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India readies propulsion system design for new cruise missile
New Delhi, Feb 11 (PTI) India has completed the
propulsion system design of its new cruise missile 'Nirbhay'
which will have a strike range of 800 kms, Defence Research
and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief V K Saraswat has
said.
"The development of the system is on. We have completed
the propulsion system's design. But we have not integrated it.
Once we reach the integration stage, we will show it you," he
told reporters here Wednesday night.
Saraswat said the missile is a technology demonstrator.
India already has in its arsenal 'BrahMos', a 300-km
range cruise missile developed in collaboration with Russia.
It has various versions for use by all the three wings of the
armed forces.
Saraswat said the country is also gearing to test its
its indigenous Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) shield in near
future, a programme, he claimed, is more sophisticated than
the Chinese one.
"This is one area where we are senior to China," he said
when asked to compare Indian BMD programme with that of China,
which carried out its first test-firing on January 14.
He was addressing a press conference on the recent test
firing of Agni-III missile, which has strike range of 3500
kms and is now ready for induction in the armed forces.
Asked why Pakistan never reported any failures in its
missile test programme, Saraswat said, "That is the difference
between the democratic India and Pakistan."
He said that even when the US, with its large
technological base, started testing its BMD, seven out of 14
tests had failed consecutively.
The DRDO Chief said that though China had tested its BMD
capabilities just recently, India knew about it after they
carried out the A-SAT test in 2007. Prior to it, the Chinese
missile programme was kept under the wraps, he said.
He said the Indian programme had started in 2006 and had
60-70 per cent indigenous content in it.
Saraswat said Indian BMD development programme would have
two phases.
"In the first phase, which goes upto 2,000 km range, we
will carry out exo-atmospheric, endo-atmospheric and high
altitude interceptions and in the second phase, we will take
care of targets beyond 5,000 km range."
On the dates of test of the BMD shield, he said it was
expected to be carried out within this month. PTI AJD
AHM
propulsion system design of its new cruise missile 'Nirbhay'
which will have a strike range of 800 kms, Defence Research
and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief V K Saraswat has
said.
"The development of the system is on. We have completed
the propulsion system's design. But we have not integrated it.
Once we reach the integration stage, we will show it you," he
told reporters here Wednesday night.
Saraswat said the missile is a technology demonstrator.
India already has in its arsenal 'BrahMos', a 300-km
range cruise missile developed in collaboration with Russia.
It has various versions for use by all the three wings of the
armed forces.
Saraswat said the country is also gearing to test its
its indigenous Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) shield in near
future, a programme, he claimed, is more sophisticated than
the Chinese one.
"This is one area where we are senior to China," he said
when asked to compare Indian BMD programme with that of China,
which carried out its first test-firing on January 14.
He was addressing a press conference on the recent test
firing of Agni-III missile, which has strike range of 3500
kms and is now ready for induction in the armed forces.
Asked why Pakistan never reported any failures in its
missile test programme, Saraswat said, "That is the difference
between the democratic India and Pakistan."
He said that even when the US, with its large
technological base, started testing its BMD, seven out of 14
tests had failed consecutively.
The DRDO Chief said that though China had tested its BMD
capabilities just recently, India knew about it after they
carried out the A-SAT test in 2007. Prior to it, the Chinese
missile programme was kept under the wraps, he said.
He said the Indian programme had started in 2006 and had
60-70 per cent indigenous content in it.
Saraswat said Indian BMD development programme would have
two phases.
"In the first phase, which goes upto 2,000 km range, we
will carry out exo-atmospheric, endo-atmospheric and high
altitude interceptions and in the second phase, we will take
care of targets beyond 5,000 km range."
On the dates of test of the BMD shield, he said it was
expected to be carried out within this month. PTI AJD
AHM
