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| India-Pakistan |
| Dhanush ballistic missile test-fired from warship in Bay of Bengal |
| 2007-03-30 |
 The test launch was conducted from INS Subhadra , about 40 nautical miles from Chandipur-on-sea, at around 2.30 pm, sources said. Dhanush , considered the naval version of surface-to-surface missile Prithvi, was being exclusively developed for the Indian Navy and has a striking range of 250 km to 350 km. The 8.56 metre long missile had a launch weight of 4,600 kg and uses a single stage liquid propellant engine. |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #5 India periodically sends an OPV, a destroyer and a fleet replenishment tanker into the South China Sea to show the flag. Vietnam has extended an open invitation for Indian ships to make port calls. The Chinese are not amused... |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-03-30 19:59 |
#4 OPV = Offshore Patrol Vessel |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-03-30 19:48 |
| #3 OPV? |
| Posted by: remoteman 2007-03-30 19:41 |
| #2 The Subhadra is an offshore patrol vessel. The ballistic missiles are kept in a hangar and brought out to the stabilized launcher. With a 20kT nuclear warhead, these OPVs punch way above their weight. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-03-30 19:39 |
| #1 Meanwhile... Assembling Of Moon Mission Spacecraft Begins India has begun assembling the spacecraft for Chandrayaan-I, its first unmanned mission to the moon scheduled for 2008, a top space agency official said today. "We have begun the integration process for the spacecraft structure and are putting in place the antennae required for tracking data from this month," S Krishnamurthy, Director of Publicity for the Indian Space Research Organisation, told PTI from Bangalore. The spacecraft structure has arrived at the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and the integration work has begun, he said. ISRO's deep space tracking network system is being established for the moon mission at Byalalu village, 40 km from Bangalore, and its first 18-metre antenna has been erected, he said. A 32-metre antenna built by the Electronic Corporation of India and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre is currently being erected at the site. Krishnamurthy said instruments from various collaborators, including the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA of the US, have also started coming in. Though scientists first conceived India's moon mission in 1999, it was officially announced by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on August 15, 2003 and finally approved in November 2003. The mission is scheduled for launch in March-April 2008. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-03-30 14:11 |