{"id":34452,"date":"2022-11-03T12:47:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34452"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T08:27:26","slug":"india-successfully-tests-ballistic-missile-defence-interceptor-capable-of-neutralising-long-range-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/india-successfully-tests-ballistic-missile-defence-interceptor-capable-of-neutralising-long-range-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"India Successfully Tests Ballistic Missile Defence Interceptor Capable of Neutralising Long-Range Adversary Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in Today\u2019s Article:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India\u2019s Ballistic Missile Defence System<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>India conducted the first successful flight test of the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor missile from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>India\u2019s Ballistic Missile Defence programme<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) programme aims to provide an air-defence shield from all types of hostile missiles, even the nuclear ones.<\/li>\n<li>DRDO is developing a two-tier BMD system to provide a multi-layered shield against ballistic missile attacks.<\/li>\n<li>The two-tier system is intended to destroy an incoming missile, at a higher altitude, in the exo-atmosphere and if that miscarries, an endo-atmospheric interception will take place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Two-tires of BMD system<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prithvi Air Defence (PAD) missile<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This can intercept and destroy missiles at exo-atmospheric altitudes of 50\u2013180 kilometres.<\/li>\n<li>It is based on the Prithvi missile. Pradyumna Ballistic Missile Interceptor is going to replace the Prithvi air defence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advanced Air Defence (AAD) Missile<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The second layer is Advanced Air Defence (AAD) Missile for lower altitude interception.<\/li>\n<li>This is designed to knock down hostile missiles in the endo-atmosphere at altitudes of 15-40 kilometres.\n<ul>\n<li>Akash Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAM) is part of AAD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Origin and current status<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The development of anti-ballistic missiles is said to have started by the DRDO around the 2000s in view of the development of ballistic assets by Pakistan and China.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>phase-1<\/strong>\u00a0of the programme is said to have been completed towards the end of 2010s\n<ul>\n<li>The government, however, has so far refrained from sanctioning the full-scale operational deployment of this system at any vital location.<\/li>\n<li>This could be due to the high costs involved, or even strategic calculations that it may provoke Pakistan to go in for a larger nuclear arsenal and countermeasures to defeat the BMD system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The second phase of this programme focuses on the development of anti-ballistic defence systems like the US\u2019s Theatre High-Altitude Area Defence system, which can neutralise intermediate-range ballistic missiles.\n<ul>\n<li>DRDO had also planned to develop two new ballistic missiles, namely\u00a0<strong>AD-1 and AD-2,<\/strong>\u00a0in phase 2 of the missile shield development.<\/li>\n<li>The AD-1 and AD-2 interceptors can engage intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) \/ intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Other missiles boosting India\u2019s defence capabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India also conducted its first successful anti-satellite (ASAT) test, under Mission Shakti in March 2019.<\/li>\n<li>India is also getting the Russian S-400 Triumf air defence system.\n<ul>\n<li>S-400 Triumf is one of the world&#8217;s most advanced air defence systems that can simultaneously track numerous incoming objects and neutralise them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Recently, the first deliverable firing unit of Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (MRSAM) system was handed over to Indian Air Force.\n<ul>\n<li>It provides a point and area air defence for ground assets against a wide range of threats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>With the induction of\u00a0Indian naval ship Dhruv,\u00a0<strong>the nuclear missile tracking ship<\/strong>, Indian joins an elite group of countries like the US, Russia, China, UK and France to have such capability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India conducted a critical test to validate and showcase its ballistic missile defence (BMD) capabilities to intercept long-range missiles.<\/li>\n<li>The long-range interceptor missile, called AD-1, was successfully tested by the DRDO.\n<ul>\n<li>The AD-II, which is capable of neutralising missiles of even higher ranges, is also said to be under development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>AD-1 (Air Defence)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>The missile is propelled by a two-stage solid motor and equipped with an indigenously developed advanced control system and a navigation and guidance algorithm.\n<ul>\n<li>These algorithms precisely guide the vehicle to the targets that move at very high speeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DRDO conducted a successful maiden flight-test of Phase-II Ballistic Missile 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