Indian Navy Plans To Equip 23 Warships With Barak-8 Missile

Indian Navy Plans To Equip 23 Warships With Barak-8 Missile

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The Indian navy plans to equip 23of its destroyers and frigates with Indo-Israel Long Range Surface to Air Missile system Barak-8.

The warships include aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya during its mid-life upgradation (MLU), the two indigenous aircraft carriers being designed and built, the three Delhi-class of destroyers (built under Project 15), three Kolkata class destroyers (Project 15A), four Vishakhpatnam class destroyers (project 15B), three Shivalik class (Project 17) during MLU and seven frigates under Project 17A. India Today reported.

“The Israelis announced their intention to work on Barak 8 and we too were looking at something in that range and thus the decision taken to collaborate,” a senior admiral was quoted as saying by the news channel.

While there were a number of missile systems available, only a few could take on a plane, a missile or a sea-skimming missile flying metres above the sea surface – this was the one. “The LRSAM has displayed its ability to negate ‘nodding’ – a phenomenon which takes place when a tracking radar is unable to lock on to the target flying at a significant pace close to the surface – which makes it such a good system,” he added.

Contract was signed between India’s Defence Research and Development Laboratory and Israel’s Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). To the Indian side came the responsibility of developing the rear section of the missile whereas the lion’s share, which included the front as well as the Multi-Function Surveillance and Threat Alert Radar (MF-STAR) went to the latter.