NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday efficiently flight-tested an endo-atmospheric interceptor missile beneath Section-II of its two-tier ballistic missile defence (BMD) system, with the defence ministry promptly proclaiming it demonstrated the indigenous functionality to defend in opposition to hostile nuclear-capable missiles within the 5000-km vary class.
Within the take a look at, the “goal missile” mimicking an enemy’s long-range ballistic missile was first launched from the Dhamra missile launch advanced in Odisha at 4.20 pm.
Swiftly “detected” by radars deployed on land and sea, the BMD system then kicked into motion to launch the “AD (superior space defence) endo-atmospheric interceptor missile” from the built-in take a look at at Chandipur at 4.24 pm.
“The interceptor destroyed the goal. The flight-test absolutely met all of the trial goals, validating the entire network-centric warfare weapon system consisting of long-range sensors, low latency communication system and superior interceptor missiles,” a DRDO official stated.
The solid-fuelled, two-stage interceptor missile system is supposed for “neutralising many kinds of enemy ballistic missile threats within the altitude bracket of endo to low exo-atmospheric areas”, he added. Congratulating the DRDO for the profitable flight take a look at, defence minister Rajnath Singh stated it has once more demonstrated the nation’s BMD functionality.
India, in contrast to international locations just like the US, Russia, China and Israel, nonetheless nonetheless has a protracted approach to go earlier than it may well operationally deploy an efficient BMD system, with an overlapping community of early-warning and monitoring sensors, dependable command and management posts, land and sea-based batteries of superior interceptor missiles.
The DRDO has efficiently accomplished a collection of assessments for the Section-1 of the BMD system, which is designed to trace and destroy enemy ballistic missiles within the 2,000-km vary class, each inside (endo) and out of doors (exo) the earth’s environment at altitudes from 15-25 km to 80-100 km for “a better kill chance”, as was earlier reported by TOI.
Even because the Section-I of the BMD system, with the interceptor missiles flying at Mach 4.5 supersonic speeds, is but to be deployed, DRDO had examined a brand new long-range versatile interceptor missile known as AD-1under the Section-II in November 2022.
Then, DRDO additionally performed the maiden flight trial of a sea-based endo-atmospheric interceptor missile from a warship in April final yr. Other than a land-based BMD system, a cell sea-based model can be required to construct an operationally efficient missile protect. “Sea-based model offers you distributive functionality,” an officer stated.
The US, by the way, has round 50 ship-borne Aegis BMD programs that present layered air and missile defence in opposition to all types of missiles, from short-range ones to ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles).
India until now has kept away from sanctioning the full-scale operational deployment of the Section-1 of the BMD system at any important location. This might be because of the excessive prices concerned, and even strategic calculations that it could provoke Pakistan to go in for a bigger nuclear arsenal and countermeasures to defeat the BMD system, as reported by TOI earlier.
India’s BMD programme has been within the works because the late-Nineteen Nineties, with its first interceptor missile being examined in November 2006. Having performed over a dozen assessments of the BMD system since then, just a few of which have failed, DRDO previously has stated that it has a “kill chance of 99.8%” with the combination of exo and endo-interceptor missiles.
The IAF, after all, has inducted the Russian S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile programs that may detect, observe and destroy incoming strategic bombers, jets, spy planes, drones and even some intermediate-range ballistic missiles at a spread of 380-km.
Within the take a look at, the “goal missile” mimicking an enemy’s long-range ballistic missile was first launched from the Dhamra missile launch advanced in Odisha at 4.20 pm.
Swiftly “detected” by radars deployed on land and sea, the BMD system then kicked into motion to launch the “AD (superior space defence) endo-atmospheric interceptor missile” from the built-in take a look at at Chandipur at 4.24 pm.
“The interceptor destroyed the goal. The flight-test absolutely met all of the trial goals, validating the entire network-centric warfare weapon system consisting of long-range sensors, low latency communication system and superior interceptor missiles,” a DRDO official stated.
The solid-fuelled, two-stage interceptor missile system is supposed for “neutralising many kinds of enemy ballistic missile threats within the altitude bracket of endo to low exo-atmospheric areas”, he added. Congratulating the DRDO for the profitable flight take a look at, defence minister Rajnath Singh stated it has once more demonstrated the nation’s BMD functionality.
India, in contrast to international locations just like the US, Russia, China and Israel, nonetheless nonetheless has a protracted approach to go earlier than it may well operationally deploy an efficient BMD system, with an overlapping community of early-warning and monitoring sensors, dependable command and management posts, land and sea-based batteries of superior interceptor missiles.
The DRDO has efficiently accomplished a collection of assessments for the Section-1 of the BMD system, which is designed to trace and destroy enemy ballistic missiles within the 2,000-km vary class, each inside (endo) and out of doors (exo) the earth’s environment at altitudes from 15-25 km to 80-100 km for “a better kill chance”, as was earlier reported by TOI.
Even because the Section-I of the BMD system, with the interceptor missiles flying at Mach 4.5 supersonic speeds, is but to be deployed, DRDO had examined a brand new long-range versatile interceptor missile known as AD-1under the Section-II in November 2022.
Then, DRDO additionally performed the maiden flight trial of a sea-based endo-atmospheric interceptor missile from a warship in April final yr. Other than a land-based BMD system, a cell sea-based model can be required to construct an operationally efficient missile protect. “Sea-based model offers you distributive functionality,” an officer stated.
The US, by the way, has round 50 ship-borne Aegis BMD programs that present layered air and missile defence in opposition to all types of missiles, from short-range ones to ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles).
India until now has kept away from sanctioning the full-scale operational deployment of the Section-1 of the BMD system at any important location. This might be because of the excessive prices concerned, and even strategic calculations that it could provoke Pakistan to go in for a bigger nuclear arsenal and countermeasures to defeat the BMD system, as reported by TOI earlier.
India’s BMD programme has been within the works because the late-Nineteen Nineties, with its first interceptor missile being examined in November 2006. Having performed over a dozen assessments of the BMD system since then, just a few of which have failed, DRDO previously has stated that it has a “kill chance of 99.8%” with the combination of exo and endo-interceptor missiles.
The IAF, after all, has inducted the Russian S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile programs that may detect, observe and destroy incoming strategic bombers, jets, spy planes, drones and even some intermediate-range ballistic missiles at a spread of 380-km.
