India’s intermediate range ballistic missile Angi-II was successfully test-fired by a team belonging to the Indian Army’s Strategic Forces Command.

India and China raised sharply their defence expenditure in 2009 notwithstanding the global economic depression even as most European members of the NATO are facing a pinch on defence budgets owing to their big deficits.

India has successfully tested 2 advanced versions of Prithvi-II, the nuclear-capable ballistic missile, in quick succession, by destroying the targets accurately.