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		India, the Best Customer for America's Defense Industry
		India, which imported around $3 billion worth of military gear in 2010, had an import tab of $5.9 billion last year, and IHS (IHS) forecasts the total will be about $6.7 billion this year and $8.16 billion in 2015.
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		India To Seek Home-built Replacement for Air Defense Guns
		The Indian Army will replace its aging Swedish-built 40mm L/70 air defense guns with weapons from domestic companies, a Defence Ministry source said, after the cancellation of a global tender floated last year that failed to elicit any response from overseas defense companies.
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		Indian Navy To Open Search for Carrier Air Defense System
		The Indian Navy has declined, for now, a Russian offer to mount the Kashtan air defense system on India’s INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier, and instead will seek a system through open competition, a Defence Ministry source said.
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		HAL to display new chopper models at India Aviation show
		Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Defence, will be showcasing its achievements in the civil aviation sector at India Aviation 2014, scheduled to be held in Hyderabad from March 12.
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		Super Hercules Aircraft lands at Kargil for the first time
		The newly acquired strategic aircraft by the Indian Air Force C -130-J called as Super Hercules landed at Kargil airfield for the first time on Friday.
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		Indian Army To Upgrade T-90 Tanks With Domestic Help
		The Indian Army will upgrade more than 600 Russian-built T-90 tanks by adding new features and replacing their thermal imaging sights, navigation systems and fire control systems at a cost of more than $250 million.
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		How Isro got an indigenous cryogenic engine
		Mission director K. Sivan kept his fingers firmly crossed in the mission control room at ISRO in Sriharikota on the morning of 5 January as the moment drew closer for the launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, or GSLV-D5.
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		Time has come for private players to produce arms
		With increased need for domestic production of arms and ammunition, the government should pro-actively take a call on involving private manufacturers in production of defence equipment.
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		Dissecting a dogfight: Sukhoi vs USAF at Red Flag 2008
		It was the first time the legendary Russian Sukhoi-30 Flanker flew in American airspace, and it kicked up a controversy. In August 2008 India sent its top of the line Su-30MKI fighter to participate in Exercise Red Flag at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas.
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		High Altitude Warfare School [HAWS] Of The Indian Army
		The Indian Army's HAWS school of Mountain Warfare is one of the best in the world with many countries sending their soldiers in India to graduate from these institutions.
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		Is India’s space program worth the cost?
		India's Mars Orbiter Mission is an attempt to become the fourth nation and first Asian country to reach the red planet and a point of great national pride.
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