Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme

India gets constantly attacked and mocked. They are finally developing serious power. They started late but better than never. Gotta start somewhere.

TMA1 wrote:India gets constantly attacked and mocked. They are finally developing serious power. They started late but better than never. Gotta start somewhere.

Delivery of S-400 has been affected adversely due to the conflict in Ukraine. So far only two S-400 regiments have arrived and those that are arriving are devoid of several sub systems.

So the only alternative left was to fast track the homegrown BMD programme.

I doubt the war will substantially delay the delivery of export S-400 systems since thus far they do not seem to be using the system all that much and they have lost none of their own units. At worst the missile factory might be busy making missiles for the conflict but I doubt the war would cause impacts on delivery of the vehicles themselves. Typically the vehicles and missiles are delivered separately to begin with.

Today, India conducted maiden flight trial of a sea based endo-atmospheric interceptor aka AD1. Test was carried out from INS Anvesh which is part of DRDO's open sea test range (along with INS Dhruv) & has 4 ship launch systems (SLS) for launching AD1 & AD2 interceptors.

Open sea test range allows for testing against real IRBM/ICBM class targets without any constraints vis a vis trajectory, re entry speed etc

(e.g no need to use a SRBM as a target to stimulate a MRBM class target)