China is threat to Uncle, as this is the only power which can challenge uncle in future. and the radar would be give good amount of courage of China specially its missile launch sites in Tibet.
Problem here is that we dont want and we shouldn't be part of THAAD to get limited access to Xband. we will be paying too heavy price and we should not be submissive to USA for our security needs .
They dont trust us that much to give us 2 X-band radars..Plus installing one in J&K and giving the base command in the hands of americans will have huge implications...They would rather give these to JAPAN who buys each and every thing America makes and pitches for sale...
Forget sharing live feeds..if American X-band radar is purchased and installed , it will be operated by Americans not by us...so it will be them sharing feed with us not the other way around..
it appears that you are confusing with the concept of sharing the live data feeds with US with giving the base command in the hands of Americans. India is not pakistan that will allow foreign military persons to operate from its land or air that too in such important project.
We wont be just purchasing radar from US that to be operated by Americans. Its like outsourcing our security. We would be buyer of the system & I don' think it'll be any hard for our engineers to diagnose it completely to understand tech we are missing.
US doesnot have problem with us having ARROW-1..in fact if i remember we already have ARROW-1..its ARROW-2 and its later blocks that US had vetoed in 2002...maybe its 8 years since then and a lot has changed since then so this time they wont veto this...but now we should try for ARROW-3...which imo is under development..
i totally understand what sharing feeds mean...
Do we have arrow 1 ???
Just extending swordfish range won't help. X-band gives much better resolution which i think swordfish might not be able to generate...
Our ballistic missile defense program is advanced than arrow -3. So why would we go for arrow-3 ?
I think you are referring to Green pine RADAR system we got it form Israel. We need access to complete system . USA did block sale of missiles ie arrow Interceptor ,Though Israel indirectly helped us on RADAR front but If we can get access to all technology in latest Arrow 3 system that will be really good.I am also referring to Arrow 3 . Arrow is outdated now.
Though we all would like to get complete control of such systems but as of now we can manage with required feed for our missile defence systems as well. we may keep on working to improve our own systems in parallel .
Wait for a year or two. more stronger China becomes more and more system and techs will be offered directly or indirectly to us to create a counterweight . Everything is possible in Love and war.
