India to carry out more anti-ballistic missile tests

[Ingis]

Fresh anti-ballistic missile tests soon

Fresh tests of the endo-atmospheric anti-ballistic missile system may be conducted in December-January, VK Saraswat, scientific advisor to the defence minister, said on Wednesday.

"The first phase of the missile defence shield has been going on for years now and fresh tests are likely in December-January," he said at a seminar on fuel cell technology.

The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), which Saraswat heads, aims to develop interceptors that can destroy intermediate-range ballistic missiles. In phase-II, DRDO will develop missiles to neutralise inter-continental ballistic missiles. The phase, however, is in the design stage.

Fresh anti-ballistic missile tests soon - dnaindia.com

Images of previous successful endo-atmospheric anti-ballistic missile tests -

 

[GLOBAL HAWK]

Good pictures, what missile was this ??
any more technical info? pls

 

[Ingis]

Good pictures, what missile was this ??
any more technical info? pls

This missile was first tested in December 2007. It is a single stage, solid fuel missile which can carry out interception at an altitude of 30 kms. An article on the successful test -

The Hindu : Front Page : Interceptor missile scores ‘direct hit’

The next phase of the anti-ballistic missile program is to destroy missiles with a range of more than 5,000 kms (basically, ICBMs) -

India developing ballistic missiles to destroy IRBMs, ICBMs : India World

 

[Im_a_bud_bud]

How does this system compare to the Aegis system? What if the incoming missile changes track during flight? does this have flight course auto correction?

regards very much

 

[unicorn148]

this missile is still in development phase but during its tests it showed 100% accuracy the radar was jointly developed by India and Israel and the same used in arrow missile defense