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India Conducts First Test of New Ship-Based BMD System - Naval News
India has become one of the few nations to test a sea-based Ballistic Missile Defense or BMD system. The test took place from INS Anvesh.
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India on Wednesday successfully flight-tested the second phase of its ballistic missile defence system, demonstrating home-grown capabilities to defend against hostile missiles having a range of 5,000 km.
The flight test fully met all the trial objectives validating complete network centric warfare weapon system, the defence ministry said.
The missile was tested at the integrated test range (ITR) in Odisha's Chandipur.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh complimented the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the successful flight test and stated that it has again demonstrated India's ballistic missiles defence capability.
"The DRDO successfully flight-tested Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence System on July 24," the ministry said.
The target missile was launched at 1620 hours mimicking an adversary ballistic missile, which was detected by weapon system radars deployed on land and sea and activated the interceptor system.
"The Phase-II AD Endo-atmospheric missile was launched from LC-III at ITR, Chandipurat 1624 hrs," the ministry said.
The phase-II AD endo-atmospheric missile is an indigenously developed two stage solid propelled ground launched missile system meant for neutralising many types of enemy ballistic missile threats in the altitude bracket of endo to low exo-atmospheric regions.
The exo-atmospheric missiles are capable of completing missions in the upper-most region of the earth's atmosphere.
The endo-atmospheric missiles are the ones that operate within the earth's atmosphere that covers an altitude below 100 km, according to experts.
The defence ministry said the flight test fully met all the trial objectives validating a complete network centric warfare weapon system consisting of long range sensors, low latency communication system and advanced interceptor missiles.
"The test has demonstrated the nation's indigenous capability to defend against the ballistic missiles of 5000 km class," the ministry said in a statement.
"The performance of the missile was monitored from the flight data captured by range tracking instruments like electro-optical systems, radar and telemetry stations deployed by ITR, Chandipur at various locations including on-board ship," it said.
India has been developing capabilities to intercept hostile ballistic missiles both inside and outside the earth's atmospheric limits.
A number of state-of-the-art indigenous technologies developed by various DRDO laboratories have been incorporated in the missile system.
(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Rafael in talks to set up Iron Dome interceptor production line in India - report
Rafael in talks to set up Iron Dome interceptor production line in India - report
"Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is in talks with Indian defense companies to set up a production line in the country for Iron Dome interceptors, according to recent reports in India.
Rafael currently produces the system’s interceptors at one of its plants in northern Israel, and last year a missile production line also began operating in the US in partnership with Raytheon. The American plant will supply interceptors for the Marines’ new air defense system and, if necessary, can reinforce production in Israel.
Production in India is expected to serve Rafael in sales to additional countries, lower costs, provide extra backup when needed to the other production lines, and also strengthen the company’s standing vis-a-vis the Indian establishment, which requires foreign defense companies not only to manufacture in India as a condition for selling their products to the local military, but also to export from there and thereby strengthen its economy."
Rafael reportedly to begin producing Iron Dome interceptors in India | The Jerusalem Post
Rafael currently produces the system’s interceptors at one of its plants in northern Israel, and last year a missile production line also began operating in the US in partnership with Raytheon.
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My comment:
There might be some domestic offtake, though I don't believe Iron Dome/David's Sling are particularly suitable for the kind of Air/Missile Defence that India needs, due to mainly geographical reasons. However it could be a good asset to protect certain point targets (field HQs, ammo dumps etc.)
More importantly, it appears an Indian production line is mainly aimed at increasing stocks/supply for Israel's own defence. More production lines = more interceptors being produced simultaneously, and also a line in India could help reduce the per unit cost of each round.
All things considered, the 'offshoring' of additional production also serves a strategic purpose. Even a surprisingly successful attack on Israel's own production facilities will not be able to wipe out interceptor production as rounds keep coming in from the US, and now India.
Broadly, it's a win-win.
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Rafael in talks to set up Iron Dome interceptor production line in India - report
"Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is in talks with Indian defense companies to set up a production line in the country for Iron Dome interceptors, according to recent reports in India.
Rafael currently produces the system’s interceptors at one of its plants in northern Israel, and last year a missile production line also began operating in the US in partnership with Raytheon. The American plant will supply interceptors for the Marines’ new air defense system and, if necessary, can reinforce production in Israel.
Production in India is expected to serve Rafael in sales to additional countries, lower costs, provide extra backup when needed to the other production lines, and also strengthen the company’s standing vis-a-vis the Indian establishment, which requires foreign defense companies not only to manufacture in India as a condition for selling their products to the local military, but also to export from there and thereby strengthen its economy."
Rafael reportedly to begin producing Iron Dome interceptors in India | The Jerusalem Post
Rafael currently produces the system’s interceptors at one of its plants in northern Israel, and last year a missile production line also began operating in the US in partnership with Raytheon.
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My comment:
There might be some domestic offtake, though I don't believe Iron Dome/David's Sling are particularly suitable for the kind of Air/Missile Defence that India needs, due to mainly geographical reasons. However it could be a good asset to protect certain point targets (field HQs, ammo dumps etc.)
More importantly, it appears an Indian production line is mainly aimed at increasing stocks/supply for Israel's own defence. More production lines = more interceptors being produced simultaneously, and also a line in India could help reduce the per unit cost of each round.
All things considered, the 'offshoring' of additional production also serves a strategic purpose. Even a surprisingly successful attack on Israel's own production facilities will not be able to wipe out interceptor production as rounds keep coming in from the US, and now India.
Broadly, it's a win-win.
Yet I always thought David's sling was the perfect candidate for India's low tier long range AD solution instead of S400. It has like 250km+ effective range against air breathing targets. Plus hit to kill interception capability like PAC-3 against ballistic missiles which S400 lacks. Its radar to superior to Grave stone. And it cost less.
