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India is determined to take necessary steps to counter China’s newly developed ability to target satellites through ballistic missiles and is assessing the reported test undertaken by China in this regard.
The country may also see the DRDO and the ISRO collaborating with each other to tackle the new threat. This was conveyed by Senior Adviser to the Defence Minister and chief of the DRDO M Natarajan, who said, “Maybe we need the DRDO to talk to the ISRO”. The DRDO has distanced itself from the ISRO publicly due to technology export constraints from the US.
Mr Natarajan said the test undertaken by China was a matter of concern for the country. He said this was more so because of the reported technology which could disable satellites in space by using the GPS navigation system.
The DRDO chief was responding to reports emanating from the US yesterday which stated that China had killed one of its ageing satellites by using a ground-based ballistic missile. The report was attributed to US spy agencies.
Mr Natarajan said the country still did not have any details of the reported test as China had not confirmed it in the first place. He said they had, however, taken the reports seriously and had started the process of assessing its likely impact on the country as well as the subcontinent.
Meanwhile, in a disclosure, the DRDO chief said the country had made a breakthrough recently in developing technology aimed at intercepting missiles. “One such test undertaken recently was successful”, he said, adding that the test had seen a ballistic missile being intercepted at a height of 50 km. He said following the test, the country had the expertise of continuous monitoring of missiles from the very start of launch. Claiming that this expertise had been developed in-house, he said the entire missile interception programme was being fine-tuned by the DRDO and development of an anti-missile capability was possible in the near future.
Explaining the different nature of the expertise which had been recently acquired by the country in comparison to what China had achieved, he said missiles could be intercepted ballistically but in the case of satellites the same technology could not be used as they were in different orbit.
so it seems that the antisat weapon race has begun.today the all national braodcasting news channels have been broadcasting that india has begun work on a 4-year antisat weapon programme.
The country may also see the DRDO and the ISRO collaborating with each other to tackle the new threat. This was conveyed by Senior Adviser to the Defence Minister and chief of the DRDO M Natarajan, who said, “Maybe we need the DRDO to talk to the ISRO”. The DRDO has distanced itself from the ISRO publicly due to technology export constraints from the US.
Mr Natarajan said the test undertaken by China was a matter of concern for the country. He said this was more so because of the reported technology which could disable satellites in space by using the GPS navigation system.
The DRDO chief was responding to reports emanating from the US yesterday which stated that China had killed one of its ageing satellites by using a ground-based ballistic missile. The report was attributed to US spy agencies.
Mr Natarajan said the country still did not have any details of the reported test as China had not confirmed it in the first place. He said they had, however, taken the reports seriously and had started the process of assessing its likely impact on the country as well as the subcontinent.
Meanwhile, in a disclosure, the DRDO chief said the country had made a breakthrough recently in developing technology aimed at intercepting missiles. “One such test undertaken recently was successful”, he said, adding that the test had seen a ballistic missile being intercepted at a height of 50 km. He said following the test, the country had the expertise of continuous monitoring of missiles from the very start of launch. Claiming that this expertise had been developed in-house, he said the entire missile interception programme was being fine-tuned by the DRDO and development of an anti-missile capability was possible in the near future.
Explaining the different nature of the expertise which had been recently acquired by the country in comparison to what China had achieved, he said missiles could be intercepted ballistically but in the case of satellites the same technology could not be used as they were in different orbit.
so it seems that the antisat weapon race has begun.today the all national braodcasting news channels have been broadcasting that india has begun work on a 4-year antisat weapon programme.