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Indian to get anti-tank missiles from US

NEW DELHI: India is negotiating with the Untied States to acquire state of the art Javelin anti-tank missile worth several million dollars for large-scale induction. Earlier, India was planning to purchase the Israeli anti-tank missile, Spike. But the missile failed at the trials in Rajasthan deserts. Sources here said the negotiations with the Americans were at advances stage. Both sides may seal the deal by the end of this month coinciding the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Washington. Media reports suggest that the induction of Javelin could affect India’s indigenously developed Nag anti-tank missiles, which were cleared for production this July after two decades of trials and research. The Indian Army has ordered 443 Nag missiles and 13 missile carriers. Since the Nag was on the drawing board for several years, the army started desperately looking for new generation anti-tank missiles to penetrate modern day tanks, reports said. The Indian Army currently has old Milan missiles, a European product, and the Russian Konkours, both of which are manufactured in India under licence at the Bharat Dynamics Limited. iftikhar gilani

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