Indian Defence Research and Development Laboratories – Part 3

Indian Defence Research and Development Laboratories – Part 3

Aero India 2009

Russia to lease nuclear submarine to India

Russia will lease a nuclear powered submarine to India before October, a Russian Navy Staff admiral said on Wednesday. Previous media reports said that the K-152 Nerpa attack submarine had already been transferred to India on a 10-year lease. “The submarine is completely ready for transfer. An Indian crew is currently training aboard with Russian [...]

Indian Navy captures 61 pirates in Arabian Sea

The Indian Navy has seized a pirate ship, rescuing 13 crewmembers and arresting 61 suspected Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea, national media reported on Monday. “The Vega 5, a pirate mother vessel, was intercepted by a fast attack craft, INS Kalpeni. Sixty-one pirates were apprehended and 13 crew members rescued,” a Navy official said, [...]

India world’s biggest arms importer: think tank

India has been the world’s biggest weapons importer over the last five years, Swedish think-tank SIPRI reported Monday, naming four Asian countries among the top five arms importers. The report also highlighted how the world’s major arms supplying countries had in recent years competed for trade in Libya, and in other Arab countries gripped by [...]

India Test-Fires Nuclear Capable Dhanush, Prithvi-II Missiles

In an exercise to further sharpen its missile teeth, India on Friday successfully test-fired two indigenously developed, nuclear capable ballistic missiles, both having a strike range of 350 kms, from separate locations off the Orissa coast. While ‘Dhanush’ was flight-tested from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal at a spot between Paradip and [...]

India Successfully Test-Fires Interceptor Missile

India successfully test-fired indigenously developed interceptor missile, capable of destroying any incoming hostile ballistic missile on Sunday from Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island off Orissa coast. “Aimed at developing a fully-fledged multi-layer Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system, the trial was carried out from two launch sites of ITR off Orissa coast,” defence sources [...]

India’s Defence Budget 2011-12

The union budget 2011-12, presented to the parliament on February 28, 2011, increased the defence allocation to Rs 1,64,415.49 crore ($36.03 billion). The allocation, which represents an 11.59 per cent growth over the previous year’s budget, is impressive at least on two accounts. First, the defence budget has not been unduly impacted by the government’s [...]

China defense budget to rise 12.7% in 2011

China’s defense budget will rise 12.7 percent in 2011 to 601.1 billion yuan ($91.7 billion), a government spokesman said on Friday, amid persistent concerns about Beijing’s military build-up. The figure was contained in a budgetary report submitted to the National People’s Congress, the parliament’s spokesman Li Zhaoxing told a news conference on the eve of [...]

India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-GSLV – Part 8

India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-GSLV – Part 8

GSLV