Indian Ballistic Missile Defense System

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That's a middle-course interception, faaaaaaaaar more difficulty than an in-atmosphere interception.
That mid course intercept also requires far more capable radars then those currently present in Asia as whole.
Brag about that mi-course intercept all you want . it's not practical till detection& tracking technology is also in place.
 

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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/article1546807.ece
Hemair develops key cooling system for Indo-Israeli project


Hyderabad, March 17:

A key cooling system for a large radar system being built under an Indo-Israeli joint venture project has been successfully developed by Hemair Systems India Ltd (HSIL).

The first indigenous cooling system has been custom built for the joint venture — MRSAM (medium range surface to air missile) system — for the Indian Air Force. It ensures the thermal stability of the radar by producing and circulating cool water at 17 degrees C.

The first unit was handed over to Mr S.K. Ray, Director of the RCI, a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) lab, here today, by Mr Srinivasa Rao, Managing Director of Hemair. The ruggedised version is far cheaper, but matches the quality as tested by the DRDO.

Speaking at the event, Dr V.K. Saraswat, Chief of DRDO and Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister, said, "We needed a cooling system that was effective in Indian conditions. The imported one's were more suitable for European conditions. The decision to build indigenously led to awarding the challenge to Hemair under the joint venture."

He said the huge projects under the Defence Ministry have opened up many opportunities to Indian industry. The 26 per cent FDI (foreign direct investment) and new policy initiatives have also thrown up possibilities of joint ventures with international companies. The MRSAM is one such example.

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The MRSAM envisages Rs 1,500 crore investment at the development stage and several thousands of crore at the production stage. The first prototype, including the radar, launcher of the missile, should be ready for testing in 2012, he explained.

Describing the cooling system as the "heart of the radar," Mr Ray said the missile being developed will have a range of 70 km. He pointed out that quality of products was a major concern for the DRDO now, as the defence sector has entered the large scale manufacturing phase. He urged the industry to ponder over ensuring quality.

Mr Srinivasa Rao said, "The product, which costs less than a crore, is not available commercially or manufactured in the organised sector. The company, with a turnover of Rs 65 crore, six operating plans (including one in UK) and 500 employees is expecting multiple orders soon from the project."
 

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http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=6012500&c=FEA&s=SPE
Indian Military Wants Quick Solution as PAD Tests Continue

"Testing in a controlled environment is different from a real-time one, and there is much that would be required to be done to gain this confidence."

No Induction Date As there is no set date for the induction of PAD, analysts are not sure when the system would go into production.
 

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STSS Satellites Demonstrate 'Birth to Death' Missile Tracking

WASHINGTON — A pair of low Earth orbiting demonstration satellites built by Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems for the first time on March 16 detected and tracked a ballistic missile launch through all phases of flight, a Northrop Grumman official said March 22.

So-called birth-to-death tracking of a ballistic missile launch had never been done before from space and is the most significant achievement to date for the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) spacecraft, said Doug Young, Northrop Grumman's vice president of missile defense and warning programs.

"It's the Holy Grail for missile defense," Young said during a media briefing here.

Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman built three STSS demonstration satellites for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The first satellite, which had a classified mission, was launched in May 2009. After completing its test program, it was transferred Jan. 31 to the control of Air Force Space Command to continue supporting the service's space situational awareness mission.

The two unclassified STSS satellites, which were used in the March 16 test, launched in September 2009 on a single United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket. During an extended on-orbit check-out and calibration phase that concluded in November, the satellites tracked multiple missile launches in the early boost and post-boost phases and demonstrated the ability to relay data from one satellite to the other.

During the test, an ARAV-B short-range target missile was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii. An STSS satellite detected the heat signature of the launch with its acquisition sensor, and then its gimbaled tracking sensor locked on to the boosting missile, Young said. The tracking data was successfully relayed to the other satellite, which continued to observe the target as it coasted through space, re-entered the atmosphere and splashed down in the ocean, he said.

Future STSS tests this year will be more sophisticated, Young said. In the coming months, the MDA will attempt to cue the STSS satellites to a missile launch using data from the operational Defense Support Program missile warning satellites, rather than the acquisition sensors on board STSS, he said.

Another test this year will seek to determine if the STSS satellites can produce missile tracking data good enough to cue the launch of ship-based interceptors, a concept known as launch on remote.

Navy Aegis ships have many times demonstrated the ability to launch an interceptor missile once a target missile is detected by the ship's own radar. The ships are also designed to fire interceptors based on cuing from forward-based sensors, which greatly increases the area that a ship can defend. But this capability has not yet been proven in a missile intercept test.The Navy and MDA plan to conduct the first Aegis launch-on-remote missile intercept test next month, for which a forward-based AN/TPY-2 X-band radar will cue the launch of a Standard Missile (SM)-3 interceptor before the target missile is detected by the ship's radar, MDA budget documents show.

Similarly, the STSS demonstration satellites later this year will attempt to track a target missile and feed data to the Aegis system to generate a "fire control solution" for an early interceptor launch, Young said. However, an interceptor will not actually be launched in that test, he noted.

Meanwhile, the MDA is pursuing an operational constellation of missile tracking satellites dubbed the Precision Tracking Space System. The agency will rely on the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., to develop a prototype system to be launched in 2015. An industry team is expected to be chosen in 2014 to build between nine and 12 operational spacecraft planned to begin launching in 2018.

The MDA aims to spend $1.34 billion on the Precision Tracking Space System between 2012 and 2016, budget documents show.
http://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/news.aspx?news_id=3037

It India wants a BMD then DRDO, ISRO and IAF need to put tracking assets in space, just like the one reported here with anti ASAT tech.
 

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...e-vital-installations/articleshow/7970450.cms

13 Apr, 2011, 02.15PM IST,IANS
India to buy air defence missiles to secure vital installations

NEW DELHI: To plug gaps and build up a robust air defence system, India will soon buy a large number of missiles to defend the country's vital tactical and strategic locations and high-security zones from enemy threats and possible aerial attacks, an officer said Wednesday.

Ahead of issuing a tender for the purchase of medium-range surface-to-air (MRSAM) missiles, the defence ministry has this week issued a request for information (RFI) from global and domestic missile manufacturers asking them if they could supply the weapon system within a short time-frame to the Indian Air Force (IAF).

"The defence ministry intends to procure the MRSAM system for the Indian Air Force and the system will be required for air defence of vital areas and points. The MRSAM is required in an early time-frame," a senior IAF officer said here Wednesday.

The MRSAM will be capable of all-weather, all-terrain and day-and-night operation with a 3.5 km altitude ceiling. The system will be capable of engaging multiple targets against all types of targets in a network-centric operations environment.

The MRSAM is required by the IAF to augment its existing inventory of Soviet-vintage OSA-AK and Pechora air defence missile systems.

A surface-to-air missile is a weapon designed to be launched from the ground to destroy incoming aircraft or missiles and is usually deployed in an air defence role as an anti-aircraft system. MRSAMs ideally have a range of 70 km to 90 km to engage its intended target.

The MRSAM is activated with the use of radars and sensors that detect the incoming aircraft or missile and fire the missile as a counter measure.

The IAF's current requirement is for a multifunctional active phased array radar for early warning of a three-dimensional target and linking this information to a central fire control unit to activate the air defence mechanism.

This procurement will be over and above the 18 MRSAM units that India is buying from Israel in a $1 billion deal signed in 2009.
 

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Must focus on making missiles for all platforms: Saraswat

Bangalore, Apr 16 (PTI) India must focus on making missiles adaptable for all three armed services and reducing dependence on other countries for electronic missile components, Defence Minister's Scientific Advisor V K Saraswat said today today. "Besides focussing on making missiles adaptable for the services, dependence should be reduced on foreign countries for electronic components of missiles which are now imported as it is not cost effective to manufacture them here,
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfe...ssiles-for-all-platforms-saraswat/650752.html
 

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YI you missed the best part in aforesaid link

future plans include two new anti-ballistic missiles that can intercept Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles --Advanced Defence (AD-1 and AD-2) capable of intercepting and destroying a missile at a range of around 5,000 km, he said. Saraswat, also DRDO Director General, said India is developing lasers and an exo-atmospheric kill vehicle (MIRV or Multiple Kill Vehicles) that can be combined to produce a weapon to destroy enemy satellites and that work is going on as part of ballistic missile defence program by 2014. Saraswat also highlighted the need to focus on miniaturisation for missiles. On Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, which is going to be the mainstay of the Indian aerospace programme, he said "we need to build different kinds of payloads which are miniaturised". "Having our own indigenous AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control Systems) is going to be the next step in our defence program," Saraswat said.
 

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Piggybacking Anti-Satellite Technologies on Ballistic Missile Defense

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=43655

In January 2007 China successfully tested an anti-satellite missile system. That test, although primarily meant as a warning shot across America's bow, also helped concentrate New Delhi's mind to begin fashioning policy responses to the militarization of space. The former head of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Dr. Kasturirangan, typified India's response when he noted: "obviously we start worrying"¦India has spent a huge sum to develop its capabilities and place assets in space"¦there is a need to look at means to securing these."1 The scientific advisor to the Indian defense minister also warned that China's test could possibly lead ISRO and the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) to collaborate in developing satellite kill technologies.2 The debate was subsequently joined in by the chief of India's air force Air Chief Marshal Naik who made a forceful case for building anti-satellite weapons on the grounds that, "Our satellites are vulnerable to anti-satellite weapon systems because our neighborhood possesses one."3 These and other statements do not imply that India has an instituted anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) program. But they strongly suggest that Indian government agencies have begun exploratory efforts aimed at possibly instituting one.

During the past three decades, the stakeholders in India's space program have been primarily civilian. Remote sensing, weather forecasting, telecommunications, and broadcasting consumed the bulk of ISRO's attention.4 But starting in the last decade, the Indian military's space footprint has begun to expand. Among India's 23 active satellites, 10 fly in geostationary earth orbits (GEO) and 13 in low earth orbits (LEO).5 Among the latter, at least three satellites, the Cartosat 2A, the RISAT 2, and a technology experimental satellite, are speculated to have military applications.6 Both the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy have plans to acquire dedicated satellites for communications and net-centric operations. Plans are also afoot to build a constellation of satellites for navigation purposes.7 The Indian military's embrace of the information-hungry revolution in military affairs will thus heighten dependence and also its vulnerability to potential disruption of space-based assets. It is therefore no surprise that Air Chief Marshal Naik refers to ASAT weapons as "one of our challenges of future war capability."8

There are two ways in which one could defend against threats to space assets: non-destructive and destructive. In non-destructive methods, "jamming" and "spoofing" are used to interfere with a satellite's systems. Electro-optical countermeasures such as "dazzling" optical sensors are also available.9 However, for such countermeasures to work, detailed knowledge of the targeted satellite is usually necessary. Among destructive methods are the Kinetic Energy-Anti-Satellite Weapon (KE-ASAT) and the co-orbital ASAT. Kinetic energy kill vehicles are lifted into space by rockets and destroy satellites by physically ramming into them.10 Co-orbital ASAT systems on the other hand are orbited into space like any other satellite, but are put through a series of maneuvers to collide with and destroy a designated satellite.11 Thus far, there are few indications that India is invested in non-destructive countermeasures. The evidence so far suggests that India is keeping its option on the KE-ASAT open. India has also indicated some interest in building a ground-based laser program although not much is known about the program in the public domain.12 Just recently, in March of 2011, DRDO tested a short-range ballistic missile interceptor, a radio frequency seeker, and a fiber-optic gyroscope, as parts of its ongoing anti-ballistic intercept program.13 These systems could also in theory serve as components of an operational KE-ASAT capability in the future.

The Indian approach to developing ASAT weapon technologies is measured and exploratory. It follows the now institutionalized methodology of developing dual-use technologies that have civilian and military spin-offs; or tacking military programs onto already instituted ones. The Indian approach also emphasizes the significance of 'technology demonstration' over the proving of operational military systems. Technology demonstration is less provocative externally, allows long lead times for technologies to mature, and is sensitive to the difficulties of building consensus within the Indian political system. This was the path for example that India took in developing nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and ballistic missile systems. To be sure, India has now elected in favor of operational nuclear and missile capabilities. However, for at least a decade, nuclear weapons were part of a hedge strategy. Similarly, chemical weapons were developed but never incorporated into the military's operational planning. Based on statements from ISRO and DRDO representatives, it appears that any program to validate technologies for a KE-ASAT program would also fit into the genre of a hedge and demonstrate strategy.14

The merits of a hedge and demonstrate strategy apart, there are pressures to test and validate key technologies for political reasons. Many Indian strategic analysts analogize from India's harsh experience under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) to urge the testing and validation of operational systems. They fear the possibility of an NPT-analogous space regime that might once again draw an artificial dividing line between 'haves' and 'have nots'.15 Indian military leaders, perhaps wary of the DRDO's past failures in making good on its promises to develop working systems as well as the operational demands of having capabilities on the ground, also favor operational validation over technology demonstration.16 The technologists and scientists from DRDO and ISRO however are less keen on a program of operational testing for two reasons. First, they believe that since many KE-ASAT technologies overlap with the ballistic missile defense system currently under development, especially in the areas of radar tracking and target acquisition, a separate test program would be of little practical value. But more significant, they are concerned that a full operational test would add to the problem of space debris, which now poses a serious threat to all space assets in the LEO. China's ASAT test for example increased space debris (debris of diameter greater than 1 cm) in LEO by 15-20 percent, an experience that DRDO and ISRO are keen to avoid.17

The ASAT debate once again attests to the status quo bias in Indian national security decision-making. It shows that Indian institutions respond to threats. But they do not necessarily anticipate them. Indian political leaders for example have still not publicly endorsed statements from ISRO, DRDO and the military. The Indian military's wish list for an operational ASAT capability is also unlikely to be met for three reasons. First, it is not apparent that China poses an immediate operational threat to Indian space assets. Second, civilian agencies such as ISRO and DRDO have historically enjoyed far greater influence than the military in shaping strategic research and development choices. And finally, Indian political leaders are likely to find a hedge and demonstrate strategy less controversial and more economically viable. Thus an Indian ASAT program will more likely constitute a shadow capability in the short-term.

Dr. Bharath Gopalaswamy is a Senior Research Scholar at Cornell University's Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Gaurav Kampani is a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation.
 

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Piggybacking Anti-Satellite Technologies on Ballistic Missile Defense: India's Hedge and Demonstrate Approach.

In January 2007 China successfully tested an anti-satellite missile system. That test, although primarily meant as a warning shot across America's bow, also helped concentrate New Delhi's mind to begin fashioning policy responses to the militarization of space. The former head of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Dr. Kasturirangan, typified India's response when he noted: "obviously we start worrying"¦India has spent a huge sum to develop its capabilities and place assets in space"¦there is a need to look at means to securing these."1 The scientific advisor to the Indian defense minister also warned that China's test could possibly lead ISRO and the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) to collaborate in developing satellite kill technologies.2 The debate was subsequently joined in by the chief of India's air force Air Chief Marshal Naik who made a forceful case for building anti-satellite weapons on the grounds that, "Our satellites are vulnerable to anti-satellite weapon systems because our neighborhood possesses one."3 These and other statements do not imply that India has an instituted anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) program. But they strongly suggest that Indian government agencies have begun exploratory efforts aimed at possibly instituting one.
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=43655
 

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http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/04/20/56/0301000000AEN20110420001200315F.HTML
LIG Nex1 submits bid to sell portable missiles to India

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- LIG Nex1 Co., a South Korean weapons maker, has submitted a preliminary bid to sell portable anti-aircraft missiles to India, a military official said Wednesday.

"LIG Nex1 submitted a request for a proposal early this year to the Indian government to export the Shingung portable missiles," the official said on the condition of anonymity.

India reportedly plans to buy portable anti-aircraft weapons worth 1.4 trillion won (US$1.28 billion) by 2014. The Shingung, which means "new bow and arrow" in Korean, was put into service in late 2005 by South Korea's Army. The shoulder-launched missile is capable of hitting targets as high as 3.5 kilometers with a speed of Mach 2.0 and a distance range of 7 km, military officials said.
 

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good development:

http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/25/stories/2011042557170900.htm
Hi-tech shield for missile launch centre

Special Correspondent

The equipment will cost only one-tenth of an imported system

The system can shield the launch centre from nuclear explosion or electronic bomb

The 40-feet-long system is manufactured by Enertech Engineering Private Limited, Cherlapalli


HYDERABAD: A state-of-the-art indigenously built EMP (electromagnetic pulse) shelter to shield the Launch Control Centre (LCC) of the Interceptor missile against eventualities like nuclear explosion or electronic bomb was handed over to Director-General of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) V.K. Saraswat here on Sunday.

In a chat with reporters after receiving the 40 feet long EMP shield for LCC of the air defence programme, manufactured by Enertech Engineering Private Limited at Cherlapalli near here, Dr. Saraswat described it as a "major technological breakthrough" that provided import substitution.

The long-felt need for this technology had been fulfilled as it has many features which were denied to India. It was a great innovation and would cost only one-tenth of an imported system.

He said the equipment in the LCC would not be affected by external conditions including electronic jamming. Five to six such shelters would be required for air defence programme and the country would be needing hundreds of such shelters.

Earlier, lauding Enertech engineering for making the shelter, he urged the Indian industry to enhance capabilities to meet the requirements arising out of the defence offset policy.

Major achievement

Enertech Engineering's CMD, Vijay Chandha said the 40 EMP Shelter for housing the Launch Control Centre of interceptor missile was the first of its kind in the country, although the company had so far delivered more than 650 military shelters of different configurations and applications to the Indian defence services and exported 100 mobile shelters to Israel, France and the USA.

Avinash Chander, Director, Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL) expressed his delight that India which used to import shelters from Israel 15 years ago was now exporting them to that country.

S. K. Ray, Director of Research Centre Imarat (RCI), said the industry would have the opportunity to partner with DRDO for many more projects relating to on-board missile and ground systems.

D.S. Reddy, project director, AD programme, said DRDO was satisfied with the delivery of the shelter as met its requirements.
 

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India Looks At Laser Weapons For Air And Missile Defense

Indian scientists are on the path to develop an air-based early missile system combined with high-powered interceptor lasers to defend against missile launches.

The Laser Science & Technology Center (Lastec) at India's state-owned, secretive Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has been building up technologies that can intercept missiles in their boost phase.

The weapons will also be utilized for crucial exercises by the country's armed forces that will involve space security, cybersecurity and hypersonic technology. These futuristic technologies will be incorporated in the Ballistic Missile Defense system being pursued by India.

Last year, DRDO developed an ultra-compact, hand-held laser sensor capable of giving warning in the form of an audio beep as well as a visual indication to the user of any impending laser threat. The device can be used by infantry soldiers in the battlefield and also can be configured as a helmet-mounted system in a modified package.

Recently, India also successfully tested a laser ballistic missile defense system. The laser weapon is capable of producing 25-kw. pulses that can destroy a ballistic missile at a range of 7 km (4 mi.). One of these weapons is the air defense dazzler, which can engage enemy aircraft and helicopters at a range of 10 km.

Last year the U.S. conducted a series of tests of high-powered laser weapons on a modified 747 jumbo jet, the ALTB (Airborne Laser Test-Bed), which directs chemical laser energy to destroy ballistic missiles in the boost phase.

"While these laser-based technologies will take time to develop and be deployed, the DRDO along with Lastec has mapped out the future course of action in these areas," the DRDO official says.



http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gene... At Laser Weapons For Air And Missile Defense
 

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India developing interceptor missile with 5,000 km range - The Times of India

NEW DELHI: India has started working on a network of air-defence systems which would be able to shoot down any enemy missile even at a distance of 5,000 kms, before it can enter the Indian air space.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has already developed a missile that can intercept an incoming aerial threat 2,000 kms away under the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) System and is now working on the second phase.

Under the second phase, missiles are being designed and developed in a manner that would enable them to shoot down any incoming missile at a distance of 5,000 kms, DRDO chief V K Saraswat said here.

The 5,000 kms interceptor missile is targeted to be ready by 2016, he said.

"It is well on schedule and we are already on initial design and testing stage," Saraswat said.

"Presently, our missiles are designed to engage targets within 2,000 km range. Later on, we will be making 5,000 km range class of interceptor missiles. That will be Phase-II of the BMD system," he added.

Last July, DRDO successfully tested the Phase-I of the indigenously developed interceptor missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island off Orissa coast.

On possibility of any tie-up with the US or any other country for development of the BMD systems, Saraswat said, "Our process of international collaboration is only to accelerate our own development process. Whenever we feel the need of a new technology, we may go for collaborations."

On the US offering India the Aegis Missile Defence Systems, he said, "These are market forces and will always remain there. There would always be market forces trying to sell the available equipment. In India this is not just a R&D effort but an actual programme, so I don't think we should worry about this."

India is also developing the Long Range Tracking Radar (LRTR) for the BMD systems. While the radars used for the Phase-I experiments were built with equal partnership from Israel, the Phase-II will have 80 per cent indigenous component.

"Only some of the equipments and consultancy would be provided by Israel," Saraswat said.
 

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India has started working on a network of air-defence systems which would be able to shoot down any enemy missile even at a distance of 5,000 kms, before it can enter the Indian air space.
5000km what's this article a guy who watches Star Trek wrote it 5000km? will the PAF planes be shot down as soon as it takes off:p
 

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5000km what's this article a guy who watches Star Trek wrote it 5000km? will the PAF planes be shot down as soon as it takes off:p
No, as soon as they are manufactured in China and take off from there. Btw what kind of journalist doing defence reporting would write about 5000 km range interceptor?
 

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I think what's really going on is interception of missiles launched 5000kms away tracked and then brought down just before it enters indian air space.
 

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