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Officials familiar with the matter told ET placing the radars is the beginning of an accelerated process in creating a missile cover for major Indian cities.

NEW DELHI: Modi Sarkar has taken the first real step in giving India's capital city, Delhi, a security cover that cities such as Beijing and Washington already have — a

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. 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. Senior

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officials familiar with the matter told ET placing the radars is the beginning of an accelerated process in creating a missile cover for major Indian cities. The next Indian city to be covered is

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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 Modi 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.

Officials say the Modi government's view is that given the growing sophistication of nuclear arsenal in India's neighbourhood, the lack of a missile defence system was a major security gap. The missile shield is even more critical for India given its 'no first use' policy for nuclear weapons, a doctrine that Pakistan doesn't follow.

A major project cleared by the Modi government in its first months in power was to approve setting up a $1-billion facility in

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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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Escorted from a collapsing city by Indian Navy commandos to India's most armed warship. Now, *there's* an experience.

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den: Terrified kids, senior citizens with medical needs, many now on board warship INS Mumbai, navy taking care.

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aksha said:

INS Mumbai's

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off Aden harbour

Navy transporting people from Aden, where war-like sit prevails, in smaller vessels to INS Mumbai

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aksha said:

this is interestng
why on earth do we need to make frigates by ToT?

for experience develoopement of pvt shipyards???

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Jeff Head said:

The quote in the article is from the Indian Defense Minister, Manohar Parrikar, where he expressed interest in considering Soryu-class diesel-electric submarines.

Now, he may be saying this in order to gain leverage with French, or to put pressure on domestic industries... but with the Indian Defense Minister involved in the statements, I would say that it is not just journalistic hot air.

Bose, you are relatively new here on SD. I would recommend you read the Forum Rules and be careful about characterizing other posters in such a fashion.

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Bose said:

See the first ship from left in the background....am I seeing a carrier?
The raised bow and big island resemble that of INS Vikramaditya...

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India evacuates 439 nationals from Aden to warship off Yemeni coast

NEW DELHI, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Amidst heavy shelling in the Yemeni port Aden, India evacuated on Saturday 439 of its nationals to the naval ship INS Mumbai anchored off the coast by ferrying the people in small batches on boat to the ship, said the Indian navy.

India has also helped pull out some nationals from Bangladesh, Djibouti, Nepal, Pakistan and Uganda from the strife-torn country, according to the ministry of external affairs.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted Saturday night: "There is heavy shelling in Aden. The ship is anchored 5/6 KM off the coast. Indian nationals are being taken by boat to board the ship there."

The external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin also tweeted: "Precious cargo. INS Mumbai to sail from Aden to Djibouti in pitch darkness with precious cargo of 439 evacuated from Yemen."

Earlier Saturday, about 320 Indians were evacuated by an Indian air force plane from Aden to Djibouti.

A total of 1,800 Indians have been evacuated form Yemen through air and sea so far, since India started its evacuation operation for its stranded nationals over the past several days, according to local media reports.

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test bd said:

Could be..I'd like to see a bigger picture..the article I found stated INS Mumbai was the ship used to evacuate Indian nationals from Yemen.

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Upbeat on the Continuous success of beyond visual range air-to-air Astra missile from fighter aircraft Sukhoi. Sources close to idrw.org have informed that a possible spin of the programme will be to develop Vertical Launch variant of Astra missiles as a short range, ground-based air defence system.

DRDO will officially offer such system to Armed forces which can be used as low-level quick-reaction air defence system based on Astra missiles which will be similar to Rafael supplied Spyder LLQRM systems to Indian air force (IAF).

Sources confirmed that Astra missiles fired from Ground-based launchers in the previous phase of testing had successfully hit Electronic target and it had also validated flight characters of the missile system which clears path to develop a ground-based air defence system.

Ground-based Astra air defence system will provide 360° coverage (vertical launch) and will be Fire-and-Forget system with Interception range up to 20 km. It is still not clear how many missiles can be carried on one launcher, but Missile system can be used to provide defence against a wide range of targets, including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and UAVs said source.

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