India is taking steps to implement the IADWS (Integrated Air Defence Weapon System) multi-layered integrated air defense system project to protect against threats such as missiles, aircraft, and drones the project intensified against the backdrop of India's experience in a short-term war with Pakistan, when it took measures against India in response to conducting Operation Sindoor
As noted by South Asian media ANI, India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will work with local domestic companies.
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The IADWS multi-layered air defense system will include both domestic developments of the Indian defense industry and, probably, russian anti-aircraft missile systems, which, according to Indian media (which, however, are not always confirmed by facts), allegedly performed well in the same Operation Sindoor, so India ultimately wants to order more such systems.
Regarding domestic Indian air defense systems, we're talking about the QRSAM anti-aircraft missile system; back in 2020 we reported that India tested an anti-aircraft missile for this system. It's also known by the designation Anant Shastra. As well as MRSAM, which India made jointly with Israel.
But most interestingly, India has now finally abandoned purchasing the NASAMS anti-aircraft missile system supposedly, the Americans set a very high price tag for it. At the same time, the U.S. State Department issued this permission five whole years ago back in 2020.
It was about an amount of $1.9 billion and quantity probably of five batteries given the presence of five AN/MPQ-64F1 Sentinel radar stations, and also among everything 118 AMRAAM AIM-120C-7/C-8 missiles. Probably, over five years the price for them has grown even more.
At the same time, Defense Express previously reported on how much russian missiles for the S-400 air defense system will cost India, and they are actually not cheap either, because were talking about $3.73 million per unit and this is still the lower limit of the probable price tag.
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