India has moved a significant step closer in integrating its strategic submarines with ballistic missiles after the test launch of a medium-range missile from a submerged platform in the Bay of Bengal. The 10-meter-tall (33-ft.) nuclear-capable missile was launched from a depth of about 50 meters Jan. 27, says Defense Research and Development Organization Director General V.K. Saraswat. It met “every” mission objective, he says.
As if Indian airlines did not have enough problems already, now they seem to have organized themselves into a circular firing squad. Bleeding red ink, India's private carriers are engaged with debt-ridden Air India in a fierce price war.
