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India is readying its own long-range air defence system and plans to deploy it by 2028-2029, a ToI report said on October 30..
According to the report, the system will be able to "detect and destroy incoming stealth fighters, aircraft, drones, cruise missiles and precision-guided munitions at ranges up to 350-km."..
The "interception capabilities" of the indigenous long-range surface-to-air missile (LR-SAM) system, will be comparable to the Russian S-400 Triumf air defence system, the report said...
DRDO says it will be "able to take out fighter-sized targets at a 250-km range, with larger aircraft like AWACS (airborne warning and control systems) and mid-air refuelers being intercepted at 350-km."..
IACCS is a fully-automated air defence network, where data links are being progressively built to integrate the wide array of military radars with each other as well as with civilian radars to plug surveillance gaps in Indian airspace...
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