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Today's (16th June 2007) ToI presentation guys!
Kashif
At 2.8 Mach, Missile With 290-Km Range Much Faster Than Paks Babur
Rajat Pandit | TNN
New Delhi: Even as Pakistan moves swiftly towards large-scale induction of its Babur cruise missile, the Indian Army too is gearing up to operationalise the supersonic BrahMos land-attack cruise missile (LACM).
Sources said the first battery of the 290-km-range BrahMos LACM will be formally handed over to the Army, in the presence of President APJ Abdul Kalam, defence minister A K Antony and Army chief General J J Singh, on June 21.
The Army plans to progressively induct three batteries, each with four road-mobile autonomous launchers on 12x12 Tatra vehicles, to constitute its first BrahMos regiment in the near future to use the missile as a precision strike weapon.
The Army already has missile groups to handle the 150-km Prithvi, 700-800 km Agni-I and 2,000 km-plus Agni-II ballistic missiles. The manpower for the planned three BrahMos regiments, in turn, will come from the downsizing of the existing 31 light artillery regiments, armed with 120 mm mortars, to virtually half in the force.
While some personnel will go to BrahMos regiments, the others will induct new-generation artillery firepower in the shape of Russian Smerch and indigenous Pinaka multiple launch rocket systems, said a source. The long-term plan is to have nuclear-tipped LACMs, with strike ranges in excess of 1,500 km. Unlike ballistic missiles, cruise missiles do not leave the atmosphere and are powered and guided throughout their flight path.
Cruise missiles, which can evade enemy radars and air defence systems since they fly at low altitudes, are also much cheaper as well as more accurate and easier to operate. Pakistans Babur missile, touted to be capable of carrying nuclear warheads to a distance of 500 km, was tested for the first time in August 2005, with a clear Chinese imprint behind its development. Since then, Pakistan has taken huge strides towards its induction.
Though Babur may score over BrahMos in terms of range at present, the Indian missile travels at much greater speeds. At present, BrahMos flies at 2.8 Mach (almost three times the speed of sound) but, as reported by TOI earlier, India and Russia are now working on a hypersonic version capable of flying at a speed between 5 to 7 Mach.
The Navy has already inducted BrahMos missiles, with frontline warships. Impressed by the airbreathing BrahMos, the armed forces have already placed orders worth Rs 3,500 crore for the missile till now.
Kashif
Army to get BrahMos on June 21
At 2.8 Mach, Missile With 290-Km Range Much Faster Than Paks Babur
Rajat Pandit | TNN
New Delhi: Even as Pakistan moves swiftly towards large-scale induction of its Babur cruise missile, the Indian Army too is gearing up to operationalise the supersonic BrahMos land-attack cruise missile (LACM).
Sources said the first battery of the 290-km-range BrahMos LACM will be formally handed over to the Army, in the presence of President APJ Abdul Kalam, defence minister A K Antony and Army chief General J J Singh, on June 21.
The Army plans to progressively induct three batteries, each with four road-mobile autonomous launchers on 12x12 Tatra vehicles, to constitute its first BrahMos regiment in the near future to use the missile as a precision strike weapon.
The Army already has missile groups to handle the 150-km Prithvi, 700-800 km Agni-I and 2,000 km-plus Agni-II ballistic missiles. The manpower for the planned three BrahMos regiments, in turn, will come from the downsizing of the existing 31 light artillery regiments, armed with 120 mm mortars, to virtually half in the force.
While some personnel will go to BrahMos regiments, the others will induct new-generation artillery firepower in the shape of Russian Smerch and indigenous Pinaka multiple launch rocket systems, said a source. The long-term plan is to have nuclear-tipped LACMs, with strike ranges in excess of 1,500 km. Unlike ballistic missiles, cruise missiles do not leave the atmosphere and are powered and guided throughout their flight path.
Cruise missiles, which can evade enemy radars and air defence systems since they fly at low altitudes, are also much cheaper as well as more accurate and easier to operate. Pakistans Babur missile, touted to be capable of carrying nuclear warheads to a distance of 500 km, was tested for the first time in August 2005, with a clear Chinese imprint behind its development. Since then, Pakistan has taken huge strides towards its induction.
Though Babur may score over BrahMos in terms of range at present, the Indian missile travels at much greater speeds. At present, BrahMos flies at 2.8 Mach (almost three times the speed of sound) but, as reported by TOI earlier, India and Russia are now working on a hypersonic version capable of flying at a speed between 5 to 7 Mach.
The Navy has already inducted BrahMos missiles, with frontline warships. Impressed by the airbreathing BrahMos, the armed forces have already placed orders worth Rs 3,500 crore for the missile till now.