<div>The government today refused to share information with the Parliament about Kali 5,000 project citing it to be a matter of national security.<br /><br />"The desired information is sensitive in nature and its disclosure is not in the interest of national security," Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.<br /><br />The question asked was whether there is any proposal to induct Kali 5000 in the armed forces. According to publicly available information, Kali (Kilo Ampere Linear Injector) is a linear electron accelerator being developed in India, by Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).<br /><br />It is designed to work in such a way that if a missile is launched in India's direction, it will quickly emit powerful pulses of Relativistic Electrons Beams (REB).<br /><br />Unlike laser beams, it does not create a hole in the target but damages the on-board electronic systems.<br /><br />Kali project was first initiated by the then BARC Director Dr R Chidambaram in 1985 and work on the project began in 1989.<br /><br />The government also refused to share much information on safety steps being taken by India for protection of space assets.</div>
<div>The government today refused to share information with the Parliament about Kali 5,000 project citing it to be a matter of national security.<br /><br />"The desired information is sensitive in nature and its disclosure is not in the interest of national security," Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.<br /><br />The question asked was whether there is any proposal to induct Kali 5000 in the armed forces. According to publicly available information, Kali (Kilo Ampere Linear Injector) is a linear electron accelerator being developed in India, by Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).<br /><br />It is designed to work in such a way that if a missile is launched in India's direction, it will quickly emit powerful pulses of Relativistic Electrons Beams (REB).<br /><br />Unlike laser beams, it does not create a hole in the target but damages the on-board electronic systems.<br /><br />Kali project was first initiated by the then BARC Director Dr R Chidambaram in 1985 and work on the project began in 1989.<br /><br />The government also refused to share much information on safety steps being taken by India for protection of space assets.</div>