Indian Missiles - News, Developments, Tests, and Discussions

[Chaluboy]

why cant akash and spyder sam do the job ???

To have a effective shield you need to layer your defenses, so there will be typically multiple tiers of security for high value targets.
Also aakash doest have a active seeker yet...

The shorter range missiles also need to have advanced electronics to react very quickly compared to the longer range distances,

 

[hellofriends]

Nuclear capable Prithvi missile test fire

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[Tejas-MkII]

Air Defense: Akash For The Army

Akash For The Army

June 23, 2010: The Indian Army has ordered twelve batteries of Akash anti-aircraft missiles. Each Akash battery has three launcher vehicles, a radar vehicle and several support vehicles. Each launcher is self propelled, carrying four missiles, and costs $2.2 million. Each search radar, which can support several batteries, costs $8.7 million. Each battery has a Weapon Guidance radar, which costs $10.9 million each. Each 701 kg/1,543 pound Akash missile has a 60 kg/132 pound warhead, a range of 27 kilometers and can kit targets as high as 15,800 meters/49,000 feet, or as low as 20 meters.

Akash is modeled on the older, but successful, Russian SA-6 system, and is meant to replace some very old Russian air defense systems India is still using. India wants to build a version of Akash for use on ships, and is already looking into a longer range (60 kilometers) version.

Akash is the most expensive high tech system ever developed, and put into service, by India's DRDO (Defense Research and DevelopmentOrganization). DRDO has a reputation for delays and poor work. India spent over $250 million developing Akash, a project that began in the early 1980s. Akash had a very troubled development, and there is some doubt about how effective it will be in combat. Time will tell.

 

[Tejas-MkII]

If the data about min. altitude is right then it is much better than BARAK whose min. alt. is 500m

Its definitely not a bad option to make a version of Akash for IN.

 

[Dark Angel]

India wants to build a version of Akash for use on ships, and is already looking into a longer range (60 kilometers) version

^^^^^^^^^^^^

this is true we are maing a more advanced version with more range and precision abt 60kms

 

[saurabh]

Astra test fired.
Air-to-air missile Astra successfully test-fired

 

[ganimi kawa]

Here is an update from livefist. Apparently the drdo team was waiting for bad weather to carry out this test which preliminary reports say was successful. Way to go DRDO!

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[Spring Onion]

India tests short range Astra missile
IANS, Jul 7, 2010, 03.56pm IST


BHUBANESWAR: India Wednesday test-fired its short-range Astra air-to-air missile from a defence base in Odisha for the second time in two days, defence sources said.

The beyond visual range missile was tested at 2.05 p.m. from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in the district of Balasore, about 230 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.

Astra is a high-end tactical missile and is envisaged to intercept enemy aircraft at supersonic speeds in head-on mode at a range of 80 km and in tail-chase mode at 20 km.

The missile was earlier tested Tuesday, for the first time at night. "We are analyzing the data of both the tests" S.P. Dash, director of the test range said.

 

[vikrams]

its not short range missile as in title
its beyond-visual-range missile

 

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Jana Didi, Its Not Short range, its beyond Visual Range Missile.....

 

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Astra BVRM

 

[jha]

India to test Interceptor missile in August

CHENNAI: India will launch in early August an interceptor called Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile to shoot down an incoming “enemy missile” as part of its efforts to build a credible ballistic missile defence shield.

After the “enemy” missile takes off from its launch pad at the Integrated Test Range, (ITR) Balasore, Orisssa, the AAD missile will pounce upon it midway, lifting off from the Wheeler Island in the Bay of Bengal, about 60 km off Balasore.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has built both the missiles and will launch them. Preparations are progressing apace for the launches.

V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, said the AAD interceptor “is not one of the existing missiles,” hinting that it has been newly developed.

The target “is a modified missile” and the interception would take place in endo-atmosphere. But the interception would be at a high altitude in the endo-atmosphere. While the endo-atmosphere is 50 km and below, the exo-atmosphere is above 50 km. Rains had led to the test being postponed from July to August.

Of the four interceptor missile tests so far, the first three were successful. The last one in March 2010 was a failure.

Dr. Saraswat, who is also Director-General, DRDO, said the test-flights of Astra, India's air-to-air missile on Tuesday and Wednesday were aimed at demonstrating its high manoeuvrability, and its control and guidance systems.

“The Astra is meant for destroying aerial targets. It is a gradual process of proving its control and guidance systems. Before we integrate the missile with an aircraft, we should prove all this. [However], we have flown the missile integrated with an aircraft and it was done in Pune,” he said.

The missile was integrated with a Sukhoi-30 aircraft. But the tests on Tuesday and Wednesday took place from the ground at the ITR.

The Astra is about 3.6 metre long and weighs 160 kg.

The Hindu : Front Page : India to test Interceptor missile in August

 

[merajahmed]

Sir i've a question to ask...
In india,before induction of any system i mean missile,jets etc... it goes through rigorous test which ranges from 3 to 5 yrs.does every other country also follows the same procedure??

Yes all the systems are tested before induction by every country.

 

[indian navy]

Sir i've a question to ask...
In india,before induction of any system i mean missile,jets etc... it goes through rigorous test which ranges from 3 to 5 yrs.does every other country also follows the same procedure??

well if don't test the at critical time you can face trouble

 

[d14gtc]

y not Except when u getting em readymade on your shelf