DRDO to shoot down missile at 150 km altitude

[angeldemon_007]

@angeldemon: besides, killing any missile at longer range before they come to our territory is always a good thing.

Thats why i said, its less feasible. Just tell me at what speed your missile will travel if you want to destroy it at source itself ?/ For that you need to know before the enemy missile is even launched good luck with that...
Don't worry we will also make that but its unnecessary.

@ HongWu
Yeah he was wrong to mention THAAD but don't use this kind of language.
You are talking about reverse engineering... you what is the other name of that ??/
STEALING.....U guys are thieves, its illegal and against the contract to use other countries weapon and than call them as yours and then sell them to other countries.

Although i admire your art of reverse engineering techniques but plz stick to the topic...

 

[DV RULES]

Wow.... you are confusing so many ideas.

First off, when you talk about endo-atmospheric intercept, there are really two kinds of things. There is an intercept of a cruise missile (subsonic or ~1+ mach), which is no different from the intercept of a aircraft except they are smaller and harder to hit. All air-defense SAMs have this ability, theoretically.

Then there is the intercept of a ballistic missile. That is much harder because they travel faster. The easiest ballistic missiles to intercept are primitive ballistic missiles like Scuds (~mach 3). Advanced SAMs like Patriot III, S-300 series and HQ-9 have this ability.

The hardest ballistic missiles to intercept are ICBMs because they travel at ~mach 10. Nobody has this ability. US THAAD has been a failure so far.

Next, there is exo-atmospheric intercept. Only USA and China have done an exo-atmospheric intercept test (not even Russia). China did its first exo-atmospheric ballistic missile test in January 2010. This technology is very similar to ASAT. Only USA and China have done a direct ascent ASAT test. USSR did an ASAT test but it was not direct ascent -- it was a hunter satellite.

So the ranking is USA, China and Russia. You might tack on Israel at the end too if they are considered separate from USA because their mid-range endo-atmospheric interception is very good.

India appears nowhere. Its indigenous SAM is primitive and equivalent to 1960's technology. I doubt it could handle even a Scud.

But actually India won't be using indigenous, it will be using Israeli technology (maybe calling it indigenous whatever) and so its actual effectiveness will be considerable.

this is their indigenous program

India and Israel agreed to jointly develop a new long range, land-based air defense system to replace the aging Pechora (SA-3 GOA) missiles currently in service with the Indian Air Force. Covering a range of 70 km, the new missile will extend the 60km range of the vertically launched Barak 8 shipborne missile (also known as Barak NG) currently being developed for the Indian and Israeli Navies under a US$480 million five year program launched in early 2006.
The new system is expected to streamline with the original Barak 8 schedule, adding about $300 million to the program development cost. In its decision last week the Indian Government earmarked a total funding of about Rs10,000 crore (about US$2.5 billion) for the medium range surface-to-air missiles (MR-SAM) project. The program will include the deployment of up to nine air defense squadrons.
Image: A view of the Barak NG. MR-SAM is expected to be longer and use slightly different aerodynamic design. (Photo: IAI)
The MR-SAM development will be conducted under the bilateral agreement signed between the two countries, which will guide the scope of collaboration formulating between DRDO and IAI defined in a memorandum of agreement signed in New Delhi, June 2007.
The Indian Air Force plans to reequip nine air defense squadrons with the new missile, each including two batteries comprising a multi-mission radar system performing target acquisition and guidance, command-and-control element and three container-launchers each mounting eight missiles.
Prime contractor for the program will be the Indian DRDO, with IAI missile and space group acting as leading subcontractor with IAI's Elta Systems providing the radar and Israel's RAFAEL producing the interceptor missiles. According to the bilateral agreement, the Indians will be able to locally produce and support the systems. India has also concluded the acquisition of 18 SPYDER SR quick reaction surface-to-air missile systems for point defense. The Spyder will be locally produced in India by Bharat Dynamics limited. The current contract worth is about Rs1,800 crore (US$450 million).
India and RAFAEL are considering further derivatives of the systems to replace the Army's current aging air defenses, such as Tungushka and OSA-AK (SA-8). India has also expressed interest in acquiring the Israeli Arrow-II missile defense system, developed under an US-Israeli cooperation. India has already acquired the system's Green-Pine radar, developed exclusively with Israeli funding and, therefore, was unrestricted by US export approval. As for the export prospects of the Arrow, Israel hesitates to request export approvals for the system, and expects third parties, such as the Indians or Turks (also interested in the system) to approach the US State Department to endorse the system's export.
In the past years the DRDO developed the Akash missile system, which was based on a system similar to the SA-6 Gainful, but despite the extensive effort invested in the program, Akash did not reach operational status. The new missile system will be based on the medium-range naval air defense missile currently under development for the Indian and Israeli Navies. The naval application of the missile will be integrated with the MF-STAR phased array ship borne radar, which Elta claims to be superior to the SPY-1 AEGIS radar. Overall, the MF-STAR / Barak 8 combination is claimed to be superior to the leading US made systems such as AEGIS or Patriot PAC-3 missile systems.

Indian offensive missile program initiated under IGMDP (Integrated Guided missile Development Program) suffered serious setbacks with its Prithvi and Agni series of missiles in development, integration and launches and in fact is still grappling with launch failures with the overall success rate being less than 50 percent but which is not uncommon with such developments. The learning curve seems to be paying dividends now as is witnessed in the swift development of BMD.

The entire system involves detection, tracking and interception of the incoming missile involving multiple platforms and requires a fair amount of precision and sophistication. India intends to deploy a two tier system consisting of Prithvi air defense missile (PAD) for high altitude interception and advanced air defense missile (AAD) for lower altitude interception which will be able to take out missiles with ranges upto 5000kms. The deployed system would consist of many launch vehicles, radars, Launch Control Centers (LCC) and the Mission Control Center (MCC). All these are geographically distributed and connected by a secure communication network. DRDO with Israeli cooperation developed Swordfish – a long range tracking radar (LRTR) specifically for the BMD based on Israel’s Green pine radar which incidentally is part of the Arrow-II system. It is the target acquisition and fire control radar for the BMD system. The LRTR has a radius of 800km and it’s been reported that it can track objects as small as a cricket ball. DRDO plans to enhance its range to 1500km by 2011, a requirement for Phase II system. PAD was tested in November 2006, followed by AAD in December 2007 and a third test in March 2009. The 2009 test is the third successful consecutive tests in recent years, and indicates a promising future for the indigenous BMD system.

India’s first test demonstrated the system’s ability to intercept an incoming Prithvi-II missile at an altitude of 48 km with a two-stage PAD interceptor christened ‘Pradyumna’; the second test saw a successful intercept of a Prithvi-II at 15km by a single-stage interceptor; the third and most recent test demonstrated the capability of a new and more sophisticated Pradyumna to destroy its target at an altitude of 75 km.

. These tests assume significance for the success rate, speed and technological sophistication (the US interceptor tests courted multiple failures). The PAD is a modified prithvi missile while the AAD is a completely new missile. The project is being taken up in two phases: Phase I to intercept missiles with a range of upto 2000kms to be operationalized and deployed by 2012 and Phase II to intercept IRBM/ICBM’s (intermediate range ballistic missiles/inter-continental ballistic missiles) to be developed after phase I is complete. The Prithvi Air Defense (PAD) is an anti-ballistic missile developed to intercept incoming ballistic missiles outside the atmosphere (exo-atmospheric). Based on the Prithvi missile, PAD christened Pradyumna is a two stage missile with a maximum interception altitude of 80 km. Advanced Air Defense (AAD) is an anti-ballistic missile designed to intercept incoming ballistic missiles in the endo-atmosphere at an altitude of 15-30 km.

Buoyed by recent successes DRDO is accelerating the pace of development of the BMD. Finally, with all the previous failures acting as a stepping stone and learning valuables lessons from them, India’s technological prowess has come to the fore and this gives a new confidence and boost to other projects hanging in limbo and some of them can incorporate the technologies developed for this project.

Rahul Bedi of Jane’s Defence Weekly points out that India remains far from developing an effective missile interception system. “It’s not easy, India is light years away from developing anything like the American Patriot missile defense system which is designed to detect and destroy incoming missiles,” he told the BBC

 

[sarthak]

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[Guynextdoor]

@Hong Wu:Why you retarded little twat

Prithvi Air Defense ExerciseThe PADE (Prithvi Air Defence Exercise) was conducted on November 2006 in which a PAD missile successfully intercepted a modified Prithvi-II Missile at an altitude of 50 km (31 mi). The Prithvi-II ballistic missile was modified successfully to mimic the trajectory of M-11 missiles.

DRDO plans to test the anti-ballistic shield against missiles with a range of 1,500 km (930 mi). The test will be conducted with a modified Prithvi missile launched from a naval ship and the anti-ballistic missile launched from Wheeler Island. The interception of the target missile will take place at approximately 80 km (50 mi) altitude.[18]

On March 6, 2009 DRDO carried out a second successful test of the PAD interceptor missile. The target used was ship launched Dhanush missile which followed the trajectory of a missile with range of a 1,500 km (930 mi). The target was tracked by Swordfish (LRTR) radar and destroyed by the PAD at 75 km (47 mi) altitude.

Indian members- please confirm that 50 km is exoatmospheric range so that we can stop this retarded troll frm polluting our discussions with his BS.

 

[Screambowl]

@Hong Wu:Why you retarded little twat

Prithvi Air Defense ExerciseThe PADE (Prithvi Air Defence Exercise) was conducted on November 2006 in which a PAD missile successfully intercepted a modified Prithvi-II Missile at an altitude of 50 km (31 mi). The Prithvi-II ballistic missile was modified successfully to mimic the trajectory of M-11 missiles.

DRDO plans to test the anti-ballistic shield against missiles with a range of 1,500 km (930 mi). The test will be conducted with a modified Prithvi missile launched from a naval ship and the anti-ballistic missile launched from Wheeler Island. The interception of the target missile will take place at approximately 80 km (50 mi) altitude.[18]

On March 6, 2009 DRDO carried out a second successful test of the PAD interceptor missile. The target used was ship launched Dhanush missile which followed the trajectory of a missile with range of a 1,500 km (930 mi). The target was tracked by Swordfish (LRTR) radar and destroyed by the PAD at 75 km (47 mi) altitude.

Indian members- please confirm that 50 km is exoatmospheric range so that we can stop this retarded troll frm polluting our discussions with his BS.

there is no particular altitude defined but above 50kms it is considered to be exo-atmospheric since we have carried out the interception at 75kms altitude , this is orbital height which is exo-atmospheric.