Babur's latest test was claimed to be a 700+ km range version though I believe the actual range is much higher tha reported.
At this stage we don't want to attract too much attention to our missile capabilities.![]()
Neo seriously no offence, Babur must be of Turbofan propulsion to reach beyond that figure actually, now when did Pakistan made a Turbofan engine that even China is choking to make? A miniaturised turbofan engine is harder than kaveri to made, just so you get the drift on what scale things are
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Malaymishra, Brahmos drawback is not its range, remember always, Brahmos is designed to perform Anti-Ship role as primary thing than anything else, You cannot detect a ship over 300 kms distance in wave clutter, the range might look less, in reality mroe than enough for anti-shipping duties.
Dude you have forgotten few other drawbacks. The missile will not be on a LO-LO profile. The moment it pops up it will be spotted by Awacs or even ground based radars. Also the heat sigs are greater. Then there is the landscape which is not the same as out at sea.
As someone in the know once said,It is not a theater changing weapon, no one is wetting themselves about dealing with it.
Brahmos can perform S manuevre, Its range in hi-hi-hi is udnerreported, its range in lo-lo-lo is more than enough for anti-shipping duty.
Even if you can shoot down the missile , whom are we facing USN with constant AWACS coverage of PN and PLAN? The missile re-programmable flight control will be just programmed to dip below horizon once it reaches its required range, viola! we'll see how can you stop a mach 3+ missile with some ODD 30-40 kms away coming at horizon level.
Ever heard of what salvo-attack can do as well?
If you want to argue subsonic ASM with Supersonic ASM, I'm ready to do that, can point you out to a 50+ page discussion as well, and a official Navy;s developement script.
Let me tell you what baby this has, it is going to be equipped with Multi Spectral Seeker which is udner developement.
MBDA's Storm Shadow
Final phase: Imaging infra-red seeker automatic target recognition (ATR) and tracking high precision terminal guidance.
Lockheeds JASSM and JASSM-ER
The success of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile's (JASSM's) Development Test 1 (DT-1) on January 19 demonstrated several unique performance characteristics attributable to the system's Anti-Jam Global Positioning System (AJGPS), imaging infrared (I2R) seeker, and automatic target correlator (ATC). The combination of the three enables the missile to perform highly accurate strikes.
http://www.afmc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123017010
JASSM can be released in virtually any type of weather and uses its inertial navigation and global positioning systems to find its intended target and then its infrared seeker for pinpoint accuracy just before impact. Once in the air, the stealthy cruise missile can reach high subsonic speeds at .85 mach. It is also equipped with an anti-jammer that keeps the enemy in its crosshairs regardless of their technology or capabilities.
Boeings SLAM-ER
Seeker: Imaging Infra-Red Seeker, Automatic Target Acquisition image matching system
Brahmos is the only missile that uses SAR type terminal guidance seeker. Check the links for details on navigation and guidance. A new multispectral seeker is under developement which will come online around 2012 or so.