{"id":28174,"date":"2018-10-24T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28174"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:38:56","slug":"india-plans-to-procure-missile-shield-from-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-plans-to-procure-missile-shield-from-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"India plans to procure missile shield from U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/india-plans-to-procure-missile-shield-from-us\/article24549042.ece\">India plans to procure missile shield from U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>India is in discussion with the U.S. to procure an advanced air defence system to defend the NCR from aerial attacks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The process of procuring the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System-II(NASAMS-II) has been initiated.<\/p>\n<p><u>3. NASAMS-II<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The NASAMS was developed by Raytheon in partnership with KONGSBERG Defence and Aerospace of Norway<\/li>\n<li>It provide state of the art defence system that can maximise the ability to quickly identify, engage and destroy current and evolving enemy aircraft, UAV or emerging cruise missile threats.<\/li>\n<li>NASAMS-II is an upgraded version of the NASAMS and features new 3D mobile surveillance radars and 12 missile launchers for quicker reaction.<\/li>\n<li>It is in the Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) stage now.<\/li>\n<li>This system will help in preventing 9\/11 type attacks.<\/li>\n<li>The system would complement other systems such as the medium and long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems under procurement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. India is deploying a multi-tiered air defence network to fully secure its airspace from incoming fighter aircraft, missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).<\/p>\n<p>5. India is also in an advanced stage of talks with Russia for the procurement of very long rang S-400 air defence systems.<\/p>\n<p>6. India is also developing an indigenous Ballistic Missile Defence(BMD) system.<\/p>\n<p>7. Phase-I of the BMD is expected to be deployed very soon.<\/p>\n<p>8. India is going ahead with the procurement of the S-400 systems despite U.S sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to procure missile shield from U.S. News: India is in discussion with the U.S. to procure an advanced air defence system to defend the NCR from aerial attacks. Important facts: 2. The process of procuring the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System-II(NASAMS-II) has been initiated. 3. NASAMS-II The NASAMS was developed by Raytheon in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-plans-to-procure-missile-shield-from-u-s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India plans to procure missile shield from U.S.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704904635},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28174","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=28174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}