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<br /><ul><li><strong>India is gearing up its missile defense shield over the national capital region of Delhi with a combination of indigenous, Russian, Israeli and US missile systems.</strong></li><li><strong>The <keyword id="7740159" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="national-advanced-surface-to-air-missile-system-ii">National Advanced Surface to Air Missile system II</keyword> (<keyword id="7734797" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="NASAMS-2">NASAMS 2</keyword>), will form the fifth layer of a multilayered missile defense shield for NCT.</strong></li><li><strong>Combined with indigenous Prithvi interceptor missiles, Russian S-400, INDO-ISRAELI joint venture Barak-8 long range SAM, Akash area defense <keyword id="42531" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Missile-system">missile system</keyword>, the NASAMS 2 is set to make the capital impenetrable.</strong></li></ul>India's ministry of defense is moving swiftly at acquiring the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System II (NASAM II) from the US,<a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-to-acquire-us-air-defence-system-for-multi-tier-missile-shield-over-delhi/articleshow/69717946.cms"> Times of India reported.</a><br /><br />Defence ministry sources <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-to-acquire-us-air-defence-system-for-multi-tier-missile-shield-over-delhi/articleshow/69717946.cms">told TOI</a> that the US is likely to send the final draft of “letter of acceptance” for sale of NASAMS 2 worth ₹ 6,000 ($1 billion) under its foreign military sales programme to INDIA, by July-August. <br /><strong><br />Shielding of NCT of Delhi </strong><br /><br />The proposed multi layered shield for the security of the NCT of Delhi is expected to have five layers. <br /><br />The first being equipped with two tier of AAD (advanced <keyword id="431465" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="air-defence">air defence</keyword>) and PAD (Prithvi Air Defence) interceptor missile system. The second layer is to be equipped with the Russian made triumph surface to air S 400 missile system. The third layer is to be equipped with the Barak-8 medium &amp; long range surface to air missile system jointly developed by Israeli Aerospace Industries and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), India. The fourth layer is to be equipped with the indigenous area defence missile system AKASH. The fifth layer of missile shield is to be equipped with the NASAMS 2 missile system.<br /><br /><strong>NASAMS 2 </strong><br /><br />Geared to track and destroy small incoming targets and shoot around buildings, NASAMS 2 is a quick reaction networked system of Stingers, gun systems, AMRAAM missiles along with the MPQ64 Sentinel Air Defense radar and indigenously developed Battle management C4I system that works as Fire Distribution System.<br /><br /><strong>Counter to China and Pakistan<br /></strong><br />As a secret deal is underway between China and Pakistan for the development and manufacturing of advanced fighter jets in Pakistan,<a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-to-acquire-us-air-defence-system-for-multi-tier-missile-shield-over-delhi/articleshow/69717946.cms"> India’s claims of BRI </a>being an initiative typically for the expansion and advancing of Chinese military goals has surfaced again. <br /><br />Pentagon’s 2019 Missile Defence Review (MDR) has termed China as having the most active land-based ballistic and cruise missile programme in the world. This is an indication for India to work on securing its vital military and non military assets, like major population centres. <br /><strong><br />The Indo in the Indo-pacific</strong><br /><br />The US, in 2018 termed India as its major defense partner and soon after named its Pacific command as Indo-Pacific command, considering the vital role India can play in the region’s stability and in the South China sea as well.<br /><br />The deal for NASAMS 2 is not to be merely looked as just another of such deals. It projects to the world, the very core role India is going to play to keep stable not only south east asia but also the indo-pacific, south china sea and the middle east, <a href="https://www.orfonline.org/research/where-would-india-fit-in-a-missile-defense-partnership-in-the-indo-pacific-47582/">say</a> experts.<br />

India will add a fifth layer of missiles to protect its national capital region

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Russia's military has stepped up its air attacks in Ukraine, using missiles and drones.</li><li>Defending against those increasing aerial attacks is now a top priority for Ukraine's military.</li></ul><p>As Russian missiles and drones damage Ukraine's power grid and other infrastructure, the Ukrainian people face a cold, dark winter. But they will not have to face it alone.</p><p>The US, Britain, and several other countries are sending Ukraine a variety of air-defense systems. Some of these weapons are useful against aircraft, helicopters, and cruise missiles. Others are meant for shooting down drones.</p><p>But what's crucial is that beefed-up air defenses will help even the odds for Ukraine's air force.</p><p>In the days after Russia launched its attack on February 24, Ukrainian aircraft "inflicted some losses" on Russia's air force, but the Ukrainians "also took serious casualties due to being totally technologically outmatched and badly outnumbered," researchers at the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank, said in <a href="https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-resources/russian-air-war-and-ukrainian-requirements-air-defence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a recent report</a>.</p><p>However, by March 2022, Russian aircraft "lost the ability to operate in Ukrainian-controlled airspace except at very low altitudes" because of Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles, according to the report.</p><p>Western powers have been reluctant to provide jet fighters to replace <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/combat-jets-russia-and-ukraine-are-using-in-ukraine-war-2022-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukraine's dwindling fleet of Soviet-era aircraft</a>, and replenishing Ukraine's existing Soviet-era air defense weapons, like the S-300, will be difficult given how few are available outside of Russia.</p><p>Thus, Western-made anti-aircraft weapons have become vital. Here are some that are being supplied to Ukraine:</p><h2>NASAMS</h2><div type="image" title="NASAMS" height="633" width="844" msid="95518203" hostid="261" sizebytes="23448"></div><p>With Ukraine's capital. Kyiv, being hit by Russian missiles, it seems appropriate that the US is sending an anti-aircraft missile system that has protected Washington DC since 2005.</p><p>The <a href="https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/defense-systems/national-advanced-surface-to-air-missile-system-nasams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System</a> is a medium-range air-defense weapon that is effective against aircraft, helicopters, drones, and even slow-flying cruise missiles.</p><p>NASAMS was developed as a joint project between Norwegian defense firm Kongsberg and US firm Raytheon and originally fielded by Norway's military in the 1990s. It has a range of about 25 miles and an altitude of 50,000 feet.</p><p>A NASAMS battery consists of an MPQ-64 Sentinel surveillance radar and three launchers armed with six missiles apiece. The later NASAMS II has a more advanced radar and four launchers with three missiles apiece. The system is highly mobile, with trailers hauled by Humvees or medium-size trucks.</p><div type="image" title="Norway soldiers troops Arctic air defense missile" height="933" width="1400" msid="95518205" hostid="261" sizebytes="71722"></div><p>Particularly significant is that rather than custom-designed surface-to-air missiles, NASAMS fires <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-jets-may-be-vulnerable-because-of-own-weapons-2021-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">existing air-to-air missiles</a> that are modified to be launched from the ground.</p><p>The system can fire the AIM-120 AMRAAM radar-guided missile as well as the <a href="https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact-Files/Display-FactFiles/Article/2168989/aim-9x-sidewinder-missile/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AIM-9X heat-seeker</a>, the latest version of the Sidewinder, which has been deployed since the 1950s.</p><p>That made it particularly attractive to Ukraine, or at least to Pentagon officials determining what equipment to send.</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/us/politics/russia-ukraine-missiles-nasams.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>, US military planners decided that NASAMS "would be especially useful for Ukraine given that the ground-based launcher can fire relatively inexpensive missiles that were built for fighter jets in aerial combat, which Kyiv's allies have in large numbers."</p><h2><strong>Avenger</strong></h2><div type="image" title="Avenger air defense Stinger missile" height="1333" width="2000" msid="95518207" hostid="261" sizebytes="90230"></div><p>On November 10, the US <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3216287/400-million-in-additional-assistance-for-ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> it is sending four <a href="https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/defense-systems/avenger-air-defense-system/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Avenger short-range air-defense systems</a> to help Ukraine protect its "troops and critical infrastructure" against drones and helicopters.</p><p>The Avenger consists of a Humvee with a rotating turret mounted in the rear. The turret contains two pods, each with four Stinger missiles. The Avenger isn't particularly sophisticated: Its heat-seeking Stingers only have a range of about 3 miles, and it lacks radar (though it does have short-range laser and infrared sensors).</p><p>But it's self-contained, highly automated, and mobile enough to operate in rough or muddy terrain, which should make it useful for Ukrainian troops.</p><h2>Aspide</h2><div type="image" title="Aspide anti-air missile system" height="1294" width="2000" msid="95518209" hostid="261" sizebytes="150164"></div><p>Aspide is an Italian missile — with surface-to-air and air-to-air versions — based on the US-designed AIM-7 Sparrow and Sea Sparrow radar-guided missiles.</p><p>The original Aspide dates to the 1970s, but there have been several upgraded versions, including the <a href="https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/defense-systems/spada-2000/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aspide 2000 variant</a>.</p><p><a href="https://elpais-com.translate.goog/espana/2022-06-05/espana-dispuesta-a-entregar-a-ucrania-misiles-antiaereos-y-carros-de-combate-leopard.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-US" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spain is sending an Aspide battery</a> to Ukraine. Spain has older and newer versions and it isn't clear which is being sent, but Ukraine will most likely receive one of Spain's 13 recently decommissioned Skyguard systems armed with Aspide 2000 missiles that have a range of 15.5 miles.</p><h2>IRIS-T</h2><div type="image" title="IRIS-T SLM air-defense system" height="1333" width="2000" msid="95518210" hostid="261" sizebytes="211444"></div><p>Ukraine has already received the first of four German <a href="https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/air-defense/air-defense-of-u-s-partners/allied-air-defense-systems/iris-t/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IRIS-T</a> short-range anti-aircraft missile systems.</p><p>A short-range infrared-homing missile intended to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder, the IRIS-T can be launched by aircraft and ground batteries. It has a range of about 25 miles and can reach a speed of Mach 3.</p><p>Germany has been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-says-germany-fears-and-excuses-affect-military-aid-weapons-2022-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized for slow delivery</a> of weapons to Ukraine, but the IRIS-T only completed testing in late 2021, and even the <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-germanys-iris-t-air-defense-system/a-63414859" target="_blank" rel="noopener">German military hasn't even acquired any yet</a>.</p><p>The RUSI report called the provision of additional launchers and ammunition for IRIS-T and NASAMS "critical" to Ukraine's ability to defend its electrical infrastructure.</p><h2>Gepard</h2><div type="image" title="A Gepard tank" height="1364" width="2000" msid="95518212" hostid="261" sizebytes="281506"></div><p>Germany is also sending <a href="https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3578122-ukraine-receives-from-germany-six-more-gepard-selfpropelled-guns.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">50 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns</a> to Ukraine.</p><p>First deployed by the German military in the 1970s, the Gepard was in service from late in the Cold War until the Bundeswehr retired it in 2010.</p><p>Mounted on a tracked and armored chassis equipped with onboard radar, the Gepard's <a href="https://www.kmweg.com/systems-products/tracked-vehicles/air-defence-systems/gepard-1-a2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">twin 35-mm rapid-fire cannon</a> can engage aircraft and drones — as well as ground troops and vehicles — up to 3.7 miles away.</p><p>The RUSI report called the Gepard "highly effective" agains the small, slow, and low-flying Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones that Russia has been using in increasing numbers since mid-September.</p><h2>Vampire</h2><div type="image" title="L3 Harris VAMPIRE air defense system" height="1012" width="1792" msid="95518215" hostid="261" sizebytes="40788"></div><p>Even before Russia unleashed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/iranian-made-drones-supplied-to-russia-after-february-invasion-says-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hordes of Iranian-made drones</a> against Ukrainian infrastructure this autumn, the Pentagon was planning to send <a href="https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2022/11/01/drone-killing-vampires-due-in-ukraine-next-year-pentagon-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vampire anti-drone systems</a> to Ukraine.</p><p>The Vampire can launch small laser-guided missiles, such as the <a href="https://www.navair.navy.mil/product/APKWS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System</a>, a laser-guided version of the unguided <a href="https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/2-75-inch-rocket-systems-hydra-70/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hydra 70</a> air-to-surface rocket launched from AH-64 Apache helicopters.</p><p>BAE Systems, which makes the APKWS, recently unveiled an upgrade that extends the weapon's range to nearly 7.5 miles.</p><p>Perhaps most important for Ukraine is Vampire's adaptability: The system and its 10-inch rockets can be mounted on the back of a pickup or any flatbed truck.</p><p><em>Michael Peck is a defense writer whose work has appeared in Forbes, Defense News, Foreign Policy magazine, and other publications. 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Ukraine is scrambling to shoot down Russian missiles and drones. Here are the weapons other countries are sending in to help.

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Ukraine is scrambling to shoot down Russian missiles and drones. Here are the weapons other countries are sending in to help.

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