{"id":393585,"date":"2010-03-05T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.armscontrolwonk.com,2010-03-05:57f256023a9af1385990be02cc9db91e\/8877762d684cf2f76d403a64baf2f44a"},"modified":"2010-03-05T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T20:08:10","slug":"india-to-conduct-hit-to-kill-test-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393585","title":{"rendered":"India To Conduct Hit-to-Kill Test [7]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update | 8 March 2010<\/strong> Well, damn. That story is dated March 4, 2009<\/em>. My parents used to get the year wrong when I was a kid. I’d roll my eyes and they warned me that it would happen to me someday. Wow.<\/p>\n

India is planning a test of its hit-to-kill<\/a> theater missile defense system:<\/p>\n

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The launch will feature two missiles. The \u201cenemy\u201d missile will be a modified version of Dhanush, a surface-to-surface missile. It will take off from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal and simulate the terminal phase of the flight of a ballistic missile with a range of 1,500 km, similar to Pakistan\u2019s Ghauri. As it zeroes in on the Wheeler Island, off Damra village on the Orissa coast, a Prithvi Air Defence (PAD<\/span>) missile will lift off from the Wheeler Island, intercept the incoming \u201cenemy\u201d missile at an altitude of 70-80 km in the last one second and a half of its flight and pulverise it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Loyal readers will know that the rapid proliferation of hit-to-kill technologies, and the total neglect of this development, is one of my hobby horses<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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First, once uncommon hit-to-kill technologies are now at the early stages of spreading around the world. Second, the broad focus on space weapons and ASAT<\/span> technologies, many of which are quite unrealistic and exotic, distracts from the technological challenge posed by the proliferation of hit-to-kill systems. Third, partial arms control measures, such as a ban on kinetic ASAT<\/span> testing, may mitigate the most threatening aspects of hit-to-kill technology while avoiding some of the difficulties associated with more comprehensive agreements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Update | 8 March 2010 Well, damn. That story is dated March 4, 2009. My parents used to get the year wrong when I was a kid. I’d roll my eyes and they warned me that it would happen to me someday. Wow. India is planning a test of its hit-to-kill theater missile defense system: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}