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Date : Apr 26 2014

Missile : Akash SAM

Location: Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha.

Test Frequency: User trials

Performance :

The ground-to-air missiles, which hit their targets flying 25 km away. While one missile tore apart an incoming target towed by Lakshya, a pilotless target aircraft (PTA), another took apart a receding target, again trailed by Lakshya. The IAF personnel operated the entire Akash system including the targets.

The missiles intercepted their targets at high altitudes and when they were travelling fast. “We destroyed both the targets. The second one was a far-boundary, receding target and so difficult to intercept”, he said. On April 23 also, the IAF had successfully test-fired an Akash.

Result: Success

Source:

Two Akash missiles tested - The Hindu


Date : Apr 27 2014

Missile : Prithvi Air Defence

Location: Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island, Odisha.

Test Frequency: Development trials

Performance :

The interceptions had taken place either in the endo-atmosphere (below 50 km) or in the exo-atmosphere (between 50 km and 80 km). But this mission was a different ball game because the interception was to be done at 120 km, providing very little time for the interceptor to blast off and waylay the attacker. So the motors in the interceptor called the Prithvi Defence Vehicle (PDV) and the target missile were specially developed. The target missile lifted off a ship in the Bay of Bengal, off Odisha at 9.07 a.m. It was a two-stage missile, “mimicking a hostile ballistic missile approaching from more than 2,000 km away,” a DRDO press release said.

In an automated operation, radar-based systems on the Wheeler Island and in Paradip, Puri and Cuttack detected and tracked the “enemy” missile. The computer network, with the help of data from the radars, predicted its trajectory. The single-stage PDV interceptor took off two-and-a-half minutes later.

The PDV, guided by the highly accurate inertial navigation system and supported by a redundant micro-navigation system, moved towards the point of interception. Once the PDV crossed the atmosphere, its heat shield domes covering the IR and radio frequency (RF) seekers fell off. So the two seeker domes opened to look at the incoming missile’s location. With the help of inertial guidance and the IR seeker, the PDV moved for the interception. “The mission was completed and the interception parameters were achieved,”

Result: Success

Source:


Interceptor spot on, though without blast: DRDO - The Hindu
 
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Date : May 1 & 2 2014

Missile : Akash SAM

Location: Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha.

Test Frequency: User trials

Performance :

The missile with a strike range of 25 km and capability to carry warhead of 60 kg, was test fired for the second consecutive day at about 2.28pm from launch complex-3 of the ITR, defence sources said.

Akash, which aimed at a para-barrel target during the trial, is a medium range surface-to-air anti-aircraft defence system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme.

Result: Success

Source:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Akash-missile-successfully-test-fired-for-second-day-in-a-row/articleshow/34538903.cms
 
@faithfulguy

Indian Akash missile already uses Ramjet engines.

Indian LRCM ,powered by LFRJ and have range of 600-1000 kms.First test in 2014

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DRDO Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator vehicle HSTDV,to fly on 2014,and uses a scramjet.

FUTURE STRIKE: India's hypersonic vehicle (HSTDV) ready for ground tests

Scramjet is already ground tested,by DRDO.

And ISRO has already tested a passive scramjet module in 2012,and would do it in 2014 with a new sounding rocket.
It was ground tested back in 2006.
The Hindu Business Line : Scramjet: ISRO makes major breakthrough

would it be tested in 2014?
 
Date : May 28 2014

Missile : Akash SAM

Location: Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha.

Test Frequency: User trials

Performance :

Three Akash missiles were launched from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, on tow body target of Lakshya pilotless target aircraft (PTA) moving at "low altitude for boundary" and ripple mode missions.

"The missiles intercepted the fast moving and manoeuvring small RCS (radar cross section) targets within small interval of five seconds in ripple mode," said Ravi Kumar Gupta, Director, Directorate of Public Interface, Defence Research and Development Organisation( DRDO).

Result: Success

Source:

DRDO Successfully Test-Fires Akash Air Defence Missiles
 
Date : May 29 2014

Missile : Pinaka Multi-barrel rocket system

Location: Proof and Experimental Establishment at Chandipur. Odisha

Test Frequency: Three rounds of the Pinaka rockets were test fired

Performance :

“It was a routine evaluation test. Three rounds of rockets were launched successfully,” test range director M.V.K.V. Prasad said.


Result: Success

'Pinaka' tested successfully in Odisha - OdishaSunTimes.com
 
Date : June 9 2014

Missile : BrahMos -Naval Version

Location: from INS Kolkata in the Arabian Sea(near Karwar (Karnataka)).

Test Frequency: Test launch

Performance :

"Brahmos' representatives successfully conducted the installation test-firing of the cruise missile from the launcher in coordination with the Mumbai-based Mazagon Dockyard Ltd, which built the warship," a senior naval official told


Result: Success

http://www.aajkikhabar.com/News/National/Brahmos-missile-test-fired-from-new-warship/765094.html
 
Date : June 18 2014

Missile : Akash SAM

Location: Integrated Test Range, Balasore, Odisha.

Test Frequency: Induction trials

Performance :

The supersonic missile intercepted the very small unmanned fast moving Banshee aerial vehicle at 30 m altitude above sea level proving the system capability against subsonic cruise missile. The sophisticated multi-function radar with built in features tracked the low flying target continuously throughout its course. Special algorithms / techniques developed by DRDO for overcoming the multiple target reflections coming from the sea worked perfectly in the mission. With this flight trial, Indian Army accomplishes all the validation trials on the first off production models and the system is being delivered for induction.


Result: Success

Source:
Akash Missile Flight Tested Successfully from Odisha coast, Odisha Current News, Odisha Latest Headlines
 

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