BREAKING: DRDO test fires cruise missile Nirbhay from a defence range off Odisha coast.

[jaiind]

Oh good, it's a very long missile..
Any idea about cost

no idea about its cost,yar

where are those babur-e-azams ???

 

[proud_indian]

https://twitter.com/x/status/927866415792525313

https://twitter.com/x/status/927884347893354497

 

[kaykay]

Nose seems to be modified a bit. Anyway congratulations for this and good luck for other planned tests in next 2-3 days.

 

[punit]

Finally

 

[jaiind]

its full range of target intercept is 1500 km!!

 

[ranadd]

3 days of testing?

Looks like they have made a batch or three already. Testing procedures do not allow continuous testing from the same batch. Sweet!!!.

2 days to go.

No news about low altitude testing yet.

650km range, actually reduced range. Is it because of new turbojet engine?

There is no need to test the missile in full range every time. Since this looks like a declared 3 day test, they will test it maybe once.

The open declaration of 3 days looks very interesting. Only if they have enough confidence and to make up the past 3 failed tests.

 

[proud_indian]

Nose seems to be modified a bit. Anyway congratulations for this and good luck for other planned tests in next 2-3 days.

good observation

Old Nirbhay

Latest Test

 

[Yaseen1]

world powers are moving to railguns and future missiles will not use burning fuel but will move with electromagnetic force and much faster than current missiles but india is testing very old technology

 

[jaiind]

https://twitter.com/x/status/927896711271301120

world powers are moving to railguns and future missiles will not use burning fuel but will move with electromagnetic force and much faster than current missiles but india is testing very old technology

 

[ranadd]

world powers are moving to railguns and future missiles will not use burning fuel but will move with electromagnetic force and much faster than current missiles but india is testing very old technology

India happens to be one of the few countries with active development & testing for directed energy weapons, hyper sonic missiles and rail guns.

Perhaps a quick search in pdf.

 

[ashok321]

There are many armchair generals here, those who know nothing of how a cruise missiles or ATGMs work. I had asked a simple question about the following and nobody came forward with an answer:

Yet here I see a know-nothing motley crowd who brag without relevant or adequate knowledge (mostly Indians who tom-tom)

 

[ni8mare]

world powers are moving to railguns and future missiles will not use burning fuel but will move with electromagnetic force and much faster than current missiles but india is testing very old technology

With the upgradation of Hypervelocity tunnel facility, ARDE's ambitious Electro Magnetic Gun project is on a fast track. Assembly of two Railguns of 12 mm and 30 mm Square Bore, test firing of 12 mm Railgun and layout for 1.6 MJ Capacitor bank has been completed, and the target is to fire a 1 kg projectile with a velocity of more than 2000 m/s with a capacitor bank of 10 MJ.

https://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/labs1/ARDE/English/indexnew.jsp?pg=dir-profile.jsp

 

[proud_indian]

Posting an old but informative article about Nirbhay

Nirbhay Cruise Missile Family Finally Revealed!

The topmost schematic shows the 1,200km-range subsonic Nirbhay nuclear-armed cruise missile, which will be available in both air-launched and submarine-launched versions. The ALCM version (minus the solid-rocket booster) will be qualified for use by 20 specially customised Su-30MKIs, while the SLCM variant (incorporating the solid-rocket booster) will go on board the S-2, S-3 and S-4 SSBNs. The air-launched and nuclear-armed Nirbhay will have an estimated length of 6 metres, diameter of 0.55 metres, wingspan of 2.7 metres, launch mass of 1,200kg, cruise speed of Mach 0.7, and a 250kg warhead-section. Its cruising altitude over water will be 10 metres (33 feet), while its cruising altitude over land will be 30 metres (98 feet). The MoD-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd’s (HAL) Bengaluru-based Engine Test Bed Research & Development Centre (ETBRDC) has developed a turbofan (see below) for powering all members of the Nirbhay cruise missile family.

A hybrid inertial navigation system using a ring-laser gyro (RINS) coupled with a GPS receiver and a digital radar altimeter (all developed by the DRDO’s Research centre Imarat, or RCI, and integrated jointly by the Advanced Systems Laboratory, or ASL, and the Aeronautical Development Establishment, or ADE) will provide a CEP of 20 metres. All on-board avionics, inclusive of the ones mentioned above, plus the mission computer and missile interface unit, have been developed as spinoffs from the BrahMos-1 supersonic multi-role cruise missile’s R & D cycle, which lasted between 1998 and 2005. While the ASQRs and NSQRs for the nuclear-armed Nirbhay were drafted by 2005, hands-on R & D work began in only 2007, with all R & D-related activity due for completion by late 2014.

A spinoff from this programme is the development of a smaller, conventional warhead-armed air-launched subsonic variant of Nirbhay (see illustrations above) with a range of 750km, which will be qualified for launch from combat aircraft like the DARIN 3-standard Jaguar IS as well as Rafale M-MRCA. Presently, there are no plans for developing warship-launched/submarine-launched/surface-launched versions of this missile, which will have an estimated length of 6.2 metres, diameter of 0.6 metres, launch mass of 1,350kg, a 400kg HE blast-fragmentation warhead, cruising altitude of 20 metres over land, cruise speed of 240 metres/second, target aspect angle of +/-180 degrees, and a launch altitude varying between 500 metres and 11,000 metres. The hybrid inertial navigation system will ensure autonomous navigation via at least 15 waypoints, while for terminal guidance, use will be made of a noise-immune guidance system that will employ an X-band monopulse SAR radar similar to the one now being developed for the Prahaar NLOS-BSM. The conventionally-armed ALCM variant of Nirbhay will be procured by both the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy.

Following the entry into service of the nuclear-armed Nirbhay’s ALCM and SLCM versions, India’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC) will have at its disposal four distinct types of highly survivable nuclear warhead delivery systems that will be optimised for retaliatory nuclear strikes, these being the 4,500km-range SLBM now under development, the 600km-range air-launched supersonic LRCM that is also now under development (for delivering tactical nuclear warheads), plus the Nirbhay’s ALCM and SLCM versions, both of which will be able to deliver boosted-fission nuclear warheads.

For conventional strikes in-depth, precision-strike cruise missiles presently available to India for land-attack comprise the land-launched BrahMos-1’s 290km-range Block-2 and 550km-range Block-3 (for the Indian Army), and 290km-range Novator 3M-14Es that can be launched by both principal surface combatants (the three Project 17 FFGs and three Project 1135.6 Batch -1 FFGs) and by five of the Navy’s nine remaining Type 877EKM SSKs.

https://trishul-trident.blogspot.in/2012/12/nirbhay-cruise-missile-family-finally.html

 

[HariPrasad]

Congrats for firing a sub-Sonic cruise missile after many failures, by the way where it lands this time? is it predesignated area or missile land as per its own intelligence.
Isn't it ironic India claims to have developed (A Russian Yakont) super-sonic missile long ago but it took many years with failure to develop less advanced sub-sonic missile.

You can think anything . Your whine do not count. We are all set to get best in class capability in the area.

 

[BABA AGHORI]

world powers are moving to railguns and future missiles will not use burning fuel but will move with electromagnetic force and much faster than current missiles but india is testing very old technology

Hey Einstine...
Railguns throw projectiles, There is a difference between something that can cruise and do the mid-flight course corrections.

There are many armchair generals here, those who know nothing of how a cruise missiles or ATGMs work. I had asked a simple question about the following and nobody came forward with an answer:

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Yet here I see a know-nothing motley crowd who brag without relevant or adequate knowledge (mostly Indians who tom-tom)

Between the cap and golden ring.