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US' NSA Knew About India's Secret Missile Projects: Edward Snowden's Documents

The Intercept claimed that the NSA also obtained “significant intelligence” about other bombs India possessed at the time.

US' NSA Knew About India's Secret Missile Projects: Edward Snowden's Documents
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Documents from the trove of American whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed that the United States’ secret agency, NSA, may have gained information regarding India라이브 바카라 nuclear-capable Sagarika and Dhanush missiles and the facility where they were being developed as early as in 2005.
According to바카라 웹사이트The Indian Express, which first reported the story, the document was published by an American website,바카라 웹사이트, on September 14. The website claimed that the NSA also obtained “significant intelligence” about other bombs India possessed at the time.
The document was first uploaded on NSA라이브 바카라 core Signal Intelligence Directorate website, SIDtoday. These documents were provided by Snowden first, a US contractor who flee the US to Hong Kong in 2013, informing the world about NSA라이브 바카라 global surveillance programme.
The Intercept바카라 웹사이트reported that an NSA site in Australia had geolocated signals of a suspected Indian nuclear weapons storage facility. After that another site based in Thailand isolated these signals to find that it was related to Indian nuclear weapons. The analysis of these inputs led to the discovery that India was working on Sagarika and Dhanush. The NSA,바카라 웹사이트The Intercept바카라 웹사이트article claimed, also found out about a pilotless target aircraft project and two unidentified bombs.
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The submarine-launched바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트has a range of 750 km. Its variants, currently under development, can hit across China from the Bay of Bengal.
바카라 웹사이트has a tested range of around 350 kilometre where it can carry a payload of 1,000 kilograms. It can also carry a 500-kilogram warhead for 600 kilometres and a 250-kilogram warhead for 750 kilometres
The surface-to-surface missile can also be used as a ship-to-ship warhead, capable of blasting any naval threat.
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