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U.S. aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has recently concluded briefing the Indian Navy on the ship-mounted Aegis ballistic missile defence system. Lockheed Martin has also expressed its willingness to integrate it with indigenously developed armament.
Dan Howard, Lockheed Martin’s senior advisor for Asia and Pacific affairs, indicated that the Indian Navy has been briefed about the Aegis ballistic missile defence system which can cope with the highest forms of threats. He added that the company was open to collaborating with India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on integrating its Prithvi Air Defence Shield (PADS) with the Aegis launcher and command and control system.
The Aegis ballistic missile system can engage, and strike, targets in the air, on sea, on the surface, and also sub-surface. The system’s command and decision-making core allows its computers to differentiate between missiles, debris, and friendly aerial vehicles, launching an attack only on what needs to be attacked. The Aegis system can track more than 100 missiles with its electronic systems and supercomputers, and engage them according to their threat priority.
Citing further achievements of the Aegis system, the Lockheed Martin officials elaborated that 14 successful tests of the Aegis system had been conducted so far to intercept incoming targets within and outside the earth’s atmosphere, including one in November 2007 in which two short-range ballistic missiles were near simultaneously intercepted and destroyed.
The Aegis system is currently deployed on 85 ships around the globe including US, Japanese, Australian and Spanish vessels and 20 additional ships planned or under contract.
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