Missile News: India’s Announcements

  Lost in the turmoil these past few days of the NIE debate, the missing waterboarding tapes, Oprahpaloosa, etc. were two announcements of note out of India.  The first was their claim of a successful anti-tactical ballistic missile (ATBM) test using an interceptor based on the indigenously developed-Prithvi SRBM missile, earlier this week with presumably…

Monday’s Roll-up of Naval/Missile News

India and Israel – Joint Medium-Range Naval SAM Development:        Following in the footsteps of a February announcement of joint development of a naval long-range surface-to-air missile comes the announcement that a medium-range variant will also be jointly developed. As with the long-range variant, the MR version will be based on the Israeli-developed Barak…

Fight’s On!

  The Government of India (finally) tendered it’s offer for the Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) – a deal estimated at $10B and one of the largest of it’s kind offered.  Plan is to purchase a total of 128 with the first 18 bought in a "flyaway condition" to equip the first squadron.  The remaining 108 will…

Friday’s Roll-up of Air/Missile Items

A couple of interesting news notes picked up whilst culling international lists (one of the nicer aspects of YHS’ current job):First item — problems continue apace for the sublaunched variant of the Topol-M, the Bulava (“Mace”). Prior to this latest test (failure) there had been a number of statements in what passes for the open…

Wednesday Roll-up of Missile News

Continuing the themes from yesterday’s post: a. India plans aerospace military command to oversee space-based assets: In yet more fallout from China’s ASAT test comes the announcement from India that they intend to “create an aerospace command to control and protect satellites and spacecraft orbiting the Earth.” Air Chief Marshal Shashi Tyagi said India was…