In contrast to the bare-bones price of $115 million for each Rafale fighter, the F-35A cost $94.6 million, reports Ajai Shukla.
Akash was aimed at a target attached to Lakshya, the pilotless target aircraft.
The sophisticated multi-target missile was test fired from a mobile launcher at about 1230 IST.
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Among them was P Venugopalan, leading designer of the propulsion systems for Prithvi, Agni and BrahMos missiles.
With a range of 25km, Akash is one of the five missiles currently under development by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.
Sitharaman said keeping morale of forces at the highest level was among the priorities of the government.
The 290km range missile is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads.
A research shows that the health of the majestic Gangotri glacier that feeds the river Ganges has been affected, as the maximum temperature in the region has shot up by 0.9 degree Celsius and snowfall reduced by 37 cm annually.
The missile was aimed at a moving object, sources said.
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Inducted into India's SFC in 2003, Prithvi II, the first missile to be developed by DRDO under India's prestigious Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme is now a proven technology
The supersonic anti-ship cruise missile was jointly developed by India and Russia.
Lakshya is the indigenously developed Pilotless Target Aircraft.
Chief Controller (R&D) Dr W Selvamurthy told reporters in Bangalore that about 10 people from the US have been joining DRDO each year and the trend is growing.
The scientific adviser to defence minister said the Defence Research and Development Organisation will be building the vehicle in about 30 months.
The indigenously built multi-target missile can carry a 50kg payload.
Describing the launch of the sophisticated missile as a complete success, ITR Director M V K V Prasad said all the mission parameters were met during the trial. "The missile was randomly chosen from the production stock and the launch activities were carried out by the specially formed Strategic Force Command and monitored by scientists of Defence Research and Development Organisation as part of training exercise," sources said.
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The indigenously built multi-target missile has a range of 25km and is one of the five missiles under various stages of development by the DRDO.
Astra is an indigenously developed air-to-air missile.
DRDO scientists, who conducted the test, described it as a user's trial.
US-based firm is making a supersonic aircraft that is more efficient and practical than Concorde.
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Retirement fund body EPFO will provide permanent or universal account numbers on the pattern of core banking services to its over 5 crore active subscribers.
India on Tuesday successfully test-fired for the second time in two days its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile, which has a strike range of 350 km, from a test range at Chandipur.
India on Monday successfully test-fired indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile -- with a strike range of 350 km -- from a test range at Chandipur near Balasore in Odisha.
The missile, weighing 650kg, can carry a 50kg payload over a distance of 25km.
The indigenously made Agni V missile was test-fired from off the Odisha coast.
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