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India Setting up Laser-Based Ballistic Missile Defense System

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According to the newly-appointed Director General of India's Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO), V.K. Saraswat, India's new defense strategy priorities will be cutting-edge technologies that were denied to India by the West, and countering terrorism. The scientist, addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Feb. 20, said that in the next 10 to 15 years, laser technology would be introduced into all Indian weaponry, including tanks, airborne weaponry, and guns.

Last year, when he was still DRDO's Director for the Air Defense Program, Saraswat told reporters that India is working toward developing a laser-based ballistic missile defense system. He expected the system would be in operation within 15 years. He told reporters: "If you have a laser-based system on an airborne or seaborne platform, it can travel at the speed of light, and in a few seconds, we can kill a ballistic missile coming towards us." He said the laser-based interceptor will give "more time" to the BMD system to kill a ballistic missile launched from a distance of 2,000 km.


He pointed out that ballistic missile flight has three segments: At launch it is in the boost phase; in the midcourse phase it reaches the highest point of its trajectory; in the terminal phase, it is coming close to the target on ground. "Suppose a missile is being launched at an Indian target from 2,000 km. If I have to kill it there, I will have to travel that distance, which will require many minutes to be there. If you have a laser system travelling at the speed of light, it can kill that missile in its boost phase (just after launch) even before it has travelled a few hundred km."


India Setting up Laser-Based Ballistic Missile Defense System
 
Its more than a year old news....Feb 20 2010, why are you posting it now ? Already there are threads and our laser tech is way behind. Only by 2020 we can start to see some development on BMD side.
 
just see the US Laser project, which was onboard a 747. Did not work out. India will have it by 2040 at the very least.
 
just see the US Laser project, which was onboard a 747. Did not work out. India will have it by 2040 at the very least.

But by then, the real age of STAR WARS would have come in right time, isn't it? :) So we'd make it in time. Political changes, better management and more cash means we are at a leverage to speed up whenever we wish. Don't worry about our timeline.
 
But by then, the real age of STAR WARS would have come in right time, isn't it? :) So we'd make it in time. Political changes, better management and more cash means we are at a leverage to speed up whenever we wish. Don't worry about our timeline.

But the 2020 timeline is tooooo close. You/China wont even have the stealth A/C fully ready by then.
 
just see the US Laser project, which was onboard a 747. Did not work out. India will have it by 2040 at the very least.

But the 2020 timeline is tooooo close. You/China wont even have the stealth A/C fully ready by then.

15 years in due time we already have LASTEC technology R&D going on since last decade and our lasers do not have to be airborne remember they can be sea borne as well

lol who knows maybe a Indo-Russian MRTA will be modified to carry LASTEC like the Boeing 747 :lol:
 

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