Crucial Indian Cruise Missile Tests In A Year.

[ganimi kawa]

AERO INDIA: Crucial Indian Cruise Missile Tests In A Year
(From livefist)

India's Nirbhay subsonic medium range cruise missile (MRCM) was supposed to have been visible this year at Aero India. Unfortunately it isn't. However, the programme is finally all set for its first test flight early next year. I asked DRDO chief VK Saraswat about the programme. He said, "The missile is under integration. All systems, subsystems, software for guidance and control etc are ready."

(That means we have an indegenious engine ready for cruise missiles! )

On the little-known high supersonic long-range cruise missile (LRCM - image above) revealed first here on Livefist, Dr Saraswat said a first flight of India's scramjet-powered hypersonic test demonstration platform would be tested at an altitude of 30-km and speed of 7 Mach early next year.

 

[Agnostic_Indian]

what is the name and range of this supersonic cruise missile ?

 

[bhagat]

Wow that really great news…hoping for big success ……….

 

[tallboy123]

The range of nirbhay will be 1000km..Nuclear capable,stealth,terrain hugging and can be launched from MKI

 

[Agnostic_Indian]

The range of nirbhay will be 1000km..Nuclear capable,stealth,terrain hugging and can be launched from MKI

i was asking about the supersonic missile.

 

[killeragent]

The range of nirbhay will be 1000km..Nuclear capable,stealth,terrain hugging and can be launched from MKI

What


On Mki, it would be like press the button and go to sleep..
Indeed Nightmare for enemies..

 

[faithfulguy]

What


On Mki, it would be like press the button and go to sleep..
Indeed Nightmare for enemies..

Almost every major military has cruise missile over 1K. km. Don't be too proud. Look at what your competitiors are doing as well. Military strategy is a chess match. Everyone must predict and successfully counter the opposition in order to fight the next day.

 

[farhan_9909]

well congrats

bt this is its first test so expect atleast 5-7 fail launches before induction

 

[rockstarIN]

It is hyper sonic, i feel

 

[killeragent]

Almost every major military has cruise missile over 1K. km. Don't be too proud. Look at what your competitiors are doing as well. Military strategy is a chess match. Everyone must predict and successfully counter the opposition in order to fight the next day.

Read again..And now think..who is enemy No 1 of India...Do they have it...

And other part...Does every Military has an Airforce wing having Cruise missile attached to its Fighter jets,..

You need to be good reader man..

 

[Skull and Bones]

well congrats

bt this is its first test so expect atleast 5-7 fail launches before induction

We are not afraid of failures.
Atleast our intentions are progressing in the right direction......

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison

 

[tallboy123]

Almost every major military has cruise missile over 1K. km. Don't be too proud. Look at what your competitiors are doing as well. Military strategy is a chess match. Everyone must predict and successfully counter the opposition in order to fight the next day.

who is our no 1 enemy?
Do they have 1000km cruise missile.
Is it air launched?
For our 2nd enemy,we have supersonic missile on mki it will be unveiled in 2012

 

[blackops]

well congrats

bt this is its first test so expect atleast 5-7 fail launches before induction

yes we may fail and we accept it not like others who have failed many times but yet not accept it
period

 

[blackops]

and i will also be waiting for agni v launch that is also very important
sorry for of topic

 

[zombieland]

As per one of the comments posted by one Indian on the live fist blog.

Excellent scoop!

The missile appears to be a huge fuel tank propelled by two ramjet engines.

The design approach is evolutionary, almost crude, with DRDO apparently relying on the technology that it has acquired from Russia under the Brahmos co-production deal.

It is likely the engine for the LRCM will be a derivative of the ramje6t engine that powers the Brahmos.

The use of twin engines reduces SFC, which is already grim in a ramjet engine. The missile will be mostly gas, pun not intended.

DRDO obviously does not have the confidence, or the proven expertise, to design a large enough ramjet, or a jet, suitable for a long range supersonic missile from scratch, hence the huge compromise.

The use of two engines rules out the proven circular centerline air intake of the brahmos, which is why the DRDO schematic makes a big deal out of developing "Air Frame Integrated Air Intakes."

DRDO has no proven expertise in air intakes for a mach 3.2 class airframe to fall back upon. Its starting point could well be a close study of the MiG-25 air intakes. The aircraft has been phased out from IAF but they are lying around in parks.

There are downsides to the evolutionary approach that DRDO is adopting.

The Brahmos has a much larger cross sectional area than contemporary cruise missiles (660mm against 520mm for the tomahawk). Consequently, it has a much larger radar signature.

While Brahmos' supersonic speed reduces the time available to the target defenses, especially the human element within them, its greater radar signature mitigates the threat by allowing for earlier detection that a Tomahawk type missile.

With its considerably larger size, the LRCM is going to be picked up even earlier than a Brahmos. It is moot if its size will be large enough to completely negate the advantage of its supersonic speed.