> India does as well as China. > But they are cheap! Very cheap. Read the 3rd article I linked - it's the actual Indian government strategy around BMD. The on

> India does as well as China. > But they are cheap! Very cheap. Read the 3rd article I linked - it's the actual Indian government strategy around BMD. The only place that liquid rockets are specifically mentioned: > Scientists are also working towards making interceptors used in both layers operate on solid fuels. This is because chemicals in the liquid fuels corrode the fuel storage tanks easily. Therefore, most of the missiles are not kept in a ‘ready-to-fire’ mode. Also, it takes a minimum of three to four hours to fill the liquid fuel in the missile,9 a hardly acceptable scenario wherein precious time will be lost in case of an emergency. It seems pretty clear that: 1. This particular rocket has no military application because the rockets that India uses use hypergolic propellant (presumably UDMH and NTO), while the planned rocket uses LOx and RP1, which are cryogenic propellants (well, at least the LOx is). 2. India is pretty clearly trying to move away from liquid fueled rockets because, as I said in my previous comment, the operational aspects are really terrible.