This indeed is! Fantastic pics dude.
I have poseted some time back about the scramjet test that Australian did recently. Good to see that we have a program for this as well.
Prithvii Engine snaps are also very good.
Thanks for posting nice pics!
Kashif
And if you dont know, that Australian Scramjet programme is being spearheaded by an Indian. We have Scramjet programme from long time, NAL archives of 1998 mentions the same.
Dude you have gotta put more info there........At the moment it looks like a insurance seminar
I spotted the NAG missile there...I thought it was binned?
The pictures are self explanatory key, There are two Scramjet programme going on, one with DRDO another with ISRO, ISRO is colaborating with NAL and DRDO is doing the save with pvt institutions. DRDO's programme calls for developement of HSTDV while ISRO's programme calls for developement of RLV, preliinary tests maybe done with one configuration first. This year ISRO's annual report mentions final delivery of DMRJ-FTD (dfual mode Ram-Scram engine), it will be flown on a sounding rocket. Full scale RLVis far away for now.
HSTDV will be tested next year as per flight globals recent report.
NAG has not been binned, but there has been controversy, Again the arms lobby at work, Nag has gone through 56 successful Trials (MOd Report)
NAG has a tandem warhead designed to defeat Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA) protected Main Battle Tank’s (MBT) in both top and front attack modes. The warhead has been proved against ERA protected Reactive Hull Armor (RHA) target at various angles of attack viz 45 degree, 65 degree and 67 degree.
In addition a 2 dimensional thermal infrared target has been developed for NAG trials. Imaging infrared (IIR) seeker based filtering, guidence and control system design methodolgy has been established for NAG ATMG land system.
The Nag Missile Carrier (NAMICA) version NAG Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATMG) has also been tested against tank turret with zero miss distance. Commander cupola of NAMICA also has a remote controlled firing station for 7.62mm gun . It uses an electro mechanical drive for providing gun laying in elevation and azimuth. NAMICA MK-II nowfeatures an automatic NBC system.
NAG also features composite and fully glass-fibre made airframe, ablative components, wings and fins.
The controversy regarding Nag is Army's fetish to want the best in the world, nowhere in this world weapons developement happens this way, They want a 7km variant when Nag has some 4~5 kms range, inspite of DRDO's promise of a delivery of 7km Nag 2 after inductance.
The controversy was around Air launched Nag and not ground launched one.
Increase in range in airborne Nag, from 5 to 7 Km, DRDO will have to redesign the entire propulsion...because dimensions will ALSO have to be kept constant for carriage in sufficient numbers on ALH..
The Nag uses TVC, wonder if that will be retained. There is a spinoff on every thing involved in the complete Nag system which has been painstakingly developed locally.
7Km, so the sensor must be able to ID at 1.5 x the range and lock on for launch of the Nag, this substantial change in range requirements from 5 to 7km because the Pakistanis have manpads in number. The IA and IAF dont give a damn, the Thermal Imager for the Nags HELITIS imaging system was going to be Indian. Now they might have to import it, to get the desired range, or perhaps even evaluate radars. (Note 3rd gen ITT for TI is made by only 4 firms worldwide)
So it is not yet known if Army has changed QGSR for air launched Nag or not, Ground launched Nag have been accepted, infact already in service with some more user trials might happen incase the MMW seeker comes online which wasnt needed though.
joey dude i had repped you. Anyways since word matters more, the pics are good, wud be even more beter if you could paste some more details about this HSTDV.
See above, and the images are self-Explanatory. They are contructiing massive test facilities while they are being constructed they will do their tests in laboratories abroad.
I thought this is incredibly Good show.
