India's showpiece supersonic cruise missile, the BrahMos, has now been successfully tested in a hypersonic version, though under laboratory conditions, according to BrahMos Aerospace chief execu..Read More
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has decided to induct two squadrons of the indigenous Akash Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM). The all-weather, multi-target missile was accepted by the IAF recently after nine s..Read More
India successfully test-fired Wednesday a nuclear-capable missile that can hit targets from Beijing to Baghdad, the Defense Ministry said.It was the third test of the Agni III missile. The first attem..Read More
India will test indigenously built Agni III+ ballistic missile with a strike range of more than 5000 km in 2009. The long-range missile is currently in the design stage, VK Saraswat, Chief Controller ..Read More
After the successful firing of Agni-1 missile on Sunday, the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile on March 5 and the K-15 (Sagarika) missile from a submerged pontoon on February 26, the Defence Research ..Read More
Agni-1, India's workhorse missile with a range of 700 km, has attained full operational capability following a successful test-fire from the Wheeler Island, off Orissa coast on Sunday.At 10.15 a...Read More
A ship-to-shore version of the supersonic Brahmos missile was successfully test fired in the Andamans today. Defence Ministry announced that the missile with a range of more than 290 kms was launched ..Read More
Defence Minister A K Antony on Wednesday told the Rajya Sabha that the development of Trishul missile system has been completed completed."Development of Trishul missile system has been completed as t..Read More
India will soon conduct its first test of a submarine-based ballistic missile which can be tipped with a nuclear warhead, an official announced on Monday. The experimental missile will be fired from a..Read More
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India hopes to get export orders for its indigenously developed all weather missile system, Akash, at an expo to be held in Delhi Feb 16.The..Read More
Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon's No 1 supplier, has been told India may be ready to look into possible US-Indian collaboration on ballistic missile defense, a top company official said Wednes..Read More
India has embarked on project BrahMos-2, which will see the design and development of hypersonic missiles, according to Dr A. Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BrahMos Aerospace. The ..Read More
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) today emphatically denied that it had sought any American help for the country's indigenous ballistic missile defence project.Reacting to ..Read More
After the Indian Air Force (IAF), the Indian Army too is hedging its bets on the indigenously developed Akash surface-to-air missile, saying it would test the weapon before deciding on its deployment...Read More
It has been reported in a section of the media today that “Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) as a Strategic Programme stands Scrapped”.It is hereby clarified that except for ..Read More
By 2010 India will have an indigenous ballistic missile defence system to intercept and destroy intermediate ballistic missiles (IRBMs) and inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), a top defence ..Read More
India will put about $250 million into the joint Indo-Russia effort to develop a Mach 5 version of its BrahMos cruise missile. This scramjet version is already in advanced development and will enter ..Read More
The Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos has purchased a manufacturing plant in south India. BrahMos plans to use the new facility to turn out twice as many supersonic cruise missiles as before, a com..Read More
India Wednesday tested medium-range surface-to-air missile Akash twice from Orissa's Chandipur defence base, defence sources said. The multi-target missiles carrying live warhead each were test-f..Read More
Nuclear-armed India said on Friday it was ready to jump-start production of long-range nuclear missiles which can hit targets deep in China or Pakistan. V. K. Saraswat, the chief of India's missi..Read More
India announced major plans to increase its nuclear capabilities Wednesday, saying it was close to testing a ballistic missile capable of hitting targets up to 6,000 kilometres (3,800 miles) away.Such..Read More
Two successful interceptor missile tests carried out by Indian scientists as part of the country's ballistic missile defence program in the first week of December has led to development of a new ..Read More
Indian Defence scientists today successfully carried out the second launch of a Single Stage Interceptor Missile against an incoming ballistic missile target of enemy represented by a modified Prithvi..Read More
India Sunday tested a specially developed high-speed interceptor missile, Advanced Air Defence (AAD), over the Bay of Bengal to examine its capability to destroy a missile, defence sources said here.A..Read More
Over a week long field trials of indigenously developed Surface-to-Air Missile Akash in the deserts of Rajasthan have impressed the top officials of Indian Air Force (IAF), according to the Defence Re..Read More
Indian defence scientists have taken up a new cruise missile development programme. The missile named Nirbhay (The Fearless) is in the same class as the US's Tomahawk and will have a range that i..Read More
The Indian Navy has already deployed the Indo-Russian BrahMos supersonic cruise missile on the INS Rajput, P Venugopal, director, Defence Research and Development Laboratories (DRDL) and head of the B..Read More
The Strategic Forces Command successfully conducted the user trial of Agni Missile A-I at Chandipur at Sea near Balasore in Orissa at 10.35 this morning. The performance parameters of the 700 km range..Read More
Pakistan is presently negotiating with the French Government to buy air-to-air missiles and radars for its JF-17 fighter aircraft, but there are apprehensions that this European technology could fall ..Read More
In the apparent run-up to its first launch of a submarine-launched missile, India today carried out "technological development tests" to validate potential underwater launch capabilities."Technology e..Read More
Television news channel 'Times Now' has reported that India has tested a SLBM (Submarine-launched ballistic missile) which can be capped with a nuclear war-head and which has a range of 150..Read More
The government has not decided on a joint venture with Israel for the production of missiles. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has earlier entered into a contract with M/s. Is..Read More
Indian defence scientists are developing a new medium-range, multi-platform missile, called the Nirbhay or the dauntless, that will add more teeth to its armory and is slated to be tested by end-2009...Read More
India has started a 2.5-billion-dollar joint venture with Israel to develop an advanced range surface-to-air missile capable of detecting and destroying hostile aircraft, missiles and spy planes, news..Read More
India will jointly develop and co-produce a new generation of medium range surface-to-air missiles with Israel to secure the country's strategic assets from growing threats posed by aerial attack..Read More
India and Israel have agreed to expand their already considerable missile development cooperation with an even longer-range version of their extended-range Barak ship defense system, this time for the..Read More
India announced the launch of two major missile programmes - the extended version of the intermediate range ballistic missile Agni III, successfully tested this year, and a strategic naval missile whi..Read More
Television news channel 'CNN-IBN' reports that India has inducted the Sagarika SLBM - Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile - into the Armed Forces.With the induction of Sagarika, India has c..Read More
The submarine launched version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile is under development, a top official of the Indo-Russian joint venture said.The submarine launched version of the jointly developed..Read More
The Hyderabad-based Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) has played a major role in the BrahMos system by supplying the Mobile Command Post (MCP) and the Mobile Autonomous Launcher (MAL).Th..Read More
The surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was today inducted into the Army, making it the first force in the world to possess such a sophisticated system, as President A P J Abdul Kalam..Read More
The Indian army today became the first force in the world to be armed with surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile, with the induction of 290 km range Brahmos missile.With all the four test firin..Read More
In a landmark development in the defence history of the country, the President and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam handed over a replica of the mobile autonomous launch..Read More
President A P J Abdul Kalam today asked BrahMos team to work on developing "Mark-II" version of BrahMos hypersonic cruise missile system and also reusable class of cruise missiles."Time has come for B..Read More
The Indian Army is all set to induct the Super Sonic Cruise Missile - BrahMos. In an official ceremony the missile will be handed over to the army chief, Gen JJ Singh in New Delhi in the presence of P..Read More
After a string of successful trials, the land version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile jointly developed by India and Russia will be inducted into the army on June 21, reports a PTI wire feed...Read More
Days before he is to join the Group of Eight (G-8) gathering of the world's industrialized powers in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin again criticized US plans to install a missile defen..Read More
The first contract for the export of jointly developed Indo-Russian BrahMos cruise missile to a "friendly" country is in pipeline and could be inked by the end of this year"First contract for the deli..Read More
Trishul missile system is not a failure. Technically it has met the performance objectives as per original Qualitative Requirements (QRs) though delayed. The main reason for this delay are technical p..Read More
With all the four test firings going without blemish, Army is planning to induct the BrahMos supersonic land attack cruise missile months ahead of schedule.The first missile sub-group to be equipped w..Read More
Representatives of the Indian Air Force had participated in the development trials of the Akash Missile System conducted by DRDO, as observers and provided users inputs for improvement in the system ..Read More
Pakistan is preparing its next-generation of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles for deployment, a Federation of American Scientists (FAS) report has claimed. According to the Dawn, India's nuclea..Read More
India on Wednesday tested its surface-to-surface medium range Prithvi-1 missile from a defence base in Orissa. The missile was launched from the Integrated Test Range of Chandipur in the coastal distr..Read More
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is all set to conduct the second test of India's indigenous missile defense system in June 2007. The first such test - which was successfu..Read More
Close on the heels of the successful test-firing of the Agni-III and Brahmos missiles, yet another "user's test" of the army version of the Prithvi missile is likely to take place from the Interi..Read More
One sample from the Prithvi Missile production line is to be tested by the Indian Army in the next week. This test is being done for production quality control and quality engineering in all manufactu..Read More
Leading national daily 'Hindustan Times' reports that DRDO's Akash Surface to Air Missile has consistantly failed all trials conducted by the Indian Air Force. The newspaper quotes clas..Read More
Yet another flight trial of the land version of the Supersonic Cruise Missile BrahMos- the fourteenth one to be precise, has been successful. The trial of the 290 Km range of the missile was carried o..Read More
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, jointly developed by India and Russia, was successfully tested from the Interim Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near here today.Fired from a mobile launcher at the..Read More
Top DRDO Scientists have revealed to PTI that a Submarine Launched Version of Agni III missile is going to be developed. They also revealed that Agni III range can be extended to up to 5,000 Kms but G..Read More
As reported by India Defence in an earlier breaking news report, this mornings Agni III Test has been a complete success with all parameters having been met.Ministry of Defence Release
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PTI Wire Reports that India has test fired its nuclear capable intermediate range ballistic missile Agni-III from the Interim Test Range at the Wheeler's Island in the Bay of Bengal off the Oriss..Read More
Nine months after the first attempt failed, India will Thursday again test fire the indigenously developed nuclear capable Agni-III ballistic missile that can hit targets as far as in China.'The..Read More
After Malaysia, another ASEAN nation, Indonesia, has evinced keen interest in acquiring Brahmos supersonic cruise missile, especially its ship-to-land versions.A visit to the Brahmos complex in New De..Read More
According to 'Press Trust of India' the homegrown nuclear capable long ranged ballistic missile Agni-III from Chandipur Testing Range in Orissa next week, official sources said Saturday.Hect..Read More
The crucial flight trial of Agni-III, the nuclear capable long-range missile (beyond 3000 km), is expected to take place early next week, according to defence sources quote newspaper reports.It will b..Read More
Pakistan successfully test-fired an indigenously developed short-range nuclear-capable missile on Saturday, the military said. The surface-to-surface Abdali ballistic missile - which has a range of 20..Read More
India successfully test fired its indigenous Dhanush missile - the nuclear-capable naval version of the Prithvi short-range ballistic missile - from a military base in Orissa Friday, a defence source..Read More
Indigenously developed air-to-air missile Astra was test fired from the Interim Test Range in Chandipur once again on Thursday, defence sources said. This is the third test firing of the missile in th..Read More
Two experimental flight tests of ASTRA Missile were conducted on 25th and 26th March, 2007 from ITR, Balasore, to study the ballistic performance and control of the Missile at low altitudes and shorte..Read More
Pakistan successfully test-fired on Thursday a nuclear-capable cruise missile with the capability to avoid radar detection, the military said.The missile, named Babur or Hatf VII, has a range of 700 k..Read More
DRDO's premier missile laboratory - the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) - and European missile house MBDA will jointly develop a new-generation low-level, quick-reaction missil..Read More
Senior officials have indicated in newspaper reports that India is going to treble the production of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile. "We plan to increase the production of the missile system by..Read More
Pakistan successfully test-fired a short-range nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface ballistic missile on Saturday, the military said.
The Hatf-II Abdali had a range of 200 km, it said in a st..Read More
With developed countries unlikely to give up their nuclear arsenals, missile defence and space-based systems will have to be developed to guard against nuclear attacks, President A P J Abdul Kalam sai..Read More
With many countries 'expected join race and compete with the Brahmos supersonic missile, India has to definitely go for newer and innovative technology - the hypersonic missile', Dr Shivatha..Read More
Pakistan today "successfully" test fired its 2000 km long range nuclear capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile Hatf VI also called Shaheen II."The missile test was part of the continuous process..Read More
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was test-fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near Balasore on Sunday from a mobile road based heavy vehicle.After a vertical lift-off at 12.15 pm fr..Read More
India and Russia are working jointly to explore possibilities of developing a more advanced weapon system than BrahMos -- probably a Hypersonic Cruise Missile, BrahMos Aerospace CEO and Managing Direc..Read More
Dismissing as without any "basis" reports of Moscow's reservations on export of Brahmos missiles, top officials today said joint venture partners India and Russia have identified countries to who..Read More
Indicating that another test of the country's most advanced nuclear-capable Agni-III missile is in the offing, top defence scientist M Natarajan today said the DRDO was close to developing a supe..Read More
A test of the nuclear-capable Agni-III missile will be conducted next year after rectifying a "material-related" fault that caused the failure of its first trial in July, a top scientist said today.De..Read More
Several Russian missile makers have accused India of discrediting their weapon systems and spoiling their chances in the global market through the aggressive marketing of the BrahMos cruise missile de..Read More
Pakistan's military successfully test-fired on Saturday a short-range range, nuclear-capable Hatf III Ghaznavi missile with a range of 290 km. It was the third test launch of a ballistic missile ..Read More
Russia's armed forces successfully test-launched an interceptor missile on Tuesday, news reports said.The Space Forces launched the missile from the Sary-Shagan test-range in Kazakhstan, the forc..Read More
Brazil has shown interest in becoming the first foreign nation to procure the 300-km range Brahmos cruise missile.Commander of the Brazilian army Gen Francisco Roberto De Albuqurque now on a six-day s..Read More
India has developed an anti-missile defence system which could be put in place in 3 to 5 years, the country's top defence research body said on Saturday. Earlier this week, India conducted a mid-..Read More
Buoyed by a successful missile interception in higher atmospheric zone, defence scientists are now planning to shoot down incoming warheads, much closer to ground, with a new missile named Pad.The cou..Read More
The supersonic cruise missile BrahMos has been inducted into our Defence forces. After a series of successful flight trials, the missile has proved its accurate performance against ship and land targe..Read More
The development of Trishul Missile Project has been completed. Air Force configuration has met the user requirements during its various developmental flight trials DRDO is in dialogue with Air Force f..Read More
The sanctioned cost for the development of Akash, Nag and Trishul Missiles, in 1983, was Rs. 142 crore and the same was enhanced to Rs. 1112 crore in 2006.Initially, the Probable Date of Completion (P..Read More
India will for the first time fire two home grown missiles against each other Sunday to validate the capability of the weapon to achieve its design parameters, officials said.Termed the Prithvi Air De..Read More
India test-fired a short-range nuclear-capable missile on Sunday, a top defence official said, days after a similar test by Pakistan.The indigenously built single-stage missile, Prithvi II, which has ..Read More
Pakistan today test-fired a new version of medium-range Ghauri V missile, which is capable of carrying nuclear weapons.The missile, with a strike range of 1,300 km (800 miles), was launched from an un..Read More
A North Korean freighter, MV-Omranili, which was on its way to Iran 'found itself' in Indian waters after an 'engine failure' and has been detained in Mumbai. The Coast Guard, the ..Read More
Iran has successfully test-fired three new models of sea missiles in a new show of force to assert its military capacities in the Gulf, Iranian military officials said on Friday.Television showed foot..Read More
India and Russia intend to make 1,000 BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles over the next 10 years through their joint venture company, with nearly 50 per cent of them expected to be sold in third countr..Read More
The Government has extended fiscal sops given to prestigious indigenous air-to-air missile project, Astra, by six more years.The extension of the sops, in the form of excise and customs duty concessio..Read More
Research and development work on the indigenous ship defence missile Trishul will be stopped in December, official sources confirmed in New Delhi on Saturday.Instead, the Defence Research & Developmen..Read More
Israel tonight said it will cooperate with India in any investigation into the alleged corruption in the Rs 1,150 crore Barak Missile deal with a firm of that country during the previous NDA rule in 2..Read More