New Delhi: India has claimed to have developed a missile defence shield which can be put in place at short notice to protect at least two cities, however the two places have not yet been identified.
“The ballistic missile defence shield is now mature… We are ready to put phase-I in place and it can be put in very short time,” DRDO chief V.K. Saraswat told PTI in New Delhi in an interview.
He said the shield, as part of phase one of the programme, can be put in place at two places in the country, where the infrastructure is available.
The shield, developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, has been tested successfully and an incoming ballistic missile with the range of up to 2,000 km can be destroyed. The system is to be upgraded to the range of 5,000 km by 2016.
Talking about the advancement of the system, Mr. Saraswat said the missile defence shield has been “automated” to an extent where human intervention would be required only if the mission has to be aborted.
The DRDO chief said the Indian missile defence system is comparable with the U.S. Patriot 3 system, which was successfully used during the 1990 Gulf War against Iraq.
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