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India's ballistic missile shield ready for deployment: DRDO chief | |
India's ballistic missile defence shield is ready for deployment and it can be put in place at short notice, a top military scientist
said Sunday. "The ballistic missile defense shield is now mature. We are ready
to put phase one in place and it can be put in very short time," the chief of
India 's Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), V.K. Saraswat,
told the media in the national capital. The DRDO has developed the missile shield
and it has been successfully tested on an incoming missile with s range of 2,000
kilometers. The scientist said that as of now the shield can be put in place to
protect at least two cities in the country. "However, the places have not been
identified," he said. The DRDO chief said that in the second phase, the shield
would be capable of intercepting and destroying an incoming missile with a range
of 5,000 kms. "This phase will be ready by 2016," he added.
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