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Second phase of Anti-ballistic Missile defense test with AD-1 missile. The Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme is an initiative to develop and deploy a multi-layered ballistic missile defence system to protect India from ballistic missile attacks. It was launched in 2000 after the Kargil War by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. [ 1]
In service. [ 5] Prithvi (missile) Prithvi-I (SS-150) surface-to-surface tactical ballistic missile. Strap-down inertial navigation system. 150 km (93 mi) High explosives, penetration, cluster munition, fragmentation, thermobaric, chemical weapon and tactical nuclear weapon.
The logo of the Missile Defense division of the U.S. National Guard, part of the modern American missile defense system In the 1990s and early 21st century, the stated mission of NMD has changed to the more modest goal of preventing the United States from being subject to nuclear blackmail or nuclear terrorism by a so-called rogue state .
The Agni-V is a three-stage solid fuelled intercontinental ballistic missile with composite motor casing in the second and third stage. [ 32] In many aspects, the Agni-V carries forward the Agni-III pedigree. With composites used extensively to reduce weight, and a third stage added on (the Agni-III was a two-stage missile), the Agni-5 can fly ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy's deployment of new extremely long-range air-to-air missiles in the Indo-Pacific could erase China's advantage in aerial reach, experts say, part of an ...
Astra(Sanskrit: "Weapon") is an Indian family of all weather beyond-visual-rangeair-to-air missile, developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation. Different missiles of this family are capable of engaging targets at varying distances of 500 m (0.31 mi) up to 340 km (210 mi).[15]
(Reuters) -Lockheed Martin has won a $17 billion contract to develop the next generation of interceptors to defend the United States against an intercontinental ballistic missile attack, the U.S ...
July 8, 2024 at 4:08 PM. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pentagon program to replace some of its aging intercontinental ballistic missiles will be years behind schedule and 81% over budget, the U.S ...