World's most advanced missile defence system: Here's what India is buying from Russia

First Post ^ | 30 October 2015

[sparklite2]

Since the missiles only have to come from Pakistan,
this may be wildly overspending.

[cold start]

[Chode]

is this the same one that shot down all the Israeli planes??? wait, never mind...

[M1911A1]

Well, thanks to Obozo they have to worry about missiles from other Islamic crazies, too.

[sukhoi-30mki]

Umm, India developed its nuclear weapons programme because of the threat of China. And Pakistan still exists because of Chinese assistance.

[arthurus]

If Putin’s Russian is continuing in the tradition of the USSR with these weapons exports then the export model is a detuned version of the one in the Russian arsenal and has rather less capability than the model the customer thinks he is buying. One doesn’t find out these things until one uses them in combat against a modern military.

[CurlyDave]

And exactly how is this different from what the US does?

[Tupelo]

I don’t know that Pakistan is the only reason. India is not that far from North Korea and that guy is certifiably nuts.

[VeniVidiVici]

Russians have always had first-class air defense systems

[RayChuang88]

I wonder did the Russians design the S-400 to be equipped with an enhanced radiation low-yield nuclear warhead of around 2-4 kT. There's a reason for such a warhead: knock down incoming SLBM/ICBM warheads at altitudes up to 65 km above the ground, which means the S-400 becomes a mobile ABM system that can be quickly deployed around major Russian cities in case a world war is imminent.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Hmmmmmm......before we went into Iraq, Hussein had the ‘best’ Russian anti aircraft, anti missile systems. We swept them away. Our own B Hussein O has certainly damaged our military, but we will prevail.

[BullDog108]

Umm, India developed its nuclear weapons programme because of the threat of China. And Pakistan still exists because of Chinese assistance.

Exactly. And they have had what, 3 wars with Chinaso far? China is still occupying their territory along the border.

[Cen-Tejas]

Their still developing a missile to shoot down Cessna’s.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I don’t buy it. You need some serious advanced technology for this. As little as 5 years ago, the S300 was the most advanced system in the world, and Israel took out Syria’s without breaking a sweat.

Adding 100 to the series, doesn’t make it better.

[Gaffer]

This same sort of thing happened in the vicinity of the White House (on more than one occasion IIRC)

http://fas.org/irp/agency/ustreas/usss/t1pubrpt.html

[Gaffer]

Putting its reach out to 400km is what I’d think is a game changer, frankly. That pretty much denies command, control and surveillance from things like JSTARs and other CC aircraft. Also, the inclusion of different types of missiles integrated into the system offers multiple options.

Here is a great site that discusses this system:

http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-S-400-Triumf.html

[jpsb]

Looks like Lockheed has solved the speed problem the F-35 had

"hypersonic targets such as the US F-35 fighter jet. "

[BobL]

Should help India A LOT when dealing with China. Perhaps the Russians will consider selling us the missiles too, since we seem to TOTALLY ABANDONED national security since the Cold War ‘ended’.

[arthurus]

I am not comparing the two. You sound like the NYT when it discovered that Reagan had “cheated” the USSR with a Star Wars that was largely grandiose expansion on speculation on what could be done in the not near future. NYT was highly indignant that he cheated.