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Saudi Arabia has 'cash-for-N-arms’ arrangement with Pakistan: BBC
07 Nov 2013
Citing intelligence inputs from NATO and Israeli sources BBC said nuclear weapons made in Pakistan on behalf of Saudi Arabia are now ready for delivery
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IAF launches own 3G cellular network project
26 Oct 2013
With the inauguration of AFCEL, the IAF has become the first among the three services to commission its own captive 3G network
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India, China ink pact on border defence cooperation
23 Oct 2013
India and China have signed a key border defence pact, to avoid face offs between the two armies along the disputed Line of Actual Control
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India, Russia to enhance military-technical cooperation
22 Oct 2013
India and Russia have agreed to enhance cooperation in the fields of rocket, missile and naval technologies and weapon systems.
US Navy’s largest destroyer ready to be floated
22 Oct 2013
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India successfully test-fires Prithvi-II missile for the second time in two days
08 Oct 2013
The missile that was fired today carried a 500kg dummy payload, and was equipped with a GPS-INS hybrid navigation system
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Another test proves worth of India’s N-capable Prithvi-II
07 Oct 2013
The missile was randomly chosen from the production stock and the total launch activities were carried out by the specially formed Strategic Forces Command
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UN agency begins dismantling Syria’s chemical arms
07 Oct 2013
Experts from the United Nation’s Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Sunday began dismantling Syria's chemical weapons
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Copter scam: AgustaWestland invokes arbitration over deal freeze
05 Oct 2013
AgustaWestland has invoked arbitration over the defence ministry’s decision to freeze the Rs4,650-crore contract for purchase of 12 AW-101 helicopters
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Legendary Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap is dead
05 Oct 2013
Gen Giap was the most prominent military commander, beside Ho Chi Minh, during the Vietnam war
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