DRDO radies for SLBM test

[Kinetic]

Its most probably K-4 as reported by India Today earlier. I hope it is K-4 test. A 3500 km SLBM will be the base of our second strike capabilities. But the reporter needs to update himself. Arihant is already under sea trail as said by the Western Naval command chief during interview on Navy Day (4th December). It will be inducted into the Navy in 2012 as per Navy chief. All the best for the test.

India is developing a loner version of K-4 with 5000 km range.


DRDO readies underwater missile test-fire

Hemant Kumar Rout
Express News Service
First Published : 28 Dec 2010 02:58:14 AM IST
Last Updated : 28 Dec 2010 09:40:33 AM IST

BALASORE: AFTER the success of Prithvi-II, the DRDO is planning to test-fire a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from an underwater platform off the Andhra Pradesh coast in January.

While no one would elaborate whether it would be K-4 or K-15 missile, sources at the Chandipur base said preparations were on for the test. The missile has been planned to be launched from a Pontoon (replica of a submarine) which is being readied.

Both the missiles are submarine launched and ready for a trial. While K-15 has a strike range of about 700 km, K-4 will hit the target 3,500 km away. Land version of the missile has been renamed as Shaurya which has already been tested once at Chandipur in 2008.

The Pontoon is, however, used to test the K missiles because India does not have an operational submarine capable to undertake firing of such missiles.

Though India has developed the advanced technology vehicle (ATV) INS Arihant, it is yet to begin sea trials or even fire up nuclear reactor.

Missile tests will follow after the submarine completes the sea trials. So far, K-15 missile has been tested successfully six times. The K-4, though, has been tested only once in January this year and it was a secret mission.

It will go under at least six more tests before being deployed. “The name of the missile has been kept ‘K’ in the honour of former President A P J Abdul Kalam, father of Indian missiles,” said a source.

Developed by DRDO, K-15 is about 10 metres in length and about one metre in diameter with a launch weight of about 10 tonnes.This missile uses solid propellant.

It can carry a conventional payload of about 500 kg and also be fitted with tactical nuclear warhead.

DRDO readies underwater missile test-fire | DRDO | SLBM | Indian Express

 

[AMCA]

Hope to be K-4, the 3500Km ranged SLBM

 

[Kinetic]

Instead of asking about Arihant she is asking for Akula!! But the Vice-Admiral hit it rite.


‘Guarding our 7,600-km coastline is a challenge’

December 02, 2010
Mumbai

In an exclusive interview with the Hindustan Times, Vice-Admiral Sanjeev Bhasin, flag officer commanding in chief of the Western Naval Command, said securing India’s western coast is the Navy’s biggest challenge.

India has a huge coastline, stretching 7,600 km, and we have island territories as well. We, along with the Coast Guard, have fortified patrolling. But there are grey areas where landings can be carried out because the state governments concerned had not kept them under surveillance till 26/11 occurred.

A detailed plan has been chalked out with the Coast Guard and the Director General of Lighthouses to revive lighthouses and set up 30 radar stations along the western coast.

Trials of two such radar stations have started at Okha and Kandla in Gujarat.

The Navy has found it tough to monitor fishing boats.
This is a weakness identified [and exploited] by the terrorists. About 30,000 fishing boats are registered in Gujarat, 20,000 in Maharashtra, 20,000 in Karnataka and 2,000 in Goa.

Radar stations fitted with the Automatic Identification System (AIS) have been planned along the coast.

AIS devices will also be installed on these vessels. It is a massive problem and it cannot be taken care of only by the Navy and Coast Guard.

We need fishermen’s cooperation; we want them to be our eyes and ears. They have been very cooperative.

What new inductions has the Navy lined and when are they expected to join the fleet?
There are 39 ships on order; 34 of them will be made indigenously. Over the next two years, we’ll see the induction of three ships in the Shivalik, Talwar and Kolkata class of destroyers.

Two fleet tankers, Deepak and Shakti, are being made in Italy. The first one will be here this month. Apart from that, there are two survey ships being built indigenously. There has been some delay in the Scorpene submarine project, but we should see it commissioned by 2015.

When is the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, renamed Vikramaditya, and the indigenously built aircraft carrier expected to join the fleet?
Vikramaditya’s sea trials are scheduled to start in March 2011. It will join the western fleet by the end of 2012. Six MIG 29K’s — fighter aircraft — that will operate from the carrier are already flying from [the] Goa [naval base].

We will get the remaining aircraft in knock-down state soon and will assemble them at Goa. As far as the indigenously built carrier is concerned, work is on at the Cochin shipyard.

It will be equipped to handle both the MiG 29Ks and the naval version of the indigenously built Light Combat Aircraft. We expect the carrier to be commissioned by 2014.

How do you plan to prop up the naval aviation wing, which was recently criticised by the Comptroller and Auditor General for using non-operational aircraft?
We will have eight Boeing P8I aircraft [for long-range maritime reconnaissance] by January 2013.

We plan to buy four more. A global request for information [the first stage of procurement] has been floated to procure 56 Naval Utility Helicopters to replace the Chetak helicopters. We are also looking at replacing the anti-submarine warfare helicopter, Seaking.


When will we have the nuclear submarine that is being leased from Russia? How will it bolster our submarine capability?
Before getting to the leased submarine, we have our own indigenously built submarine, INS Arihant. Extensive sea trials are on.

As far as the Akula-II class submarines, we plan to name it INS Chakra, and we should have it shortly.

?Guarding our 7,600-km coastline is a challenge? - Hindustan Times

 

[Kinetic]

K-15: Shaurya is the land version of K-15.
Range : 750 km with 1000 kg warhead.
Length: 10 M


K-4:
Range: 3500 km with 1000 kg warhead
Length: 10 m.


Shaurya missile
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[Hindutvadi]

Missile tests will follow after the submarine completes the sea trials. So far, K-15 missile has been tested successfully six times. The K-4, though, has been tested only once in January this year and it was a secret mission.

But sir..i have read that before conducting missile tests we must inform pak and vice versa. Is it not mandatory now? Or is it only for nuclear test?

 

[macho ki macho]

It will be definitely K-4 missile test.

And I speak that with certain authority.

 

[Markus]

It will be definitely K-4 missile test.

And I speak that with certain authority.

Nobody can speak with authority in an anonymous forum.

Anyways, yes, hopefully it will be the K4.

 

[MZUBAIR]

How many of Indian missiles hav passed their tests????

 

[macho ki macho]

Indian SLBM passed 100%.

6 out of 6 tests were success for Indian SLBM K-15.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagarika_(missile)

And 1 out of 1 test of 3500 km k-4 was also tested

 

[AMCA]

How many of Indian missiles hav passed their tests????

No Indian Missiles have failed..... When testing it for a Certain Parameters Has it Failed, and that too Not after getting it Inducted... As Far as You ask me hoe many Indian Missiles have passed.... Here are the Lists...

Prithvi 1
Prithvi II
Agni I
Agni II
Agni III
Shaurya
Akash
Nag
K-15 SLBM
K-14 SLBM
Astra BVRM
AAD
PAD

 

[Ammyy]

Indian SLBM passed 100%.

6 out of 6 tests were success for Indian SLBM K-15.

Common yar success and failure is a part of development

And only those who producing their own missiles know that so just ignore the troll

 

[Kinetic]

But sir..i have read that before conducting missile tests we must inform pak and vice versa. Is it not mandatory now? Or is it only for nuclear test?

When it is secret I think its secret. Many K-15 missiles were fired under the name of Prithvi tests.

Eagerly waiting for the test and pic. A long range SLBM is a new era for Indian second strike capability.

 

[macho ki macho]

I tell you a little secret.

If the missile is tested at chandipore, its Prithvi. If its tested from Vishakhapatnam, its definitly K- series.

 

[AMCA]

I tell you a little secret.

If the missile is tested at chandipore, its Prithvi. If its tested from Vishakhapatnam, its definitly K- series.

The Topic Dosent discuss about land based Missiles at all..... Its an SLBM and its confirmed, the only doubt is , if its Sagarika or the K-4....

 

[macho ki macho]

My response was against this notion

Many K-15 missiles were fired under the name of Prithvi tests.