PDV tests dates are given at least 10 times in past. God knows what is going on.
Very important test. Now that we have had all the excitement of rockets going up (Mangalyaan GSLV et al), important to also get back to the business of stopping missiles raining down on our heads.
Pdv can be viewed in a defensive role but it also has an offensive role if you use your
July turned to September turned to January.
Is this BMD capable of defeating cruise missiles?????
Pvd s meant to replace pad it Is meant for missiles flying at 75-150km altitudes.
cruise missiles fly horizontal to the ground and close to the ground - usually at subsonic speeds. BMD is for missiles which follow a sub orbital ballistic trajectory travelling at Mach 4 plus. Even the second stage of BMD cannot hit below 15km height.
so this is ineffective against paks Babur missile
but does good with Chinese :thumb:
CMD is completely different.so this is ineffective against paks Babur missile
bmd is definately capable of defeating cruise missile threats in terms of speed and manuverability though in terms of detection it will require other air force assets like awacs,uav,low level radars satellite recon etc.the present programme is to build a credible bmd system mainly to intercept pakistani irbm's of upto 2.5k km range and in the next phase it will be capable of intercepting chinese icbms of 5-6k km range.the cruise missile defence with deals subsonic,supersonic,hypersonic cruise missiles as well as stealth fighters and uavs etc is an offshoot of the bmd programme and will require additional surveillance assets and software upgrade to the present system which the drdo is actively working on as illustrated by the following:
