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After the failure of a critical trial of the Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MR-SAM) in Israel, India has asked Tel Aviv to speed up the development of two advanced surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems. During the 10th joint working group on defence cooperation, co-chaired by defence secretary Shashikant Sharma and Israeli defence ministry director-general Major-General Ehud Shani, the two sides also discussed the regional and global security situation, including the recent Israel-Hamas ceasefire. Tel Aviv records military sales worth around USD one billion to India every year, ranging from Heron and Searcher UAVs, Harpy and Harop 'killer' drones to Barak anti-missile defence systems and Green Pine radars.
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In a major booster for the Indian defence industry, the Tata group today unveiled country's first indigenously developed 155 mm howitzer here today. The 155/52 mm howitzer is mounted on an eight-wheeled Tata truck for enhanced mobility. The gun was developed by its defence subsidiary Tata Power Strategic Electronics Division (SED) this year. The 'mounted gun system' can fire a six-round salvo on a target 40 km away in less than three minutes. The truck-mounted howitzer will be displayed at an army seminar at the Maneckshaw centre tomorrow. The rollout comes even as the Indian Army and the Ministry of Defence have struggled to import howitzers over the past 25 years.
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India concluded five offset contracts in the defence sector worth Rs 3,410.49 crore that were not in consonance with the provisions laid down in the Defence Procurement Procedure, the CAG pointed out in its report tabled yesterday.
The report states that India concluded 16 offset contracts worth Rs 18,444.56 crore during the period.
“This was largely due to varying interpretation of various authorities about the legitimacy or otherwise of the offsets being offered. The Indian Offset Partners selected for offsets in some cases were not valid. The monitoring mechanism for implementation of offset contracts was weak,” the report adds.
An offset is a mechanism to par
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Government is pursuing the allegations of bribery in a deal to procure VVIP helicopters from Augusta Westland, but no formal inquiry has been ordered into the case due to lack of
"specific information" so far, Defence Minister A K Antony today said.
In a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, he said, if any
wrongdoing is found in the case, "suitable penalty measures" will be
taken by the Ministry.
"Defence Ministry is constantly pursuing the matter and committed to
take suitable penalty measures in event of allegations being
substantiated. However, in absence of any specific information in this
regard, government has not ordered any formal inquiry into the c
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India has signaled that it is ready to deploy a home-grown Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system in the near future with a successful testing of an advanced interceptor missile, prompting the defence scientists to claim a shield could be thrown over Delhi skies by 2014. The big fireworks over the Bay of Bengal when India tested its experimental BMD system resulted in elation as the trial turned out to be "bang-on accurate". The interceptor missile destroyed an incoming target missile in a direct hit at an altitude of nearly 15 km over the Bay of Bengal, demonstrating the efficacy of the system. DRDO officials said the electronically simulated target, which mimicked a missile coming from a distance of 1,500 km, was electronically hit at an altitude of 120 km.
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