One area where India could get help from the US is in launch detection from space. Once India gets that capability they will be in a position to work on Boost Phase interception atleast of missiles launched from Pakistan.

Yeah, if they want to cooperate then there are many options like Laser based Boost phase interception, space based laser and SM-6 as well as some if the early warning systems. But they should not talk about PAC-3 again… India is not Egypt, UAE and Tiwan…. :rolleyes:

…note this one…..

http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Industry/Analysis/2008/01/14/bmd_watch_boeing_assesses_gmd_program/7436/

Saraswat also confirmed that India’s anti-ballistic missile program remained aggressively ambitious in its R and D goals. He said New Delhi was determined to build very high-speed anti-ballistic missile interceptors that could intercept and destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles with ranges of 3,000 miles.

“We are now going to build AD-1 and AD-2 — high speed interceptors for engaging 5,000 kilometer — 3,000 mile — class targets,” said Saraswat, who is also project director for DRDO’s Air Defense wing told the reporters, according to another PTI report.

The new AD-1s and AD-2s would have the capability to shoot down ICBMs launched from deep inside the territory of potential enemy nations, Saraswat said.

“Currently, we have capabilities to defend ourselves from 2,500 km — 1,500 mile — range ballistic missiles. But suppose missiles are launched by our immediate neighbors from their rear formations, they will be using long-range missiles — Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles and Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles. “We should now develop technologies to defend against them. That is our effort,” he said, according to the PTI report.

That would give India the ambitious goal of building ABM interceptors comparable to the U.S. Ground-based Mid-course Interceptors, or GBIs, currently deployed around Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.. These GBIs are believed to be capable of enormous velocities of up to 20,000 mph or even 25,000 mph to make them capable of intercepting ICBMs in their mid-flight phase.

PTI also noted that India’s DRDO rocket scientists and engineers had already over the past 18 months proved their ability to build anti-ballistic missile interceptors able to destroy incoming intermediate-range missiles at heights of up to 30 miles, or 150,000 feet outside the atmosphere, and at altitudes of nine miles, or 45,000 well within the atmosphere.

As previously reported in these columns. in November 2006, India successfully test-fired exo-atmospheric ABM interceptor that hit a target 30 miles height and in December 2007 it carried out a successful endo-atmospheric, or within-the-atmosphere test of an interceptor that hit its target at around 45,000 feet.