Doubts arise about Indian ABM

[Safriz]

India's MoD demands early induction of ballistic missile defense system

By: Vivek Raghuvanshi, May 18, 2017 (Photo Credit: Raveendran/AFP via Getty Images)




NEW DELHI — To ensure the early induction of India's homemade ballistic missile defense system, the country's Ministry of Defence has directed the state-owned Defence Research and Development Organization to urgently submit a final induction strategy and timeline for the BMD system.




A senior MoD official said the ministry "is even considering to carry out an audit of DRDO claims about the performance of the tests."




Despite tall claims made by DRDO five years ago regarding completion of the first phase, there remains no word from the agency on the project's completion, the MoD official added. DRDO has been developing the indigenous BMD system since 1995.




It was in the wake of the system's delay that India last year cleared the $5 billion purchase of S-400 air defense systems from Russia; however, the final contract is yet to be inked.




DRDO had earlier said that by 2012 or 2013, the first phase of the BMD shield would be ready to protect New Delhi from hostile missiles with a 2,000-kilometer range. It also boasted that by 2016, the second phase would be operational, allowing the system to kill hostile missiles with a 5,000-kilometer range.




Regarding a potential audit of the authenticity of DRDO's BMD system claims based on a variety of tests, Mahindra Singh, a retired Indian Army major general, said: "It is important to know whether the interceptor missile hit the incoming missile during trials because a remote fuze can also detonate the incoming missile, and there is no guarantee whether the incoming missile [was] actually hit by the interceptor missile."




In February this year, a top DRDO scientist said the homegrown anti-ballistic missile Prithvi Defence Vehicle, or PDV, traveling at supersonic speed destroyed a target at an altitude of 97 kilometers in the exo-atmospheric region. The PDV interceptor missile is capable of killing an incoming missile with a strike range of around 2,000 kilometers outside the Earth's atmosphere.




PDV is said to be an upgraded interceptor missile with a range of 50-150 kilometers and is set to will replace the Prithvi Air Defence missile, which has a range of 80 kilometers.




DRDO has successfully test-fired both exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric interceptor ballistic missiles.





India's BMD system consists of a long-range tracking radar developed in partnership with Israeli company Elta. It is based on the company's EL/M-2080 Green Pine radar used in conjunction with Israel's anti-ballistic missile system Arrow.




The second component of India's BMD system is the computerized command and control system that plots and predicts the intruding missile's flight path and assigns interceptor missiles to destroy it.




The third component is the interceptor missiles and includes the exo-atmospheric missiles as well as the endo-atmospheric missiles, which can kill an incoming missile at a distance of up to 40 kilometers.

 

[Panzerkampf]

Doctored title by Safriz.
No there did it say there are doubts about BMD. It's just a regular project performance review.

 

[Safriz]

Doctored title by Safriz.
No there did it say there are doubts about BMD. It's just a regular project performance review.

Read again. Mod still has to see any actual evidence of Indian ABM hitting an incoming missile. Also they have doubts about ABM credibility as told by DRDO

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Read again. Mod still has to see any actual evidence of Indian ABM hitting an incoming missile. Also they have doubts about ABM credibility as told by DRDO

 

[Panzerkampf]

Read again. Mod still has to see any actual evidence of Indian ABM hitting an incoming missile. Also they have doubts about ABM credibility as told by DRDO

Nowhere in the article is it mentioned about any doubts.
In fact In fact says that MoD is carrying out an Audit to speed up induction.

 

[Safriz]

Nowhere in the article is it mentioned about any doubts.
In fact In fact says that MoD is carrying out an Audit to speed up induction.

So Ministry analyst saying that DRDO may have detonated target missiles with remote control than actually hitting them......is not expression of doubt?

 

[Panzerkampf]

So Ministry analyst saying that DRDO may have detonated target missiles with remote control than actually hitting them......is not expression of doubt?

No ministry official ever said that.
It was just a retired officer who just gave his opinion.
And every audit checks whether was any fraud or not.

 

[nang2]

Wouldn't things be a lot easier if the target missile is developed and launched by a different company/agency?

 

[Safriz]

Wouldn't things be a lot easier if the target missile is developed and launched by a different company/agency?

The slow coach called Prithvi Pdv must be slowest ABM in the world, looks more like a pretend ABM.

 

[Alphacharlie]

Indian ABM is a Dudd.
Indian a/c Su30, M29,M29K, M2K5, Bison, Jags are all Dudds
Indian A/c is Sitting Queen...

Sir I agree we are Biggest Kabadiwala on the planet...

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Wouldn't things be a lot easier if the target missile is developed and launched by a different company/agency?

For what reason? DRDO has been transparent about even the indigenous content of it's platforms, when it doesnt need to. It can hide away it's failures like several other countries do, but it doesn't.

One of the few that should be questioned. The ones that should be questioned are countries with 100% success stories, even with a joke of a military budget, let alone overall R&D budget. That has a defence and aero industry, but nothing else to speak of. That needs most of it's certifications done for it's platforms, outside the country.

 

[Safriz]

For what reason? DRDO has been transparent about even the indigenous content of it's platforms, when it doesnt need to. It can hide away it's failures like several other countries do, but it doesn't.

One of the few that should be questioned. The ones that should be questioned are countries with 100% success stories, even with a joke of a military budget, let alone overall R&D budget. That has a defence and aero industry, but nothing else to speak of. That needs most of it's certifications done for it's platforms, outside the country.

Because despite tall claims DRDO has deploy any layer of ABM

 

[Chhatrapati]

Because despite tall claims DRDO has deploy any layer of ABM

It will be deployed soon, it's just a 15 year old program. Since nobody share the technology for developing an ABM we need to invent the wheel. Failures and delays are normal if you are developing it.

It was in the wake of the system's delay that India last year cleared the $5 billion purchase of S-400 air defense systems from Russia; however, the final contract is yet to be inked.

What a childish comment is this, since DRDO was late we will make a $5 Billion deal. There are existing S-300 batteries with India, since S-400's are too good of an Air defense we procured them.

 

[Safriz]

It will be deployed soon, it's just a 15 year old program. Since nobody share the technology for developing an ABM we need to invent the wheel. Failures and delays are normal if you are developing it.

What a childish comment is this, since DRDO was late we will make a $5 Billion deal. There are existing S-300 batteries with India, since S-400's are too good of an Air defense we procured them.

Check again there are no full S-300 systems deployed in india only bits integrated in other systems

 

[Chhatrapati]

Check again there are no full S-300 systems deployed in india only bits integrated in other systems

And your point being? Anyway, the entire procurement details are mostly classified. So, I don't think neither of us have any credible source to back the claim. Though S-300 associate systems were spotted in Delhi.