{"id":31604,"date":"2012-05-06T19:10:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2012-05-06T19:10:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T23:10:07","slug":"india%e2%80%99s-ballistic-missile-shield-ready-for-deployment-drdo-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2012\/05\/06\/india%e2%80%99s-ballistic-missile-shield-ready-for-deployment-drdo-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s ballistic missile shield ready for deployment: DRDO chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> New Delhi, May 6 (Xinhua-ANI): India\u2019s ballistic missile defense shield is ready for deployment and it can be put in place at short notice, a top military scientist said Sunday.<br \/>\n\u201cThe ballistic missile defense shield is now mature. We are ready to put phase one in place and it can be put in very short time,\u201d the chief of India\u2019s Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO),  V.K. Saraswat, told the media in the national capital.<br \/>\nThe DRDO has developed the missile shield and it has been successfully tested on an incoming missile with s range of 2,000 kilometers.<br \/>\nThe scientist said that as of now the shield can be put in place to protect at least two cities in the country. \u201cHowever, the places have not been identified,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe DRDO chief said that in the second phase, the shield would be capable of intercepting and destroying an incoming missile with a range of 5,000 kms. \u201cThis phase will be ready by 2016,\u201d he added.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/indias-ballistic-missile-shield-ready-for-deployment-drdo-chief\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/indias-ballistic-missile-shield-ready-for-deployment-drdo-chief\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, May 6 (Xinhua-ANI): India\u2019s ballistic missile defense shield is ready for deployment and it can be put in place at short notice, a top military scientist said Sunday. \u201cThe ballistic missile defense shield is now mature. We are ready to put phase one in place and it can be put in very short [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,990],"class_list":["post-31604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}