India Closer to War with Pakistan backed by China
In his Independence
Day speech, Prime
Minister Modi
announced that India will have a
sudarian chakra by 2035.
In other words, in 10 years, India will
have, according to the Prime Minister,
an impregnable shield across it entire
airspace
catering for all the aerial threats
coming from Pakistan and China. And the
threats would be in the form of drones,
aircraft and all the landbased missiles
with the two countries.
Now this is a big deal and especially
when the prime ministermakes a
statement like this from the ramparts of
the red fort, it means that this project
has been cleared and the funding has
been provided.
Essentially what the prime minister said
in technical terms was that in 10 years
India will have its own indigenous
ballistic missile defense system
covering the entire airspace of India
and there is no doubt that this idea to
the prime minister was given by Dr.
Vijay Saraswat.
Now Saraswat was the DRDO chief from
2009 to 2013
and at present he's the member NITI
Aayok.
Now the high point of Saraswat's four
years tenure as the DRDO chief was to do
an excellent public relation work in
popularizing the idea of this indigenous
ballistic missile defense system
something that he did not initiate.
This system was conceived in 1995
by the then DRDO chief Abdul Kalam. But
once Kalam retired his successors
just shoved this project till Saraswat
came in the chair and he popularized
this project. So the first point to make
is that what the prime minister
announced
from the ramparts of the red fort is a
technology
30 years old and in those 30 years the
technology has moved rapidly and more
more than that
the PLA today is at the cutting edge of
modern warfare. This has to be kept in
mind. But coming to Saraswat as I said
he popularized this he gave so many
interviews to the media that he came to
be known as the ballistic missile
defense man in the media.
Now he met me
also for a very longish interview rather
interaction in February 2010 in his
office in the DRDO complex
where for over 2 hours he painstakingly
tried to explain me how this whole
project ballistic
missile defense will
ha pen in two phases.
In phase one, he said that the DRDO was
looking at the hostile missiles from
Pakistan with a maximum range of 2,000 kilometers,ballistic missiles.
And this for this he said the
interceptors, the missiles which will
intercept the hostile missiles, they
will be ready by 2011.
Reviewed by World News
on
August 16, 2025
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