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what is difference b/w BMD and S400?
What you have said is true, in future we will have AD1 and AD2, these will take intercept at higher lever, we will have ASAT 1000, which will be anti satellite system.That sounds like a 'made up' scenario. Ballistic missiles fly in a parabolic trajectory, while in mid-course, a 2000 kms ranged ballistic missile, will be several hundred kms above the surface. AAD has a flight ceiling of 30 kms and as such CANNOT intercept the incoming ballistic missile (neither can PDV which has a flight ceiling of 150 kms) during mid-course.
AAD/PDV (if deployed very close to the enemy ballistic missile launch site) maybe (theoritically) used to intercept during the boost phase - but unlikely.
Net-net, right now India has developed only terminal interception at different altitudes (exo and endo atmospheric).
Ideally boost phase and mid phase interception does sound good. But for some reason (I haven't investigated why) mid course interceptor deployments are rare to nil - especially for long range ballistic missiles (they are definitely being worked on!!)What you have said is true, in future we will have AD1 and AD2, these will take intercept at higher lever, we will have ASAT 1000, which will be anti satellite system.
but what i like right now and it is possible, is to have A4 first and second stage mated with PDV warhead to make Midcourse interceptor, which can ejected like Agni 5 in cold launch, we can then put these near border in something like these
tech is not out of reach, we have all the building block for the same.
We still need satellites in space to give real time information, Since ISRO has years of experience, it wont be that difficult for them to put in IIR camera on satellite.
yes, plus A4 in first attempt went up to 900 KMS that make it good candidate for the job, this has to be done for MIRVs, that way before they could cross over to our side, they could be intercepted, but main requirement is IIR sensors and AWACs with round the clock coverage. We have got good LRTR its range is 1000-1200 kms, even our medium range radars are now 400 Plus Kms.Without mid course interceptors, deploying AAD/PDV combo will be pretty useless. What they need is to put powerful boosters on AAD and PDV to intercept missiles before they reach their apogee. When that happens, we can integrate our BMD with S400/akash/barak and irondome to get impregnible air defence.
reason is lack of space based assets and early warning systems, every few countries have capabilities to intercept missile, leave a side mid course interception. Uncle has it, China has tested once or twice.Ideally boost phase and mid phase interception does sound good. But for some reason (I haven't investigated why) mid course interceptor deployments are rare to nil - especially for long range ballistic missiles (they are definitely being worked on!!)
Yes, US does have exceptional satellite capability to track any kind of 'thermal' activity (like missile launch)! Even US has had quite limited deployment of mid-course interceptors (that too at an exorbitant cost!!!) over the last few years (that's why I characterized it as 'rare' earlier).reason is lack of space based assets and early warning systems, every few countries have capabilities to intercept missile, leave a side mid course interception. Uncle has it, China has tested once or twice.
I think trick is early warning and very very fast missile send to intercept enemy missile in midcourse.
We'll need multiple layers!! To intercept at boost, mid-course and terminal. Predictably, the non-terminal interceptors will be very large rockets - which will be expensive to build. US has spent about $40 billion and they have few 10s of such mid-course interceptors!!Terminal interception is futile no matter how sophisticated ur system is because of various reasons pertaining to physics and technology which are to complex to elaborate here. The technical literature is unanimous that terminal interception will not work for fast moving and powerful IRMBS and MRBMs that paki land has. Mid course interception especially in post boost phase will do the trick, but u need very powerful boosters which should also have thrust vectoring. Moreover another problem is of detection. How will seekers inside the missiles work if u need to intercept at post boost phase in endo atmosphere which is what will be needed for Shaheen 1 and M11. So u will need ground and space based sensors and radars which will be targets for Chinese and Paki rockets and asats. All in all an interesting cat and mouse game but at least its good we are investing in both offensive and defensive technologies.
Sorry to say sir, that you think low about capabilities of your countrymen. I have personally seen PAD and AAD and have good knowledge of how it works. Cant go into all that but here is some details which might help you understand what we have done and what we are doing.Terminal interception is futile no matter how sophisticated ur system is because of various reasons pertaining to physics and technology which are to complex to elaborate here. The technical literature is unanimous that terminal interception will not work for fast moving and powerful IRMBS and MRBMs that paki land has. Mid course interception especially in post boost phase will do the trick, but u need very powerful boosters which should also have thrust vectoring. Moreover another problem is of detection. How will seekers inside the missiles work if u need to intercept at post boost phase in endo atmosphere which is what will be needed for Shaheen 1 and M11. So u will need ground and space based sensors and radars which will be targets for Chinese and Paki rockets and asats. All in all an interesting cat and mouse game but at least its good we are investing in both offensive and defensive technologies.
this means target missile, which is new two stage Dhanush, was made to maneuver to evade PDV, but PDV counter that and took it out.
During yesterday's mission, despite target missle deviating from original path, the intercepter with desi seeker did a clean strike
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yes that is why we never lost it when we test A5.......................There must be difference inbetn terminal phase speed of RVs of Prithvi and Agni 4/5 , Is our current system able to track RV of as par as Agni 5 whose terminal phase speed is mach 24 ??
Sorry , my question is little incomplete , I mean , Is this PDV can hit upcoming RV of like Agni 5 , whose speed will be Mach 24+yes that is why we never lost it when we test A5.......................
If you can track it, then if you can put interceptor on its collusion course even at slow speed and explode at perticular time, good example is a bird hit take down fighter aircraft.Sorry , my question is little incomplete , I mean , Is this PDV can hit upcoming RV of like Agni 5 , whose speed will be Mach 24+
What happens when there is a live nuclear warhead in the RV?and here is the video..Direct Hit.
Then it could trigger a nuclear blast at the interception altitude. 80-120km or whatever.What happens when there is a live nuclear warhead in the RV?