Interceptor missile designed to destroy enemy missiles successfully tested

[Kazhugu]

Well done..so it was a AAD......

last time i heard that the next one would be a PAD test capable of destroying IRBMs.....

 

[Yeti]

Now wait for the big one Agni V

 

[indianspetsnaz]

phase 1 has been proven now without a doubt time to prove phase 2!

 

[Yeti]

India is planning to develop laser weapon systems that can be Submarine, Surface Ship, Airborne and Land-Based to intercept an incoming missile launched from a distance of up to 2,000 km away. This development will be headed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) working with The Laser and Science Technology Centre (LASTEC).Initially the first system is expected to be associated with India's Anti-Ballistic Missile systems that are currently in development, the first laser will take at least 10-15 years to come on-line.It is assessed that the first of these systems will be designed to destroy ballistic missile targets carrying nuclear or conventional warheads in their boost phase. During an interview with the LASTEC Director Anil Kumar Maini in late August 2010, it was confirmed that India intends to use laser (Directed Energy Weapons - DEW) to engage an enemy missile in its boost and/or terminal phase.A project known simply as KALI was first identified as far back as 1985; this was a DRDO/Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) programme that finally started life in 1989. Although not in itself a laser weapon system as we know it today, the potential for the system to fulfil the role as a military DEW system is still there. It is assessed that if weaponised, it is very likely that KALI would be integrated into the Ballistic Missile Defence programme PAD/AAD.India is conducting tests on a developmental 25 kW laser system to hit a missile during its terminal phase at a distance of



Laser weapons is the future

 

[Skull and Bones]

Here's my celebration tribal dance!

Jinga la la hu Jinga la la hu hurr hurr

 

[Yeti]

Phase 2 should be exciting to follow also

 

[Bl[i]tZ]

Ok guys, when is Agni 5 due?

Last news I read was that "5,000-km range Agni-5 to be test fired in Feb". Has it been delayed to March or we're on schedule? We need to demonstrate that missile, test it to our satisfaction and start producing it.

We can't let our Panda friends assume that all our love is for Pakistan. We need to demonstrate that we deeply care for the han people.

 

[Jason bourne]

Phase 2 should be exciting to follow also

aad pad phase 1 ad-1 ad-2 phase -2 and what is PDV ?

 

[Jiang]

Only useful application is ASAT, modern ballistic missles are impossible to intercept even with multiple interceptor.

 

[Green Hornet]

Here's my celebration tribal dance!

Jinga la la hu Jinga la la hu hurr hurr

You won't be alone in this war dance mate, i will join you too!!

HULA KA BULA BULA BULA!!

JHINGA LA LA HO JHINGA LA LA HO HO HO!!

Congrats to all!!

 

[Jason bourne]

Ok guys, when is Agni 5 due?

Last news I read was that "5,000-km range Agni-5 to be test fired in Feb". Has it been delayed to March or we're on schedule? We need to demonstrate that missile, test it to our satisfaction and start producing it.

We can't let our Panda friends assume that all our love is for Pakistan. We need to demonstrate that we deeply care for the han people.

bilitz bro there supposed to be 3 missiles test in feb AGNI-5 , LR-SAM , NIRBHAY ...this interceptor is a surprise now just waiting for all three to be test fired ...

 

[Yeti]

aad pad phase 1 ad-1 ad-2 phase -2 and what is PDV ?

PDV is said to be a two solid stage hypersonic anti-ballistic missile similar in class to the THAAD will also incorporate a IIR seeker for its kill vehicle as well.


For Phase 2, Dr Saraswat said that the organisation had already begun development of a two-stage hypersonic missile interceptor called the PDV and it would be ready in two years. It had also put in place the building blocks for developing extended range radars of over 1500 km.

Unlike the exo-atmospheric interceptor, which was test-fired on Friday, the PDV has two stages, a liquid and a solid. The PDV is a longer missile with two solid stages. It is in the class of the THAAD or Terminal High Altitude Area Defence missiles deployed by the United States as part of its missile shield beginning this year. THAAD boasts of missiles which can intercept ballistic missiles over 200 km away and tracking radars with ranges of over 1000 km.

 

[Jason bourne]

PDV is said to be a two solid stage hypersonic anti-ballistic missile similar in class to the THAAD will also incorporate a IIR seeker for its kill vehicle as well.

any news abt that ?

 

[ksgokul]

Only useful application is ASAT, modern ballistic missles are impossible to intercept even with multiple interceptor.

Can you please explain in detail your reasoning? I am not very knowledgeable in that arena. But then why US is talking about its missile shield in Europe and Russia is objecting to it. If ballistic missiles cannot be intercepted, then Russia should not have issues allowing the missile shield to be placed in Europe? Or am i missing something?

Thanks.

 

[EastWest]

Here u go the complete report:

Validating Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) capability, India successfully launched an interceptor missile to destroy an incoming target missile in a direct hit at an altitude of 15 km over the Bay of Bengal on Friday.

The target missile mimicked an incoming enemy missile with a range of more than 2,000 km.

A few minutes after the ‘hostile’ missile, a modified surface-to-surface Prithvi, took off at 10.10 a.m. from Launch Complex-3 at Chandipur, the interceptor missile, Advanced Air Defence (AAD), was fired from the Wheeler Island. As the target missile climbed to a height about 100 km and began descending at rapid speed, the interceptor travelling at supersonic speed homed on to the target and smashed it to smithereens around 10.15 a.m. at a 15-km altitude in the endo-atmosphere.

The crucial test was conducted as part of India’s plans to deploy a two-tiered BMD system to engage and kill incoming enemy missiles in the endo-atmosphere and exo-atmopshere.

This was the seventh interceptor mission and the fifth endo-atmospheric interception. Six of the tests to date have been successful, including the first three in a row.

Immediately after the modified Prithvi was launched, the Long Range Tracking Radars near Puri picked up the target missile as also the Multi Functional Radar at Paradip tracked the missile and passed on the information to guidance computer, which gave the command for launching of AAD after computing the target’s flight. Equipped with inertial navigation system, a hi-tech computer and a radio-frequency seeker the AAD locked on to the target missile and blasted it in the terminal phase.

Scientific advisor to Defence Minister V.K. Saraswat, Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) Chief Controller for missiles and strategic systems, Avinash Chander and other top missile scientists were present.

Keywords: Ballistic Missile Defence, interceptor missile, Indian Defence, interceptor missile test, BMD system, DRDO, Advanced Air Defence, surface-to-surface Prithvi

The Hindu: Interceptor achieves a direct hit of incoming target missile