It's still an unclear statement. India has operational capability or has capability to develop, both mean different things.
To stop all kinds of ICBMs, even future ones, we need the ability to reach up to 2500Km. ASAT will have to be further developed to reach this capability.
We don't know it's true potential yet such large missile with huge KV should travel further.
I still believe AD 2 will be our mid course interceptor.
I don't want to speculate because I don't really know.
Maybe AD-2 will replace ASAT, maybe it's just an upgrade over the PDV. No clue.
Its heavy,because your missile technology & fuel grain quality is not as good as that of NATO, china & Russia. There is no room for conspiracy theory on our missile range, who wants to announce your strategic weapon delivery mechanism's range as low? No one.
India today successfully conducted maiden Flight Test of Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor AD-1 missile with large kill altitude bracket today from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha.
That fin section at the end looks familiar,
could we slightly modify it and turn into a long range sam variant? like 150km+
could we slightly modify it and turn into a long range sam variant? like 150km+
We have a 150km SAM (derived from Barak 8) and a 250km SAM (dervied from AAD) already under development known as LR-SAM and XR-SAM.
We had a requirement of 12 regiments of S400 type systems. We will order 7 regiments of this combo once they complete the development.
Press Release
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted a successful maiden flight-test of Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor AD-1 missile with large kill altitude bracket from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on November 02, 2022. The flight-test was carried out with participation of all BMD weapon system elements located at different geographical locations.
The AD-1 is a long-range interceptor missile designed for both low exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric interception of long-range ballistic missiles as well as aircraft. It is propelled by a two-stage solid motor and equipped with indigenously-developed advanced control system, navigation and guidance algorithm to precisely guide the vehicle to the target.
During the flight-test, all the sub-systems performed as per expectations and were validated by the data captured by a number of range sensors including Radar, Telemetry and Electro Optical Tracking stations deployed to capture the flight data.
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh congratulated DRDO and other teams associated with successful flight trial of AD-1. He termed it as a unique type of interceptor with advanced technologies available with a very few nations in the world. He exuded confidence that it will further strengthen the country’s BMD capability to the next level.
Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman, DRDO Dr Samir V Kamat congratulated his team on the successful trial, stating that this interceptor will provide great operational flexibility to the users and having capability to engage many different types of targets.
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DRDO conducts successful maiden flight-test of Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence interceptor off Odisha coast
Posted On: 02 NOV 2022 6:20PM by PIB DelhiDefence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted a successful maiden flight-test of Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor AD-1 missile with large kill altitude bracket from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on November 02, 2022. The flight-test was carried out with participation of all BMD weapon system elements located at different geographical locations.
The AD-1 is a long-range interceptor missile designed for both low exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric interception of long-range ballistic missiles as well as aircraft. It is propelled by a two-stage solid motor and equipped with indigenously-developed advanced control system, navigation and guidance algorithm to precisely guide the vehicle to the target.
During the flight-test, all the sub-systems performed as per expectations and were validated by the data captured by a number of range sensors including Radar, Telemetry and Electro Optical Tracking stations deployed to capture the flight data.
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh congratulated DRDO and other teams associated with successful flight trial of AD-1. He termed it as a unique type of interceptor with advanced technologies available with a very few nations in the world. He exuded confidence that it will further strengthen the country’s BMD capability to the next level.
Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman, DRDO Dr Samir V Kamat congratulated his team on the successful trial, stating that this interceptor will provide great operational flexibility to the users and having capability to engage many different types of targets.
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2 things can be guessed.
Low Exo Atmospheric.
I might be off, but what I remember from geography Exosphere starts from somewhere like 500km altitude.
Low exo atmospheric should mean like 350km altitude at the very minimum.
Rest we don't know anything.
The length can be estimated by the length of flatbed of Tata 10x10. That I leave to someone else.
We don't have anything as such. It's a seperate Israeli program. We are not partner in it.