Posted on 11/27/2006 6:40:36 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
India develops new anti-missile system
A K DHAR, NEW DELHI, NOV 27 (PTI)
India today unvieled an indigenous supersonic anti-missile system with defence scientists saying it had the capability to intercept incoming ballastic missiles thousands of miles away.
Labelled only as AXO (Atmospheric Intercept System), the supersonic missile underwent its baptism when it successfully intercepted a surface-to-surface Prithvi target missile at an altitude of 40 to 50 km over the seas off the interim test range site in Chandipur in Orissa.
"It is a new missile and not part of country's Integrated Guided Missile programme," top DRDO officials said on the condition of anonymity.
"We have been working on this anti-missile system for years," scientists said and claimed that missile had its own mobile launcher, secure data link for interception, independent tracking and homing capability and its own radar.
"The missile has response time of 30 seconds and once it detects a target it can be launched in 50 seconds," the scientists said.
While, affirming that India would still be observing the US Patriot-III anti missile shield, which Washington is developing, the scientists said that the Indian missiles was "in the class of its own".
DRDO did not reveal the contours of the new system developed.
"It is completely an indigenous missile," DRDO officials said when asked if any foreign help had been sought in it's development.
"The missile has high manoeuvrability, terminal homing with radar seekers and can operate independent of ground radar help," they said adding the missile could be co-related to ground and air based radars.
The missiles which are 10 to 12 metres long have divert thrusters that can generate high lateral acceleration and can undertake critical mission of air defence too, officials said.
DRDO has been working on making the Trishul missiles into an anti-missile system, but the system had failed many critical tests.
DRDO officials did not say whether some of the systems of the Trishul missile had been incorporated into the new yet experimental interceptor missile, but added "the new system has no commonality with the Akash surface-to-air missiles".
DRDO seeks Israeli expertise in key surveillance system
A K DHAR, NEW DELHI, NOV 26 (PTI)
Hit by heavy time over-runs and technical hitches in the production of a key surveillance system designed to give early warning on incoming missiles, India has sought Israeli expertise.
Launched three years ago, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) surveillance project christened 'Divya Drishti' was to become operational this year, but is running heavily behind schedule and now Israeli expertise is being sought for its completion.
Billed to cost Rs 570 crores, the ground-based over- horizon suveillance system will give the country capability to detect targets in space and close to ground in two angles almost 800 kms away and in another angle almost 450 kms away.
Elbit system of Israel has now joined forces with the DRDO's Hyderabad-based Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DRDL), Electronic Coporation of India and Tata Power Company Limited to develop the futuristic system.
This is the second major project on which the DRDO has sought foreign collaboration for development, giving up its earlier insistence on 'go -lone policy'.
Earlier this year, DRDO floated international tenders for collaboration on development of its Kaveri aero-engine designed to power the Light Combat Aircraft. American aero-engine major Pratt and Whitney and French Snecma are competing for the tenders.
The mobile vehicle-mounted passive air space surveillance system is designed to use 'angle-of-arrival triangulation technique' using signals from hostile airborne, ground-based and naval radars, transponders, data link and pulse emitters to detect incomign targets.
Once assembled, the system would give countrywide radar coverage through setting up of 12 such surveillance systems for defending static as well as mobile strategic installations and would be deployed by the Army as well as the Air Force.
The system is also designed for real time exchange of operational information between Army headquarters and Army commands and is also aimed at developing linkages among the strategic, operational and tactical levels in a war.
Cabinet Commitee on Security recently accorded a one- year extension for the key project, which now is scheduled to be operational by October next year.
The project earlier this year ran into another mishap, when Electronic Corporation of India, which was the prime production agency, was found to have contracted supply of some sub-systems through a blacklisted private concern.
The Defence Ministry had to intervene to cease supply of these sub-systems and make alterantive arrangements.
Another Israeli firm IAI has also been made a co-collaborator in the DRDO's revived prestigious project to develop an indigenous mini airborne early warning and control system.
IAI Elta system is supplying ground based and airborne active phased array radars for the system aimed at undertaking detection of ballistic and cruise missiles.
But, you know, we can't have anything like that because the Democraps don't think it would be fair for us to be able to protect our cities from ICBMs.
Democrap politicians are mostly traitors, and those who vote for them are wholly stupid and/or ignorant.
Hear that sound? It is the sound of the US losing its technological military superiority, largely due to schools that teach "self-esteem" and indoctrinate liberalism rather than teach math and science.
PS Wonder if India would sell a few to us?
Countries like India just can't develop weapons like this faster because it always gives greater importance to the kind of people your picture shows..Unlike others which shove people off it's streets to shown an Olympic inspection team around.
That's it. I'm taking my camel and leaving town.
Sounds like they got some "Arrow" technology from the Israelis.
Does it make you feel better if you could laugh people who are less fortunate than you ? Do you also take time to laugh at people who are missing limbs or have genetic defects ?
If that is so, I cant discuss much with you.
But if it isnt so, I'd like to remind you that humiliating an entire nation and her people for the presence of poverty is exactly similar to your logic.
India has a long way to go before it gets on par with USA.. everyone knows that and you arent the first to recognize it.. but its making substantial effort to escape the situation.
And please dont forget that we are one of the handful of democracies in Asia. And most Indian people are definitely NOT anti-American, a fact I hope you atleast acknowledge, if not appreciate.
Its up to you to judge if they still merit such brutal criticism and ridicule on account of poverty of some of their countrymen, while their scientific and technical mettle are callously disregarded and blatantly trivialized.
Chill Desi, Don Rickles is on his way.
loser...
Is that your childhood photograph?
If so.... dont be ashamed of it.
After Katrina, glass houses and all dude.
Wanna see some pictures of inner city Detroit, Camden or even DC.
You know you can have fun by not being insulting.
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