All the big countries of the world have ballistic missiles. With which chemical, biological, conventional or nuclear attack can be done. India also has powerful ballistic missiles. Neighbouring enemy countries i.e. China and Pakistan also have these missiles. But to destroy their missile attacks, India has created Brahmastra. Its successful tests have also been done. i.e. Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Interceptor.
The name of this Brahmastra is Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). The interceptor missile used in this is named AD-1. That means now any ballistic missile in the world whose range is more than 5000 kilometers will be destroyed above the atmosphere before it falls on Indian soil.
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Its second test was conducted at Integrated Test Range (ITR) located at Chandipur in Odisha. First, Prithvi-2 ballistic missile was fired as a target missile of the enemy. After this, AD-1 interceptor missile was fired behind this missile. The target missile was fired from Launch Complex-4 Dhamra. While the interceptor missile was fired from Launch Complex-3 ITR.
Ballistic missiles with a range of 5 thousand km will fail
This was the Phase-2 test of this missile. An interceptor missile is a weapon that destroys the enemy’s incoming missile in the air. That is, it intercepts it. After this test, India has now joined the countries that have the power to stop ballistic missiles with a range of 5 thousand kilometers or more. These countries are America, Russia and Israel.
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Now let us understand what is India’s anti-ballistic missile program?
DRDO has created an indigenous anti-ballistic missile program for the country. Radars were made for it. A stockpile of indigenous missiles was created. In the year 2006, India successfully tested PADE i.e. Prithvi Air Defense System. In this, the anti-ballistic missile was called Prithvi Air Defense i.e. PAD.
PAD is an exo-atmospheric interceptor system. That is, the AD-1 interceptor missile will go outside the atmosphere and destroy the enemy missile at an altitude of about 150 kilometers. The second is the endo-atmospheric interceptor system, that is, it destroys the enemy missile at an altitude of 80 kilometers below the atmosphere. India has both these powers.
Advanced Air Defence (AAD) was successfully tested on 6 December 2007. Then the interceptor missile intercepted the target missile at an altitude of 30 kilometres. It was again successfully tested on 27 April 2014. AAD was again successfully tested on 15 May 2016.
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These missiles can be deployed for the security of Delhi and Mumbai
On 8 January 2020, the Indian Air Force and DRDO had appealed to the Government of India to deploy interceptor missiles to protect Delhi and Mumbai from ballistic missile attacks. After providing security cover to these two cities, there is a plan to protect other major cities and areas from these Brahmastras.
Which interceptor systems does the Indian military have?
First… There are two layers of ballistic missile defence. The first is below the atmosphere and the second is above it. That is, missiles that can destroy enemy ballistic missiles with a range of 2000 kilometres at 15 to 25 kilometres above Indian soil and at 80-100 kilometres above it.
Second… Project Kush… means the layer of S-400 acquired from Russia. It has the power to destroy ballistic and cruise missiles at altitudes of 150, 250, 350 and 400 kilometers.
third… Akash NG and Barak-8 missiles can destroy incoming enemy missiles at altitudes of 70, 80 and 100 kilometres.
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Fourth… A layer of Akash missiles with the capability to strike at an altitude of 25 to 30 kilometres.
Fifth… Surface to air gun systems. Like NASAM-2. India has made VL-SRSAM for this. That is Vertical Launch- Short Range Surface to Air Missile.
Sixth… Phase-1 anti-ballistic missile systems are interceptor missiles that can destroy ballistic missiles with a range of 2000 kilometers in the air. In Phase-2, this range increases to 5000 kilometers.