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Some more recent developments which add further context to the evolving situation > https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/german-cabinet-approves-investment-by-chinas-cosco-hamburg-port-terminal-sources-2022-10-26/ And very recently this from Scholz's poorly-timed visit to Xi's China: "...But...

As some of you know, I'm a geopolitics enthusiast and the current era is perhaps the most volatile one in several decades. The Post-WW2 world order may be on its last legs and all bets are off regarding how the next era will shape up. With that in mind, I've taken note of the current state of...

The only IOR country where India has a history of intervening militarily to defend against a foreign attack (in that case, non-state actors like PLOTE) is the Maldives. So that's the safest bet if one wants to guess. Though very similar security arrangements are also likely to be in place with...

The LRMFR - the BMD-capable future radar for Next-Gen surface combatants (NGD & NGF). If these figures are in mm, each of these radar faces/arrays are even larger in size than the AN/SPY-6 The radar has already been installed on the INS Anvesh T&E ship, though no clear photographs are as of...

Bellatrix to set up $76-million ‘Space taxi’, propulsion systems R&D centre near Bengaluru https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bellatrix-to-set-up-76-million-space-taxi-propulsion-systems-rd-centre-factory-near-bengaluru/articleshow/95262148.cms

So AD-1 is capable of intercepting 5,000-km class missiles? Note that the range/altitude figures of AD-1 are still unknown...may as well be exo-atmosphere capable.

This is 18 years ago. Undoubtedly meant for Phase-1 tech demos as I said, not Phase-2.

L&T SOV400 midget sub

2 year old thread but still extremely relevant regarding the Phase-II BMD program, of which the XSV-1 (aka PDV Mk-2) ASAT is also a part due to technology overlap: Note that one of the slides mentioning an older iteration of ASAT design uses an Agni-1/2 solid booster to achieve an altitude of...

You sure? The Phase-I BMD (AAD) had Ka-band but the new ones seem to be Ku-band (plus they'll now be AESAs obviously).

I don't read too much into Russian propaganda. It's like their claim of Kinzhal being operational & that it was used in combat against Ukraine, which turned out be false claims...

Well the US just sanctioned the development of LGM-35 Sentinel ICBM - its future ground based deterrence through 2075. Russia doing the same with RS-28 Sarmat...both conventional missile systems with MIRVs, not unlike existing Minuteman-III and R-36 Satan. Whether these MIRVs will be replaced...

Nice chart on where everything falls in the US terminology as of 2017: HGVs are too shaky at the moment as a definitive system on which deterrence can be built. They are in the same league as Railguns which everyone thought would be the future and that fizzled out because they are too...

Two other 8x8 AFVs are under development seems like, in addition to the Kestrel/WhAP that's already been made by Tata & VRDE. Mahindra Defence: L&T Defence (pic is supposedly of them): @Nilgiri

Basically seems to be the naval version of their Sudarshan land-based AD gun also shown at DEFEXPO-22:

You're right - Block-2 is more in league of SM-3 and AD-2 as well. AD-1 is only comparable to Block-1NT or SM-6. Depends. If the launch platform (ship) happens to be in the right spot, SM-3 can take out any missile in the boost/ascent phase (including ICBM), but so can any other missile of...

I would describe the AD-1 as roughly equivalent to the Aster-30 Block-1NT/Block-2 and SM-6. It would form the lower rung of the BMD Phase-II program with regard to range & altitude, and will primarily be aimed at intercepting missile threats inside the atmosphere. The higher rung would be formed...

India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Wednesday successfully conducted the maiden flight test of phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor AD-1 missile with a large kill altitude bracket off the Odisha coast. All components of the BMD weapon system that were...

I would say its in Turkish interest to keep these two out of NATO. If for no other reason then just to send the message that unwarranted interference in another country's affairs will carry consequences.