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Israeli showpiece anti-missile system fails Navy's tests, hard work ahead
SAIKAT DATTA
NEW DELHI,NOVEMBER 22: The Indian Navy's latest Rs 1000-crore Barak anti-missile defence programme, acquired from Israel, received a setback last week when it failed to hit its decoy target off the Mumbai coast.
Highly placed sources said the Barak defence system was tested twice from the Navy's indigenous showpiece, guided missile destroyer INS Delhi.
The Barak missiles' test target was a Russian surface-to-surface missile with a deactivated warhead.
However, rather than destroying the Russian target, the missile is said to have taken off and plunged straight into the Arabian Sea. The same thing happened in the second round of tests.
In reply to a detailed questionnaire from The Sunday Express, the Navy spokesman said: ''We have no comments to offer.''
But the fact is that Israeli manufacturers Rafael and Israeli Aircraft Industries and Navy officials in Mumbai are working overtime to fix the problem.System fails
The Navy has contracted for at least eight Barak systems at the cost of over Rs 1,000 crore. The proposal for purchase of Barak was moved by then Naval chief Admiral Sushil Kumar and then Western Naval Commander Madhavendra Singh during the Kargil war to boost India's sole aircraft carrier INS Viraat's air missile defences.
The only tested Barak system is on the Godavari-class guided missile frigate INS Ganga. The vertically launched Barak is designed to counter sub or missiles such as Exocet or Harpoon (currently in Pakistan's inventory) within a range of 10 km. The system has an eight-missile launcher, currently used by the Israeli, Singapore and Chilean Navy.
Another problem area the Navy is working on is to integrate the Israeli Barak system with its Russian radars and other systems. Top Defence officials call it a ''temporary'' problem.
   

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