Indian Ballistic Missile Defense System

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@porky_kicker your help is required over here.
No idea regarding altitude and range figures
No point speculating

Both combined with take down 5000 km range class BMs at different altitudes and slant ranges respectively

AD-1 will tackle target in endo and low exo atmosphere
AD-2 will tackle target in exo atmosphere
 

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Sea-based AAD tested onboard A-41 FTR (INS Anvesh)!!
#Huge: India tested Sea based BMD Successfully
  • 1 endo-atomospheric (Phase-1 which is AAD) anti-ballistic missile was tested on 21st April from a naval platform per press release by ministry of defence.
  • At 02:55, shows a satellite picture of A41's 4 launchers which can erect to 90 degrees 120 seconds and a long range multifunction radar (actual anti ballistic ships supposed to come with better response time than this test range ship due to VLS).
  • Test was done despite presence of Chinese spy ships in Indian ocean.
 

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1 endo-atomospheric (Phase-1 which is AAD) anti-ballistic missile was tested on 21st April from a naval platform per press release by ministry of defence.
It was most certainly AD-1 not the AAD. AAD has quoted range of only 40km. Also, there were numerous images which showed how AD-1 will be loaded inside the SLS.
 

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Informative article tracing the evolution of India's BMD program.
Seems like South Korea is becoming the new arms exporter hub of critical US technologies. They definitely did not make this without US assistance. Just like the KF-21 and the T-50 that has 100% US blessing.
 

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South Korea and Turkey are becoming a major competitor in the Tier-2 new arms supplier list. We are not even in that category yet despite a slew of initiatives. Every time we hear news of reports that we are selling something, the Koreans come in and scoop the market.

- Akash NG was supposed to go to the UAE tender worth $3 billion but got scooped by the Koreans.
- Tejas' first formal export was to be to Malaysia which again the Koreans took.
- Turkey is racing ahead to secure the drone and armoured market across the Muslim world, Africa, and ASEAN.
- Other Tier-2 players are older than us like Brazil, South Africa, the Netherlands, Spain, etc, that have been selling weapons for decades. Even the military-averse Switzerland sells far more weapons than us.

The focus on commercial sales and strategic relationship building in the field of arms is just insufficient. Armenia turned to us out of desperation, while the Philippines turned to us out of American interest in BrahMos's technology that they can access and the missiles being cheaper than the nearest competition.

I wonder whether we will ever be able to pitch the Pradyumna BMD system to other countries at all or the South Koreans will take it again from us.
 

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