India says missile shield test a success

[illusion8]

Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) Feb 10, 2012
India successfully tested on Friday an interceptor defence shield developed to detect and destroy incoming ballistic missiles, a government official said.

Officials from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said an indigenously developed interceptor missile locked on to the targets, two nuclear-capable missiles, and destroyed them in a test in eastern India.

DRDO spokesman Ravi Gupta said radars following the two destroyed missiles detected fragments falling into the Bay of Bengal off the state of Orissa.

"India is the fifth nation to have these ballistic missile defence capabilities in the world," Gupta said in a statement.

The test was carried out at a missile launch site located 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Orissa state capital of Bhubaneswar.

Nuclear-armed Pakistan, with which India has fought three wars since their independence in 1947, has said New Delhi's missile programme could trigger a new arms race in the region.

A similar test in 2010 by the DRDO was abandoned when radars following a "hostile" missile lost track of it after it blasted off from the launch site.

The system's tracking and fire-control radars were developed by the DRDO jointly with Israel and France.

India last month said it would soon test a nuclear-capable missile with a range of over 5,000 kilometres.

India's current longest-range nuclear-capable missile, Agni-IV, can travel 3,500 kilometres.

Kudos

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

It's time we position a few of these interceptors in space.

Destroy the incoming missile in space itself.

 

[peep]

It's time we position a few of these interceptors in space.

Destroy the incoming missile in space itself.

Let ISRO come up with a working GSLV first

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Let ISRO come up with a working GSLV first

PSLV should suffice. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[illusion8]

india-advanced-air-defence-aad-abm

 

[peep]

PSLV should suffice. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I agree my comment sounded sarcastic. It was never my intention.

On topic, I am not sure but will give some stats which makes sense. PSLV -C17 XL, the most powerful configuration of the PSLV stable is capable of putting around 1.2 T of dead weight in geo stationary orbit. This lift off capability is too less to put AADs( modified ofc) on space.

We urgently need a functioning GSLV ( mk-3 has > 4.5 T lift off capacity) for next gen needs, be it putting military satellites in orbit or putting missiles in space.

 

[Skull and Bones]

It's time we position a few of these interceptors in space.

Destroy the incoming missile in space itself.

Weaponization of space will be a wrong move strategically.

 

[The enlightened]

Weaponization of space will be a wrong move strategically.

For whom?
U.S, China, Russia.
And if not for them, then why only us?

 

[satishkumarcsc]

I agree my comment sounded sarcastic. It was never my intention.

On topic, I am not sure but will give some stats which makes sense. PSLV -C17 XL, the most powerful configuration of the PSLV stable is capable of putting around 1.2 T of dead weight in geo stationary orbit. This lift off capability is too less to put AADs( modified ofc) on space.

We urgently need a functioning GSLV ( mk-3 has > 4.5 T lift off capacity) for next gen needs, be it putting military satellites in orbit or putting missiles in space.

Well the S 200 Rocket works fine and all the boosters...the only problem has been the cryogenic stage...I think that will be sorted out in the upcoming GSLV Mk III launch. Having my fingers crossed.

The main problem of the cryogenic fuel is it is liquid oxygen that when flowing through the pipes tend to become gaseous as it is primarily a gas. and any change in matter fails the ignition/sustenance of thrust while ignition/flight. Heard that the problem was sorted out and recent tests have proven it. So let us see what is going to happen in flight.

 

[Jason bourne]

I agree my comment sounded sarcastic. It was never my intention.

On topic, I am not sure but will give some stats which makes sense. PSLV -C17 XL, the most powerful configuration of the PSLV stable is capable of putting around 1.2 T of dead weight in geo stationary orbit. This lift off capability is too less to put AADs( modified ofc) on space.

We urgently need a functioning GSLV ( mk-3 has > 4.5 T lift off capacity) for next gen needs, be it putting military satellites in orbit or putting missiles in space.

how missiles in space works anycountry has anything like this ?

 

[illusion8]

how missiles in space works anycountry has anything like this ?

"There's a very quiet, but nonetheless serious space arms race going on today. Its roots trace back to the Cold War, in which the U.S.'s NASA and Russia's Soviet Space Program looked at developing in-space weaponry. The most fruitful result of this research was intercontinental ballistic missiles -- rockets that reach sub-orbital heights to deliver nuclear payloads to distant locations.

However, the end of the Cold War and the UN's weak Outer Space Treaty, in effect since 1966, have done little to halt the silent efforts to develop the weapons needed to one day dominate one's rivals in space.

In 2007, China successfully killed a weather satellite using a solid fuel rocket. The U.S. countered in 2008, with the missile destruction of its spy satellite USA 193, which it said was malfunctioning and could prove a "danger to people on Earth".

Now India has joined the game of militarization of space. The director-general of India's defense research organization on Jan. 3 told the press that his country was currently working on an exo-atmospheric kill vehicle and lasers, which could be combined to destroy enemy satellites.

V.K. Saraswat, director-general of the Defence Research and Development Organisation, which is part of India's Ministry of Defence, elaborated, "The kill vehicle, which is needed for intercepting the satellite, needs to be developed, and that work is going on as part of the ballistic missile defense program."

The onboard lasers would not be used as a high energy weapon, but rather as a positioning device to make sure a destructive payload was delivered to the target. Mr. Saraswat explains, "[The laser] will be able to give you a concrete picture of the satellite, and use that picture to guide your kill vehicle towards that. That work has yet to be done."

If the efforts of China, the U.S., Russia, and now India are any indication, it appears that past human wars on the land and on sea may only be a prelude to wars in outer space; the sweeping stellar battles of science fiction tales such as Star Wars may one day become reality. For now, though, space warfare is unlikely because there's little to be gained from it in terms of resources. However, if man has not learned to coexist more peacefully by the time we begin to colonize other celestial bodies and mine their resources, tensions may boil over and successor of these space weapons -- now mere novelties -- may see use."

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Weaponization of space will be a wrong move strategically.

This is not an offensive weapon. It's a defensive system.

If anything, we should at least be ready with a system on hand ready to be sent to space and operationalized at short notice, for times of heightened tension.

 

[Kinetic]

Why post such BS from foreign source? They cannot forget Pakistan whenever they have some news about India!!! There is already a thread about it.

Let ISRO come up with a working GSLV first

Really? So how exactly ISRO's perfection of GSLV has anything to do with it?

 

[tvsram1992]

Good to see many + in Indian Defence .

 

[Wet Shirt Contest]

I hope India Will Deploy Effective Multi-Layer Ballistic Missile Defence
Both Terminal and Mid-course phase Based