Indian Ballistic Missile Defense System

[sayareakd]

http://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/English/bnews/anti_test/aadst.wmv

another video

(post edited later on).

 

[plugwater]

http://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/English/bnews/anti_test/aadst.wmv

more confusion with the video............

This is not the latest test video sayar. See the paint job in the target missile its different.

 

[sayareakd]

yeah almost forget that manc thanks for pointing out, this was new video at DRDO site.

thanks.........

 

[black eagle]

http://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/English/bnews/anti_test/aadst.wmv

another video

(post edited later on).

its an old video. have seen it before many times.

 

[plugwater]

India Developing Laser-Based Anti-Missile Systems

NEW DELHI - Indian scientists are developing laser-based anti-ballistic missile systems called Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs).

Developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), DEW weapons can kill incoming ballistic missiles by bombarding them with subatomic particles or electromagnetic waves. The weapons could intercept missiles soon after they were launched toward India.

A DRDO scientist said laser-based weapons have been tested. One of these weapons is the air defense dazzler, which can engage enemy aircraft and helicopters at a range of 10 kilometers. This weapon will be ready for induction in two years.

India's laser weapons can be deployed in the Navy's submarines and destroyers, and Air Force fighters and transport planes.

The DEW laser weapon is capable of producing 25-kilowatt pulses that can destroy a ballistic missile within seven kilometers, the scientist said.

In addition, Indian scientists are testing the Prithvi homemade anti-ballistic missile system, which can kill ballistic missiles at a height of up to 80 kilometers. The first-phase Prithvi is likely to be inducted by 2013, said the DRDO scientist.

Scientists are working on developing second-phase Prithvis capable of killing incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.

India Developing Laser-Based Anti-Missile Systems - Defense News

 

[vikramrana_1812]

India to develop futuristic anti-missile directed beam weapon(laser weapon)


ShareIndia is developing a series of directed energy weapons (DEW) to improve the anti-ballistic missile capability, local media reported on Tuesday.
A laser weapon of the DEW family are being developed, which could fire a beam with a potency of 25 kilowatt. This type of laser weapon would intercept a ballistic missile in its terminal phase within the range of seven kilometers, Indian newspaper the Indian Times quoted Anil Kumar Maini, the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO)'s Laser Science and Technology Center director, as saying.
The ballistic missile would explode as its shell temperature is heated to 200-300 degrees Celsius by the laser beam, the Director explained.
The DEW is a sophisticated weapon that could destroy a target by emitting and transferring the energy to a target in an aimed direction. Some types are in development in some countries. Among the DEW, laser weapons usually generate high-energy pulses against targets.
According to the weapon development roadmap by the Indian Ministry of Defense, the DEW would be one of the top priorities for the Indian advanced weapons development over the next fifteen years, said the report.
A gas dynamic laser-based DEW is also being developed by The Center. It could be flexibly deployed by a moving vehicle, Maini said.
In the future, the Indian laser weapons could be carried by three services' platforms, such as the Air Force's transport planes, fighters and the Navy's destroyers and submarines, according the report.
If their developments are smooth, the Indian new laser weapons test would be conducted within several years by DRDO.
On February 12, 2010, a U.S. high-powered airborne laser weapon shot down a mocked ballistic missile, and became the first successful test for a airborne DEW to destroy a ballistic missile.
India has carried out two anti-ballistic missile interception tests by launching the anti-aircraft missiles since the beginning of this year. Among them, the July's test succeeded while March's test failed due to the anti-aircraft missile's radar failing to track the mocked target.

Latest Defence news: India to develop futuristic anti-missile directed beam weapon(laser weapon)

 

[nrj]

Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Plays Key Role In Latest Missile Defense Test

Interesting development. DRDO BMD should look in to it -

A Raytheon Company Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) demonstrated successful two-stage flyout on June 6, 2010 during the latest test of the Missile Defense Agency's Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system.

During this non-intercept mission, Raytheon's EKV met all test objectives, gathering critical data on kill vehicle performance that will improve the fidelity of its simulation models.

"This test once again demonstrates the reliability and quality of Raytheon's Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle," said Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, Raytheon Missile Systems president. "The knowledge we gained will strengthen our nation's shield against threat ballistic missiles."

The test began at 3:25 p.m. PDT when the two-stage ground-based interceptor lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Carrying an operational EKV payload, the GBI measured performance data for the new two-stage design as well as how an operationally configured EKV operates under stressing boundary conditions.

The EKV is the intercept component of the GBI, which is the weapon element of the GMD system. Its mission in the defense of the nation is to engage high-speed ballistic missile warheads in the midcourse phase of flight and to destroy them using only the force of impact or hit-to-kill.

EKV consists of an infrared sensor in a flight package used to detect and discriminate the incoming warhead from other objects. The EKV also has its own propulsion, communications link, discrimination algorithms, guidance and control system and computers to support target selection and intercept.

The Raytheon-developed X-band radar, the primary payload of the sea-based X-band radar, and the AN/TPY-2 radar actively participated in this test by tracking, discriminating and assessing.

"Once again, Raytheon radars demonstrated exceptional performance in this critical test of U.S. missile defense capability," said Karen Kalil-Brown, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems vice president of National and Theater Security Programs.

Source

EKV consists of an infrared sensor in a flight package used to detect and discriminate the incoming warhead from other objects.​

 

[sayareakd]

after watching this video and knowing the position India is with BMD i would say that it wont be long before even MIRVs from Enemy will be intercepted.

 

[nrj]

after watching this video and knowing the position India is with BMD i would say that it wont be long before even MIRVs from Enemy will be intercepted.

Yes saya. Even I think with experience in Re-entry vehicles, our BMD program can benefit. Even US learned the lapses & now incorporating the enhancements with experience from Reusable vehicles. Our BMD will also be able to dodge Multiple Warheads in future I think.....

 

[sayareakd]

this is japans kill vehicle, our own kill vehicle does the same thing, if we can miniaturized it then those MIRVs from enemy can be intercepted, all we need is very good radar to track those, so that independent kill vehicle can be send against each MIRV, plus we need to identify which missile have been fired by enemy and accordingly multiple kill vehicle interceptor should be send against it.

 

[sayareakd]

India's Claim of Laser Weapons: Bluff or Threat?

India's Claims of Laser Weapons: 'Nonsense' or Threat?

:emot0:

 

[Daredevil]

^^Well, the article offers no evidence or insight into why India is not capable of making such weapons.

 

[sayareakd]

DD there mentality is if we havent made it then on one else can made it.

Probably they have not seen this

Defence World

my blog brief details of the Laser test conducted by DRDO.

 

[jatkshatriya]

If America's Greatest Presidents Were Members Of The Fantastic Four, They'd Look Like This possible could this tech be used for BMD

 

[jatkshatriya]

If America's Greatest Presidents Were Members Of The Fantastic Four, They'd Look Like This possible could this tech be used for BMD

oops sorry guys pasted the wrong bookmark...man i am not computer savvy for sure....HAHA

 

[shuvo@y2k10]

can anyone clarify that in is india's bmd capable of handling mirvs. also is there any attempt to develop multiple kill vehicle to destroy mirvs(as the raytheon mirv-r project) in the phase 2 of bmd. also is there any effort by drdo to turn the bmd into a true air defense system capable of intercepting cruise missile ,aircrafts,pgms,ballistic missile etc like russian s-400.also what is the maximum range of bmd missiles.also is the phase 2 capable of intercepting icbm's of range upto 5000km or beyond that.

 

[black eagle]

Will the AAD have one missile per launcher only & will the missile tube look like a cage rather than a tube?

 

[vishal_lionheart]

India exposed by missile failure By Praful Bidwai​

NEW DELHI – The failure in rapid succession this week of a satellite launcher and a new ballistic missile have shown up the technological and budgetary difficulties faced by India's space establishment – civilian and military.
Hours after the US$50 million geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) witha communications satellite on board was ordered to self-destruct – as it veered off course soon after liftoff on Monday – authorities at the civilian Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said one of its four strap-on rocket motors had failed.
Like the GSLV, a new intermediate-range ballistic missile "Agni III" that was launched by the secretive Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO) failed soon after liftoff on
Sunday and crashed into the Bay of Bengal, less than 1,000 kilometers away from the launch site.
The failure of the Agni III was in some ways more serious because it exposed the political limitations of India's attempts, despite its ambitions, to pursue a military capability which is truly independent of the US's strategic calculations.
The surface-to-surface ballistic missile, designed to have a range of 3,500 kilometers, took off in a "fairly smooth" manner at the designated hour. But "a series of mishaps" occurred in its later flight path.
The Agni-III was originally meant to be tested in 2003-04. However, the test was postponed owing to technological snags. After their rectification, said reports, the missile's test flights were put off twice largely for "political reasons", so as not to annoy the US.
Earlier this year, India decided to postpone the missile test out of fear that a test could hamper US Congressional ratification of the India-US nuclear cooperation deal. Publicly, the Indian defense minister cited "self-imposed restraint" to justify the postponement.
However, last month, General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US military, visited India and declared that "I do not see it [a test] as destabilizing" or upsetting the regional "military balance" since "other countries in this region" (read, Pakistan) have also tested missiles.
Following this "facilitation" or clearance, and after indications of favorable votes in US Congressional committees on the nuclear deal, India's stand changed. A week later, the DRDO announced it was ready to launch Agni-III.
This is the ninth missile in the Agni series (named after the Sanskrit word for "fire") to have been tested. The first was tested in May 1989. The last test (Agni-II) took place in August 2004.
Unlike major powers like the US, Russia or China, which test the same missile 10 to 20 times before announcing that it is fully developed, India considers only three or four test flights to be enough for both producing and inducting new missiles.
This is not the first time that the test of an Agni series missile has failed. In the past, some tests of the shorter range Agni-II (range 2,000 kilometers-plus) also proved unsuccessful.
But what makes the Agni-III'sfailure significant is that unlike its shorter-range predecessors, it was a wholly new design, developed with the specific purpose of delivering a nuclear warhead.
The Agni-I (range 700 to 800 kilometers) and Agni-II were both products of India's space program and connected to its Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP), itself launched in 1983. Originally, their design used a satellite space-launching rocket (SLV-3) as the first stage, on top of which was mounted the very short-range (150 to 250 kilometers) liquid fuel-propelled Prithvi missile.
The Agni-III'sbrand new design, in which both stages use solid propellants, was to enable it to carry a payload weighing up to 1.5 tons and deliver it to targets as far away as Beijing and Shanghai. At present, India lacks an effective nuclear deterrent vis-a-vis China, based on a delivery vehicle carrying a nuclear warhead. Agni-III was meant to fill the void.
The causes of the failure of the test flight are not clear. Scientists at the DRDO, which designed and built the missile, have been quoted as saying that many new technologies were tried in the Agni-III, including rocket motors, "fault-tolerant" avionics and launch control and guidance systems. Some of these could have failed. Other reports attribute the mishap to problems with the propellant.
"The DRDO isn't the world's most reliable weapons R&D agency," Admiral L Ramdas, a former chief of staff of the Indian Navy, told Inter Press Service. "The Indian armed services' experience with DRDO-made armaments has not been a happy one. Their reliability is often extremely poor. We often used to joke that one had to pray they would somehow work in the battlefield."
The agency has a budget of Rs30 billion (US$670 million), which is of the same order as the annual expenditure of the Department of Atomic Energy which is responsible for India's civilian and military nuclear programs.
"This figure is extremely high for a poor country like India, with a low rank of 127 among 175 countries of the world in the United Nations Human Development Index," said Anil Chowdhary of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace. "Yet the DRDO has delivered very little."
None of the three major projects assigned to the DRDO has been completed on time or without huge cost-overruns. These include the development of a Main Battle Tank (MBT), a nuclear power plant for a submarine, and an advanced Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), all involving expenditures of hundreds of millions of dollars.
The MBT project was launched in 1974. But the tank has failed to meet service requirement tests. It is reportedly too heavy and undependable to be used in combat operations. The Indian Army prefers imported Russian tanks over the indigenous MBTs and says it will use the MBTs for training, not operations.
The nuclear submarine project, launched 31 years ago, is not yet finished despite the almost $1 billion spent on it. The LCA project, launched in 1983, is still in the doldrums: the DRDO has failed to develop the right engine for it. Even with an imported engine, the plane is unlikely to enter service anytime soon.
"The primary reason for these shocking instances of underperformance and inability is lack of public accountability and oversight of the DRDO," says M V Ramana, an independent technical expert attached to the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore.
"The DRDO, like all of India's defense and nuclear service establishments, is not subject to normal processes of audit. It has used 'security' as a smokescreen or shield and refused to be held to account," he adds.
The DRDO says it will try to rectify the faults in Agni-III. Whether or not and whenever that happens, India's missile development program, withfuture plans to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 5,000 kilometers or more, has suffered a major setback. (Inter Press Service)

 

[vishal_lionheart]

India exposed by missile failure By Praful Bidwai​

NEW DELHI – The failure in rapid succession this week of a satellite launcher and a new ballistic missile have shown up the technological and budgetary difficulties faced by India's space establishment – civilian and military.
Hours after the US$50 million geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) witha communications satellite on board was ordered to self-destruct – as it veered off course soon after liftoff on Monday – authorities at the civilian Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said one of its four strap-on rocket motors had failed.
Like the GSLV, a new intermediate-range ballistic missile "Agni III" that was launched by the secretive Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO) failed soon after liftoff on
Sunday and crashed into the Bay of Bengal, less than 1,000 kilometers away from the launch site.
The failure of the Agni III was in some ways more serious because it exposed the political limitations of India's attempts, despite its ambitions, to pursue a military capability which is truly independent of the US's strategic calculations.
The surface-to-surface ballistic missile, designed to have a range of 3,500 kilometers, took off in a "fairly smooth" manner at the designated hour. But "a series of mishaps" occurred in its later flight path.
The Agni-III was originally meant to be tested in 2003-04. However, the test was postponed owing to technological snags. After their rectification, said reports, the missile's test flights were put off twice largely for "political reasons", so as not to annoy the US.
Earlier this year, India decided to postpone the missile test out of fear that a test could hamper US Congressional ratification of the India-US nuclear cooperation deal. Publicly, the Indian defense minister cited "self-imposed restraint" to justify the postponement.
However, last month, General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US military, visited India and declared that "I do not see it [a test] as destabilizing" or upsetting the regional "military balance" since "other countries in this region" (read, Pakistan) have also tested missiles.
Following this "facilitation" or clearance, and after indications of favorable votes in US Congressional committees on the nuclear deal, India's stand changed. A week later, the DRDO announced it was ready to launch Agni-III.
This is the ninth missile in the Agni series (named after the Sanskrit word for "fire") to have been tested. The first was tested in May 1989. The last test (Agni-II) took place in August 2004.
Unlike major powers like the US, Russia or China, which test the same missile 10 to 20 times before announcing that it is fully developed, India considers only three or four test flights to be enough for both producing and inducting new missiles.
This is not the first time that the test of an Agni series missile has failed. In the past, some tests of the shorter range Agni-II (range 2,000 kilometers-plus) also proved unsuccessful.
But what makes the Agni-III'sfailure significant is that unlike its shorter-range predecessors, it was a wholly new design, developed with the specific purpose of delivering a nuclear warhead.
The Agni-I (range 700 to 800 kilometers) and Agni-II were both products of India's space program and connected to its Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP), itself launched in 1983. Originally, their design used a satellite space-launching rocket (SLV-3) as the first stage, on top of which was mounted the very short-range (150 to 250 kilometers) liquid fuel-propelled Prithvi missile.
The Agni-III'sbrand new design, in which both stages use solid propellants, was to enable it to carry a payload weighing up to 1.5 tons and deliver it to targets as far away as Beijing and Shanghai. At present, India lacks an effective nuclear deterrent vis-a-vis China, based on a delivery vehicle carrying a nuclear warhead. Agni-III was meant to fill the void.
The causes of the failure of the test flight are not clear. Scientists at the DRDO, which designed and built the missile, have been quoted as saying that many new technologies were tried in the Agni-III, including rocket motors, "fault-tolerant" avionics and launch control and guidance systems. Some of these could have failed. Other reports attribute the mishap to problems with the propellant.
"The DRDO isn't the world's most reliable weapons R&D agency," Admiral L Ramdas, a former chief of staff of the Indian Navy, told Inter Press Service. "The Indian armed services' experience with DRDO-made armaments has not been a happy one. Their reliability is often extremely poor. We often used to joke that one had to pray they would somehow work in the battlefield."
The agency has a budget of Rs30 billion (US$670 million), which is of the same order as the annual expenditure of the Department of Atomic Energy which is responsible for India's civilian and military nuclear programs.
"This figure is extremely high for a poor country like India, with a low rank of 127 among 175 countries of the world in the United Nations Human Development Index," said Anil Chowdhary of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace. "Yet the DRDO has delivered very little."
None of the three major projects assigned to the DRDO has been completed on time or without huge cost-overruns. These include the development of a Main Battle Tank (MBT), a nuclear power plant for a submarine, and an advanced Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), all involving expenditures of hundreds of millions of dollars.
The MBT project was launched in 1974. But the tank has failed to meet service requirement tests. It is reportedly too heavy and undependable to be used in combat operations. The Indian Army prefers imported Russian tanks over the indigenous MBTs and says it will use the MBTs for training, not operations.
The nuclear submarine project, launched 31 years ago, is not yet finished despite the almost $1 billion spent on it. The LCA project, launched in 1983, is still in the doldrums: the DRDO has failed to develop the right engine for it. Even with an imported engine, the plane is unlikely to enter service anytime soon.
"The primary reason for these shocking instances of underperformance and inability is lack of public accountability and oversight of the DRDO," says M V Ramana, an independent technical expert attached to the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore.
"The DRDO, like all of India's defense and nuclear service establishments, is not subject to normal processes of audit. It has used 'security' as a smokescreen or shield and refused to be held to account," he adds.
The DRDO says it will try to rectify the faults in Agni-III. Whether or not and whenever that happens, India's missile development program, withfuture plans to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 5,000 kilometers or more, has suffered a major setback. (Inter Press Service)

 

[dineshchaturvedi]

Why it is taking so long for Nirbhay and Shauraya to be tested, I heard about them and excited about them but nothing seems to be in news making me nervous. Anyone knows?