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2010-02-07 India-Pakistan

India test fires Agni-III ballistic missile

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Posted by john frum 2010-02-07 07:17|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Launch photos

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Posted by john frum 2010-02-07 07:26|| 2010-02-07 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Some more tests scheduled:

K-15 missile
The coming weeks/months will be hectic for the DRDO with one more launch of K-15 missile this month from a submerged pontoon off the coast of Visakhapatnam. The pontoon will simulate the conditions of a submarine. K-15 had been launched earlier from submerged pontoons, but this is a different version. The first version, called Mark-1, is being fitted into the indigenously built nuclear-powered submarine named Arihant.

After the K-15 missile clears the water medium, it climbs 20 km into the air and can destroy targets 700 km away. The missile forms part of the DRDOs Sagarika project.

Shourya, which is the land-version of the underwater-launched K-15 missile, will have its second flight around June from the Integrated Test Range at Balasore, Orissa.

The fourth flight of Indias interceptor missile, which can knock out adversarial ballistic missiles at an altitude of 130 km, is scheduled for September. The DRDO has already scored a hat-trick with three of its interceptor missiles confronting incoming enemy ballistic missiles in a hit-to-kill mode.

Posted by john frum 2010-02-07 07:43|| 2010-02-07 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 NEWS KERALA > IRANIAN FM MOTTAKI: AFGHAN/TALIBAN EXTREMISM WILL SPREAD TO INDIA [ + CENTRAL ASIA].

SECOND BRANCH OF ABOVESSAME > will spread to ARAB STATES = rest of MUSLIM WORLD due to arrogant reckless AMER INTERVENTION = US-SPECIFIC UNILATERAL INTERFERENCE IN MUSLIM, COUNTRY, REGIONAL AFFAIRS where it isn't wanted.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-02-07 21:27|| 2010-02-07 21:27|| Front Page Top

#4 OOOOOPPPPSIES, forgot INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN VOW DEFENSE OF MUSLIM RIGHTS, LIBERATION.

SPIRITUAL-LEGAL JIHAD = NON-VIOL ONLY AGZ NEW DELHI HINDU GOVT, for now.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-02-07 21:30|| 2010-02-07 21:30|| Front Page Top

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