¿Puede la defensa india ser autosuficiente?

La decisión del gobierno indio de prohibir la importación de 101 artículos relacionados con la industria militar es un paso que pretende garantizar la autosuficiencia del gigante asiático y ofrecer una gran oportunidad a la industria militar india para fabricar los artículos prohibidos utilizando sus propias capacidades de diseño y desarrollo o adoptando las tecnologías diseñadas y desarrolladas por la DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization). ¿Puede la defensa india ser autosuficiente? Parece que sí, a tenor de ciertos desarrollos propios con que cuenta su imponente arsenal, y que vamos a repasar a continuación.

Obús Dhanush

Cañón antiaéreo ligero de 155 mm desarrollado por la OFD (Ordnance Factories Board) basado en el cañón Bofors. Equipados con avistamientos térmicos, los obuses Dhanush tienen la capacidad de disparar tres proyectiles en 15 segundos.

Misil Akash

Desarrollado por la DRDO, Akash es un misil tierra-aire (SAM) móvil de mediano alcance. Con la capacidad de alcanzar objetivos a una distancia de hasta 30 km y en altitudes de hasta 18.000 metros, los misiles Akash pueden volar a una velocidad de más de 2,5 mach y pueden rastrear 64 objetivos dentro del alcance.

Misiles Agni

Los misiles Agni son misiles balísticos y han sido desarrollados conjuntamente por Bharat Dynamics Limited y la DRDO. Hasta ahora, la India ha desarrollado seis variantes de misiles Agni: Agni-I (alcance operativo: 700-1.200 km), Agni-II (alcance operativo: 2.000-3.500 km), Agni-III (alcance operativo: 3.000-5.000 km ), Agni-IV (alcance operativo: 3.500–4.000 km), Agni-V (alcance operativo: 5.000–8.000 km) y Agni-VI (alcance operativo: 11.000–12.000 km).

HAL Tejas

Avión de combate multifunción monomotor de cuarta generación, desarrollado por HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited), la DRDO y la ADA (Aeronautics Development Agency). Actualmente, la IAF cuenta con 33 unidades y planea incorporar 123 unidades más a su arsenal.

NETRA

Network Traffic Analysis (NETRA) es una red de software desarrollada por el CAIR (Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics) y la DRDO para la IB (Intelligence Bureau) y la R&AW (Research and Analysis Wing). NETRA puede interceptar mensajes con palabras clave como "atacar, bombardear, explotar y matar" y puede analizar el tráfico de voz que pasa por software como Skype y Google Talk.

The top 4 most powerful Made In India weapons at 2020

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.

India: Second test-firing of Agni-V

Working at a fast pace towards production and induction of Agni-V missile into the forces, Defence Research and DevelopmentOrganisation (DRDO) is reportedly planning its second test fire next month.

The maiden test fire of Agni-V, the first intercontinental ballistic missile of India, was carried out in April 2012. The successful trial catapulted the country into the exclusive ICBM club comprising six elite countries, United States of America, Russia, China, France and United Kingdom.

Dr. V. G. Sekaran, chief controller R&D Missiles & Strategic Systems and Agni programme director, said that while no date has been fixed for the test as of now, it will be conducted in September. "This test shall be aimed at repeatability of the previous test for stabilizing the performance of sub-systems," he said, adding that DRDO is working at starting the production and delivery phase by 2015 for Agni-V.

Meanwhile, DRDO is leaving no stone unturned for kick starting the canisterization process for Agni-V by this year end. Canister launch of the missile will enable higher flexibility in launching speedy firing from any location on a road. The indigenously developed 50-tonne long range surface-to-surface ballistic missile Agni-V, which is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead weighing more than a tonne, has a 5,000 km range as per DRDO officials, who confirmed that preparations are at full swing at Wheeler Island off the Odisha Coast for a September launch.

Once inducted, India's range with respect to missile reach would include the entire Asia as well as parts of other continents. Agni V will be inducted into the force equipped with MIRVs (Multiple Independently Targetable Re-Entry Vehicles (MIRVs) for shooting multiple warheads at the same time.

India: Exito en las pruebas del Prithvi II

India ha probado con éxito el misil nuclear Prithvi-II, como parte de una serie de maniobras de sus Fuerzas Armadas.

Este misil tierra-tierra monoetapa de corto alcance (350 Km) es el primero desarrollado por el Programa de Desarrollo de Misiles Guiados Integrados de India. Va impulsado por dos motores de propulsión líquida y utiliza un sistema inercial avanzado para ejecutar las maniobras de trayectoria. En cuanto a su capacidad destructiva merece destacarse que puede transportar ojivas de entre 500 y 1.000 Kg.

La nación surasiática también dispone de la serie Agni cuya última versión puede golpear objetivos a más de cinco mil kilómetros, y del Brahmos, este último desarrollado en cooperación con Rusia. Todos pueden transportar ojivas nucleares y forman parte de la carrera armamentista que la nación surasiática mantiene con el vecino Pakistán, que también fabrica sus propios misiles balísticos.