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Monday, December 7, 2009

Air defence

Air defence

India's Advanced Air Defense (AAD) interceptor missile
9K22 Tunguska.
Anti-ballistic missile
Surface to air missile Systems
  • Akash- 2 Squadrons are being inducted right now
  • SA-6 Gainful- The Indian Army has sought to upgrade its SA-6 Kvadrat and SA-8 Missile systems whilst the Akash gets ready. The Indian magazine "Strategic Affairs " (No. 0011/ Issue: December 16) noted: "Poland has won an order worth $200 m from India to upgrade 100 Kvadrat (SA6) and 50 OSA-AKM (SA8) mobile surface to air missiles. The contract made public in August, is to be completed by 2002. The upgrades include integration of new radars, communications and control systems, improvements to the launch vehicle including new power packs. The Kvadrat upgrade includes new electronics for better electronic counter measures, passive infra-red search and track sensors."
  • SA-10 [9]
  • Trishul- Under Trials. Due to delays in the Trishul missile program the OSA-AKM / SA-8b Gecko air defence systems are being upgraded. Cancelled due to cost of production.[10]
  • SA-8 Gecko- In Service
  • SA-13 Gopher- In Service
MANPADS
Air Defense Artillery

Surface to surface missiles

BrahMos at the Indian Republic Day Parade
  • BrahMos Land Attack Cruise Missile- In Service [12][13]
  • Prithvi-I Short Range Ballistic Missile (150 km) - In Service
  • Prithvi II 250 km range with a payload of 500 kg- In Service
  • Agni-I Medium Range Ballistic Missile (700 km)- In Service
  • Agni-II Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (2000 - 2500 km)- In Service
  • Agni-III IRBM (3500 km)- Ready for induction
  • Agni-V ICBM (5000-6,000 km)-Under Development.[14]

Non-combat vehicles

[edit] Engineering Vehicles

  • Bridge Layer Tank using a T-72 chassis and Kartik Armoured Bridgelayer on a Vijayanta chassis - armoured vehicle-launched bridges
  • Multi-Hop and Extended Span Assault Bridges on T-72 chassis
  • Sarvatra - 8x8 truck-mounted bridging system
  • VT-72B ARV (200+) and WZT-3 ARV (124, 228 to be delivered by 2007) - armoured recovery vehicle replacing the Vijayanta ARV
  • BMP-2 Armoured Amphibious Dozer and Engineer Reconnaissance Vehicle (AERV) & AAD

Mine protected vehicles

  • Casspir - (165 In Service) mine protected vehicles
  • CVRDE MPV Type I- Heavy armour and Type- II for Light armour (300 in service)

Logistic vehicles


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