India's Nag Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) To Enter Production Next Year

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Kalam's unrealised 'Nag' missile dream to become reality next year​

Nag missile with the NAMICA in the background. ​

HYDERABAD: One unrealized dream of 'Missile man' A P J Abdul Kalam who died on July 27, will become a reality next year.

Production of the anti-tank missile 'Nag', a 'fire and forget' missile developed to hit and destroy stationery or moving battle tanks will begin next year. Defense advisor to Raksha Mantri, G Satheesh Reddy told TOI that while the other missiles planned as part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) had become a reality, in so far as 'Nag' was concerned there had been some limitations related to technology. Those have now become overcome. "The 'Nag' missile will be go for production next year," Satheesh Reddy said. The other missiles 'Prithvi', 'Dhanush', the five versions of 'Agni', 'Akash' and 'Astra' as part of the IGMDP have already been developed.

The 'Nag' missile developed by the Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) which Abdul Kalam headed, will move like a 'cobra' to hit battle tanks in a range of 4 km to 7 km distance.

"Everything that Kalam planned has become a reality. He was someone who had both technical and managerial skills to pursue plans," Satheesh Reddy who worked under Kalam when he joined the DRDL in 1986 said. Satheesh Reddy who was noticed by Kalam for the work he was putting in associated himself with Reddy who worked on navigation technology.

If India has several missiles and variants of them, it was also due to the efforts of Kalam. "He brought about integration between various groups which were working independently towards their set goals. The integrated reaped dividends," he said.

If India is now in a strong position because of the its missiles, especially the 6,000-km range intercontinental ballistic missile, it was also due to Kalam's 'big thinking'.

"Think big. It is a sin to think small," Kalam would tell colleagues in the DRDL and DRDO. And if anyone amongst his colleagues would keep silent during a discussion, he would prod him or her to speak and contribute. Even if he had already taken a decision on some matters, he would still keep his mind open to ideas.

Kalam's nature was always to protect his colleagues and take the blame from his superiors if something went wrong, Satheesh Reddy recalled.

Source:- Kalam's unrealised 'Nag' missile dream to become reality next year - The Times of India

 

[he-man]

Good,,even russians don't have a fire and forget atgm at the moment.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Nag ATGM

Nag (Sanskrit, Nāg: Cobra) is a third generation "fire-and-forget" anti-tank missile developed in India. It is one of five missile systems developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP). Nag has been developed at a cost of INR 3 billion (US$46.8 million).

Advanced variants -

(01) HeliNa, (Helicopter-launched Nag) with a range of 7–8 km, launched from twin-tube stub wing-mounted launchers on board the armed HAL Dhruv and HAL Light Combat Helicopter produced by state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). It will be structurally different from the Nag. The Helina will make use of an IIR seeker for target engagement like the Nag. Launchers have been cleared for captive carriage trials and handed over to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for carriage trials.

(02) Land based Nag will also have its range extended by development of a mast-mounted missile launcher that will be hydraulically raised out to a height of five metres to enable the Nag missile to acquire its targets out to a distance of 7–8 km.

(03) Man portable - DRDL will also start working on the,`Man Portable' Nag very soon. It would weigh less than 14 kg. On July 12, 2015, three round trials of HeliNa were conducted at Chandhan firing range in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The defence sources said that two of the three trials were successful in hitting the target, while one reportedly missed the target. The test was conducted with improved version of Imaging Infrared seeker.

(04) NAMICA (Nag Missile Carrier) is a tank destroyer built for the army. It is equipped with a thermal imager for target acquisition. NAMICA is a modified BMP-2 ICV produced as "Sarath" in India. The carrier weights 14.5 tonnes in full combat load and is capable of moving 7 km/h in water. The carriers are capable of carrying 12 missiles with 8 in ready-to-fire mode. The NAMICA carrier was put through transportation trials covering 155 km during 2008 summer trials.

Imaging Infra Red (IIR) Seeker on NAG ATGM

A closeup of the Nag missile head, with the Imaging Infrared (IIR) Seeker
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W-Band millimeter (mm) wave seeker for Air Launched Nag.​

 

[Guynextdoor2]

Good,,even russians don't have a fire and forget atgm at the moment.

Seriously?!

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Tests of HeliNa -

HeliNa launched by HAL Dhruv WSI - thrusted out with four exhausts, like with the ground version, NAG.

High-speed Motion Capture of NAG ATGM Launched from HAL-Rudra at t=200ms

High-speed Motion Capture of NAG ATGM Launched from HAL-Rudra at t=220ms

High-speed Motion Capture of NAG ATGM Launched from HAL-Rudra at t=242.67ms

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Ground version NAG -

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Single thruster test -

 

[he-man]

Seriously?!

Not that i know of.
Those are salcos or semi automatically command guided ones and 2 nd generation.

 

[wowler]

Wow army is really serious about modernisation.
Spike Atgm and now Nag ATGM.
Very good fir and forget will make it a good weapon.

 

[surya kiran]

Not that i know of.
Those are salcos or semi automatically command guided ones and 2 nd generation.

There is a version of the Kornet which is fire and forget.

 

[he-man]

There is a version of the Kornet which is fire and forget.

link please.

 

[al_asad_al_mulk]

Good,,even russians don't have a fire and forget atgm at the moment.

@Oscar @Jango @Shamain

a laughter for you

 

[he-man]

@Oscar @Jango @Shamain

a laughter for you

Reason for ur happiness??

 

[Ankit Kumar 001]

Reason for ur happiness??

Ignorance of course.

 

[al_asad_al_mulk]

Reason for ur happiness??

A gentleman already mentioned.

 

[surya kiran]

link please.

Just google kornet - em, i think. Dont think it has an active seeker, though. Below is something from a russian forum.

JANE'S MISSILES AND ROCKETS - DECEMBER 01, 2004

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]Russia develops fire-and-forget Kornet
Doug Richardson

Russia has developed new fire-and-forget versions of the Tula KBP Kornet-E (AT-14) anti-tank missile, writes Doug Richardson. According to former commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces, General of the Army Nikolay Kormiltsev, these are third-generation variants of the missile.

In an interview given to the Russian military newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda a few weeks before his resignation in late September, Gen Kormiltsev said that the new missiles can be equipped with "a thermal or radio-locating homing head", and could be used against enemy anti-tank missile systems.

Kornet had become a "powerful and efficient weapon" with many advantages over foreign equivalents, he suggested, and was "very simple to use".

In its basic form, the Kornet missile is fired from a tripod-mounted single-round firing post designated the 9P163-1. This includes a standard day sighting and guidance device, but can be fitted with a 1PN79-1 thermal-imaging night sight. A 9P163-2 firing post was developed for vehicle-mounted Kornet systems.

The 9P163-1 missile currently in service is fitted with a tandem high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead, while the 9M133F-1 carries a thermobaric warhead. Both are laser beam-riding missiles that use semi-automatic command to line-of-sight (SACLOS) guidance. The gunner has to keep his sight on the target until the missile impacts.

With the new third-generation system, the gunner is only required to aim the missile, then give the fire command once lock-on has been obtained.

The 'thermal' pattern of homing head will be a passive-homing seeker able to detect and home onto the infrared (IR) energy emitted by the target. This would make the third-generation Kornet the first Russian fire-and-forget anti-tank missile. There had been reports that an IR terminal-guidance seeker was developed for the command-guided 9M17 Skorpion (AT-2 'Swatter') but not put into service.

In Russian military terminology, the phrase 'radio-locating' is normally used to indicate radar. To be useful against tanks and other small tactical targets, an active-radar seeker would have to operate in the millimetric region.

In the early 1980s, Hughes developed alternative IR and millimetric-wave seekers for the 200 mm-diameter AGM-124 Wasp, while in the 1990s the UK fitted an active-radar millimetric seeker into the 178 mm-diameter Hellfire to create the MBDA Brimstone air-to-surface missile. Russia is known to have studied millimetric guidance systems for missiles, but cramming this technology into the 152 mm fuselage diameter of the Kornet-E would be a difficult undertaking for Russian industry.

Gen Kormiltsev gave no further details of the upgraded system and did not indicate if it was in service, or if it could be fired from upgraded versions of the current ground and vehicle-mounted firing posts.

 

[he-man]

A gentleman already mentioned.

He was talking about you