing the leftist bloc's warning as a "known position," Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said: "I do not visualise that anybody is thinking of early elections. "None of the coalition ... more BrahMos-2 Tests Mark Major Progress On Indian Cruise Missile
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 06, 2008The Indian defense establishment successfully tested a missile of great significance Tuesday. According to an official statement from the Indian Defense Ministry, "A naval version of the BrahMos cruise missile was successfully tested off Andamans coast this morning." "The missile was launched from the decks of INS Rajput at 10:30 a.m. and precisely hit a land target in one of the island ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) March 5, 2008The United States Wednesday urged India to quickly complete all steps required to conclude a civilian nuclear technology deal with Washington before the US presidential polls in November. "Time is very tight" to get the deal through the US Congress before the United States goes into election mode, US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Richard Boucher, told reporters in New Delhi. ... more Outside View: China's energy diplomacy 
Toronto, Canada (UPI) Mar 04, 2008China's building of a port in Pakistan, its extra-polite friendship with the rulers of Myanmar and now its offer to Iran to pick up gas from Pakistan if India shows no interest in doing so is all part of the country's quest for energy to feed its export economy. The West has very cleverly shifted its smokestack manufacturing industry to China. There, a mix of its own but rapidly depleting ... more Kalam Proposes Joint Investment In Space By India And Israel 
Tel Aviv, Israel (PTI) Feb 29, 2008India and Israel should consider jointly investing up to USD one billion in selected areas in space technology based on their mutual core competence, former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam said here on Wednesday. "India and Israel should consider investing in equitable proportion to the tune of $ 1 billion investment for implementing certain selected missions based on the mutual core ... more India shrugs off US nuclear accord warning 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 28, 2008India's foreign secretary on Thursday said he was working to seal a civilian nuclear deal with the United States, but cautioned that he did not see a deadline based on the US political calendar. The remarks came after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday said that "the clock is ticking in terms of how much time is available to get all the different aspects of an agreement implementing ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Feb 26, 2008India conducted its first test of a nuclear-capable missile from an undersea platform on Tuesday, completing its goal of having air, land and sea ballistic systems, the defence ministry said. The launch from a submerged pontoon took place off India's southeast coast near the port city of Visakhapatnam around 1:00 pm (0730 GMT), a defence ministry spokesman said. "The test was successful ... more India's Moon Mission Pushed To July First Week 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 26, 2008India's first planetary mission, Chandrayaan-1, has now been rescheduled to take place in the first week of July as the mission personnel work overtime to sort out payload integration and launch-related issues. "We are targeting the end of June. We will try to make it in the first week of July," a senior scientist associated with the Rs 386 crore moon mission told PTI here on Monday on condition ... more Poland's Bumar says it will sign 1.2-billion-dollar arms deal with India 
Warsaw (AFP) Feb 25, 2008Polish state-controlled arms company Bumar on Monday announced it was poised to sign a 1.2-billion-dollar (809-million-euro) deal to supply military equipment to India. "We are expecting to sign contracts worth around 1.2 billion dollars," a spokeswoman for Bumar, Kamila Walczak, told AFP. She declined to elaborate. According to the Polish newspaper Dziennik, Bumar has clinched six ... more Calm in Indian Kashmir, but Pakistan still eyed with suspicion 
Srinagar (AFP) Feb 23, 2008There was a time when Indian soldiers guarding the Line of Control that cuts through mountainous Kashmir could barely catch a wink of sleep. At the height of the Muslim insurgency against Indian rule over a part of the picturesque Himalayan region, scores of militants would sneak in from Pakistan, bringing daily gun battles, bombings and suicide strikes. Eighteen years after the revolt b ... more
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