Yes but it does not decelerate from Mach 12 to Mach 2 or Mach 5. Within 30km of Earth's atmosphere is still above 100km. But to cut a long story short, this was an SRBM intercept, not an MRBM intercept.
Here is link to say that it is 1500km range:
India successfully test-fires supersonic interceptor missile off Odisha's coast - Rediff.com India News
The speed at 15km for 1500km missile can be found in research papers about BMD technology.
Okay but that's endo-atmospheric, any video.
It'll be a couple of Mach below its peak speed. There's hardly any air above 20km.
There is air from Mesosphere (90km) onwards which offer significant resistance. The air resistance drastically increases in stratosphere at 60km where air becomes dense. 20km is the height of troposphere, bottom most layer of atmosphere. The meteors are burnt up in mesosphere zone which shows the air resistance here.
Here is the video of an older intercept of AAD:
Yes, but we are not sure of the speed of incoming warhead or the difficulty level. PDV has not received much of testing which shows that it may not have been developing as intended. So, as of now, PDV is not to be considered as a success story
PDV is considered a success story. That's why they are now working out the LSP details.
Meteors are fricking huge though and travelling at many dozens of Mach or even 100+ Mach. A warhead by comparison is very small and slick.
I appreciate the sentiment, but honestly I'm probably going to leave internet forums for good by the end of the year. I don't have the same levels of motivation to discuss, argue or share info with others that I did when I first started out. It's just become a source of anxiety for me at a time when I have too much going on at work, raising a child (and likely having another in the near future) and needing to focus on other aspects of my life that forums are taking to much time away from, even with only one or two posts a day. Heck, I don't even have the same interest in updating the threads that have been the primary reason I've been around on forums for so long:
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So while I very much appreciate that I've been able to be a source of info, entertainment and quality here, I'm not likely to stick around too much longer. I've just too much going on elsewhere that needs my attention in its fullest.
There will be more forums, more advancement in technology, more debates/arguments....this will be a never ending process. Focus on your priorities and the knowledge you have shared so far is here to stay. Thank you and Good Luck with everything you aim to achieve.
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Yes entirely and not only that, Chinese operate S-400 also. They know everything about this system. THAAD is something which neither chinese nor Russians have a clue about and that is the reason for emergency purchase of it. US can sell stuff on emergency basis to its major allies without the permission of Senate and take the approval later citing operational requirements. AND they do not need to position their own operators if the agreement for protection of IPR is signed between two nations. India signed it an year back if my memory serves me right.
Thankyou sir. So if Chinese knew everything about it then they must have shared their knowledge with Pakistan too. Isn't this fact make the S400 a worthless purchase???
Sir, but haven't we already paid for S400 which would be delivered in the next few years? If yes, are we looking at using S400 against Pakistan and THAAD against China? In my opinion, this is highly unlikely.
Lastly. even if such a thing happens, is it even possible to integrate both the systems together into our integrated air defense network?
S 400 is an anti aircraft weapon. it's utility against BMs are limited, it's even inferior to PAC-3 SAM system.
THAAD on the other hand is pure terminal BMD system design to tackle manuvering RVs.
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This man even had problems with the best ever crafted defence deal in the history of defence deals by India. The deal for Rafales. He simply cannot seem to get hold of things here.
Just like our flankers aint the same, so will be the S400 systems.
Sharing the knowledge with Pakistanis? About what? How many wheels does the trucks have?
Pakistanis have had vigorously tested Rafales way before us. Knowing and having two capabilities are two different things.
Please my posts on this topic on relevent thread. I did not like this deal. Russians somehow manged to hoodwink us into believing that S-400 they will supply to us will be superior to chinese stuff.
Saving grace for us is Israeli systems which have blown holes thru Russian stuff repeatedly and our IAF operates with them with even Israeli AF pilots operating with IAF.