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India Tests Pinaka MLRS with All-Indigenous Munitions

India Tests Pinaka MLRS with All-Indigenous Munitions

Successful tests of Pinaka Extended Range (Pinaka-ER), Area Denial Munitions (ADM) and indigenously developed fuzes have been carried out at various test ranges. The Pinaka-ER Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher System was successfully tested at Pokharan range.

The system is jointly designed by laborat…

CRS Reports on status of SSN[X] Next-Gen Attack Submarine

CRS Reports on status of SSN[X] Next-Gen Attack Submarine

The Navy wants to begin procuring a new class of nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), called the Next-Generation Attack Submarine or SSN(X), in FY2031. The SSN(X) would be the successor to the Virginia-class SSN design, which the Navy has been procuring since FY1998.

The Navy’s proposed FY2022…

French Paratroops Jump into Cote d’Ivoire After 4,000km Flight

French Paratroops Jump into Cote d’Ivoire After 4,000km Flight

On December 1, 2021, an A400M dropped paratroopers from the 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (RPIMa) in Cote d’Ivoire after a non-stop flight from France. This airborne exercise was a ‘first’ for the French armed forces.

After taking off from Toulouse-Francazal airport and after a 7-hour no…

CRS Updates Report on DDG(X) Next-Gen Destroyer

CRS Updates Report on DDG(X) Next-Gen Destroyer

The Navy’s DDG(X) program envisages procuring a class of next-generation guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) to replace the Navy’s Ticonderoga (CG-47) class Aegis cruisers and its older Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class Aegis destroyers. The Navy wants to procure the first DDG(X) in FY2028. The Navy’s propo…
Finland Picks F-35 as Next Fighter to Replace F-18 Hornets

Finland Picks F-35 as Next Fighter to Replace F-18 Hornets

The Government of Finland has 10 December 2021 authorised the Finnish Defence Forces Logistics Command to sign a procurement contract with the Government of the United States on Finland’s next multi-role fighter. The fighter replacing the Hornet fleet’s capability is the Lockheed Martin F-35A Ligh…
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