In the screenshot I posted if you minus all other orders with total order(5198.10 crores), then the rest amount is around 358 crores. Yes, we won't get 100 missiles, may 10 or 20 or 30 max. But in my opinion this is LSP and this year they would ramp up production. The screenshot was of last financial years' order log.
There's nothing in print. Right now, the best clue is missile tests were not conducted from test rigs, but from actual tactical vehicles painted in geography-specific camo.
It doesn't get any more obvious than this, mate, they are obviously user tests. In fact, the second truck is used to carry Prahar too.
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Anyway, 2020.
Asked if the shield is not meant for Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, the top government official quoted above said, “BMD is for Delhi. It is up to the government to decide which other cities will get it.”India’s ballistic missile shield ready, IAF & DRDO to seek govt nod to protect Delhi
BMD programme envisaged for Delhi. This, along with the Russian S-400 Triumf air defence system, aims to secure India from all kinds of incoming missiles.
It's part of the Delhi Defence Plan, for now. Approval in 2020, with production in 2021 would mean some amount of inductions by now, not counting test articles that can be operationalised due to the emergency situation.
That analogy fits combo of earlier pre-production AAD/PAD.
I don't know why you are getting high, when our politician getting billion dollar private jet & while IAF is crying for AWACS, you guys were sleeping. Then why now?
There is no BMD shield in the world that would be validated based on surrogate testing alone. That's good enough for proofs of concept, but not much else.
U.S. Successfully Conducts SM-3 Block IIA Intercept Test Against an Intercontinental Balli
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS John Finn intercepted and destroyed a threat-representative Intercontinental Ballistic Missile target during a flight testwww.defense.gov
There's a reason we went for actual HTK against a satellite instead of resorting to a simple Point-in-Space test (which btw would have been so much easier to explain away at the international stage). If you want hard data on which operational systems can be built, you need to do real world testing.
You can bet there will be Pralay & Agni-series TGT missiles being shot out of the sky by AD-1 and AD-2 in the years to come. That's real capability demonstration.
The Americans test their BMD using a surrogate missile.
The U.S. on Tuesday test-fired its THAAD anti-ballistic missile system from Alaska that successfully intercepted a target missile launched from an Air Force Cargo plane north of Hawaii.US successfully tests THAAD missile system amid North Korean tensions
The U.S. on Tuesday test fired its THAAD anti-ballistic missile system from Alaska that successfully intercepted a target missile launched from an Air Force Cargo plane north of Hawaii.www.foxnews.com
Never heard of an ICBM launched from a C-17.
THAAD isn't meant to intercept ICBMs and they never claimed it was.
"THAAD defends against short, medium, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles"
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)
Experience the combat-proven THAAD, a top missile interceptor, protecting against ballistic threats with unmatched effectiveness.www.lockheedmartin.com
IRBMs is as high as it goes - and that's what the missile launched from C-17's cargo hold was, a solid-fuel IRBM class target missile built by OSC, Northrop & Orbital ATK (bottom row, second from right):
Pegasus (Orion-50) Family
Gunter's Space Page - Information on Launch vehicles, Satellites, Space Shuttle and Astronauticsspace.skyrocket.de
(It was either that or Northrop's own IRBM class target which is also of similar dimensions)
THAAD is a terminal-stage interceptor so the type of launch platform hardly matters - its just the kinematics of the missile during its terminal stage (where it's just the RV tumbling toward target) that matter.
Yeah it was likely this:
ICBM-T2
The ICBM-T2 three stage launch vehicle is based likely on a Trident-C4 stage one and two Pegasus-based stages for simulating ICBM warheads for MDA.
Using a Trident-I ICBM boost stage, it can perhaps simulate too well missiles like the DF-31 or JL-2, which are among the longest-ranged types that an AEGIS ship would likely be tasked to intercept during ascent phase.
They didn't test against a 300-km ATACMS and claim it was representative of a Chinese/Russian IRBM or ICBM - which would have been akin to what we're doing.
Interesting, so the same rules don't apply to a DRDO made target missile? You're saying a target missile intercepted at MRBM height isn't an MRBM class target?
And does DRDO claiming AAD and PDV have been designed to defeat all SRBM/MRBMs also not count?
That ICBM thing was from your link. And the Pegasus target missile is meant for their GBI tests. You forget that the US does not possess MRBMs or IRBMs, they need to use test missiles.
Anyway this is what Israel uses for their tests.
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Black and Blue Sparrows simulate SRBMs, while Silver Sparrow simulates MRBMs, particularly the Shahab-3 family with a range up to 2000Km. The Silver Sparrow is launched by a C-130.
Unlike the Americans and Israelis who use an aircraft to launch their target missile, our target missile takes off from the ground. What really matters is the final stage, the reentry vehicle. And DRDO's target missile comes in various configurations necessary to simulate different SR and MRBMs. DRDO's target missile is far more capable than the Silver Sparrow due to the need to simulate missiles up to 3000Km.
