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India tests nuclear-capable missile for a third successive day
Dec 15, 2007, 14:48 GMT
New Delhi - India tested a surface-to-air nuclear-capable missile on Saturday for the third time in as many days, news reports said.
The indigenously-built missile, named Akash (Hindi for 'sky') was tested from a mobile launcher at an offshore test range about 230 kilometres from Bhubaneswar, capital of eastern Orissa state, IANS news agency reported quoting defence sources.
The missile successfully hit a flying object launched from the same range, the sources said.
The multi-target missile, which has a range of 25 kilometres and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead of 50 kilos, was test-fired from the same range on Thursday and Friday.
India's military research wing, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has developed the 5.6-metre-long, 700-kilogramme missile. It uses an integral rocket propulsion system and has low reaction time.
The Akash is part of the country's integrated missile development project which includes the intermediate range ballistic missile, Agni, surface-to- surface missile, Prithvi, and the anti-tank missile, Nag.
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It is the Crusader's technology that has brought all these missiles and nuclear bombs in our backyard. Who is going to suffer with this technology? Hindous themselves! Why? Because the monsoons rotate within the subcontinent for three to seven years. The adverse effects of nuclear testings of 1974 by India is showing by increased birth defects in north eastern India already, and it will get worse as both Pakistan and India keep on their nuclear activity.
As for Rajev and others in India, they are almost all evil. We will be facing India by 2025 in wars.
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Ratnasri WeerawenseDec 17th, 2007 - 13:22:34
Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, ordered an Indian General to kill LTTE leader Vellupillai Pirapaharan in cold blood when the latter attended a meeting under a white flag in September 1987. In a new book, the then chief of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), Major General (retd.) Harkirat Singh, says he refused to carry out the order as “good soldiers do not shoot an adversary in the back.” He also says that as the Tigers began disarming in 1987, but India’s intelligence service, RAW, on Rajiv Gandhi’s orders, began arming anti-LTTE militant groups, triggering inter-Tamil violence.
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