India to purchase Barak missiles from Israel after failure of Trishul: NEW DELHI, July 6 : With an ambitious Rs 300 crore short-range surface-to-air missile project, shelved after the failure of Trishul,' India has allowed armed forces to buy Barak, similar class of missiles from Israel. The Defence Research and Development Organization has shelved the short-range surface-to-air missile programme Trishul’ and downgraded it into a research and development effort for not being able to meet the requirements. “It (Trishul) did not meet the set requirement. The programme is over as a user driven and converted into a research and development programme,” Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister and Director General, DRDO, Dr V K Aatre told the newsmen in Bangalore. “In other words, we have allowed the user to buy similar class missile,” said the Scientific Advisor Dr Aatre, adding, “we have allowed Barak to be bought (from Israel),” according to a news report received here. However, he declined to comment on the technological drawbacks of the Rs 300 crore Trishul missile project, initially designed for all the three services. (APP) (Posted @ 23:55 PST)
No wonder the Indians were reluctant to start their promised ‘Decisive Battle’. Lookslike Vajpayee opened his mouth before consulting his defence experts, and ate humble pie as soon he realised the status of his armed forces.
Just imagine, over a million Indian soldiers on Pakistani border, swatting flies.
2bornot2b - I am a Peace loving person yaar and I dont believe in buying arms especially when 1/3rd of my countrymen are living under poverty line. May be a developed country like Pakistan can afford all these weapons.
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So does this mean Indias Missle programme is a failure?
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The Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) started by India in 1983 included, Agni, Prithvi, Akash, Nag and Trishul.
Of this, the first two are in service, Akash is in user trials and Nag has cleared user trials.
4 out of 5 is not a failure, is it :)
Now Trishul has definitely failed user trials, so Army and Navy have been cleared to buy other systems but the technologies that did pass from Trishul can be used for future R&D purposes. It is better to have tried and failed rather than not try at all.
