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Eh? Where do you come up with these 'inferences'? Side-thrusters are more accurate than fins! Also, even AAD uses thrust vectoring of its rocket nozzle for maneuvering!! That high speed is used to the advantage of the Kinetic-kill-vehicle of the interceptor!! The interceptor missile doesn't...

Initially both AAD & PAD used RF seekers (DRDO's newsletter from 2012 confirms that) Then when PAD changed to PDV the seeker was changed to IIR (reported by Saurav Jha himself). Then some folks continued reporting AAD as continuing to have an RF seeker; while several others started reporting...

As I mentioned earlier it's not the technical efficacy that's tested at night, but operational!! They need to make sure that the deployment checklist that's obvious during the day time can also happen at night! Tejas was flown in at night probably after about 1000 day time sorties! Plutonium...

Not sure about the exact outcome, but the fact that they conducted this at night means that their previous tests had given them significant amount of assurance on its capability. Night time tests are pretty much a 'end user mode' testing - not merely technology validation anymore.

Buddy, you never cease to make far reaching and assertive postulations based on incomplete/inaccurate information. For the untrained eye all HEAT is the same! But the heat emanating from the sun, the missile body & the missile exhaust are all DIFFERENT - because the IR frequencies depend on the...

Dude, you're peddling in your own conspiracy theories - and not to mention all over the map without any cohesive argument! When in that conspiracy theory mode, facts don't really matter! And it's hard to discuss anything substantial! End note: Solar energy will rule! Energy Storage solutions...

Much of what you're stating is obviously your personal opinion - that's bereft of facts and reality. You're talking like Trump! When cornered with facts - you yell fake news!!! First you said, India has shit load of Uranium and doesn't need imported stuff; now you're saying that domestic...

Once again you get into this epileptic fit of throwing anything and everything to win an argument!! India suffered severe Uranium shortages that forced it negotiate heavily with the nuclear suppliers! https://thebulletin.org/2008/08/indias-nuclear-fuel-shortage/ Having a deposit is different...

A little context and perspective is required before those statements are shot off. Firstly about decade ago, India was starved for Uranium even when the energy needs of the country were spiraling due to increased economic growth. Secondly, India chose to separate its weapons program and energy...

Mate! Your logic's gone on a walkabout!

Once again, thanks for echoing that S-400 is not a formal BMD (despite the euphoria caused by some). My post was to point the inconsistency in other posts wherein S-400 is considered a BMD, but the different missiles in the system with different altitude ceiling are not differentiated into...

Thanks for echoing my statements, that the 2 different missiles with 2 different altitude ceiling 'could in some way' be regarded as 2 layers. But then no one is saying S-400 as having multiple layers, even though it has multiple missiles, all with different altitude ceilings. Consistency is not...

I am not so sure about how effective S-400 would be against ballistic missiles. S-400 & A-135 were systems developed by Russia almost around the same time. The former being an anti-aircraft (air) defense system (Russia officially does not claim this to be ABM)... while the latter being an...

I am saying that at this point in time, there's no shield against ballistic missiles. If ever it'll materialize it'll be AAD/PDV - which probably will be pretty good (I am not dissing this system at all). With Akash, Barak etc. India has a decent air defense system. So, it's unlikely Pak will...

Dude, please! You've a 'Moderator' label in your profile. Please moderate your jingoism with facts & reality. There aren't 3 layers of ballistic missile defense. If AAD/PDV materializes then it will be the ONLY layer of defense against ballistic missiles! It's ok to call AAD & PDV as different...

There aren't 3 layers of ballistic missile defense. If AAD/PDV materializes then it will be the ONLY layer of defense against ballistic missiles! S-400 is primarily a long-range anti-aircraft defense system. It does very little in ballistic missile defense! NASAMS as ballistic missile defense...

Somehow this is an unending process - where someone will blurt something that doesn't make sense,but then to justify it they'll make up more nonsense. Some folks here can never accept their mistake ! Who's talking about NFS states (India's the only one btw)? When you said about a country...

Read my post carefully! Both in terms of individual missile cost & the "program" cost, Nuclear/BM program easily trumps BMD. Also, you just made up all that stuff in your post - it doesn't belong to any countries' strike doctrine! First "batch" of BM's are duds? Did you even think through the...

Dude! That's such an outlier! It must have been fairly obvious what the context of the conversation was about. Please don't derail it.

Sure a BM doesn't have a seeker, but carries something even more expensive - nuclear warhead! The Ops sec for the BMs is also much more expensive than for the interceptor missiles. All put together BM program will easily be 100 times more expensive than interceptor missiles!