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Only 67 missiles delivered to the army! we need hundreds...
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Even before all tests are completed, it has been declared world's best by India! Great great...Carry on
A missile IS an aircraft, just not manned. Aerodynamic laws applies equally to manned and unmanned aircrafts. If air-air missiles can pull double-digit forces of gravity (g), why not a cruise missile?One more question regarding Brahmos 2 and hypersonic cruise missiles in general:
I know that the primary reasons for making a cruise missile hypersonic is so that 1) the missile strikes the target faster and 2) it is harder for the enemy's missile defence to intercept the said missile. However is a hypersonic missile harder to control as well since it travels so fast? I know that high-speed fighters compensate manueverability for speed and don't know whether it applies to the missiles as well.
A missile IS an aircraft, just not manned. Aerodynamic laws applies equally to manned and unmanned aircrafts. If air-air missiles can pull double-digit forces of gravity (g), why not a cruise missile?
You heard correctly. The human body can withstand double-digit gs only for very short duration. We found that out in research long ago. The 9g limit for humans is for sustained lateral acceleration. As far as the aircraft itself goes, modern avionics have g-limiter that protects not only the pilot but also the aircraft in that external stores under sustained centrifugal force will create joint stresses that may be catastrophic. So be careful with those airframe 'stories'.Sir,
I heard that a missile can pull more G's and so can an aircraft. Read somewhere that the F 15 and the SU 27 can pull more G's than stated but it is limited only by the man inside the cockpit. I also heard from an Russian pilot that he was way above the G limit and the Su 27 could stand it and he was the one who was blacked out. And also read somewhere the F 15 has pulled a G limit of 15Gs and the airframe wiithstood it.
India will soon become the first country to have cruise missiles with hyper speed of over 6,000 km per hour, as an agreement for their joint development will be signed with Russia during the visit of President Dmitry Medvedev here in December.
This version of the missile will have a speed of over 6,000 kms per hour,
With a range of 290 kms, the hypersonic missiles are expected to be ready by 2015-16, the sources said.
India today test-fired the 290-km range BrahMos cruise missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off Orissa coast as part of trials by the defence forces to finetune its capability.
It was a users trial by the defence forces, said a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) official soon after the missile blasted off from a mobile launcher at about 11.35 AM from ITRs launch complex-3.
BrahMos-II can potentially be used for surgical strikes, including at terror camps, without causing collateral damage.
The missile can fly at 2.8 times the speed of sound carrying conventional warheads up to 300 kg for a range of 290 km and can effectively engage ground targets from an altitude as low as 10 metres.
Though the missile is capable of being launched from multiple platforms, focus in on the development of its air-launched and the submarine-launched versions.
BrahMos, developed jointly with Russia, is a supersonic cruise missile capable of being launched from submarines, ships, aircraft and land-based Mobile Autonomous Launchers (MAL).
A regiment of the BrahMos-I variant, consisting of 67 missiles, five mobile autonomous launchers on 12x12 Tatra vehicles and two mobile command posts, among other equipment, is already operational in the Army.
Similarly, the Navy has begun inducting the first version of BrahMos missile system in all its frontline war ships since 2005, defence sources said.
The Army, on its part, is set to induct two more regiments of the BrahMos Block-II land-attack cruise missiles (LACM), which have been designed as precision strike weapons capable of hitting small targets in cluttered urban environments, they said.
The BrahMos Block-II variant has been developed to take out a specific small target, with a low radar cross-section, in a multi-target environment.
The BrahMos missile is a two-stage vehicle that has a solid propellant booster and a liquid propellant ram-jet system.
The first flight test of the BrahMos was conducted on June 12, 2001 at the ITR at Chandipur in Orissa coast and the last trial of the naval version of BrahMos was carried out in a vertical mode successfully on March 21, 2010 from Indian navy ship INS Ranvir off Orissa coast.