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INDIA SUCCESSFUL TEST FOURTH FLIGHT OF AGNI-3 LONG RANGE MISSILE
The fourth flight of the Indian long range missile AGNI-3 with a range capability of 3500 km was tested successfully by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) at 10:50 this morning from the Wheeler Island, in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Orissa. The AGNI-3 Missile tested for the full range, hit the target with pin-point accuracy and met all the mission objectives. Two down ...
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NEXTER DELIVERS FIRST ARAVIS® VEHICLES TO FRENCH ARMY
As per the recent press release by NEXTER SYSTEMS, on January 19, 2010, the French procurement agency (Direction Générale de l'Armement -DGA) supplied the French Army with its first four ARAVIS® multipurpose heavily protected armored vehicles. In April 2009, the DGA ordered a total of 15 ARAVIS® vehicles from NEXTER Systems under a contract worth nearly Euro 20 million, of wh...
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THE MALAYSIAN ARMED FORCES
Malaysia has been impacted by the financial tsunami. General Tan Sri Azizan Ariffin, Chief of Defence Forces has said, ?The current global economic crisis does have an impact on the Malaysian economy and for sure it has an impact on the Malaysian Armed Forces whether we like it or not.? The MAF is nonetheless continuing to transform into a balanced, conventional war-fighting force, and is now implementing its Fourth Dimension Malaysian Armed Forces capability plan |
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THAILAND DEFENCE MODERNISATION
The global recession has hit Thailand hard, though not as severely as the debilitating 1997 Asian crisis. In May 2009, the Thai military suffered a 10 percent budget slash hitting future projects with delays although subsequent additional funding has still enabled the military to embark on a $298 million spending spree through to FY2012, mostly to replace obsolete equipment |
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VOLUME 17/ Issue 8
01-Dec-2009
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