India tests hypersonic vehicle

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

India has issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) for a launch of an experimental flight vehicle in the Bay of Bengal for the period from 20nd to 22nd August 2020 for the area around 550km which is quite similar to the one which was issued last year before it successfully tested indigenously-developed Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV).

Integrated Test Range (ITR) on Abdul Kalam Island in the Bay of Bengal will be used to test an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic speed flight, which can cruise at speed of Mach 6 and move up to an altitude of 32.5 kilometers in 20 seconds. DRDO Scientist back in 2019 has said second trials will happen in less than 6 months but that didn’t happen for some reason.

HSTDV is mounted on an Agni-I missile platform but some reports hint that the last in the missile test, Agni-I missile did not perform as required leading to partial success but other reports dismissed claims of partial success as rumors and claimed that the missile was successfully launched” and the data collected will be analysed to “validate critical technologies”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1293230464761647104

 

[arjunk]

All we need is a hot girl on facebook to steal those missile documents... Or ask the Chinese for a missile tutorial.

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

Tested!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1302855419270844424

https://twitter.com/x/status/1302855421397364736

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

From a DRDO Release last year:

The HSTDV is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic speed flight, it can cruise at a speed of mach 6 and move up to an altitude of 32.5 km (20 miles) in 20 seconds, the sources said. Besides its utility for long-range cruise missiles of the future, the dual-use technology will have multiple civilian applications also. It can be used for launching satellites at low cost too, they added.

 

[Aryan0395]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1302863224988082181

 

[Tair-Lahoti]

India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted a test launch of the Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV).

The HSTDV hypersonic missile demonstrator was successfully launched at 1127 Hours on June 12 from Launch Pad 4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) on Dr Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha.

HSTDV is powered by a scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) engine which enables it to cruise at Mach 6 (six times the speed of sound). Since ramjet engines can only work at higher speeds, the HSTDV vehicle is mounted on a solid rocket motor, which will take it to a required altitude and speed. When the vehicle attains sufficient speed, it will be released from the launch vehicle.

Various radars, telemetry stations and electro optical tracking sensors tracked the vehicle through its course and the data has been collected and will be analysed to validate the critical technologies, said an Indian Ministry of Defence statement.

The test flight was conducted to prove a number of critical technologies for futuristic missions, the statement added.

With the test flight, Indian joined an elite league of four nations with capability to develop hypersonic missiles with the others being USA, Russia and China.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Indian version is different than Chinese version, which is a waverider glider.

Scramjet takes up additional room in the vehicle for the airbreathing engine and limits its altitude to those at which airbreathing engines can work at. Gliders don't have their own power, but still can reach very high speeds from gravity alone after being boosted, and have the advantage of being all payload.

 

[Novice09]

 

[RPK]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=312392396711459

 

[GumNaam]

looks very puny... looks like no payload

 

[Chhatrapati]

looks very puny... looks like no payload

It's a scaled model genius.

 

[GumNaam]

It's a scaled model genius.

you do know that I was referring to the video genius!

 

[Novice09]

looks very puny... looks like no payload

TROLLING...

... this is a TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATOR...

 

[GumNaam]

TROLLING...

... this is a TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATOR...

yawn..

 

[Novice09]