DRDO's HSTDV ground test

[Kinetic]

DRDO's hypersonic vehicle ground test. HSTDV is on its way....

@AUz Check this out.

 

[John Reese]

 

[kmc_chacko]

Great going

 

[Kinetic]

It will bring all of their SAM systems obsolete.

 

[Super Commando Dhruva]

!!!!Dammmm son. !!!!!

 

[kṣamā]

Donn worry one of our friends will claim its RAW conspiracy and other will post articles from his country claiming to have done it in 90s

 

[Kinetic]

Donn worry one of our friends will claim its RAW conspiracy and other will post articles from his country claiming to have done it in 90s

They do not have a single test facility but will claim tall from Chinese products. @AUz all of these will hunt you, so find you rat hole soon

Hypersonic wind tunnel

Another hypersonic vehicle:

Another one:

DRDO's

Brahmos

 

[kṣamā]

So basically this thread is Indian Hypersonic Vehicle **** Thread...

And amazingly none of the usual suspects have shown up. Remarkable isn't it...

@Kinetic: Bro do you know why this thread is so vanilla?

 

[#hydra#]

@faithfulguy

 

[Sankpal]

greatttttt

 

[SorryNotSorry]

wooohooo!! awesome news

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

DRDO's hypersonic vehicle ground test. HSTDV is on its way....

@AUz Check this out.

I don't understand this test. What are they trying to do with a rocket on a rail?

 

[Nilgiri]

I don't understand this test. What are they trying to do with a rocket on a rail?

Its to have a reliable way of creating the high velocities needed for technology validation (such as scramjet inlet compression).

Here is an old school paper on it:

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/718664.pdf

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Its to have a reliable way of creating the high velocities needed for technology validation (such as scramjet inlet compression).

Here is an old school paper on it:

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/718664.pdf

Can you explain to me in detail what they are trying to do?

To me I can't fathom that railway tracks will create anywhere near the said high velocities.

 

[Nilgiri]

Can you explain to me in detail what they are trying to do?

To me I can't fathom that railway tracks will create anywhere near the said high velocities.

Railway track is a way to enforce a controlled (linear) test.

The rockets give the short high impulse burn to achieve the mach 5+ speeds of interest.

At the speed of interest, fairings are separated and data collected from the instrumentation behind say the inlet geometry being tested.

You can also do impact tests, ejection tests etc etc anything where you need final step validation after the iterative steps using a wind tunnel/CAD.

The Holloman rocket sled track is probably one of the most well known: