[3] During his term as President‚ he was popularly known as the People’s President.[4][5] Before his term as India’s president‚ he worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO and ISRO. He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology.[6] In India he is highly respected as a scientistand as an engineer. Kalam played a pivotal organizational‚ technical and political role in India’s Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998‚ the first
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commanders and expert in military history‚ intelligence‚ and international security‚ says that unmanned aerial systems or UAS‚ as experts call them‚ are the most important new military technology in the twenty-first century since the intercontinental ballistic missile. With the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) writing rules to allow UAS to fly in American skies nowadays‚ drones are also ushering in the most dramatic new age in aviation since the jet engine. Only a dozen years ago‚ no one saw
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He has received honorary doctorates from as many as thirty universities .[3] The Government of India has honoured him with the nation’s highest civilian honours: the Padma Bhushan in 1981; Padma Vibhushan in 1990; and the Bharat Ratna in 1997. Kalam is the Fourth President of India to have been honoured with a Bharat Ratna before being elected to the highest office‚ the other three being Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ‚V. V. Giri and Zakir Hussain. He is also the first scientist and first bachelor to
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smuggling of weaponry from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah. · In early 2010‚ multiple reports surfaced suggesting that Syria may have transferred Scud missiles to Hezbollah. Syria denied the charges. · The U.S. State Department issued a statement saying‚ “The United States condemns in thestrongest terms the transfer of any arms‚ and especially ballistic missile systems such as the Scud‚from Syria to Hezbollah. The transfer of these arms can only have a destabilizing effect on the region‚ and would pose
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world dominance by expanding and developing its military strength. If that speculation is true then India is really under a big threat. As everyone knows China military strength is enormous and India is nothing compared to China. They also have Ballistic Missiles and more nuclear power than India. So India can be under a great threat if they are trying to achieve dominance. Also they have been gaining ports in the Indian Ocean and becoming close to Pakistan and have signed many treaties with Pakistan
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American historical political movie that was directed by the famous director Roger Donaldson The film is dramatizing the “Cuban missile crisis “which happened in 1962‚ the film perspective was seen from the united states political leadership. In October 1962‚ U-2 aeronautical observation photographs uncover that the Soviet Association is setting middle of the road run ballistic rockets conveying atomic weapons in Cuba. John F. Kennedy is a president of (Bruce Greenwood) and his consultants came up
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China s defence white paper 2013 lesson for india On 16 April 2013‚ China’s State Council published a White Paper titled The Diversified Employment of China’s Armed Forces Page. This 2013 edition is an update on the 2011 White Paper. While there are several elements of continuity‚ there are also important differences. The 2013 paper is shorter‚ crisper and gives some facts and figures on the Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA) numbers that were not known earlier. The 2013 White Paper is the first defence
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II in 1939‚ he began to develop a long-range ballistic missile‚ the A-4 (later renamed the V-2 for "Retaliation/Vengeance Weapon 2"). As he freely admitted after the war‚ much of the V-2 design was directly borrowed from the writings of the American rocket scientist Robert Goddard. On October 3‚ 1942‚ an experimental A-4 became the first manmade object to reach "technical" outer space‚ rocketing to an altitude of 50 miles. A liquid propellant missile 46 feet in length‚ and weighing 27‚000 pounds
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Ronald Reagan’s Second Inaugural Address‚ 1985 Balance of Power‚ Defense‚ and Security In reading the excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural address‚ the three concepts that I found to be of meaning to me are the Balance of Power‚ Defense in terms of military strength‚ and Security for the means of protecting this nation at a time when super-power uncertainty between the United States and the Soviet Union was unbalanced. In 1985‚ the United States and the Soviet Union relations
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President[3][4]‚ and a poll conducted by news channel CNN-IBN named him "India’s Best President". Before his term as India’s president‚ he worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO andISRO. He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology.[5]. In India he is highly respected as a scientist and as an engineer. Kalam played a pivotal organisational‚ technical and political role in India’s Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998‚ the
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