NATO missile defense, launched in May 2001, aims to work with Member States to meet the group’s responsibility to defend against missile attacks. India is also currently developing its own ballistic missile defense platform based on its Prithvi ballistic missile taking account of missile threats it faces from its rivals in the region.
“You (India) is a missile threat that in the face. We Organisation (NATO) is a missile threat that we face. We must defend these missile threats may be the same,” NATO’s top official told the group of Indian journalists visit the Group’s headquarters here.
When asked to indicate the area that NATO can cooperate with India on missile defense, the official, who declined to be named, said: “One will be the technology of defense.”
Official said that the threats that India and the front part of NATO could come from various sources, and NATO is not necessarily seen as threats that India sees.
“Because your strategic situation is different from ours. But the technology to detect and intercept missiles are the same,” he said.
He acknowledged, however, that cooperation is to lead the Americans. The United States has an advanced ballistic missile defense (BMD), a development than any other member of NATO, the people, even though India has a strong bilateral relationships with most, including France and the United Kingdom.
“The fact is that India and the United States and NATO-India relationship. But we are entering the ballistic missile defense in a big enough. Therefore, it is a repository of knowledge that we share and we can train together. There are experiences we can talk about it, “he said.
India BMD program, launched in the middle of the previous decade, is a two-piece shield composed of two interceptor missiles – the Prithvi Air Defence (PAD) to intercept missiles at high altitudes, and the Defense Advanced Air (DAA) missiles at low altitude intercepts. The PSA test for the first time in November 2006 and December 2007 ADF.
These tests, India has become the fourth country that has successfully tested an anti-missile system after the United States, Russia and Israel. However, BMD in India, specifically designed to combat the missiles under 5,000 km range, is far from polished BMD System tests are no more.
The United States has several missile defense system known as a threat to National Missile Defense (NMD) to protect the whole country for incoming missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, more than 7,500 km range ballistic missiles of other short radius.
NATO missile carries three activities – capacity theater ballistic missile defense threat to short and medium range ballistic missiles, missile defense for the entire area of ??NATO and missile defense cooperation with Russia.
The NATO-Russia cooperation is a byproduct of the group expands its membership after the Cold War began in 1989, to make allies of former opponents of the Warsaw Pact countries like Poland and the Czech Republic.
