Guys you need to see this.
https://t.co/ExhI98mQEj
Look at these butthurt Western analysts. Look at Ankit Panda. Somehow he has to damage India's reputation and credibility and show to the rest of the world that Indian scientists and technocrats are useless.
He needed to show the world that there was something amiss in the Feb 27th ASAT missile test and everything wasn't hunky dory. He needs to spin a story around that test and prove what went wrong. India cannot achieve a direct hit in the very first attempt. Impossible.
So he has come out with this bullshit article in the Diplomat where he alleges that our Feb 12th test BMD test had failed. He puts out the requisite NOTAM and shows how the closed airspace area matches with the Feb 12 th NOTAM.
He also states that the Feb 12th was the first test of the PDV MKII interceptor. As it was a failure, there weren't any MoD and PTI press releases.
Thus India hadn't succeeded in its very first attempt like China.
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Ankit Panda's sources in the US Intelligence community had cited that the interceptor failed at 30 seconds after lift off. He says the missile booster has apparently malfunctioned.
So the US knew that the Feb 12th test was a complete failure and chose to keep mum all this time but suddenly after one and a half months they had come to their senses and they confided to Mr Ankit that how the interceptor failed.
BRILLIANT.
Ankit Panda also goes on to say that we had conveyed our intention to Uncle Sam that we will be carrying out some interceptor test but we didn't specify whether we will be hitting a ballistic missile or a satellite.
Fucking Awesome.
Guys who are there on Twitter, pls answer that arsehole of an analyst. Tell him in the Feb 12th test, we tested PDV against an electronic target and the missile had made a cross over according to Mr Hemant Kumar Rout of Indian Express. The test was successful.
Well, up your rear, Mr Ankit Panda. That test was a success and we don't need any body's permission to conduct an Asat interceptor test