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Military Aviation => Defence in General => Topic started by: tigershark on January 13, 2008, 02:23:34 PM

Title: Dud missile
Post by: tigershark on January 13, 2008, 02:23:34 PM
Dud missile
Sandeep Unnithan
January 10, 2008
It was dubbed Baby Tomahawkski, a short-legged Russian version of the eponymous US cruise missiles. Fired from the torpedo tube of a submarine, it could fly over 300 km delivering a 400 kg warhead to a target with pin-point accuracy.

It would give the Indian Navy’s submarines capability to attack targets on land. Yet, the Kilo class submarine INS Sindhuvijay and the land-attack missiles it is equipped to fire have today joined aircraft carrier Vikramaditya as another bone of contention that India has with its largest defence supplier, Russia.

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