India developing surface-to-air missile

Indian is developing a medium-range surface-to-air missile (MR-SAM) in collaboration with Israel for protecting its important cities and installations from enemy aircraft."We are jointly developing a 70-km range MR-SAM in partnership with Israeli companies," Senior DRDO scientist Prahlada told reporters on the sidelines of a DRDO function here."We may take around 12 years but the requirement of the services is that they want it (MR-SAM) fast.

The only way to make it four to five years is to partner with a country which has already developed some of the hardware. If they have have got some hardware and we have got some knowledge, we can do it in 4-5 years," Prahlada said.He added that the DRDO has already developed air defence systems such as the Trishul and the Akash.He said the Akash did not fit the bill for the MR-SAM as its range was only 30 km and the services wanted a missile system with a range of 70 km.He said MR-SAM systems can be deployed for the security of cities such as Delhi and also for securing nuclear installations across the country

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