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ISRO never got too much of attention of the UPA government. During UPA era, ISRO’s budget hardly increased. From around Rs 4,000 crore in 2009 to Rs 5,500 crore in 2014. What is it seeking credit for?

Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India successfully test-fired an anti-satellite missile by shooting down a live satellite, describing it as a rare achievement that puts the country in an exclusive club of space super powers. 

India used indigenously made Anti-Satellite Weapons (ASAT) for hitting the live satellite target, which was on a ‘Low Earth Orbit’ at a height of 300 kilometers from the earth’s surface

On Thursday DRDO successfully test fired indigenously developed, low weight, fire and forget Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MP-ATGM) in the ranges of Rajasthan desert. This was the second successful test since Wednesday. 
 

Top IAF sources confirmed that Varthaman had fired an R-73 missile to take out the F-16 aircraft, however, his jet was also hit by an AMRAAM missile
 

While one Pakistani drone was shot down last Tuesday with a Sukhoi Su-30 MKI, another that was hovering over Kutch of Gujarat was shot down on February 26 using an Israeli Derby missile from the SPYDER system by the Indian defence forces

Abhinandan, who was flying a MiG-21 Bison, shot down an F-16 fighter jet of Pakistan Air Force by firing an air-to-air missile before his plane was hit during a fierce dogfight

An F-16 aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was shot down by the Indian Air Force (IAF). An aircraft venturing into enemy territory is easily spotted by the radar systems and information is passed on to the missile system for retaliatory action
 

Air Marshal Shirish B Deo to sign an MoU with a public sector unit to help market and manufacture missiles in bulk.
 

 Air Marshal (retd) Shirish B Deo said his company is about to sign an MoU with a public sector unit which will help him in marketing and manufacturing the missiles in bulk.

The previous Obama administration was not very forthcoming in sharing its advance missile defense system with India, following which New Delhi went ahead to procure it from Russia

Reportedly, an elite combined-arms brigade armed with new Type 99A tanks lost a mock battle in 2018 to an opponent who fought with older tanks