Indian Navy
India’s nuclear sub ‘Arihant’ to be fitted with Agni-V for sea trials soon
08 Feb 2014
The nuclear-tipped missiles are ready for installation and their integration would begin after some of the scheduled sea trials of Arihant are over
India’s N-sub INS Arihant getting ready for sea trials
21 Jan 2014
The INS Arihant will be the first of the expected five in the class of submarines designed and constructed as a part of the Indian Navy's Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) project.
Nuclear capable, Dhanush test fired successfully
23 Nov 2013
Navy gets 17 Hawk advanced jet trainers from HAL
24 Sep 2013
Submarine blast: Three burnt bodies recovered from INS Sindhurakshak
16 Aug 2013
The Indian Navy today said it had recovered the bodies of three of the 15 sailors and three officers who were inside the INS Sindhurakshak at the time of the explosion
All 18 crew feared dead in Mumbai submarine blast
14 Aug 2013
Armed with its latest multi-role missile system, radar and electronics, the submarine was to be the backbone of the Indian Navy.
New aircraft carrier Vikrant launched for sea trials
12 Aug 2013
India launched its first indigenously-built aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, on Monday, the culmination of a $5-billion (Rs3,500 crore) project undertaken by the state-owned Cochin Shipyard Ltd
INS Arihant close to deployment as reactor goes critical
10 Aug 2013
INS Arihant has been undergoing trials at Navy's key submarine base in Vishakhapatnam and would be launched for sea trials soon now that the nuclear reactor has gone critical
Stealth frigate ‘INS Trikand’ joins Indian Navy
29 Jun 2013
Italy’s foreign minister quits over return of ‘killer’ marines
26 Mar 2013
Italian foreign minister Giulio Terzi has resigned in disagreement with his government’s decision to send two marines back to India for trial over shooting dead a couple of Indian fishermen
India test-fires submarine version of BrahMos missile
20 Mar 2013
This is the first time a supersonic cruise missile has been successfully fired underwater anywhere in the world, BrahMos CEO A Sivathanu Pillai said today
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