Air Defense: India Stumbles To Success
February 6, 2021: In late 2020 India conducted successful acceptance tests of MRSAM (Medium Range Surface-To-Air Missile) land-based air defense system. This weapon is based on the Israeli Barak 8 SAM (surface-to-air missile) system. MRSAM uses a mobile multimode radar similar to the one used for the Israeli Iron Dome. Each MRSAM battery contains one truck mounted command and control system, one truck mounted multimode radar and three 8x8 launcher vehicles each carrying eight missiles. The MRSAM missile has a range of 70 kilometers and the radar has a max r...