Indian Missiles - News, Developments, Tests, and Discussions

[kaykay]

Among all, Project Pralay is very interesting. Past DRDO chief also said in an interview about Indigenous anti ship ballistic missile and here we go.

 

[Ankit Kumar 002]

https://twitter.com/x/status/778122526295818240

 

[MilSpec]

What happened to these ones

https://defence.pk/threads/new-weap...ruise-missile-to-be-tested-this-month.402124/

 

[enquencher]

https://twitter.com/x/status/778122526295818240

Dnt wori nasar test is coming haha

 

[jha]

What happened to these ones

https://defence.pk/threads/new-weap...ruise-missile-to-be-tested-this-month.402124/

Yes... Whatever happened to these three missiles ? Were supposed to be tested last year.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Here is another futuristic missile system, I would like to see.

A reusable drone missile, packed with latest avionics and seekers. It will work in a pack of missiles and share data with Alpha missile. Alpha missile controls and assigns Mission to others in pack. It's sole objective is to hunt down and destroy low flying cruise missile and aircraft.

Alpha missile will gather and share Intel with its base. Alpha can be assigned a mission either from its base or can be controlled by a friendly aircraft. It will be highly effective with LCA as point defence role.

It will be a two stage missile, first stage will allow the missile to loiter at very low speeds while scanning for danger. Once a target is tracked, Alpha missile quickly assigns 2-3 of closest missiles to target to home in using a mach 4+ motor and destroy the target.

RMD (reusable missile defence) should be able to loiter for more than 5 hours.
If, while loitering, no target is tracked, the missile will parachute down and return to base for refuelling.

It will be a very low cost and highly effective platform compare to drones. Not to mention very very quick response.


What do you guys think?


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Source: https://defence.pk/threads/2nd-ship...-be-launched-on-sept-17.449236/#ixzz4Km7fsr7Z

If you put in avionics and seeker, it will not be low cost for sure.

 

[migflug]

Prasar Bharati ‏@prasarbharati 1h1 hour ago
Barak-8 Test Fired !! India successfully test-fires its most advanced Surface-to-Air Missile 'Barak-8' off the #Odisha coast.

 

[AMCA]

Here is another futuristic missile system, I would like to see.

A reusable drone missile, packed with latest avionics and seekers. It will work in a pack of missiles and share data with Alpha missile. Alpha missile controls and assigns Mission to others in pack. It's sole objective is to hunt down and destroy low flying cruise missile and aircraft.

Alpha missile will gather and share Intel with its base. Alpha can be assigned a mission either from its base or can be controlled by a friendly aircraft. It will be highly effective with LCA as point defence role.

It will be a two stage missile, first stage will allow the missile to loiter at very low speeds while scanning for danger. Once a target is tracked, Alpha missile quickly assigns 2-3 of closest missiles to target to home in using a mach 4+ motor and destroy the target.

RMD (reusable missile defence) should be able to loiter for more than 5 hours.
If, while loitering, no target is tracked, the missile will parachute down and return to base for refuelling.

It will be a very low cost and highly effective platform compare to drones. Not to mention very very quick response.


What do you guys think?


@Abingdonboy @PARIKRAMA @anant_s @randomradio @Ankit Kumar 002 @MilSpec @Koovie @Echo_419 @Dash @hellfire @ito @SR-91 @AMCA @DesiGuy1403 @ranjeet @hellfire @fsayed @SpArK @AUSTERLITZ@nair @proud_indian @Roybot @jbgt90 @Sergi @Water Car Engineer @dadeechi @kurup @Rain Man @kaykay @Joe Shearer@Tshering22 @Dandpatta @danger007 @Didact@Soumitra @SrNair@TejasMk3@jbgt90 @ranjeet @4GTejasBVR @guest11 @egodoc222 @Nilgiri @SarthakGanguly @Omega007 @GURU DUTT @HariPrasad @JanjaWeed @litefire @AMCA @Perpendicular @Spectre@litefire@AMCA @Perpendicular@Ryuzaki @CorporateAffairs @GR!FF!N @Levina @-xXx- @Perpendicular @proud_indian @Mustang06 @Param @Local_Legend@Ali Zadi @hellfire @egodoc222 @CorporateAffairs@Major Shaitan Singh @jha @SmilingBuddha @#hydra# @danish_vij @[Bregs] @Skillrex @Hephaestus @SR-91 @Techy @litefire @R!CK @zebra7 @dev_moh @DesiGuy1403 @itachii @nik141993 @Marxist@Glorino@noksss @jbgt90 @Skull and Bones @AugenBlick @Star Wars @GuardianRED @arp2041 @Aero @others


Source: https://defence.pk/threads/2nd-ship...-be-launched-on-sept-17.449236/#ixzz4Km7fsr7Z

Its an innovative idea but its more vulnerable than any missile currently in development for the sole reason that, mother missile(Alpha) is an acting control unit for a pack of missiles. How are you going to save Alpha from not getting engaged ? and even if you do successfully develop such an algorithm for Alpha , wouldn't it make more sense to use it on every missile than just have it on Alpha?

 

[#hydra#]

What we required a robust desi version of Facebook and twitter. You c after uri attacks modiji and giving apt reply to pakis through twitter. There are unconfirmed reports that by reason his tweets few hundred pak terrorists died due to heart failure out of fear.

 

[DavidSling]

Barak-8 weighs around 270kg, is 4.5-metre high and carries 60kg of payload. It has a speed of Mach 2.

Barak-8 weighs around 270kg, is 4.5-metre high and carries 60kg of payload. It has a speed of Mach 2 and is suited for medium-range targets. (Photo: Twitter)

Balasore: In a bid to galvanise its air defence capabilities, India on Tuesday successfully test fired a new, long range surface-to-air missile jointly developed with Israel from a defence base off Odisha coast.

The long range missile, a product of a joint venture between India and Israel, was test launched from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur near here at around 10.13 hours, a DRDO official said.

The trial was successful and some more rounds of test are expected to be conducted shortly, the DRDO scientist said.

"Apart from the missile, the system includes a Multi Functional Surveillance and Threat Alert Radar (MF STAR) for detection, tracking and guidance of the missile," the official said, adding the missile along with MF-STAR would provide the users the capability to neutralise any aerial threats.

Earlier, between June 30 and July 1, 2016 three consecutive test firing of the medium range surface to air missile, jointly developed by India and Israel were conducted from the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) base at Chandipur. The missile guided by armoured seeker had successfully hit the last minute manoeuvring target.

Indian Navy had also successfully test launched the long range surface to air missile (LR-SAM). The test was undertaken on the Western Seaboard by INS Kolkata on December 30, 2015.

These missiles would be inducted in all the three services after trials were completed.

Many Indian industries like BEL, L&T, BDL, and TATA group of companies besides other private industries have contributed to the development of a number of subsystems which have been put into use in this flight test, the official said.

As a safety measure, Balasore district administration in consultation with the defence officials had temporarily shifted 3,652 persons residing within 2.5 km radius of the launch pad No.3 of the ITR at Chandipur to nearby temporary shelter centres this morning to ensure a safe launch of the missile, a district revenue official said.

Fishermen engaged in fishing along the Bay of Bengal in three coastal districts of Balasore, Bhadrak and Kendrapada were asked not to venture into the sea during the time of the test launch.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nati...ium-range-surface-to-air-missile-barak-8.html

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[CorporateAffairs]

India Israel

 

[Foxbat Alok]

Barak-8 from yesterday launch

 

[Ankit Kumar 002]

President's Secretariat
21-September, 2016 12:45 IST

President of India congratulates DRDO on the successful test-firing of the surface to Air Missile – ‘BARAK-8’

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee congratulated DRDO on the successful test-firing of the Surface to Air Missile – ‘Barak-8’.
In a message to Dr. S. Christopher, Secretary, Department of Defence Research & Development and Director General, DRDO, the President has said, "I extend hearty congratulations to you and all those associated with the successful test-firing of the Surface to Air Missile – ‘Barak-8’ developed jointly with Israel.
The nation is proud of this achievement. I am sure that this success will further boost India’s defence capabilities in technologically challenging areas.
Kindly convey my greetings and felicitations to all members of the team of scientists, engineers, and others involved in this Mission”.
*****
AKT/AK/SBP
(Release ID :150956)

Ministry of Defence
21-September, 2016 15:28 IST

Successful Flight Tests of LRSAM

Long Range Surface to Air Missile System (LRSAM) for Indian Navy successfully flight tested against Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA) on 20th Sept 2016 at 10:10 hrs and again at 14:25 hrs from Interim Test Range (ITR) at Balasore, Odisha, yesterday. The LRSAM has been developed through a joint venture between DRDO India and IAI of Israel. The naval version of the SAM system, this time was tested from land and the earlier was flight tested from Naval Ships, at ITR. Both missiles directly hit their respective targets at different ranges and altitudes. The trajectory of the flight of missiles was throughout tracked and monitored by the radars and electro-optical systems installed at ITR.

Many industries viz. BDL, MIDHANI, TATA, GODREJ, SEC, PEL, ADITYA and others have contributed towards the development of Missile systems. Both Israel and Indian scientists and technicians have been involved in the launch campaign. The Israel team was led by Mr. Boyes Levy, Vice President, IAI of Israel, whereas the Indian Team by Mr Patrick D’Silva, Project Director, Mr. MSR Prasad, Director DRDL and Dr. BK Das, Director ITR. Dr. G Satheesh Reddy, DG (MSS) & SA to RM witnessed the launches.
HR/DM/RAJ
(Release ID :150981)

@PARIKRAMA @Abingdonboy @anant_s

Seems the tests were conducted against much more sophisticated missiles than is being revealed.

 

[Mujraparty]

BrahMos Reaching Next Level Of Technology'


Sudhir Kumar Mishra, CEO and managing director, BrahMos, talks to Businessworld’s Brij Pahwa about the BrahMos venture. Edited excerpts:

Tell us how the idea for the BrahMos missile was conceived and also about the joint venture that gave birth to it.
BrahMos has successfully travelled from “mind to market” in a spectacular journey within a very short span of time. The BrahMos joint venture was established between India’s DRDO and Russia’s NPOM in February 1998 to design and develop a high-speed, high-precision, ‘fire & forget’ tactical weapon. With the excellent scientific and technical cooperation between the two partnering nations, BrahMos was conceived, designed, developed and successfully test-fired for the first time in June 2001. Today, BrahMos boasts of being a universal, versatile, state-of-the-art weapon capable of being launched from multiple platforms for multiple missions. The JV has established a robust military industrial complex in both India and Russia in which a large number of public and private sector industries, laboratories, and institutions are developing, producing and supplying numerous systems and components for the BrahMos weapon system.

What are the existing variants of BrahMos and what new variants are you planning to launch?
For the Army, we have developed the mobile land-attack BrahMos with block-I, block-II and block-III configurations for different missions. For the Navy, both the anti-ship and land-attack variants have been developed and deployed. The Indian Air Force has deployed the mobile land-attack version of the weapon.

The newer variants of the weapon would be BrahMos-NG, a smaller, smarter version of existing BrahMos and BrahMos -II (K), the hypersonic missile with a top of speed of mach 5-7. We are also working on developing an advanced block-IV configuration missile for the army which will have a 90-degree steep dive attack capability. Such a missile could also be used as a “carrier-killer”, if need be.

How do you plan to sell the missile internationally and to which countries?
The inter-governmental agreement (IGA) that was signed between India and Russia in February 1998 made provision for exporting BrahMos to third countries which are friendly to both the partnering nations. The world over, weapon are exported on a government-to-government basis. It is for the Indian government to decide whom it wants to export to. So, export is on our priority list and we are negotiating with a number of countries at present to sell our weapon. BrahMos Aerospace has excellent production facilities and supply chain management to meet export quantity.

http://businessworld.in/article/-Exports-Are-A-Priority-For-Us-/23-09-2016-106070/

translated from Russian site so bear with me ...

interview with CEO of PO "Strela" Alexander Markmanom.

Currently, work is underway to adapt the new version of "BrahMos-A" missile for use on Russian aircraft Su. Signed a contract and began its implementation in the supply of aviation variant missiles.

this pretty much confirms Russian fighters will also be getting air launched BRAHMOS ...

http://www.vecherniyorenburg.ru/383137/strela-rasshiryaet-gorizonty/

 

[Mujraparty]

Currently, BEL is working on the development of [a] next-generation seeker-based Akash system with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) laboratories. In addition, we have also teamed up with DRDO laboratories for joint development of [an] indigenous quick-reaction surface-to-air missile system, including radio frequency seekers, leading to subsequent manufactur[ing] of these systems", the senior BEL official said
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/indias-bel-eyes-missile-integration-market