India successfully test fires nuclear capable Dhanush missile

[Sergi]

how abt this

Awesome

 

[Sergi]

No other Missile Exists.

The Ship is INS Subhadra, Sukanya Class OPV.

What are the other ship-launched ballistic missiles in the world ?

If you see it's just a mobile launcher on Land. It won't be too difficult to put it on ship. But I think it's only our need. No ore country in world seem to want such arrangement.


Have a look at this
(http://www.missilethreat.com/archives/id.60/subject_detail.asp)
Lockheed Continues Study of Ship-Launched Threat
November 9, 2005*::*UPI*::*News
Lockheed Martin continues its study on how to meet the threat of ship-launched ballistic missiles which could be delivered against a U.S. city from a ship or freighter a few hundred kilometers offshore, notes UPI. David Kier, Vice-President of Lockheed Martin’s Protection Division, is quoted as saying, “They don’t need intercontinental ballistic missile to attack us. An enemy could put a SCUD on a tramp steamer and launch it off the coast.” Kier’s remarks are similar to the warnings Donald Rumsfeld has made on a number of occasions.
******* In August 2005, Defense Daily quoted Kier as discussing Lockheed’s internal study to explore these threats. UPI’s story reports that Lockheed is furthermore working to

…to develop a system called Passive Coherent Locator (PCL) that could detect such a ship-launched missile and feed accurate tracking information into the existing national missile defense command-and-control system for a response.

The PCL system involves a network of sensors that could be operational from Washington to Boston within two years of government funding and along the entire U.S. coastline some years later.

Some 75 percent of the total U.S. population of 290 million people and 75 percent of its military bases are within 200 miles of the coast. The number of potential launch platforms is immense, with 130,000 registered merchant ships in 195 countries, NWIS said.

Thousands of SCUDs and other inexpensive short-range ballistic missiles have been dispersed, sold worldwide with some in countries where terrorist groups operate openly.

Iran test-launched a tactical ballistic missile from a ship last year and the threat has become much worse with the rapid proliferation of cruise missiles. China has already supplied many to Iran.

Some 70 countries already possess an estimated 75,000 anti-ship cruise missiles and many of them could be easily converted to land-attack weapons. At least 10 nations already have land-attack cruise missiles and their number is increasing, NWIS said. …

During congressional testimony early this year, Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry “Trey” Obering, director of the Missile Defense Agency, said he was “concerned about” the potential for a ship-launched missile attack on the United States. “There is a difference of opinion in terms of whether that constitutes a real threat, but that’s something I’m personally concerned about. So we’re working on it.”

More recently, Obering told reporters: “We launched a SCUD off an ocean-going platform … It was very easy to do.” …

Lockheed Martin’s PCL has received some assistance in system verification from the government, including defense agencies and NASA, Kier said.
******** The UPI story brings attention to important work being done to consider this near term threat. The story, however, seems to confuse the difference between ballistic missile and cruise missiles—although both could of course be launched from a ship.*(Article, Link)*

 

[sudhir007]

ye s***la ho kya raha hai. test per test...

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

What is the use of 350Km naval launched ballistic missile.

Even to use it on the harbor, the vessel will have to get 300 km range of the Target.

 

[Sergi]

What is the use of 350Km naval launched ballistic missile.

Even to use it on the harbor, the vessel will have to get 300 km range of the Target.

At 500 Kg war head. I read somewhere ( no sure where ) @120kg load missile is capable of going 500/600 Kms
Besides I think all Prithvi missile will finally be part of BMDS when all Agnis got inducted

 

[Safriz]

Looking at the size of the missile,,it looks like the ship can carry just one...

Looking at the size of the missile,,it looks like the ship can carry just one...

Looking at the size of the missile,,it looks like the ship can carry just one...

 

[Sergi]

What is the use of 350Km naval launched ballistic missile.

Even to use it on the harbor, the vessel will have to get 300 km range of the Target.

At 500 Kg war head. I read somewhere ( noT sure where ) @120kg load missile is capable of going 500/600 Kms
Besides I think all Prithvi missile will finally be part of BMDS when all Agnis got inducted

 

[Terminator]

Awesome

I am having a small doubt.....seems the word DHANUSH & IN-04 is Photoshopped if you observe carefully..

 

[Safriz]

What is the use of 350Km naval launched ballistic missile.

Even to use it on the harbor, the vessel will have to get 300 km range of the Target.

ballistic missiles are far more difficult to be intercepted than a cruise missile...
selection of missile depends on ow the target is defended or where its located..
There is no such thing as a useless missile...

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

ballistic missiles are far more difficult to be intercepted than a cruise missile...
selection of missile depends on ow the target is defended or where its located..
There is no such thing as a useless missile...

In theory, but practically this didn't happen

 

[Sergi]

I am having a small doubt.....seems the word DHANUSH & IN-04 is Photoshopped if you observe carefully..

Do we have any other ship launch missile ??? So it's definatly that and it looks good to me

 

[Imran Khan]

Dhanush is ship-launched ballistic missile, naval version of Prithvi-III/SS-350.

helipad of ship no more?

 

[Sergi]

Looking at the size of the missile,,it looks like the ship can carry just one...

Looking at the size of the missile,,it looks like the ship can carry just one...

Looking at the size of the missile,,it looks like the ship can carry just one...

P-3 weights around 5.6 tonnes. I think ships like subhadra can carry more of these. And its test so you are seeing one missile there. I think when system got ready it will have launch like harpoon ( my guess )

 

[r1MM0n]

 

[Marwari]

Prototype of Dhanush (Arrow) from Bharat Dynamics