India joins Ballistic Missile Defence Club

[nitesh]

DRDO has decided to testfire the supersonic test-Jaipur-Cities-The Times of India

DRDO has decided to testfire the supersonic test
18 Feb 2009, 0727 hrs IST, TNN


DRDO has decided to testfire the supersonic test missile, BhrahMos, in Pokhran Field Firing Range at Pokhran on February 20.
The BrahMos testfire had on January 20 failed due to failure of hydrate system at the last moment, last month. According to the defence source, the scientist have rectified the error by placing a modifier software in a missile for its smooth test.
Defence scientists are working to develop such modifiers for its easy use by Indian Army and Airforce in future. Army chief, Deepak Kapoor along with senior officials will be present at Pokhran on the day of test.

PS: Please don't ask me what hydrate system is
But rest is ok like software error and 20th feb test

 

[nitesh]

Quite an insight :

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[smart_simple]

Quite an insight :

domain-b.com : Indian business : Videos : Aviation & aerospace videos

thanks 4 this link

 

[LCA]

:: Bharat-Rakshak.com - Indian Military News Headlines ::

Hypersonic missiles likely to be ready by 2013


Express News Service
First Published : 01 Mar 2009 03:20:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 01 Mar 2009 09:05:25 AM IST

CHENNAI: Dr A Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Controller of Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO), said that the Brahmos Aerospace is working on hypersonic missile project, Brahmos II, which is expected to be ready by 2013.

Talking on the sidelines after inaugurating a combat vehicles and engineering exhibition, organised as part of the DRDO’s golden jubilee celebrations, Pillai, who is also the CEO and the managing director of Brahmos Aerospace, Thiruvavanthapuram, said that the missile will have a speed between Mach 5 and Mach 7. He also claimed that the Brahmos cruise missile at Mach 2.8 is the fastest in the world.

Asked about the failure of the Brahmos missile’s land attack version, which was tested some time ago, he said the reasons for the failures have been identified and efforts on rectifying the “problem with the software” was on.

He revealed that work on the development of a universal missile launcher has started at the Brahmos Aerospace in Thiruvananthapuram.

Speaking at the inaugural function of the Exhibition, Sivathanu Pillai, while explaining the changing dimensions of war theatre, said that the future wars would be fought with minimum people, but with maximum weapons. “It will be network centric and will be fought with intelligent and autonomous systems,” he said, adding that the “cyber warfare and robotic systems will dominate the battlefield.” Pillai, who began his career with ISRO, said nanotechnology and biotechnology would change the perspective of future wars. “The Bio- Nano revolution will change every applications in the battlefield,” he said.

Sivathanu Pillai said the development of precision robotic systems and manipulators will help to use it in nuclear reactors and in heath care systems also.

The BrahMos chief executive said Helium 3 gas, available in Moon, could become the future energy source for the world.

 

[nitesh]

DRDO to test-fire BrahMos II on Wednesday - National News ? News ? MSN India - News

Monday, March 02, 2009
DRDO to test-fire BrahMos II on Wednesday

New Delhi: After failing to hit the target in the previous test, DRDO is planning to test-fire the Block II version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile on March 4.

"We are planning to conduct the second test of the BrahMos Block II version at the Army's test range in Pokharan on March 4 this week," Defence Ministry officials said here.

The earlier test of the Indo-Russian joint venture missile was carried out on January 20 where it took off successfully but deviated from its path and landed far away from its target.

Speaking about the earlier problems with the missile, officials claimed that there was a "small defect" in the software of the homing device of the missile, which they claimed to have rectified for the test this week.

Officials claimed that the technology in the Block II missiles was "unparallelled" and would help them hit even "insignificant targets" hidden in cluster of buildings.

Source: PTI

 

[LCA]

The Hindu News Update Service

DRDO to test-fire BrahMos missile on March 4

New Delhi (PTI): After failing to hit the target in the previous test, DRDO is planning to test-fire the Block II version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile on March 4.

"We are planning to conduct the second test of the BrahMos Block II version at the Army's test range in Pokharan on March 4 this week," Defence Ministry officials said here.

The earlier test of the Indo-Russian joint venture missile was carried out on January 20 where it took off successfully but deviated from its path and landed far away from its target.

Speaking about the earlier problems with the missile, officials claimed that there was a "small defect" in the software of the homing device of the missile, which they claimed to have rectified for the test this week.

Officials claimed that the technology in the Block II missiles was "unparallelled" and would help them hit even "insignificant targets" hidden in cluster of buildings.

"The new seeker being developed is unique and would help us to hit our targets which are insignificant in terms of size in a cluster of large buildings. Once developed, we would be the only nation with this advanced technology," the officials claimed.

Army has already made it clear to BrahMos Aerospace Corporation that it will induct the supersonic missile's new version only after it proves its capabilities in a series of tests to be conducted in the near future.

DRDO officials claimed that despite the failure of tests, BrahMos would be able to start deliveries of the 240 missiles order from the Army in two years from now as per the original schedule.

Army has already inducted one regiment of the Block I version of the missile. BrahMos is an Indo-Russian joint venture company with its headquarters in Delhi.

 

[nitesh]

The point to be noted here is that this is quite an advanced version with full land attack capability as compared to previous versions with limited capability

"The new seeker being developed is unique and would help us to hit our targets which are insignificant in terms of size in a cluster of large buildings. Once developed, we would be the only nation with this advanced technology,"

New seeker.............. May be referring towards MMW seeker?

 

[LCA]

It should be MMW seeker or some thing like MMW.

Because MMW have only this kind of capability , i think.

If it is a in-house development, then a great achivement by DRDO.

 

[heartwinlion]

It should be MMW seeker or some thing like MMW.

Because MMW have only this kind of capability , i think.

If it is a in-house development, then a great achivement by DRDO.

can you provide me the detail of MMW seeker. ??

 

[LCA]

can you provide me the detail of MMW seeker. ??

This one is from wiki:

Extremely high frequency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And if you want to know about mmw and its military application.

you have to do googling

 

[Super Falcon]

but how do you defend against cruise missiles

 

[LCA]

but how do you defend against cruise missiles

I depend upon which cruise missile you are defending.

If its subsonic , then it is much easier to defend than supersonic CM.

 

[nitesh]

but how do you defend against cruise missiles

Akash will be able to defend against cruise missiles or for that matter any SRSAM or as last method AA guns, but major deficiency in resisting cruise missiles is a network of sensors to detect them at right time . Also if cruise missiles are subsonic then they are a little bit easier to defend but if supersonic/hypersonic then a little bit difficult but not impossible if they are detected at right time.

 

[nitesh]

keeping fingers crossed:
The Hindu : National : Crucial interceptor missile test this week

Crucial interceptor missile test this week

Y. Mallikarjun & T.S. Subramanian

It will establish India’s capability to intercept Pakistan’s Hatf and Ghauri missiles

CHENNAI: A missile which will waylay and destroy an incoming ballistic “enemy” at an altitude of about 80 km will be launched off the coast of Orissa later this week.

This “crucial test” will seek to prove the efficacy of a host of new technologies, said officials in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which is conducting it. They described it as “a major test to establish a ballistic missile defence [BMD] shield as part of the network-centric warfare.” This is the third time an interceptor missile test is being conducted under the BMD shield that India seeks to establish.

The launch will feature two missiles. The “enemy” missile will be a modified version of Dhanush, a surface-to-surface missile. It will take off from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal and simulate the terminal phase of the flight of a ballistic missile with a range of 1,500 km, similar to Pakistan’s Ghauri. As it zeroes in on the Wheeler Island, off Damra village on the Orissa coast, a Prithvi Air Defence (PAD) missile will lift off from the Wheeler Island, intercept the incoming “enemy” missile at an altitude of 70-80 km in the last one second and a half of its flight and pulverise it.

The interceptor PAD missile will use, for the first time, the gimballed directional warhead. It has so far been used only in the U.S. and Russia. When the directional warhead fragments in 360 degrees all round, the target missile coming in from only one direction is sure to be blown up. “Ground tests have been done on the directional warhead. In flight, it will be done for the first time. This is a new thing,” the DRDO officials said.

A directional warhead weighs less than 30 kg but its lethality is equivalent to a 150-kg warhead. The PAD would also feature “trajectory optimisation” to enable interception at not only a higher altitude of 80 or 85 km but also at 45 km. It could engage missiles with a range of 300 to 1,500 km.

“The distinct advantage” of intercepting a missile at a higher altitude of 80 km is that the debris will take longer to fall through the atmosphere before it hits the ground and hence will become cinders because of the re-entry of heat, the DRDO officials said. In a typical war scenario, this would reduce the effect of any fallout of nuclear debris and the risk associated with radiation.

The first interceptor missile test, which took place on November 27, 2006, waylaid an incoming ballistic missile in the exo-atmosphere at 48-km altitude. The second test took place on December 6, 2007 against a target missile at 15-km altitude in endo-atmosphere. The third test would be part of India’s plan to deploy a two-layered BMD system in the coming years.

In terms of strategic importance, the test would establish India’s capability to intercept Pakistan’s Hatf and Ghauri missiles.

 

[LCA]

hopefully this time it should not be postpone.

If this will successful regarding directional warhead, then it will another good achievement by DRDO.