Indian Defense News: Indian Navy to start fitting Barak-8 naval SAM by end of year
The Indian Navy (IN) will begin equipping its frontline warships with the Israeli Barak-8 air-defence missile system by the end of 2015, official sources said. This move follows the successful test firing of the missile in Israel in November 2014. The Barak-8 has been under development by Rafael-Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and India's Defence Research and Development Organisation ( DRDO ) since 2006. The state-owned Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) will series-produce the 70 km-range Barak-8, with 32 missiles to be initia…
DRDO MBDA agreement soon on short range missile
An agreement is expected to be inked shortly between the DRDO and MBDA Missile Systems to design and co-produce SR SAMs (short range surface-to-air missiles) even as the European company seeks to improve its footprint in India. An agreement is expected to be inked shortly between the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and MBDA Missile Systems to design and co-produce SR SAMs (short range surface-to-air missiles) even as the European company seeks to improve its footprint in India. “We are considering India as …
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