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Seeker on Astra is Russian or indian ?
I just read the news Asian Defense: India Successfully Test Fired Air to Air Interceptor Astra Missile and wanted to say Well done India......Great work
I read somewhere that design and development started around 1996. Why it took so long. When completed it will be almost 20 years. Was there financial hurdles or a break in development. As you know recently we are in development of A2A missile and I am wondering what is an average time to develop this kind of missile. I hope we do not have to wait that long. Is the seeker copy of R77 or indigenous?
Somehow its weird that the MIssile projects are such successes but everything else moves at a snails pace..
Actually, I wouldn't rate all of them successes by the fact that we even have an own space program and the knowledge of developing rockets, but while these are a success even at word standard, our military missiles lack behind many even smaller countries.
Astra is at the begining of it's teststage and we have to wait and see how capable it really will be and more importantly when it will be available for our forces. When you look at NAG / Helina, Sudharshan or even Maitri SAM development seems to be slow.
Yeah and why so??Have you ever asked this question to yourself??Just compare the aloted R&D resources and you will get the answer.
Maitri project has been selved even before it started for your information.
Sudarshan is not a missile but a guidance kit and development starte only in 2005 or so.
Nag ATGM is among the best out there and has been ready for induction from 2008.Helina will take some more time because it was deceided very lately not to use the FPA based passive imaging infrared seeker of Nag and instead a mmw seeker should be intigrated.That's why it's taking time.
I just read the news Asian Defense: India Successfully Test Fired Air to Air Interceptor Astra Missile and wanted to say Well done India......Great work
I read somewhere that design and development started around 1996. Why it took so long. When completed it will be almost 20 years. Was there financial hurdles or a break in development. As you know recently we are in development of A2A missile and I am wondering what is an average time to develop this kind of missile. I hope we do not have to wait that long. Is the seeker copy of R77 or indigenous?