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Important points :-Tejas will have weapons trials with LGBs, cluster bombs, S-8 rocket pods and the IAF wants it to be able to carry the Kh-59 series stand-off strike missiles and Kh-35/31 anti-ship missiles
thats great news...
Does anyone know which cluster bombs we have apart from CBU-105 ?
Cluster Bomb - SITAFAL
Highly Effective Air to Ground Bomb with Cluster Bomblets.
Bomb dropped at levels & high speeds effective against both SOFT(Soft skinned vehicles & Personals) & HARD(Armour)TARGETS.
OPERATION:
Aircraft : Jaguar or Mig
Aircraft Carriage : Internal or External
Carriage speed : Max 1286 km/hr.
Release speed : Max 1111 km/hr.
Release speed : 30 M to 100 M.
Spread : 110 mtr x 40 mtr(Elliptical)
Tech.Specifications:
Length(with Arming Vane) : 2451 mm
Max Diameter : 448 mm
Max Weight : 277 kg +/- 5 kg.
No. of Bomblets : 147(7 bags of 21 each)
Wt. Of each Bomblet : 1.13 kg.
Penetration : 185 mm Armour Plate
Warhead Fragments : 2200 Nos. of Fragments Weighing 0.13 gm Travelling at 2000m/s
Cluster Bomb - SITAFAL
Weapons lying useless in defence dockyards
29 Jul 2009, 2029 hrs IST
India's pride- its defence forces have a reputation that precedes them, but it's unfortunate that they have been given the tedious task of guarding our borders unarmed and saddled with 'dud' weapons.
TIMES NOW has accessed an exclusive report which lists a number of weapons which our defence forces are riddled with. These weapons are junk which were procurred for millions of dollars, are now lying useless in defence dockyards.
Specifically, the Harpy missile procurred from Israel for a whopping 750 crores lies useless after it developed direction trouble.
The Popeye II missile costs 350 crores. An Air to surface missile never even passed the initial tests since the wings were faulty.
The Sea Eagle - a subsonic anti-ship missile which cost close to a 120 crores is no longer usable as the components are not available and anti-radiation missiles some of which were procurred from Russia have malfunctional seekers parts used to seek out the target.
Indigenously, developed missiles are also on the list of non-performers.
SITAPHAL - the clusterbomb is not in use since key components became unavailable.
And the 450 kg High speed low drag bomb whose mismatch in components has put back in the closet.