A fourth-generation strategic nuclear submarine was launched during a special ceremony at a shipbuilding yard in northern Russia Sunday.
The Yury Dolgoruky, a Borey-class nuclear missile submarine, was built at the Sevmash plant in the northern Arkhangelsk Region. It will be equipped with the Bulava ballistic missile, which is adapted from the Topol-M (SS-27).
Russia and India will conduct joint naval counter-terrorism exercises in the Sea of Japan on April 24-26, the press service of Russia's Pacific Fleet said Tuesday.
INDRA-2007 is a biennial joint exercise between the Russian and Indian navies aimed at practicing cooperative engagement in the fight against terrorism. It is the third such exercise since 2003.
The source said Russia will be represented by two large anti-submarine ships, a missile boat, a diesel submarine, a group of mine-sweepers, a tanker, two tug boats, two Ka-27 Helix helicopters and an Il-38 May maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft.
By : Defence news Faced with acute problems retaining its scientists, India’s Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has decided to provide them a share of the royalties their inventions would generate when they become available on the commercial market. A senior official at the state-owned defense research agency said the incentive plan is in line with the U.S. Federal Technology Transfer Act passed in 1986 and related rulings, and similar initiatives in many other developed countries. The incentives are part
on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Hizballah and Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders staged a grand ceremony at the Imam Ali base in northern Tehran to celebrate the launch of Hizballah’s anti-air missile wing. They cheered the 500 Lebanese graduates of a course in the use of three anti-air missiles supplied by Iran:
The Sayyad 1 (Hunter), the Misagh 1 (Convention [with Allah]) and the Shahab Sagheb (Meteor), which is based on the Chinese Feimeng-80 system.
Close on the heels of the success of the intermediate range ballistic missile Agni-III, defence scientists plan to carry out the second test of the indigenous missile defence system in another four months.
“The second test of the interceptor is being planned by August-September. But this time it will be an endo-atmospheric test, in which the interceptor will destroy the enemy missile in lower atmosphere,” said Dr M Natarajan, the scientific advisor to the defence minister and the director-general of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Russia will shortly begin supply of 38 Smerch-M 300mm BM9A52-2 multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) to India under a $450 million deal signed two years ago, according to Russian media reports. Reports in the Russian media also suggest that Rosoboronexport, Russia's monopoly arms export agency, also signed a new option contract last week with the Indian defense ministry for delivery of an additional $300 million worth of these systems.
Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) the $4 billion engineering, technology and construction company, a domestic giant, crossed yet another milestone in its growth with the back to back inauguration of the first two facilities at its 300 acre campus in Coimbatore. The facilities for the manufacture of high-end industrial valves and switchboards will cater to domestic and international markets, and position India as a global player in the high-end manufacturing space.
Defence minister AK Antony has said that the country's defence scientists would decide the number of launches required to make the Agni-III missile operational. He also stressed that India's missile tests were meant only to create adequate deterrence and were not aimed against any country.
"These kind of tests will continue," Antony asserted, after being queried by reporters whether India had the requisite political will
Russia is planning to purchase several dozens of the Ka-50 Black Shark and Ka-52 Alligator helicopters to boost operations of special forces, the ITAR-TASS news agency said Wednesday. Series manufacture for Ka-50/52 helicopters resumed at a plant in Arsenyev last year after a lengthy downtime.
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