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Surya Missile News & Discussion The Surya-1 is an intercontinental-range, surface-based, solid and liquid propellant ballistic missile under development. It is based upon a space launch vehicle being developed by India’s space program to improve the nation’s aerospace industry. This project...

China’s eyes on Everest to keep watch on Indian nukes? Chinese scientists have begun operating an earthquake monitoring station at the foot of Mount Everest in a bid to learn more about the world's highest peak, an official said Monday. The station will also be a direct eye on Indian...

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will be testing some of the country's most sophisticated missiles in the next two months. In October, Prithvi and Agni-II missiles will be test fired, while in November it will be the turn of BrahMos and K-15 missiles. The integrated test...

The indefatigable Hans M. Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists has done it again. He has posted on his blog a satellite picture of what is almost certainly a Pakistani nuclear weapons storage site near the Masroor Air Force base, some 12 km from Karachi. The picture features...

Air Chief Marshal PV Naik has admitted that India lacks the air power to meet the myriad terror threats facing the country. Earlier, Admiral Suresh Mehta publicly admitted that India was no match for China and china was likely to be more assertive in its claims on the neighborhood and called for...

India will get its first set of lethal drones designed to take down high-value targets like missile sites, radars and even senior enemy personnel by 2011, adding a new dimension to its combative capabilities. While India already has a fleet of Searcher and Heron Unmanned Aerial Vehicles...

Chinese forces intrude Indian territory at least 223 times in the year 2008 Chinese forces intrude Indian territory at least 26 times in the month of August alone (2009). Chinese forces beat Indian nomads & ask them to "leave their land & return to India". Uttarakhand CM Nishank writes to the PM...

The Army is creating a new Mountain Division for the Northeast, headquartered in central Nagaland or the adjoining areas of Upper Assam. Although it will be stationed in an area when the Army is engaged in counter-insurgency operations, sources say the division could also have the task of...

On July 26 this year, India joined the select group of five nations to have its own nuclear propelled and nuclear armed submarine called Arihant. Code-named Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV), the submarine is a project conceived in the 70s and initiated by Indira Gandhi in the 80s. It was a...

In what could be a latest and one of the biggest threat to India, Pakistan has hired a Chinese company to build an illegal railway station on no man's land near the Indian border at Barmer. The railway station being built by a Chinese company is not only illegal but is just one of the many...

Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju said on Monday that India is aware of the growing influence of China in Pakistan and other neighbouring countries. Pallam Raju said, “Chinese influence is not just in Pakistan. They are trying to develop a port in Sri Lanka and in Myanmar. And we...

India to launch spy satellite on April 20 India will launch a spy satellite from Sriharikota spaceport on April 20 primarily to keep an eye on its borders round-the-clock and help the government in anti-infiltration and anti-terrorist operations. The 300-kg radar-imaging satellite has been...

In its biggest defence deal with India, Israel will provide its largest arms buyer an air defence system at a whopping sum of USD 1.4 billion. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has officially acknowledged that the defence deal between the two countries was signed on February 27 under which...

Home Minister P Chidambaram said that personnel of the Special Forces Unit, an anti-terrorist force set up in Bangalore following the Mumbai terror attacks, were "available for deployment at short notice". Chidambaram said: "At present, the SFU has 100 men of all ranks and by the end of this...

By : Zee News French naval defence system contractor DCNS on Wednesday said there had been initial "teething trouble" in the transfer of technology for the Indian Navy's Scorpene submarine project but they had been resolved. Three of the six Scorpene submarines are being built at the...

A new hypersonic version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise and anti-ship missile capable of speeds in excess of Mach 5 is reportedly undergoing laboratory testing. Though the challenges to its development cannot be overstated, its progress bears continued monitoring. Laboratory testing of a new...

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India Has made a secret request to the United states to supply a huge quantity of Cluster Bombs.India wants CBU-105 bombs which cost about $375 millions. After the Mumbai terror attacks india has asked US to fast-track this request, so that weapons can quickly be added to India's arsenal against...

by : The News India is soon to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United States to boost its missile defence system. The MoU is aimed at giving India the state of the art technology that will allow it to intercept any threat from ballistic missiles. In the cold war era...

BY : PTI Faced with intelligence inputs of a possible threat from the skies on the patern of 9/11, the Indian Air Force has decided to install highly-sophisticated radar in Delhi to detect 'rogue' low-flying aircraft. The decision to install 'Aerostat' radar in Delhi comes close on the heels...