India successfully launches canister version of Agni V "China Killer" ICBM

  

Marking another technological milestone in the country’s missile programme, the maiden canister-based trial of India’s most potent strategic missile, Agni-V was successfully carried out for its full range of more than 5,000 km from the Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast on Saturday.

  A DRDO missile technologist who was associated with the launch described it as a grand success and said it was a perfect launch. Another missile technologist said it would be the footprint for future configuration of Agni-V.

PLA incursion into India foiled by Modi's beefed-up border police

Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army recently made a two-pronged simultaneous incursion into the Indian-controlled region of Ladakh, according a report in the Times of India on Nov. 3.

A source from the Indian government said these incursions were launched by the PLA simultaneously along the road built beside Pangong Lake in eastern Ladakh and on the northern bank of the lake in an area 168 kilometers from Leh on Oct. 22.

The Indian-Tibetan Border Police responded to the PLA intrusions immediately, first intercepting the Chinese troops aboard their boats at the line of actual control, the demarcation line between Indian and Chinese territory agreed upon in a 1993 agreement between the two nations.

India clears Defence Projects of Worth Rs. 80,000 Cr

French Scorpene SSK Submarine

NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Arun Jaitley led Defence Acquistion Council on Saturday gave approval to the defence procurements of worth Rs. 80,000 crore.

Major long pending proposals have just seen the light with the defence ministry giving clear signal to the navy’s Project 75 India i.e construction of six new submarines with the cost of approximately Rs. 50,000 crore.

Indian Army for new Short Range UAVs

Indian Army is considering the procurement of unspecified number of Short Range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(SR-UAV).
       This procurement is to augment the small fleet of IAI Searcher Mk 2 Sr-UAVs which the Army has already deployed.
       It is also expected that the first lot of the indigenous Nishant UAVs, currently undergoing its final trail with the Army, will be inducted by the end of the year.   

Helicopters of Indian Army Aviation