India Already Has a Strong Net to Catch the New Pak Bird ‘Ababeel’

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

SOURCE: CNN-News18

Pakistan on Tuesday announced first successful test firing of its new surface-to-surface, nuclear-capable missile Ababeel, with a range of 2,200km. Pakistan military claimed that its new missile can deliver multiple warheads, using Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) technology.

Ababeel Weapon System is aimed at ensuring survivability of Pakistan’s ballistic missiles in the growing regional Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) environment.

Ababeel test came, just two weeks after Pakistan claimed of conducting the successful test of Submarine Launch Cruise Missile. So what do these rapid missile tests mean for India? Is India prepared to take on these threats? How true are claims made by Pakistan? At least Indian scientific community gives an assuring answer and missile experts take Pakistan’s claims with a pinch of salt.

Dr Avinash Chander, former Chief of DRDO and longtime head of India’s Ballistic Missile Systems including Agni, in conversation with News18, said that “India has a credible deterrence and our missile programme is capable of taking on any challenge.” However, he acknowledged that the test of the new surface-to-surface missile by Pakistan has changed the strategic threat dynamics in India’s neighbourhood and this needs to be factored in, in India’s future military planning and preparedness.

Meanwhile, tall claims made by Pakistan have again raised doubt within Indian science community. Dr Chander wonders if Pakistan’s claim regarding MIRV technology in a short-range missile with a range of just 2,200km is true. According to veteran missile scientist, use of such technologies in a short range missile is difficult. Primarily, it is used in long range missile. So we need to wait for more substantial inputs to verify Pakistan’s claims.

Globally, only US, Russia and China have proven MIRV-enabled missiles in their arsenal. India is still working on it and it is expected that future generations of Agni missiles would be equipped with such capabilities. Interestingly, all the MIRV-enabled missiles are Long Range Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles with a minimum strike range of over 6,000km. Therefore, it is difficult to believe that Pakistan has developed an MIRV-enabled missile with a range of just over 2000km.

Nonetheless, to meet any challenge from Ababeel, India’s missile defence battery is all charged up. Indian scientists have been working on a two-layered missile defence system since few years. One is designed to kill an enemy missile before it even enters the atmosphere while the other is developed to shoot any hostile missile in the atmosphere. While Exo-Atmospheric missile defence system PDA can destroy any hostile missile at the height of over 80km, the Endo-Atmospheric missile defence mechanism, AAD, can kill enemy missile at the height of up to 30km from the ground level. In the last one decade, AAD system has been tested over 7 times successfully.

“India is among the top few nations in the world who has a complete indigenous and highly-successful “Multi-level Strategic Deterrence” programme as well as a “Two-layer Ballistic Missile Defence” programme, says former DRDO Scientist Dr Ravi Gupta. “Though Ballistic Missile tests being conducted in our neighbourhood by a country with a hostile track record and its support to terrorist activities is indeed a threat to the world peace, India with its indigenous capabilities is fully prepared to take care of any threat,” he adds.

According to DRDO, India has already tested the missile defence system, including the capability to take down multiple warheads. The test of this capability was first tested five years ago. DRDO statement issued in November 2012 said, “A special feature of intercepting multiple targets with multiple interceptors was demonstrated successfully. An electronic target with a range of 1500km was launched and the radars picked up the target missile, tracked the target missile subsequently & launched an electronic interceptor missile.

This electronic interceptor missile destroyed the electronic target missile at an altitude of 120km. All the four missiles were tracked by the radars and all the guidance and launch computers operated in full operational mode for handling multiple targets with multiple interceptor.

All the four missiles were in the sky simultaneously and both the interceptions took place near simultaneously. This has proved the capability of DRDO to handle multiple targets with multiple interceptors simultaneously. The complete Radar Systems, Communication Networks, Launch Computers, Target update Systems and state of the art Avionics have been completely proven in this Mission.”


http://www.news18.com/news/india/in...o-catch-the-new-pak-bird-ababeel-1340493.html

 

[That Guy]

"Meanwhile, tall claims made by Pakistan have again raised doubt within Indian science community. Dr Chander wonders if Pakistan’s claim regarding MIRV technology in a short-range missile with a range of just 2,200km is true. According to veteran missile scientist, use of such technologies in a short range missile is difficult. Primarily, it is used in long range missile. So we need to wait for more substantial inputs to verify Pakistan’s claims."

You know, it's funny; Even if India doesn't believe Pakistan, or even if Pakistan's claims are fake, India still needs to work under the assumption that Pakistan's capabilities are real, because to do otherwise would compromise India's missile defense program.

 

[cerberus]

"Meanwhile, tall claims made by Pakistan have again raised doubt within Indian science community. Dr Chander wonders if Pakistan’s claim regarding MIRV technology in a short-range missile with a range of just 2,200km is true. According to veteran missile scientist, use of such technologies in a short range missile is difficult. Primarily, it is used in long range missile. So we need to wait for more substantial inputs to verify Pakistan’s claims."

You know, it's funny; Even if India doesn't believe Pakistan, or even if Pakistan's claims are fake, India still needs to work under the assumption that Pakistan's capabilities are real, because to do otherwise would compromise India's missile defense program.

Its Not funny Its common to Asses the capabilities of your competition its a common practice amoung US-Russia ,US-china and all others world Powers

To judge a capabilities there are set parameters and rules and development stages that universal everywhere each nation in sometime or another gone through this procedure US,Russia, China all has capable satellite launching and capable delivery mechanisms that are build By decades of industrial research and Academic capacity

India is following same path setup by step from launching a mature SLV technology to releasing multiple Satellites and vehicles into atmosphere to development of ICBM with 6000 +Km range each has conducted with following these universal parameters

we don't claim any scientific discovery or achievement without authentic and technical arguments to substance it into reality

 

[maximuswarrior]

"Meanwhile, tall claims made by Pakistan have again raised doubt within Indian science community. Dr Chander wonders if Pakistan’s claim regarding MIRV technology in a short-range missile with a range of just 2,200km is true. According to veteran missile scientist, use of such technologies in a short range missile is difficult. Primarily, it is used in long range missile. So we need to wait for more substantial inputs to verify Pakistan’s claims."

You know, it's funny; Even if India doesn't believe Pakistan, or even if Pakistan's claims are fake, India still needs to work under the assumption that Pakistan's capabilities are real, because to do otherwise would compromise India's missile defense program.

Very true and funny.

Let India live under the illusion that it is all fake. We will keep working and strengthening our capabilities. We have already demonstrated our sophistication and hard work. We are not rude, disillusioned nor arrogant like our unfortunate neighbor. We will work hard to achieve strength.

Our enemies are guessing. Meanwhile, we are going from strength to strength.

 

[Hammad Arshad Qureshi]

If India is capable of dealing with the threat then why this much Randi Rona of Indian Media? India is weeping that much now a days that it is leaving behind phuphay kuttni ( dehati aurut) behind.

 

[maximuswarrior]

If India is capable of dealing with the threat then why this much Randi Rona of Indian Media? India is weeping that much now a days that it is leaving behind phuphay kuttni ( dehati aurut) behind.

Simple answer is that reality is difficult to face.

 

[Hassan Guy]

Looks like the decades of the threat of the cold war, and MAD has been rendered obsolete by India's MASSIVE technological and mars reaching progress.

Nor the soviets or americans could have achieved such a feat, but of course the Indians have found a way not nullify MAD right after their gands exploded from yesterday's twitter video.


BTW, MIRV's aren't the only radar evading tech on the Ababeel.


This stuff is normal: They can't say these weapons are from China or North Korea anymore (because they couldn't find an image of a missile on wikipedia that this one looks similar too.)

They can't say the missile test is fake, because thats even more retarded then the last excuse.

So now they say that their missiles (that fail every test) are now capable of rendering the worlds most powerful weapon useless.

Only lord (and autistic people) can predict what they will cry next.

 

[TheRafael00000]

They should use Lungi . Lungi dance lungi dance....Very economic to catch birds.

 

[graphican]

What India is calling Multiple Missiles is only Multiple Missiles with Unitary warheads launched simultaneously. This is not testing against MIRV. India cannot test against MIRVs unless they have MIRV enabled missiles of their own.

Secondly, Indians are baffled how can 2200 KM range missile carry MIRV. You should keep wondering while Pakistan has demonstrated this capability already. Now to save yourself from stressing, you can assume missile was fake, a Photoshop or computer simulated. In these cases, Indians can keep sleeping in fools paradise.

 

[Mrc]

And randi rona begins

 

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

the distance between india and Pakistan doesnot give Indians much chance to intercept shaheen missile because of it's speed. Short range missiles because of short distance and less flight time, ababeel because of MIRV and speed. India can intercept one out of many layers successfully as interceptors radar will see only 1 missile and when it becomes many it would be too late.

 

[Mrc]

Tall indian claims as usual... little substance

Must add k abhi to party shroo howi hay...

I jave gut feeling about another new missile test this year

 

[cerberus]

Tall indian claims as usual... little substance

Reality hurts
Much like Pakistanis When will we see a real Pakistani SLV launching satellite into orbit To Actually Demonstrate Launching MIRV technology into atmosphere

 

[Jugger]

"Meanwhile, tall claims made by Pakistan have again raised doubt within Indian science community. Dr Chander wonders if Pakistan’s claim regarding MIRV technology in a short-range missile with a range of just 2,200km is true. According to veteran missile scientist, use of such technologies in a short range missile is difficult. Primarily, it is used in long range missile. So we need to wait for more substantial inputs to verify Pakistan’s claims."

You know, it's funny; Even if India doesn't believe Pakistan, or even if Pakistan's claims are fake, India still needs to work under the assumption that Pakistan's capabilities are real, because to do otherwise would compromise India's missile defense program.

True indeed, India needs to improve its missile defence system so that it can defeat the modern evolving threats.

 

[Mrc]

Reality hurts
Much like Pakistanis When will be see Pakistan SLV launching satellite into orbit

When nirbhoy starts functioning and tejas starts flyingl