India's ASTRA BVRAAM Successfully Testfired From IAF Flanker

[jarves]

Already posted.

 

[jarves]

People are cheering too much.Is BVRAAM really that tough to make??

 

[illusion8]

I like the name, though it sounds western it is most likely the Hindi word Asthra which means weapon.

 

[illusion8]

The only Indian weapon I have true admiration for. Lets hope it bear actual fruit on my fondness for it. Mid body strakes give good aerodynamic lift for both range and turning ability.. and the large fins would make for tight turn at end-game.

This would be the awesome-st one when it comes into existence.

 

[Omega007]

Guys,I want to know if Astra has High Off Boresight capability......could you guys please discuss on this context??

High off bore sight is a feature of present generation IIR or UV guided WVRAAMs like Iris T,Python V,AIM 9X,
AA 11 Archer.So no,Astra,like any other radar guided AAMs doesn't have high off bore sight capability.

 

[HariPrasad]

Its smokeless actually . .even in the ground test u can see no smoke.

Observe shock wave . It is an indication of high speed.

The maximum range of Astra is 110 km in head-on chase and 20 km in tail chase. The missile could be launched from different altitudes - it can cover 110 km when launched from an altitude of 15 km, 44 km when fired from an altitude of eight km and 21 km when the altitude is sea-level . The missile can reportedly undertake 40 g turns close to sea level, when attacking a maneuvering target.[6] It will have an active homing range of 25 km. The missile has a pre-fragmented warhead and is fitted with a proximity fuze.[2] A radar fuse already exists for the Astra, but the DRDO is currently working on a new laser fuse. Astra has on-board ECCM capability allowing it to jam radar signals from an enemy surface-to-air battery, ensuring that the missile is not tracked or shot down. The Mark 2 version of Astra will have a maximum range of 150 km and tail chase range of up to 35 km, and will feature shorter fins than the original Mark 1 design.

- Wikipedia

Actually Astar works on multiple frequency. If you Jam one frequency, it will immediately move to another frequency.

 

[HariPrasad]

Finally DRDO did that.They completed
development of Astra .Man what a nice propulsion.
Only one remains now.Nirbhay

LRCM with Mach 3.5 speed and long range (Double the range of Brahmos) is coming.

If Modi saheb gives permeation, MIRV Agni will follow. MM has put it on hold.

 

[noksss]

Gone are the days when people used to make fun of DRDO .DRDO is slowly gaining a good image and one day will become a good competitor for ISRO interms of the popularity among Indians

 

[jarves]

I like the name, though it sounds western it is most likely the Hindi word Asthra which means weapon.

Yeah it has been named after the Sanskrit word "Astra" which means weapon.

 

[Prince of Persia]

I am very impressed by this missile.
Mach 4 speed and uses solid fuel but with such a beautiful bluish purple flame instead of all that smoke.

Hopefully one day, Iran will make such a decent, indigenous air to air missile.
Congratulations to our ancient Indian brothers.

 

[Mike_Brando]

I am very impressed by this missile.
Mach 4 speed and uses solid fuel but with such a beautiful bluish purple flame instead of all that smoke.

Hopefully one day, Iran will make such a decent, indigenous air to air missile.
Congratulations to our ancient Indian brothers.

Bro Iran has already made some serious development in this field.You have already developed Fatter short range missile back in 2009 plus your scientists have already modified the MIM Hawk-23 SAM into a BVR air to air missile for your F-14 fleet a couple of years back which was a real achievement.DRDO has to do some catching here.
However i would like to see some Indo-Iranian J-V in the field of missiles in the near future

 

[MilSpec]

People are cheering too much.Is BVRAAM really that tough to make??

it is....

 

[SrNair]

Bro Iran has already made some serious development in this field.You have already developed Fatter short range missile back in 2009 plus your scientists have already modified the MIM Hawk-23 SAM into a BVR air to air missile for your F-14 fleet a couple of years back which was a real achievement.DRDO has to do some catching here.
However i would like to see some Indo-Iranian J-V in the field of missiles in the near future

Iran is only country in the middile east that spend money for indigenous R&D missile development.

LRCM with Mach 3.5 speed and long range (Double the range of Brahmos) is coming.

If Modi saheb gives permeation, MIRV Agni will follow. MM has put it on hold.

What??? MMS really did that?

 

[IND151]

The Astra tested over the sea off Goa today was launched by a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter that slung the missile on an under-wing pylon. Already travelling at several hundred kilometres per hour (the speed of the aircraft at the time of launch) the missile’s smokeless propellant quickly accelerates it to about 4000 kmph in an operational launch, as it screams towards the target fighter. A data link with the Sukhoi-30MKI continuously updates the missile, steering it towards a target that might have detected the missile and is manoeuvring to get away. At 15 km from the target, the Astra’s on-board seeker picks up the target and homes in on it. Reaching near the target, a radio proximity fuze detonates the Astra warhead metres from the target, shooting it down.

The launch at Goa today tested only the separation of the missile from the Sukhoi-30 fighter. As testing continues, the missile will be launched against an actual target, and perform increasingly difficult manoeuvres that ensure the target cannot get away by twisting and turning at high speeds.

The near impossibility of escaping from an air-to-air missile that has a “lock” on a fighter was memorably depicted in the Hollywood film, “Behind the Enemy Lines.”

“The air-launch was captured by side and forward looking high-speed cameras and the separation (of missile from aircraft) was exactly as per the simulation,” said a DRDO press release, after the Sunday test.

Key components of the Astra missile --- such as the seeker head --- remain imported. A seeker is being developed, but will take a decade to be usable.

The air launcher, a rail on which the missile hangs and from which it is launched, is a Russian Vympel launcher that is being built in India. It will allow the Astra to be fired from all four of India’s current generation fighters --- the Su-30MKI, MiG-29, Mirage 2000 and the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft.

Astra components that the DRDO has successfully developed indigenously include the data link between aircraft and missile, its on-board computer, inertial navigation system, the radio proximity fuze, and the fibre-optic gyroscope.

The current version of the Astra will be followed by a longer-range Astra Mark II, which can be launched at enemy fighters 80 kilometres away. The Mark II, which will have a state-of-the-art ring-laser gyro, is expected to be flight tested later this year.

The Astra Project Director Dr S Venugopal, said multiple agencies, including private Indian companies, had contributed to the missile. He said, “The air launch of Astra was perfect in all respects… HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd) carried out the modification in Su-30 along with IAF specialists, and many Indian industries have an important and enabling role in the production of reliable avionics, propulsion system, materials, airframe and software.”

Broadsword: Astra missile debuts from a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter

 

[SrNair]

In Behind the Enemy lines a SAM is used not air to air