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The Indian Army is preparing to induct and deploy armed helicopters in its key formations facing Pakistan and China, with the indigenously developed 'Rudra' choppers being readied for Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) by this month end. According to sources, the Rudra, a Weapon System Integrated version of the indigenous Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopters, is expected to obtain the IOC from the Bangalore-based Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (CEMILAC) by this month end, providing a boost to the Indian defence industry. The Indian public sector plane manufacturer, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, is preparing the Rudra for the IOC and will be responsible for the certification.
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India's Strategic Forces have successfully tested the country's nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Agni-1 ballistic missile once again. In what is claimed as a user-trial, the forces fired the 700-km-range missile from the Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast on India's east into the Bay of Bengal, to test its effectiveness. The 12-metre-long missile can carry a one-tonne conventional or nuclear warhead. The single-stage, solid fuel-propelled missile lifted off from a road mobile launcher and hit the target, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) officials, who facilitated the test, said.
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India and Ukraine have signed a defence framework agreement to further expand their ties in the security field, strengthening their already robust military arms and ammunition business ties. The agreement in this regard was signed in the presence of India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych after their comprehensive bilateral talks. After the talks, Singh said in a statement that the two nations were already undertaking defence projects under bilateral cooperation and the latest defence agreement establishes a new framework for expanding the ties.
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With the India's Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) clearing the proposal, the Indian Army will raise by 2015 a new 900-man Sikkim Scouts battalion, primarily to guard the 200-km border with Tibet along the Himalayan state at a cost of $600 million. The Sikkim Scouts will be on the lines of Ladakh Scouts, raised in 1973 in Jammu and Kashmir, for mountain warfare. The force, to be deployed in the high altitudes of Sikkim, will draw its manpower from the eligible youth of the 540,000 population of the state. The census lists about 60 per cent of the state's population as youth less than 24 years of age. "The Sikkim Scouts will guard some key passes and sectors in the mountainous areas of the state, apart from routes of ingress and egress," a senior Indian Army officer said.
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India's defence research agency, the DRDO, has been told to speed up its weapons and systems development programmes to ensure self-reliance in fulfilling the armed forces' needs from indigenous sources. The direction from Defence Minister AK Antony comes a week after the Comptroller and Auditor General, India's official auditors, slammed the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for deficiencies in its projects and procedural lapses in obtaining sanction for its new projects.
Antony was chairing a review meeting with Defence Ministry and DRDO top brass, including its chief VK Saraswat.
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