No, India's hypersonic air vehicle test was not a success

[GodToons]

LoL!! How many countries succeeded in their first attempt, particularly in complex tech like Hypersonic missiles
Yeah, we've had successes in the past in the very first attempt and we tried and succeded in cases like Nirbhay cruise missile. Also, the article says unconfirmed reports which indicates the author knows jack-shite and is just farting from his mouth

Nevertheless, even if this is a failure...we'd continue to identify the faults and develop a fully functional missile in due time

Pakistan and China???
All success reports NO failures

 

[Han Patriot]

No one here is saying India has the technological prowess on par with US, Russia or China. I openly admit India is far behind in terms of defence tech and research. Even though my countrymen mock China for reverse-engineering Russian tech, they reached a level where they're able to develop new tech from what they've learned. Years of bad governance, mismanagement of projects & funds, sucking up to foreign firms in favor of commissions & kickbacks which still exists resulted in where we are now. Our PSUs have sucked big time with firms like HAL, OFBs and even DRDO recruiting engineers & scientists based on reservations and favoring a particular sect of people who are incompetent AF. I interned in a non-defence PSU in central India and all the employees did was to drink gallons of tea and chat about every useless topic that ever exists.

Thankfully, the situation is improving with MoD allowing private firms to participate in defence contracts and removing the unilateral advantage that PSUs had all this while. No wonder companies like Tata & Reliance partnered with LM, Boeing, Airbus, Sikorsky etc and building top end tech like the fuselages of Apache, Chinook, US presidential choppers, S-92 and many more by setting up defence manufacturing hubs in Hyderabad, Bangalore & Pune primarily.

There's still a lot of changes that are to take place for our organizations to come up to speed and be on par with Russia & China. Accountability of utilization of funds is another important factor and also the % allocated to research which is very less in India

Wow at least you are realistic, Indians are not stupid and are capable of achieving anything as long as you work hard and invest wisely. The problem with India is the government and certain cultural issues. Scramjet technology had been tested and under devepment by many countries fir decades including China. From my understanding this is just a test of a hypersonic glider, most likely to test the aerodynamics. However India lack hypersonic test facilities which China has to test alot of things.

It's like the other time when Indians were jumping about a Indian railgun when it was just a recreation of lab experiments done by China in the late 80s.

 

[Zapper]

It's like the other time when Indians were jumping about a Indian railgun when it was just a recreation of lab experiments done by China in the late 80s

DRDO tested the railgun prototype concept way back in the early 1990s itself but the project was shutdown because of the incompetent politicians who were at helm and pretty much stopped funding for all research projects.

Scramjet technology had been tested and under devepment by many countries fir decades including China. From my understanding this is just a test of a hypersonic glider, most likely to test the aerodynamics. However India lack hypersonic test facilities which China has to test alot of things

Where China is really at an advantageous position is the supporting industrial infrastructure y'all were able to develop which helps your research institutes get things done in time. Regarding hypersonic test facilities, we've got the required wind tunnels and the test conducted is a Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) which is an unmanned scramjet cruising upto Mach-7. This system when loaded with the right explosive components will act as a missile

 

[jaybird]

Hey, there is a saying Failure is the mother of success. And India is the mother of all failure?

Kidding aside, India will eventually succeed one day if they keep trying. They have the financial power to do it and back up the project with enough resources. That's the advantage of being a big country.

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

DRDO clarifies it was a test of skip glide capability of the tech demo.
Full test is still few months away.

Explanations.

Clearly a failed test.

 

[Dalit]

Should not care about failure or success.

The focus should be counter plan.

 

[proudindian20]

Keep trying...that's why it's called a test. There is 50% chance for success or loss.