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India starts the first step to create a nuclear missile shield to provide security cover of New Delhi.

| 2015
Defence & Security News - India
 
India starts the first step to create a nuclear missile shield to provide security cover of New Delhi.
India starts the first step for a nuclear missile shield to New Delhi, a security cover as the cities of Beijing and Washington. Two long-range missile-tracking radars have been placed in the national capital region. When completed, the shield will be able to intercept missiles fired from as far as 5,000 km away.
     
India starts the first step for a nuclear missile shield to New Delhi, a security cover as the cities of Beijing and Washington. Two long-range missile-tracking radars have been placed in the national capital region. When completed, the shield will be able to intercept missiles fired from as far as 5,000 km away. Agni-V ntercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India.
     
Major cities around the world such as Washington, Beijing, Paris, London and Tel Aviv all have missile shields.
 

India's missile shield programme has fallen behind over the past two years. The programme started in real earnest in 2006 and 2009-12 saw many tests. However, say senior officials, 2013 and 2014 were lull years for the programme. There was a failed test in April 2014.

Officials said the Indian government had ordered a major acceleration of the missile shield programme immediately after coming to power last May. Placing the long-range radars — Swordfish, developed with Israeli assistance, and capable of tracking incoming missiles from a range of 800 km — is a first big step that will be followed by placing missile interceptor units by 2016.

Missile tests will be held regularly, officials said. Next Monday will see an air defence missile test from Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast. Wheeler Island is India's main missile testing location.

The missile shield system will require several dozen missiles to be produced annually in the first phase. Missile defence systems in India use both long- and short range interceptors. Officials said India was better prepared in developing short-range interceptor missiles. The long range system will require more tests.

A major project cleared by the Indian government in its first months in power was to approve setting up a $1-billion facility in DRDO to manufacture vital seeker systems. Seeker systems direct missiles in the final phase of targeting. The facility, expected to come up near Hyderabad, is critical for missile shield.
 

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