Army to Test Fire Agni-I Missile on Thursday
BALASORE: The Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of Indian Army is all set to carry out a fresh user trial of 700-km range nuclear capable missile Agni-I from a defence base off the Odisha coast on Thursday. The missile was earlier planned to be tested on Wednesday. Defence sources said as the missile has already been inducted in the armed forces, this will be a limited stock production (LSP) test for which the missile has been randomly selected from a bunch of missiles. The test will be conducted from the Wheeler Island test faci…
New chief of India's military research complex reveals brave new mandate
As Defence Minister A.K. Antony leaves on a 4-day official visit to China on Thursday, the first by a Defence Minister in seven years, new facts about the direction India's nuclear missile programme is taking could send out an unprecedented message. In details revealed for the first time in an exclusive interview to Headlines Today, the new chief of the Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO) Dr Avinash Chander has revealed that one of his key mandates as the head of the country's military research complex, is to drastically reduce th…
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