Going ballistic: India looks to join elite missile club

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Going ballistic: India looks to join elite missile club [1]

Buoyed By Agni-III Success, DRDO Seeks To Complete N-Triad By '11 By 2010-2011, India hopes to gatecrash into a very exclusive club of countries, which have both ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) and SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missiles) as well as BMD (ballistic missile defence) capabilities. Only the US and Russia strictly qualify for this club as of now, if all the three capabilities

Publication Date:

13/05/2008

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]

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Government Of India (GOI) [3], Peace And Disarmament [4], Nuclear Weapons [5]

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