DRDO successfully tests 'glide bombs' in Pokhran

[proud_indian]

DRDO successfully tests 'glide bombs' in Pokhran

TNN | Aug 20, 2016, 07.05 AM IST

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Jodhpur: India has moved closer to self-dependence in precision-guided 'smart glide bombs' as it conducted covert trials of these bombs successfully at Pokhran firing range in Jaisalmer on Friday.

Christened as 'Garuthmaa' and 'Garudaa', the 'glide bombs' are being indigenously developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

Of these two drop trials, the test of Garudaa, the non-winged glide-bomb, was carried out to evaluate its precision for a range of 30 kilometres on Thursday. In another set of drop trials on Friday, both Garudaa and 'Garuthmaa' were successfully tested from a Su-30 MKI aircraft.

Garuthmaa, the 1,000-kg winged smart glide bomb, was tested for its maximum 100-km range. Top DRDO officials termed the tests as a 'major success'.

It may be mentioned that the trials for a maximum range of 100 kilometres for this '1,000-kg' smart bomb have already been successfully held over the Bay of Bengal, off the Odisha Coast in December 2014 and then in 2015.

One covert trial scheduled for Friday was, however, kept pending due to erratic weather.

Sources in DRDO said that guided by on-board navigation systems, Garuthmaa was tested for its first phase of trials in Thar Desert for assessing its accuracy in hitting a target after gliding for 100 kilometres.

"The bomb was dropped from a Su-30 MKI aircraft for which we got full support from the Pune airbase. User, in this case the IAF, has been involved in development and related trials of this 'smart bomb' from the beginning", said an official, adding that non-winged Garudaa was tested for 30-km range and would be tested for bigger ranges (up to 100 km) in future. DRDO officials shared that the flight path, precision or accuracy, clearance after dropping and other parameters of 'Garuthmaa' were monitored by the radars and other electro-optic systems stationed at the firing range.

'Garudaa', the non-winged version of this guided bomb with a range of 30 kilometres was tested initially three years back. DRDO officials shared that contrary to the conventional 'dumb bombs' which take a free flight after being dropped, guided bombs like 'Guruthmaa' have winglets and on-board navigation and guidance systems enabling these to hit the target with precision after being dropped from varying heights.

Both 'Garuthmaa' and 'Garudaa' are a brainchild of various laboratories of DRDO including Research Centre Imarat in Hyderabad, Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE) in Bengaluru, Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL) in Chandigarh, Armaments Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) in Pune.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ide-bombs-in-Pokhran/articleshow/53780015.cms

 

[Skull and Bones]

This is a major development, with an IR seeker think about this as a stationary radar killer, while the aircraft can stay beyond the reach of enemy SAMs.

 

[Mrc]

Sounds similar to H4 and H2 glide bombs in use of PAF for more than a decade now

 

[Surya 1]

This is a great force multiplier. They will work like the send off weapons in this range. In send off weapons, there is a weight panelty of missile weight. Here bombs shall work like missiles and hit the target with any dead weight of missiles. We need some higher range GPS guided bombs for great efficacy.

 

[Hellfire]

Sounds similar to H4 and H2 glide bombs in use of PAF for more than a decade now

The emphasis is on indigenous. We have had this for sometime, the indigenous version. Was discussed a few years back on PDF.

 

[Mrc]

The emphasis is on indigenous. We have had this for sometime, the indigenous version. Was discussed a few years back on PDF.

Oh ok.. we do make H4 and H2 inhouse but i see u guys are testing an indigineous design....

Is that not like re inventing the wheele?? I mean if u can license produce this why to do the effort??

 

[Hellfire]

Oh ok.. we do make H4 and H2 inhouse but i see u guys are testing an indigineous design....

Is that not like re inventing the wheele?? I mean if u can license produce this why to do the effort??

We are signatories of the IPR. Torrent is banned in India now. Without a VPN am not able to download.

Similarly, we will need to pay license fee for each item produced. That is why the stress on in house development.

Chinese have never really bothered on that aspect. So maybe the same issue of licensed production may/may not exist on your side.

@Mrc this by far is the most intelligent answer. You may like to consider this also.

Bro for India and DRDO time is running backwards soo. you will hear successful slight test of vedic era super super stealth vayomann (have you watch Curious case of Benjamin Button)?

The nation who fails to develop and induct ingenuous Jet Tejas more than 30 years actually developed and tested plane before wright brothers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivkar_Bapuji_Talpade

 

[fitpOsitive]

DRDO successfully tests 'glide bombs' in Pokhran

TNN | Aug 20, 2016, 07.05 AM IST

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Jodhpur: India has moved closer to self-dependence in precision-guided 'smart glide bombs' as it conducted covert trials of these bombs successfully at Pokhran firing range in Jaisalmer on Friday.

Christened as 'Garuthmaa' and 'Garudaa', the 'glide bombs' are being indigenously developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

Of these two drop trials, the test of Garudaa, the non-winged glide-bomb, was carried out to evaluate its precision for a range of 30 kilometres on Thursday. In another set of drop trials on Friday, both Garudaa and 'Garuthmaa' were successfully tested from a Su-30 MKI aircraft.

Garuthmaa, the 1,000-kg winged smart glide bomb, was tested for its maximum 100-km range. Top DRDO officials termed the tests as a 'major success'.

It may be mentioned that the trials for a maximum range of 100 kilometres for this '1,000-kg' smart bomb have already been successfully held over the Bay of Bengal, off the Odisha Coast in December 2014 and then in 2015.

One covert trial scheduled for Friday was, however, kept pending due to erratic weather.

Sources in DRDO said that guided by on-board navigation systems, Garuthmaa was tested for its first phase of trials in Thar Desert for assessing its accuracy in hitting a target after gliding for 100 kilometres.

"The bomb was dropped from a Su-30 MKI aircraft for which we got full support from the Pune airbase. User, in this case the IAF, has been involved in development and related trials of this 'smart bomb' from the beginning", said an official, adding that non-winged Garudaa was tested for 30-km range and would be tested for bigger ranges (up to 100 km) in future. DRDO officials shared that the flight path, precision or accuracy, clearance after dropping and other parameters of 'Garuthmaa' were monitored by the radars and other electro-optic systems stationed at the firing range.

'Garudaa', the non-winged version of this guided bomb with a range of 30 kilometres was tested initially three years back. DRDO officials shared that contrary to the conventional 'dumb bombs' which take a free flight after being dropped, guided bombs like 'Guruthmaa' have winglets and on-board navigation and guidance systems enabling these to hit the target with precision after being dropped from varying heights.

Both 'Garuthmaa' and 'Garudaa' are a brainchild of various laboratories of DRDO including Research Centre Imarat in Hyderabad, Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE) in Bengaluru, Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL) in Chandigarh, Armaments Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) in Pune.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ide-bombs-in-Pokhran/articleshow/53780015.cms

I smell some "SPICE" in this, isnt it?
And secondly, is it stealthy?

 

[Hellfire]

I smell some "SPICE" in this, isnt it?
And secondly, is it stealthy?

Spice is old news, so is this. The glide bomb was discussed a couple of years back here in PDF itself.

 

[#hydra#]

I smell some "SPICE" in this, isnt it?
And secondly, is it stealthy?

No we espionages top pak scientists and created this one.

 

[Hellfire]

No we espionages top pak scientists and created this one.

He is referring to SPICE bombs. Israeli equipment.

 

[GR!FF!N]

Someone should oust those people who select name of DRDO products..

Anyway...

something like GBU-39 SDB,just 4 times bigger..

I wish it looks like this...

 

[#hydra#]

He is referring to SPICE bombs. Israeli equipment.

I know,but our neighborhood having superior glide bombs like h4. So why to waste money on reinventing spice?by logic raw might have steamed that superior tech from Pakistan.

Someone should oust those people who select name of DRDO products..

Anyway...

something like GBU-39 SDB,just 4 times bigger..

I wish it looks like this...

Both Russians and Indian products looks no so great.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Oh ok.. we do make H4 and H2 inhouse but i see u guys are testing an indigineous design....

Is that not like re inventing the wheele?? I mean if u can license produce this why to do the effort??

Producing such tech in house means:

1) you keep valuble resources within your country
2)build up an industrial base at home
3) skill/employ your own manpower
4)keep yourseelf free of foreign restrictions
5) have the potential of gaining revenue from export orders.

Licence production is fair enough for the most high tech equipment that you won't be able to make for a while but it makes no sense when you have the capability to do it your own- you are just hurting yourselves in the long term.

No nation becomes truly great by importing- look at the Saudis.

What was tested:



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DRDO also has a Spice 250 type weapon in development:

@PARIKRAMA @anant_s @Ankit Kumar 002 @MilSpec @nair @Water Car Engineer

I know,but our neighborhood having superior glide bombs like h4. So why to waste money on reinventing spice?by logic raw might have steamed that superior tech from Pakistan.


Both Russians and Indian products looks no so great.

Give it time, India is very new to this game. In another few years it will be near enough on par with the West in many such fields.

There's no point in comparing India's first attempt at these systems to the product of decades of R&D fro the West.

 

[Kinetic]

Oh ok.. we do make H4 and H2 inhouse but i see u guys are testing an indigineous design....

Is that not like re inventing the wheele?? I mean if u can license produce this why to do the effort??

Because when it will be needed no one will be there to support us, so its always better to develop in house. Now we can make future version as well. Now we have R&D for the same. These bombs will get recently developed new Thermobaric bombs by DRDO.

http://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/whatsnew/TB Technology_HEMRL.pdf


1000 KG is a huge bomb dudes!! Thats is 2204.62 lb!!!!! Bigger than 2000 lb JDAMs!



Arjun's PCB and TB weapons

I smell some "SPICE" in this, isnt it?
And secondly, is it stealthy?

This is Gruthmaa I think...

They will get either TB or ICL-20 based warhead...

official release http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=67872

Pune Based DRDO Lab Makes Most Powerful Conventional Explosive

Move over RDX! That’s passé for the needs of the Indian Armed Forces. The DRDO is developing a powerful explosive, - the CL-20, that can substantially reduce the weight and size of the warhead while packing much more punch. In fact, the RDX is not the standard explosive in use with the Indian Armed Forces; the warheads are mostly packed with HMX, FOX-7 or amorphous Boron.

Scientists at the Pune-based High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) have already synthesized adequate quantity of CL-20 in the laboratory. “It is the most powerful non-nuclear explosive yet known to man,” says Dr. AK Sikder, Joint Director, HEMRL, who heads the High Energy Materials Division. The compound, ‘Indian CL-20’ or ICL-20, was indigenously synthesized in the HEMRL laboratory using inverse technology, he added. “The HEMRL has taken India to an elite club of countries with advanced capabilities in the field of Energetic Materials,” said Shri Manish Bhardwaj, a senior Scientist with the HEMRL. In fact, the CL-20 is such a fascination for the HEMRL that a larger-than-life size model of the compound occupies the pride of place as one enters the portals of the main building of the DRDO's premier lab in Pune.

CL-20, so named after the China Lake facility of the Naval Air Weapons Station in California, US, was first synthesized by Dr. Arnold Nielson in 1987. CL-20, or Octa-Nitro-Cubane, is a Nitramine class of explosive 15 times as powerful as HMX, His/Her Majesty Explosive or High Melting Explosive or Octogen. The HMX itself is more than four times as potent as the Research Developed Explosive or Royal Demolition Explosive or Cyclonite or Hexogen, commonly known as RDX.

“CL-20 offers the only option within the next 10-15 years to meet the requirements of the Indian Armed Forces for Futuristic Weapons,” said Dr. Sikder. “CL-20 -based Shaped Charges significantly improve the penetration over armours,” he said, adding that it could be used in the bomb for the 120-mm main gun mounted on the MBT-Arjun. “But the costs of mass production of ICL-20 are still prohibitive,” said Dr. Sikder. Compared to Rs.750 per kilogram it takes to produce RDX in the factory today, the HMX is worth about Rs.6,000 per kg while a kilogram of CL-20 costs a whopping Rs.70,000 per kg.

“We have a tie up with industry partner for intermediate commercial exploitation of ICL-20,” said Dr. A. Subhananda Rao, Director, HEMRL. About 100 kgs of ICL-20 has been produced by HEMRL in collaboration with the Premier Explosives Limited (PEL). The CL-20, which looks like limestone or grainy talcum powder, is being manufactured by the PEL factory at Peddakanlukur village in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh. The Rs.60 crores Hyderabad-based company bagged the DRDO’s Defence Technology Absorption Award, 2007 worth Rs.Ten Lakhs, presented by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on May 12, 2008, their most prestigious award, claimed company sources.

“The advantage with the CL-20 is its Reduced Sensitivity,” said Dr. Sikder, enabling easy handling and transportation of the lethal weaponry. In fact, the HEMRL is concentrating on the Reduced Shock Sensitivity (RSS) explosives, such as RSS-RDX, which costs about Rs.1,500-2,000 per kg, and RSS-HMX. “There is a whole array of low sensitivity material or Insensitive Munitions we are working on,” said Dr. Rao. “The world around there is a lot of R&D being pumped into what are called the Green Explosives, as also the advanced Insensitive Munitions (IM) and RSS explosives,” added Dr. Sikder, which reduces the chances of mishap and loss to M4, - Men, Money, Materials and Machines.