India Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Missile Developments
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Clearly aimed at Chinese spy satellites. If they target ours if push comes to shove we can shoot them down, so it's more of a deterrence.
Little concerning the language used by PM, which conveyed it as a weapon, every other country sugarcoated their ability by saying they targeted scrap satellite to avoid criticism of weaponizing the space and violating the Space treaty but Trump has used even more direct language violating the treaty so I guess not much to worry but some articles are expected against India.
Any information on type of platform used to launch this missile? Was it launched from fighter jet or from ground?
Little concerning the language used by PM, which conveyed it as a weapon, every other country sugarcoated their ability by saying they targeted scrap satellite to avoid criticism of weaponizing the space and violating the Space treaty but Trump has used even more direct language violating the treaty so I guess not much to worry but some articles are expected against India.
Any information on type of platform used to launch this missile? Was it launched from fighter jet or from ground?
Chinese test was at 800-900km and it made huge debris. Ours might get mostly burned up in the atmosphere.
Was waiting to hear this news for a very long time....one more wish fulfilled.
Congrats to everyone.
Congrats to everyone.
We had the tech.... Now we have courage to test..... Good job DRDO
Big deal. I have it on good authority that Pak dude are planning to send first terrorist into space by end of the year. They are overcoming personnel shortages from aerospace engineering bache of of balakot madarsa by identifying high performers of Hafiz Saeed fellowship winners. Said terrorists will carry out important astronomical observations regarding under supply of 27 hoors per jehadi noted in recent years.
Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) Tweeted:
Mark my words, today's successful first ever anti-satellite (ASAT) test by India is in no way of less import than the 1998 nuclear tests conducted in Pokharan.
Which is exactly why I have long advocated a demonstration of this capability. ( )
Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) Tweeted:
Understand the context in which this ASAT test has been conducted. It is no different from the NPT/CTBT noose that the incumbents attempted to put round India's neck in the lead up to 1998. A Space NPT has been in the offing & they were trying to parcel India with it. ( )
Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) Tweeted:
It is precisely to circumvent a space NPT trap that I had been advocating an Indian ASAT test. That has been accomplished today. Hypersonic demonstration tests are also in the offing. This time nobody is in a position to 'tell' India about what it can or cannot have. ( )
Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) Tweeted:
Today's ASAT test & subsequent HSTDV tests will ensure that India is front and center in the negotiations for a Space NPT, which if brought into play will see India have a status analogous to a nuclear weapons state in the nuclear-NPT. ( )
Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) Tweeted:
Today's successful mission is also the culmination of the push given by Dr @VKSaraswat1949 when he was Chairman of @DRDO_India. ( )
Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) Tweeted:
Only those who have demonstrated ASAT capability will sit at the high table of the new Space NPT that is being quietly negotiated. (Saurav Jha on Twitter)
Hit-to-Kill Successfully Demonstrated By DRDO’s PDV Interceptor
Mark my words, today's successful first ever anti-satellite (ASAT) test by India is in no way of less import than the 1998 nuclear tests conducted in Pokharan.
Which is exactly why I have long advocated a demonstration of this capability. ( )
Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) Tweeted:
Understand the context in which this ASAT test has been conducted. It is no different from the NPT/CTBT noose that the incumbents attempted to put round India's neck in the lead up to 1998. A Space NPT has been in the offing & they were trying to parcel India with it. ( )
Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) Tweeted:
It is precisely to circumvent a space NPT trap that I had been advocating an Indian ASAT test. That has been accomplished today. Hypersonic demonstration tests are also in the offing. This time nobody is in a position to 'tell' India about what it can or cannot have. ( )
Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) Tweeted:
Today's ASAT test & subsequent HSTDV tests will ensure that India is front and center in the negotiations for a Space NPT, which if brought into play will see India have a status analogous to a nuclear weapons state in the nuclear-NPT. ( )
Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) Tweeted:
Today's successful mission is also the culmination of the push given by Dr @VKSaraswat1949 when he was Chairman of @DRDO_India. ( )
Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) Tweeted:
Only those who have demonstrated ASAT capability will sit at the high table of the new Space NPT that is being quietly negotiated. (Saurav Jha on Twitter)
Hit-to-Kill Successfully Demonstrated By DRDO’s PDV Interceptor
Been waiting for this day for a decade. Went out shopping with my GF and missed it by a f**k**g hour. F**k, my life.
I was surprised to see Modi addressing the nation to announce this?
How many indians actually understood this new election gimmick?
How many indians actually understood this new election gimmick?
All of us. We are willing to eat fresh cut grass and drink wheatgrass juice but we will destroy the satellites boradcasting saans bahu serials.
It's a matter of national security.
P.s. why do you care so much? It's not like you have satellites worth destroying. Also not your election.