India Cant Intercept China-Pak Hyper Sonic Missiles With S-400 | We Using 30 Years Old Technology

India Cant Intercept China-Pak Hyper Sonic Missiles With S-400 | We Using 30 Years Old Technology

Hello friends, in his Independence Day speech PM Modi announced that India will get a SudarshanChakra by 2035.

In other words according to the PM in the next 10 years India will have an impenetrable shield on its entire air border which will deal with all the aerial threats coming from Pakistan and China.

And these threats will be in the form of drones and all the ground-launched missiles that both the countries have. Now this is a very big deal and especially when the PM makes such a statement from the ramparts of the Red Fort it means that the project has been approved and funding has also been made available for it.

Basically the PM said in technical terms that in the next 10 years India will have its own indigenous ballistic missile defense system which will cover the entire airspace of India and no doubt this idea was given to the PM by Dr. Vijay Sarasat. Now Saraswat was the DRDO chief from 2009 to 2013 and is currently a member of the Niti Aayog.

 

The biggest achievement of Saraswat's 4-year tenure as DRDO chief was that he did a great PR job to popularise the idea of this indigenous ballistic missile defence system.

 

Although he did not initiate it.

 

This system was conceived in 1995 by the then DRDO chief Abdul Kalam.

 

But after Kalam retired, his successors shelved the project. Until Saraswat took over and he popularised the project.

 

So the first thing is that what the Prime Minister announced from the ramparts of the Red Fort is a technology which is 30 years old and in these 30 years the technology has progressed rapidly and more than that today PLI is at the forefront of modern warfare.

This is important to keep in mind.

But coming to Saraswat, as I said, he made it popular.

He gave so many interviews to the media that he became known in the media as the ballistic missile defence man. Now he also gave me a very long interview or rather conversation in February 2010 in his office which was in the DRDO campus.

Where he tried very hard for more than 2 hours to explain to me how this whole ballistic missile defence project would be completed in two phases.

In phase one, he said that DRDO was looking at hostile ballistic missiles with a maximum range of 2000 km coming from Pakistan and for this he said that the interceptors i.e. the missiles which will stop the hostile missiles will be ready by 2011 and these hostile ballistic missiles will be intercepted in two places one within the atmosphere and one in space.

As many would know 100 km is a cutoff line in height above the ground. Below 100 km is atmosphere and above 100 km is space.

So he said these interceptor missiles of two types will be ready by 2011 and by 2013 when he retires he said the whole system will be operational and the whole system means different types of radars mainly of two types one is long range tracking radar which tracks enemy targets and second is fire control radar and along with that command and control centre.

So according to him everything will be operational by 2013 and once he retires his successor will take over the second phase of this project which will focus on enemy missiles with a range of 5000 km. Mainly those which may come from China.

Now when the range of a ballistic missile is more it means that its speed will be more and the altitude will also be very high.

Which means that the tracking radar will have to do tracking at a greater distance.

This is necessary. So for interception also more powerful missiles will be required.

That is interceptor missiles.

And he told me that missiles with 5000 km range will be intercepted at an altitude of 200 km in space.

Which means as I said the CTO is in two kilometers so the interception will be done within the altitude of 100 kilometers in space and then he also said that as India gets satellites and X systems i.e. airborne systems then they will help in tracking because ground based radars can track only up to this distance.

You need aerial and satellites for tracking so that the tracking can be fast because after all the reaction time is very important.

Suppose if an enemy missile is coming from Pakistan towards India, that time will be so short that the reaction time for India will be only a few seconds. So he said all this will be done.

But I expressed many doubts.

Technical doubts, things which obviously I would not like to discuss with Saraswat now.

But Saraswat heard me, did not pay attention to them and simply ignored them.

And as I expected after his retirement this whole project was shelved and now it has been revived by the Prime Minister himself in his Independence Day speech to the country and the world. Now this has happened after Operation Sindoor.

This means whether India can make this ballistic missile defence system or not.

 

Pakistan and China will have to take steps in response to this.

They will not take any risk.

China will also not take any risk