{"id":13666,"date":"2020-02-12T15:20:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T09:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13666"},"modified":"2020-02-12T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T09:50:31","slug":"us-approves-sale-of-integrated-air-defence-weapon-system-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-approves-sale-of-integrated-air-defence-weapon-system-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"US approves sale of Integrated Air Defence Weapon System to India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The US has approved the sale of an Integrated Air Defence Weapon System(IADWS) to India.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Integrated Air Defence Weapon System(IADWS):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Integrated Air Defence Weapon System(IADWS) is also called the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System(NASAMS-II).<\/li><li>It is an upgraded version of the NASAMS developed by the US firm Raytheon in partnership with Kongsberg Defence &amp; Aerospace of Norway.<\/li><li>It is armed with a combination of weapons such as Stinger surface-to-air missiles, AMRAAMS (advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles) backed by three-dimensional Sentinel radars, fire-distribution centres and command-and-control units.<\/li><li>It is part of the air defence network guarding US capital city Washington DC and has also been deployed in several NATO countries.<\/li><li>In India,it will be deployed as a part of a multi-tiered air defence shield to fully secure the airspace of Delhi from Aerial threat.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Multi-Layered Air Defence Shield for NCT of Delhi:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Indian Government has planned to create an ambitious multi-layered missile shield over Delhi to safeguard the capital against aerial threats, ranging from drones to ballistic missiles.<\/li><li>The innermost layer of protection will be through the NASAM-II.The indigenous Akash defence missile systems will form the layer over the NASAMS-II.<\/li><li>The second layer will be through the highly automated and mobile S-400 systems.<\/li><li>Then will come the Barak-8 medium-range surface-to-air missile systems jointly developed by Israeli Aerospace Industries and DRDO which have a 70-100 km interception range.<\/li><li>The outermost layer of shield will be provided by the indigenous two-tier Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) System being developed by DRDO.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The US has approved the sale of an Integrated Air Defence Weapon System(IADWS) to India. Facts: About Integrated Air Defence Weapon System(IADWS): The Integrated Air Defence Weapon System(IADWS) is also called the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System(NASAMS-II). It is an upgraded version of the NASAMS developed by the US firm Raytheon in partnership&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-approves-sale-of-integrated-air-defence-weapon-system-to-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US approves sale of Integrated Air Defence Weapon System to India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5926,63],"class_list":["post-13666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-integrated-air-defence-system","tag-us","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704650676},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}