With the strength of over 1.4 million active personnel the Indian Armed Forces is the world's second-largest military force next to China and has the world's fourth-largest defence budget. Today in this post we are going to review the 4 most powerful weapons of Indian Armed Forces at present.
BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile
The BrahMos is a medium-range ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarine, ships, aircraft, or land and can carry both nuclear and conventional warheads.
It is the fastest supersonic cruise missile and the world's fastest anti-ship cruise missile in operation. The missile is equipped with stealth technology designed to make it less visible to radar and other detection methods.
BrahMos claims it has the capability of attacking surface targets by flying as low as five meters thereby making it extremely difficult for enemy radar to detect.
Currently the indian army deployed its BrahMos regiments in Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh. The air-launched and naval versions of BrahMos are already operational and are in active service.
Agni Missile Series
The Agni missiles are long range, nuclear weapons capable surface to surface ballistic missiles.
The Agni missile series has a operational range varying from 700 km to 8.000+ km.
The latest MIRV capaple Agni 6 which has a operational range of 10.000+ km is under development.
Kolkata Class Destroyer
The Kolkata class are a class of stealth guided missile destroyers constructed for the Indian Navy and are the largest destroyers to be operated by the Indian Navy.
These are the first stealth destroyers being built by India and marked a significant development in India's shipbuilding technology. The ships would incorporate modern weapons and sensors, and will have an advanced information warfare suite and an auxiliary control system with a sophisticated power distribution architecture, and modular crew quarters.
The class have a length of 163 m and total displacement 7.400 tonnes. The supersonic BrahMos anti-ship and land-attack missiles are the primary offensive armament of the Kolkata class. The ship's main air-defence armament is composed of four eight-cell vertical launching systems allowing for up to thirty-two Barak 8 air defence missiles.
Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme
The Indian Ballistic Missile Defense Programme is an initiative to develop and deploy a multi-layered ballistic missile defence system to protect India from ballistic missile attacks.
Introduced in light of the ballistic missile threat from mainly Pakistan as well as from China, it is a double-tiered system consisting of two land and sea-based interceptor missiles, namely the Prithvi Air Defence missile for high altitude interception, and the Advanced Air Defence missile for lower altitude interception.
The two-tiered shield should be able to intercept any incoming missile launched from 5.000 kilometres away. India became the fourth country to have successfully developed an anti-ballistic missile system after United States, Russia and Israel. China became the 5th country to do so.
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