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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

India, Israel to co-develop medium-range SAM system

Akash SAMIndia and Israel will jointly develop a medium-range surface-to-air missile (MR-SAM) in a bid to counter emerging and existing threats to cities and important installations in their countries from enemy aircraft and missiles.

"We are jointly developing a 70-km range MR-SAM in partnership with Israeli companies," senior DRDO scientist Dr Prahlad told reporters on the sidelines of a DRDO function here.

"We may take around 12 years but the requirement of the services is that they want it (MR-SAM) fast. The only way to make it four to five years is to partner with a country which has already developed some of the hardware. If they have got some hardware and we have got some knowledge, we can do it in 4-5 years," Dr Prahlad said.

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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous26/2/09 12:41

    There is no point reinventing the wheel for Indians.

    Wasn't Akash rejected by the Indian defense forces ?

    I think it was.

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