Indian Anti Satellite Missile

India is developing a multi layered and multi phased missile defence system to defend against hostile ballistic and cruise missiles the exo atmospheric interceptors meant to be used against icbms which have lofted trajectories and fly at high altitudes can also be used to intercept.

Indian anti satellite missile. Several nations possess operational asat systems. Pm modi called this is as an. The indian anti satellite asat program utilized spin off technologies from indian abm systems. Prime minister narendra modi on wednesday announced the successful test of the anti satellite asat missile in space under three minutes named mission shakti.

India is only the 4th country to acquire such a specialised and modern capability and entire effort is indigenous. Although no asat system has yet been utilised in warfare a few nations have shot down their own satellites to demonstrate their asat capabilities in a show of force only the united states russia china and india. Mission shakti was carried out from drdo s testing range in odisha s balasore. Indian prime minister narendra modi announced the nation completed a successful test fire of its first anti satellite launch missile dubbed mission shakti on wednesday mar.

The missile travelled a distance of almost 300 km from earth and hit the target within three minutes of its launch pm modi said in a rare televised declaration of new military. As part of the mission an anti satellite a sat weapon was launched and targeted an indian satellite which had been decommissioned. Tested its first anti satellite missile in 1959 when the space lanes were mostly empty. This was corroborated by drdo which said that the indian ballistic missile defense program can incorporate anti satellite weapon development.

Anti satellite weapons asat are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic military purposes. Russia followed suit in the late 1960s and early 1970s but after the end of the cold war space. India s unexpected launch of an anti satellite missile test this week sparked surprise and some alarm among international and aerospace industry experts. India s anti satellite missile test created at least 400 pieces of orbital debris the head of nasa says placing the international space station iss and its astronauts at risk.