India joins Ballistic Missile Defence Club

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This is the report that India developing CLOAK TECHNOLOGY for making warships and aircraft totally invisible.

Are they are dreaming or i am dreaming.

well here is the article.

http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20090301/1188524.html

BrahMos-II by 2013, DRDO to develop invisible technology
Chennai | Sunday, Mar 1 2009 IST


The Indian defence establishment would have a hypersonic missile - BrahMos II - in its fold in the next four years and the DRDO was developing "Clock Technology" to make warships and aircraft totally invisible both to the human eye and radars. Brahmos Aerospace was working on the hypersonic missile project, Brahmos II, which was expected to be ready by 2013, Defence Scientist and Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) Chief Controller Dr A Sivathanu Pillai said.

Giving this information on the sidelines of a function got up as part of DRDO's golden jubilee celebrations here last evening, Dr Sivathanu Pillai said work in this regard has commenced.

The indigenous second BrahMos missile would have improved speed and fire power. The speed range of the missile would be between Mach five (five times the speed of the sound) and Mach seven and it was expected to be ready by 2013, Dr Pillai, who is also the CEO and Managing Director of Brahmos Aerospace, said. He also said work on developing an universal missile launcher has commenced at the Brahmos Aerospace in Thiruvananthapuram.

Earlier, speaking at the function, Dr Pillai said the DRDO's new mantra would be "less men, more machine" With the changing dimensions of war theatre, the future wars would be fought with minimum people, but with maximum weapons.

The DRDO was focussing on robotics and unmanned vehicle development to prepare the Indian defence to meet future war situations, which would be more network centric and fought with autonomous systems. ''The main aim was to attain maximum weapon power by using minimum people'', he added. Observing that cyber warfare and robotic systems would dominate the battlefield, Dr Pillai said robotics and software plays a vital role in modern day combat and the DRDO has been developing weapons and combat systems which were less man-centric. He said nanotechnology and biotechnology would change the perspective of future wars. ''The Bio-Nano revolution will change every applications in the battlefield and the DRDO was making efforts to develop robot-soldiers, stealth ships and radars''.

''We are on the process of developing a "clock technology" that will make the warships and aircraft totally invisible, both to the human eye and radars. The DRDO is developing a material called meta-metal which has a negative refractive index, making things invisible.

or may be

 

[nitesh]

ha ha ha good find

Again DDM at it's best

 

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India successfully tested brahmos... waiting for full reports.

 

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It was on headlines today

 

[nitesh]

let us hold the horses till the full analysis is complete

 

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This is the report that India developing CLOAK TECHNOLOGY for making warships and aircraft totally invisible.

Are they are dreaming or i am dreaming.

well here is the article.

i think harry potter is auctioning his cloak in enlarged versions and selling fevi quick to stick on whatever we can lay our hands on....... visible stealth

 

[nitesh]

ok guys the news is flowing in but hold on for final confirmation

India successfully testfires supersonic BrahMos missile :: SamayLive

 

[nitesh]

so BrahMos II arrives

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BrahMos missile successfully test-fired
3/4/2009 12:04:07 PM
The BrahMos cruise missile successfully test-fired at Pokhran

New version of cruise missile BrahMos was today (March 4) successfully test-fired in Pokhran in Rajasthan desert, DRDo officials said.

After failing to hit the target in the previous test, the Block II version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile today hit the target during the test.

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.

(With inputs from agencies)

 

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Jaisalmer, March 04: India on Wednesday successfully test fired supersonic cruise missile BrahMos in Pokharan.

Initial reports citing DRDO officials said that the new version of cruise missile BrahMos hit target during its test firing in the test range. The test was earlier scheduled for February 20 but had to be postponed due to technical glitches.

The test of the missile, which has a range of 290 km and speeds touching 2.8 times that of sound, was necessitated because of an earlier failure on January 20 when there were minor hitches in the last stage of the missile.

Th failure was attributed to some problems in the software that guides the missile.

The software problem was addressed and rectified to ensure that the missile hits the target at short range with equal efficiency and accuracy, following which today’s test took place.

BrahMos missile is a joint Indo-Russian venture and is considered one of the best in its class.

BrahMos test fired successfully

 

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so BrahMos II arrives

"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.

Why DRDO don't give detail of this god damn new seeker..

If it is mmW, then it is good for NAG.

 

[nitesh]

guys no confirmation from DRDO so let's just wait for final confirmation

India test fires supersonic BrahMos

"The analysis of the parameters of the missile flight will take some time," a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) official said while confirming the test firing of the missile.

 

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Company News Story

Wednesday, India test-fired a new version of the 290 km-range supersonic cruise missile BrahMos at Pokharan in the desert of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan bordering Pakistan, media reports say.

The successful test came after an earlier one January 20 of the Indo-Russian joint venture missile failed, following a deviation of the missile from its course mid-way and missing the target. The failure was pinpointed to a "defect" in the software of the homing device of the missile.

"The Block II BrahMos missile was successfully launched at 1030 hours today," officials of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), who have developed the weapons system in collaboration with Russian scientists, told reporters.

The missile "took two-and-a-half minutes to strike the target in the Pokhran firing range in Rajasthan," they said, adding the analysis of the parameters of the missile flight would take some time.

The test launch was witnessed by Deputy Army Chief (Planning and Systems) of Staff, three-star General M S Dadwal, among others. The latest land attack version of the missile has been developed for the Army, and the weapon was fired in a vertical-launch configuration, the officials said. The name of the missile is a mixture of 'Brahmaputra', a perenenial river flowing in Eastern India and Bangladesh, and 'Moscow'.

The officials said the "unique" technology in the Block II BrahMos version made the missile an "unparalleled" one, giving the armed forces the ability to hit targets in building clusters. The missile carries a 300-kg conventional warhead and can achieve speeds of up to 2.8 Mach or nearly three times the speed of sound.

"The new seeker system is unique and it will help us to hit the targets, which may be insignificant in terms of size, in a cluster of large buildings. We are the only nation having this advanced technology," they claimed.

The officials said that the Army, which had already armed one regiment with the Block I version of the missile, will start receiving deliveries of the 240 missiles ordered by it in two years as per the original schedule.

 

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The Hindu : National : Crucial interceptor missile test this week


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.

 

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The Hindu : Front Page : New BrahMos test successful

New BrahMos test successful

T.S. Subramanian

CHENNAI: A new version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile meant to attack a particular target out of a cluster on land was successfully tested at the Army’s range at Pokhran, Rajasthan, on Wednesday.

This was its 19th flight and the launch took place at 10.35 a.m. In its previous flight on January 20 it missed the target following a software glitch.

This variant is called the Block II version. BrahMos is essentially an anti-ship missile.

Informed sources described it as “a difficult mission” because the target was just 50 km away instead of the normal range of 290 km. Besides, the missile had to perform “a discriminatory role”: it had to hit the desired target out of a cluster of small targets, resembling “a factory-type situation.” The time given to the missile to perform manoeuvres and hit the target was much less than the normal flight. But these “constraints were overcome” with the Global Positioning System (GPS) update coming in correctly and the missile homed in on the desired target, sources said.

The missile flew at a velocity of Mach 2, twice the speed of sound. The normal version flies at Mach 3.

Last time the missile failed to hit the target as the GPS did not have time to correct the error in the inertial navigation system (INS). So the GPS update did not come in. This time, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) ensured that even if the GPS update did not flow in, the missile would hit the target. Modifications were made in the software and simulation runs conducted.

The launch met different mission requirements.

 

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