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Indian Ballistic Missile Defense System
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India`s Ballistic Missile Defence system to be Tested
The advanced version of the indigenous Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will be test-fired in February and will enable the manifestation of a fully operational missile shield for vital areas and installations in the country.
The BMD system will be a two-tier system and has been upgraded for greater range. The aim of the two-tier system is to first destroy an incoming missile, at a higher altitude, in the exo-atmosphere and if that fails, the endo-atmospheric interception will take place. The Prithvi Air Defence (PAD) intercepts missiles at altitudes between 50-80 kilometres and the Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile destroys them at heights between 15-30 kilometres.
According to DRDO, the upgraded BMD system with its missile shield will be able to intercept missiles at exo-atmospheric altitudes of 150 kilometres and endo-atmospheric height of 80 kilometres. The need to enhance the BMD system's exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric altitudes was felt by the DRDO due to the modern warfare scenario where enemy missiles will need to be intercepted with more stealth and capability. The two tier-BMD system with greater altitude range will ensure that a second layer can be opted for in case of failure in the first attempt.
Last year, V.K. Saraswat, Director-General of DRDO had assured that the first phase of the indigenous Ballistic Missile Defence System to intercept and destroy incoming enemy missiles of less than 2,000-km range is expected to be deployed in two years. He added that the first phase would be made operational through the new concept of 'capability-based deployment.' The Air Defence Programme has been divided into two parts — depending upon the threat perception. While the first category of threats pertains to enemy missiles with less than 2,000 kilometres range, the second type belongs to those with more than 2,000 kilometres. Besides, both these phases will have two layers.
According to the DRDO, new technologies have been added and modifications have been made in the interceptor missile PAD 02 to provide higher energy, an improved guidance and control system and an integrated a Gimbaled Directional Warhead with it. The new warhead weighed only around 30 kilograms but will generate the impact of a 150 kilogram omni-directional warhead could make. The entire system is fully automated and human intervention is not needed for activation.
However, the DRDO has not been able to skirt the delays in the indigenous BMD system. Till mid 2010, it had managed to conduct only four tests of BMD system in the last four years. The first three tests in November 2006, December 2007 and March 2009 were dubbed successful, killing enemy missiles at altitudes of 48 kilometres, 15 kilometres and 80 kilometres. However, the fourth test in March 2010 was aborted midway after technical glitches. DRDO feels that if the tests in February this year are successful, the deployment of the BMD system by 2015 is a possibility. India will also fall in the elite group of four countries to have successfully developed an Anti-ballistic missile system, after United States, Russia and Israel.
The advanced version of the indigenous Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will be test-fired in February and will enable the manifestation of a fully operational missile shield for vital areas and installations in the country.
The BMD system will be a two-tier system and has been upgraded for greater range. The aim of the two-tier system is to first destroy an incoming missile, at a higher altitude, in the exo-atmosphere and if that fails, the endo-atmospheric interception will take place. The Prithvi Air Defence (PAD) intercepts missiles at altitudes between 50-80 kilometres and the Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile destroys them at heights between 15-30 kilometres.
According to DRDO, the upgraded BMD system with its missile shield will be able to intercept missiles at exo-atmospheric altitudes of 150 kilometres and endo-atmospheric height of 80 kilometres. The need to enhance the BMD system's exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric altitudes was felt by the DRDO due to the modern warfare scenario where enemy missiles will need to be intercepted with more stealth and capability. The two tier-BMD system with greater altitude range will ensure that a second layer can be opted for in case of failure in the first attempt.
Last year, V.K. Saraswat, Director-General of DRDO had assured that the first phase of the indigenous Ballistic Missile Defence System to intercept and destroy incoming enemy missiles of less than 2,000-km range is expected to be deployed in two years. He added that the first phase would be made operational through the new concept of 'capability-based deployment.' The Air Defence Programme has been divided into two parts — depending upon the threat perception. While the first category of threats pertains to enemy missiles with less than 2,000 kilometres range, the second type belongs to those with more than 2,000 kilometres. Besides, both these phases will have two layers.
According to the DRDO, new technologies have been added and modifications have been made in the interceptor missile PAD 02 to provide higher energy, an improved guidance and control system and an integrated a Gimbaled Directional Warhead with it. The new warhead weighed only around 30 kilograms but will generate the impact of a 150 kilogram omni-directional warhead could make. The entire system is fully automated and human intervention is not needed for activation.
However, the DRDO has not been able to skirt the delays in the indigenous BMD system. Till mid 2010, it had managed to conduct only four tests of BMD system in the last four years. The first three tests in November 2006, December 2007 and March 2009 were dubbed successful, killing enemy missiles at altitudes of 48 kilometres, 15 kilometres and 80 kilometres. However, the fourth test in March 2010 was aborted midway after technical glitches. DRDO feels that if the tests in February this year are successful, the deployment of the BMD system by 2015 is a possibility. India will also fall in the elite group of four countries to have successfully developed an Anti-ballistic missile system, after United States, Russia and Israel.
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http://defense-update.com/wp/20110211_iai-drdo-barak8.html
Test firing of the Barak 8 missile is expected this year. "Testing will be conducted in India and is part of the responsibilities of our strategic partner in this program, India's Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO)" IAI officials told Defense-Update. The missile is on schedule to complete development and be integrated on board the first combat vessels by 2012.
After being inducted into service, the system will continue development and phased improvement, toward its full operational capability phase. Barak 8 is designed to be fielded on both Israel and Indian Navy vessels.
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Test firing of the Barak 8 missile is expected this year. "Testing will be conducted in India and is part of the responsibilities of our strategic partner in this program, India's Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO)" IAI officials told Defense-Update. The missile is on schedule to complete development and be integrated on board the first combat vessels by 2012.
After being inducted into service, the system will continue development and phased improvement, toward its full operational capability phase. Barak 8 is designed to be fielded on both Israel and Indian Navy vessels.
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I think we have already mounted them on the Shivalik. And Israelis aint stupid to give out the codes so easily lol.
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it is a terminatal anti-missle test within atmosphere
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Whatever that means silly girl
BTW Congrats DRDO....more details will be welcomed!!
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vishwas nahi hota .yeah kaise ho gaya
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article1515159.ece
Capability to neutralise enemy satellites proved
T. S. Subramanian
Y. Mallikarjun
The fresh success of the interceptor missile mission on Sunday has demonstrated the country's capability to neutralise adversarial satellites in space, according to V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister.
India has "all the technologies and building blocks which can be used for anti-satellite missions" in the low-earth and polar orbits. However, "India's policy is that it will not weaponise space, and we are committed to the peaceful uses of outer space," he said.
Out of the six interceptor missions conducted so far by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), five have been successful.
"Fantastic success"
Dr. Saraswat, who is also the DRDO Director-General, called Sunday's mission "a fantastic success." The interceptor boasted new technologies such as directional warhead, fibre-optic gyroscopes and a radio-frequency seeker that guided the interceptor to attack the incoming "enemy missile" at an altitude of 16 km above the Bay of Bengal.
The incoming missile, a modified Prithvi, blasted off at 9.32 a.m. from the launch complex III of the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Orissa. It mimicked the trajectory of a ballistic missile with a 600-km range. In no time, radars at different locations swung into action, tracking the "enemy" missile, constructing its trajectory and passing on the information in real time to the Mission Control Centre (MCC) to launch the interceptor, an Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile. It had a directional warhead to go so close to the adversarial missile before exploding to inflict the maximum damage on it. The interceptor had state-of-the-art guidance systems to achieve a manoeuvrable trajectory.
The MCC identified the attacker as a ballistic missile and assigned it to the Launch Control Centre (LCC) on Wheeler Island. After making quick calculations, the LCC launched the interceptor "right on the dot at the required instant," Dr. Saraswat said. The AAD soared into the sky at 9.37 a.m. from Wheeler Island to take care of the "threat."
The interceptor manoeuvred in the direction of the target, which was called the "least energy manoeuvre," he said. The interceptor raced into the sky at 4.5 Mach. In the terminal phase of the attacker's flight, as it was hurtling towards the earth, the interceptor's radio frequency seeker "acquired the target, rolled the interceptor in the right direction and, when it was a few metres from the target, gave the command to the directional warhead to explode," Dr. Saraswat explained.
The warhead detonated, blasting the attacker to pieces. The ground-based radars and the sensors on board the targeted missile tracked the debris, which rained down over the Bay of Bengal, "confirming a very good kill," the DRDO Director-General said. "Based on the data from the target, a 100 per cent kill was achieved." The radars were located at Konark and Kendrapara, near Paradip, in Orissa.
V.L.N. Rao, Programme Director; Avinash Chander, Director, Advanced Systems Laboratory, DRDO, Hyderabad; K. Sekhar, Chief Controller (Missile Systems and Low Intensity Conflict), DRDO; and S.P. Dash, Director, ITR, were present on Wheeler Island. Defence Minister A.K. Antony congratulated the DRDO missile technologists on the successful demonstration of the ballistic missile defence system.
Dr. Saraswat said the next test would be done later this year to intercept a 2000-km-range incoming missile at an altitude of 150 km. India's plans for putting in place the first phase of the two-layered ballistic missile defence shield by 2012 and the second phase by 2016 were on course. This would be done by integrating it with the Air Defence System of the Indian Air Force and the Army.
Only the U.S., Russia, France, Israel and India have the capability to put in place a ballistic missile defence shield. China is still developing it. It conducted an anti-ballistic missile test on January 11, 2010. The target missile, launched from Xichang, was intercepted and destroyed at an altitude of 700 km by a KT-2 variant missile that took off from near Korla in Xinjiang province.
Capability to neutralise enemy satellites proved
T. S. Subramanian
Y. Mallikarjun
The fresh success of the interceptor missile mission on Sunday has demonstrated the country's capability to neutralise adversarial satellites in space, according to V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister.
India has "all the technologies and building blocks which can be used for anti-satellite missions" in the low-earth and polar orbits. However, "India's policy is that it will not weaponise space, and we are committed to the peaceful uses of outer space," he said.
Out of the six interceptor missions conducted so far by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), five have been successful.
"Fantastic success"
Dr. Saraswat, who is also the DRDO Director-General, called Sunday's mission "a fantastic success." The interceptor boasted new technologies such as directional warhead, fibre-optic gyroscopes and a radio-frequency seeker that guided the interceptor to attack the incoming "enemy missile" at an altitude of 16 km above the Bay of Bengal.
The incoming missile, a modified Prithvi, blasted off at 9.32 a.m. from the launch complex III of the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Orissa. It mimicked the trajectory of a ballistic missile with a 600-km range. In no time, radars at different locations swung into action, tracking the "enemy" missile, constructing its trajectory and passing on the information in real time to the Mission Control Centre (MCC) to launch the interceptor, an Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile. It had a directional warhead to go so close to the adversarial missile before exploding to inflict the maximum damage on it. The interceptor had state-of-the-art guidance systems to achieve a manoeuvrable trajectory.
The MCC identified the attacker as a ballistic missile and assigned it to the Launch Control Centre (LCC) on Wheeler Island. After making quick calculations, the LCC launched the interceptor "right on the dot at the required instant," Dr. Saraswat said. The AAD soared into the sky at 9.37 a.m. from Wheeler Island to take care of the "threat."
The interceptor manoeuvred in the direction of the target, which was called the "least energy manoeuvre," he said. The interceptor raced into the sky at 4.5 Mach. In the terminal phase of the attacker's flight, as it was hurtling towards the earth, the interceptor's radio frequency seeker "acquired the target, rolled the interceptor in the right direction and, when it was a few metres from the target, gave the command to the directional warhead to explode," Dr. Saraswat explained.
The warhead detonated, blasting the attacker to pieces. The ground-based radars and the sensors on board the targeted missile tracked the debris, which rained down over the Bay of Bengal, "confirming a very good kill," the DRDO Director-General said. "Based on the data from the target, a 100 per cent kill was achieved." The radars were located at Konark and Kendrapara, near Paradip, in Orissa.
V.L.N. Rao, Programme Director; Avinash Chander, Director, Advanced Systems Laboratory, DRDO, Hyderabad; K. Sekhar, Chief Controller (Missile Systems and Low Intensity Conflict), DRDO; and S.P. Dash, Director, ITR, were present on Wheeler Island. Defence Minister A.K. Antony congratulated the DRDO missile technologists on the successful demonstration of the ballistic missile defence system.
Dr. Saraswat said the next test would be done later this year to intercept a 2000-km-range incoming missile at an altitude of 150 km. India's plans for putting in place the first phase of the two-layered ballistic missile defence shield by 2012 and the second phase by 2016 were on course. This would be done by integrating it with the Air Defence System of the Indian Air Force and the Army.
Only the U.S., Russia, France, Israel and India have the capability to put in place a ballistic missile defence shield. China is still developing it. It conducted an anti-ballistic missile test on January 11, 2010. The target missile, launched from Xichang, was intercepted and destroyed at an altitude of 700 km by a KT-2 variant missile that took off from near Korla in Xinjiang province.
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India successfully test-fires its missile shield system
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/brie...essfully test-fires its missile shield system
India's missile programreached another milestone on Sunday when a ballistic interceptor was successfully test-fired from one of the bases in the eastern state of Orissa bordering the Bay of Bengal.
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A senior official associated with the program, said on condition of anonymity that this was a step "to create a shield against incoming enemy missiles".
The ballistic missile defence system was fired early on Sunday morning from Orissa's Wheeler Island defense establishment, about 170km from the capital city of Bhubaneswar.
The interceptor successfully destroyed the incoming missile --- a Prithvi II variant --- fired from another defense base in Balasore district, about 70km from the Wheeler Island.
Director of the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, SP Dash, said the path of the incoming missile was tracked by various radars and sensors, adding that the weapon system had stood up to the parameters laid down before the launch.
"It was a fantastic mission. It successfully hit the target. The interceptor intercepted the ballistic missile and blasted it into pieces," Dash was quoted as saying.
Claiming that it was a huge milestone in the country's ballistic missile defense program history, Dash said the most heartening aspect was the pin-point accuracy with which the interceptor hit the missile.
Meanwhile, the Defense Ministry spokesperson, Sitanshu Kar, said the interceptor slammed into the target missile at an altitude of 16km, breaking it into pieces. India's Defense Minister, AK Antony, and the scientific advisor to the minister, VK Saraswat, have congratulated the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) on the successful launch.
Read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/brie...fires its missile shield system#ixzz1Fw32OQtT
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/brie...essfully test-fires its missile shield system
India's missile programreached another milestone on Sunday when a ballistic interceptor was successfully test-fired from one of the bases in the eastern state of Orissa bordering the Bay of Bengal.
clearpxl
A senior official associated with the program, said on condition of anonymity that this was a step "to create a shield against incoming enemy missiles".
The ballistic missile defence system was fired early on Sunday morning from Orissa's Wheeler Island defense establishment, about 170km from the capital city of Bhubaneswar.
The interceptor successfully destroyed the incoming missile --- a Prithvi II variant --- fired from another defense base in Balasore district, about 70km from the Wheeler Island.
Director of the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, SP Dash, said the path of the incoming missile was tracked by various radars and sensors, adding that the weapon system had stood up to the parameters laid down before the launch.
"It was a fantastic mission. It successfully hit the target. The interceptor intercepted the ballistic missile and blasted it into pieces," Dash was quoted as saying.
Claiming that it was a huge milestone in the country's ballistic missile defense program history, Dash said the most heartening aspect was the pin-point accuracy with which the interceptor hit the missile.
Meanwhile, the Defense Ministry spokesperson, Sitanshu Kar, said the interceptor slammed into the target missile at an altitude of 16km, breaking it into pieces. India's Defense Minister, AK Antony, and the scientific advisor to the minister, VK Saraswat, have congratulated the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) on the successful launch.
Read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/brie...fires its missile shield system#ixzz1Fw32OQtT
