Tag Archive: guided missile

Agni-II glitches to be removed: Antony

New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) Defence Minister A.K. Antony Friday downplayed the recent failure of the nuclear-capable intermediate range Agni-II missile’s test firing, saying scientists would soon rectify the glitches.

‘It is not absolutely correct. Sometimes tests do fail,’ Antony said in reply to a query if the test was a setback for India’s Integrated [...]

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Agni-II’s night test fails

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The first night test of India’s nuclear-capable intermediate range Agni-II missile Monday turned out to be a failure, an army official said Tuesday.

The surface-to-surface missile with a range of 2,000-plus kilometres was tested from Wheeler’s Island – a launch site in Orissa’s Bhadrak district, about 200 km from state capital [...]

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Nuke-capable Agni II missile fired first time after sunset

Bhubaneswar, Nov 23 (IANS) India’s nuclear-capable intermediate range Agni II missile was test-fired for the first time after sunset Monday, defence sources said.

The surface-to-surface missile with a range of 2,000-plus kilometers was tested from Wheeler’s Island – a launch site in Bhadrak district, about 200 km from Bhubaneswar, at about 7.50 pm.

‘It was a user [...]

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Indian Army to acquire 100 Armoured Personnel Carriers

New Delhi, Nov. 11 (ANI): The Indian Army is set to procure over 100 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs), which would be deployed in different kinds of terrains.

The Army has initiated the process of acquiring these APCs by issuing a Request for Information (RFI) recently.

According to the RFI, at [...]

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India tests nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) India Monday successfully test fired the nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile twice from a test range in Orissa, officials said.

The missiles were fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Balasore district, some 230 km from state capital Bhubaneswar — first at 10.28 a.m. and then again five minutes [...]

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