BMD in final stages of development

[jung41]

India’s Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system is in the final stages of development and deployment, Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister, G. Satheesh Reddy, said here on Sunday.

Delivering the 25{+t}{+h}G.S. Sidhu Science Lecture on ‘Trends in Missile Technology’ at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology here, he said BMD was a dream of former President late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Paying glowing tributes to him, he said Mr. Kalam always used to “think big” and recalled how he conceived and developed the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP), missile testing range at Balasore and Research Centre Imarat (RCI) here. Describing the 5,000-km plus Agni-V Ballistic Missile as the “pride of India” with ICBM capability, he listed various missiles developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the technologies that went into them. The design goal for most of them was to lower the mass, increase the range, accuracy and lethality, while ensuring faster delivery, easy operation and lower cost of production and maintenance.

Touching upon new technologies, Dr. Satheesh said work was on to develop navigation on chip by 2017 (a single chip for the whole navigation) and another single chip for the entire avionics required for missiles.


‘DRDO working on hypersonic cruise vehicle and bio-sensors’
BMD in final stages of development - The Hindu

 

[Indian Jatt]

All Defense shields are defenseless against MIRV's

 

[jung41]

All Defense shields are defenseless against MIRV's

Can you explain How?

 

[Providence]

 

[Echo_419]

India’s Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system is in the final stages of development and deployment, Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister, G. Satheesh Reddy, said here on Sunday.

Delivering the 25{+t}{+h}G.S. Sidhu Science Lecture on ‘Trends in Missile Technology’ at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology here, he said BMD was a dream of former President late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Paying glowing tributes to him, he said Mr. Kalam always used to “think big” and recalled how he conceived and developed the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP), missile testing range at Balasore and Research Centre Imarat (RCI) here. Describing the 5,000-km plus Agni-V Ballistic Missile as the “pride of India” with ICBM capability, he listed various missiles developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the technologies that went into them. The design goal for most of them was to lower the mass, increase the range, accuracy and lethality, while ensuring faster delivery, easy operation and lower cost of production and maintenance.

Touching upon new technologies, Dr. Satheesh said work was on to develop navigation on chip by 2017 (a single chip for the whole navigation) and another single chip for the entire avionics required for missiles.


‘DRDO working on hypersonic cruise vehicle and bio-sensors’
BMD in final stages of development - The Hindu

Great news

 

[Hindustani78]

All Defense shields are defenseless against MIRV's

What is a MIRV?

India had developed both these technologies locally much before the Chinese cloned it. The PSLV-C20 launch in February 2013 is very significant because for the first time 7 satellites were inserted into their precise orbits using an embedded System-on-Chip (SOC) method, and the same SOC methodology is used for Agni-5 to assist its accuracy during its guidance and terminal phases. A notable point is that ISRO and DRDO have tested this key MIRV prerequisite by stealth which had clear military implications.

Both Agni III and V have a diameter of two metres, making them capable of carrying several warheads known as Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles (MIRV). (Agni I and II have a diameter of one metre and the first stage of the Agni IV has a diameter of 1.2 metres.)

The BMD system was proposed to India’s political leadership by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam in the mid-1990s, a former cabinet secretary told The Indian Express. It was triggered by Pakistan’s acquisition of M-11 missiles from China. The proposal was to provide cover for Delhi, Mumbai and two other strategically important sites. DRDO is believed to have started work on the programme in 1999

DRDO first spoke of a BMD system in December 2007. All building blocks for Phase 1 of a two-layered, fully integrated system were to be in place by 2010. In March 2010, Dr V K Saraswat of DRDO promised initial systems deployment by 2013.

A Ballistic Missile Defence system is based on an interceptor missile shooting down an enemy missile mid-air. It needs ground radars, command-and-control systems and data links. India’s BMD does not yet have geo-stationary satellites -

 

[Indian Jatt]

Can you explain How?

how can u intercept multiple warheads at the same time like 10 warheads fired from 2 different missiles......(Pakistan may come up with MIRV'ed versions of its missiles.......help from China is evident......but since major powers have mirv'ed missiles, India should get ready to face it.....

our systems are not yet ready to intercept something like this...........even US would face issues.......otherwise if their systems were so efficient they would had attacked soviet union or for instance China for now......I am also an Indian and that to living in Mumbai.....the worst and first target for Pakistanis.........India's economic capital....we can intercept 1-2 missiles at a time......people would be in disarray.....

What is a MIRV?

India had developed both these technologies locally much before the Chinese cloned it. The PSLV-C20 launch in February 2013 is very significant because for the first time 7 satellites were inserted into their precise orbits using an embedded System-on-Chip (SOC) method, and the same SOC methodology is used for Agni-5 to assist its accuracy during its guidance and terminal phases. A notable point is that ISRO and DRDO have tested this key MIRV prerequisite by stealth which had clear military implications.

Both Agni III and V have a diameter of two metres, making them capable of carrying several warheads known as Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles (MIRV). (Agni I and II have a diameter of one metre and the first stage of the Agni IV has a diameter of 1.2 metres.)

The BMD system was proposed to India’s political leadership by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam in the mid-1990s, a former cabinet secretary told The Indian Express. It was triggered by Pakistan’s acquisition of M-11 missiles from China. The proposal was to provide cover for Delhi, Mumbai and two other strategically important sites. DRDO is believed to have started work on the programme in 1999

DRDO first spoke of a BMD system in December 2007. All building blocks for Phase 1 of a two-layered, fully integrated system were to be in place by 2010. In March 2010, Dr V K Saraswat of DRDO promised initial systems deployment by 2013.

A Ballistic Missile Defence system is based on an interceptor missile shooting down an enemy missile mid-air. It needs ground radars, command-and-control systems and data links. India’s BMD does not yet have geo-stationary satellites -

brother are u sure that 10 missiles fired against 5 MIRV's will have a 100% hit ratio??? i have serious doubts on credibility of our infant BMD......since its new and will only be covering major cities i doubt protection of other cities like Nagpur, dwarka, amritsar, shimla, srinagar, pune....etc

 

[Hindustani78]

As for an ABM shield, he said that DRDO had conducted four endo-atmospheric (within the atmosphere) and two exo-atmospheric (outside the atmosphere) missile interception tests and that all these six had been successful. “We certainly need more tests but we can say we have been successful in developing this capability.”

The last one, designated Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile, and fired on November 23, was in fact a hit-to-kill test.

So far, DRDO has mostly been working on proximity, near-miss or zero-miss acquisition of targets. With these systems, an ABM missile blows itself within a few meters of the targets – less than 9 meters. From now on, the effort is to develop the hit-to-kill capability by directly impacting hostile targets.

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Another major technological breakthrough that will beef up the Agni-5 is ASL’s success in developing and testing MIRVs (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles). An MIRV, atop an Agni-5 missile, comprises three to 10 separate nuclear warheads. Each warhead can be assigned to a separate target, separated by hundreds of kilometres; alternatively, two or more warheads can be assigned to one target.

“We have made major progress on the MIRVs in the last two years,” is all that Avinash Chander is willing to say on the subject.

brother are u sure that 10 missiles fired against 5 MIRV's will have a 100% hit ratio??? i have serious doubts on credibility of our infant BMD......since its new and will only be covering major cities i doubt protection of other cities like Nagpur, dwarka, amritsar, shimla, srinagar, pune....etc

Indian Radars can track missiles more than 5,000 kms and Missile interceptors can shot down enemies missiles more than 5,000 kms away. and according to DRDO its having 98% hit ratio and the Missile interceptors are already placed.

 

[Nilgiri]

If the radar is sensitive enough and enough maneuverable interceptors are created and deployed, then the enemy will have to saturate with many more warheads, MIRV or not, to get through. In a strategic exchange this will ultimately save millions of Indian lives and shore up her long term survivability and confidence in dealing with nuclear blackmail.

In the long term this is the only common-sense choice to deal with Pakistan and use our economic strength to counter their nuclear trump card.

With the US and USSR, there was no sense in creating such systems en masse because both were roughly equally matched in economic strength (till the 80s when the US used its economic advantage to simply threaten full creation of the Star Wars type defense shield which caused unsustainable military spending in the USSR). There is a lesson there for India....focus on dealing with the smaller guy (Pakistan) long term....forget about trying to counter the nukes of the big guy (China).

Pakistan however is no rogue state that can be contained by just one type of ABM system, so the exact dynamics of their countermeasures and ability to sustain a significant status quo with India in strategic delivery will depend on a number of factors including their own growth and what they can develop or acquire from China (appropriate ECM, ramp up of nuclear warheads, increase in material efficiency etc)....in contrast to what multi-layered defense India can muster up over the next few decades.

But I feel India has to at least try within her economic comfort zone. It has never been attempted on this scale before, and India will have to achieve some semblance of economies of scale in the appropriate technologies (harnessing its current lead in space rocketry with the help of ISRO etc).... the crucial tech number one will be the performance, reliability and feasibility of the highest altitude interceptor (120 km +) as this is the most efficient theoretical platform with todays tech to counter MIRVs. Crucial tech number two will be the ECCM India can develop. Finally the last factor will be the economics and evolving political situation with Pakistan (long term)....Diplomacy and development may eventually be what resolves the most dangerous points in the regional environment.....but having said that, its prudent to develop something you eventually dont need....rather than need something you dont have. Always do your best to face the worst case scenario within your means.

 

[egodoc222]

how can u intercept multiple warheads at the same time like 10 warheads fired from 2 different missiles......(Pakistan may come up with MIRV'ed versions of its missiles.......help from China is evident......but since major powers have mirv'ed missiles, India should get ready to face it.....

our systems are not yet ready to intercept something like this...........even US would face issues.......otherwise if their systems were so efficient they would had attacked soviet union or for instance China for now......I am also an Indian and that to living in Mumbai.....the worst and first target for Pakistanis.........India's economic capital....we can intercept 1-2 missiles at a time......people would be in disarray.....


brother are u sure that 10 missiles fired against 5 MIRV's will have a 100% hit ratio??? i have serious doubts on credibility of our infant BMD......since its new and will only be covering major cities i doubt protection of other cities like Nagpur, dwarka, amritsar, shimla, srinagar, pune....etc

So even if hit ratio is 70% I would take it....its better than having nothing at all...

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

All Defense shields are defenseless against MIRV's

Can you explain How?

Phase-I of the Indian BMD being referred to is comparable to PAC-3 system.

When the Phase II is completed and PDV is developed, the two anti-ballistic missiles can intercept targets up to 5,000 km both at exo and endo-atmospheric (inside the atmosphere) regions. The missiles will work in tandem to ensure a hit probability of 99.8 per cent.

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@MilSpec Can BMD Systems intercept and neutralize incoming ballistic missiles before the MIRV's are deployed in the terminal phase?

 

[Nilgiri]

Can BMD Systems intercept and neutralize incoming ballistic missiles before the MIRV's are deployed in the terminal phase?

Short answer is theoretically yes. Long answer: It will be a challenge to create a reliable 100% accurate system and it will need to be hedged with medium and low altitude interception systems.

As long as Pakistan does not possess an SSBN or naval mobile platform, radar coverage can be optimized quite efficiently especially if IAF achieves air superiority early. Then you would require the relevant tracking algorithms and command and control options to guide the interception at the most efficient points (high altitude kill before MIRV deployment). Having a few geo-birds with the appropriate dedicated sensors would add a further magnitude of redundancy and kill rate.

Next 5 or so years PDV tests will be instrumental in determining the overall capability (especially efficiency wise) of the BMD umbrella should India decide to go all in for that.

The big game changers from Pakistan will be exact MIRV capability on their biggest platform, MIRV ECM and IR package (to defeat radar and heat sensors respectively)....and of course stealthy cruise missiles and mobile naval (especially SSBN) deployment.

 

[Indian Jatt]

So even if hit ratio is 70% I would take it....its better than having nothing at all...

bhai i know that but multiple target interception would be a threat to our assets, such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, kolkata even if one misses, its popcorn

 

[egodoc222]

bhai i know that but multiple target interception would be a threat to our assets, such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, kolkata even if one misses, its popcorn

I agree...that doesn't justify not having bmd at all...
With time program also evolves...we might also improve effectiveness against mirv!

 

[Sarjen29]

how can u intercept multiple warheads at the same time like 10 warheads fired from 2 different missiles......(Pakistan may come up with MIRV'ed versions of its missiles.......help from China is evident......but since major powers have mirv'ed missiles, India should get ready to face it.....

Thta's why we're developing long rang intercepter to shoot down the Missiles in its terminal phase