NEW: India says it has successfully test-fired an anti-satellite weapon in unexpected announcement just weeks before general election.
India says it has successfully test-fired an anti-satellite weapon in an unexpected announcement just weeks before a generalPrime Minister Narendra Modi said in an address broadcast live Wednesday that Indian scientists had earlier destroyed a low earth orbit satellite with a missile, demonstrating India's capacity as a "space power" alongside the U.S.
After 40 Indian soldiers were killed in a February suicide bombing in disputed Kashmir, India said it retaliated with a "surgical strike" on a terrorist camp in Pakistan. Afterward in an air skirmish, Pakistan shot down one of India's Soviet-era fighter jets, prompting scrutiny of India's aging military hardware.
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