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By Ajai Shukla
Defexpo 2010, New Delhi

The country’s top defence scientist has, for the first time, revealed that India’s new Shaurya missile, which can carry a one-ton nuclear warhead over a distance of 750 kilometers, is specially designed to be fired from Indian submarines, and could form the crucial third leg of India’s nuclear deterrent.

If launched from a submarine off the China coast, it is capable of reaching many of China’s major cities, including Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai.

Air and land-based nuclear weapons are delivered to their targets by fighter aircraft and ballistic missiles respectively. Since these can be knocked out by an enemy first strike, the most reliable nuclear deterrent has traditionally been underwater, missiles hidden in a submarine.

Dr VK Saraswat, the DRDO chief and Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister, revealed to Business Standard at the ongoing Defexpo 2010, “We have designed the Shaurya so that it can be launched from under water as easily as from land. The gas-filled canister that houses the missile fits easily into a submarine. The underwater leg of the nuclear triad needs to be totally reliable and needs a state-of-the-art missile.”

India’s undersea deterrent has so far revolved around the K-15 ballistic missile, built with significant help from Russia. The K-15 was to equip the INS Arihant, India’s lone nuclear-powered submarine, which is being constructed in Visakhapatnam. But now, after rigorous underwater testing, the Shaurya could be the mainstay of Arihant’s arsenal.

“The Shaurya was developed from ground up as a submarine-capable missile”, confirms Dr Prahlada, the top DRDO scientist responsible for liaising with the military. “Every piece of technology for fitting it in a submarine is already in place.”

Shortly before the Defexpo 2010, Dr Saraswat had publicly stated that India’s missile technology was ahead of China’s and Pakistan’s.

Now top DRDO scientists have revealed that the Shaurya is not a ballistic missile, as it has been thought to be; it is actually a hypersonic cruise missile, which never leaves the atmosphere. A ballistic missile is like a stone being lobbed towards a target. Rockets toss it upwards and towards the target; after the rocket burns out, gravity pulls the missile warhead down towards the target. Buffeted by wind and re-entry forces, accuracy is a problem; and, since the ballistic missile’s path is predictable, shooting it down is relatively easy.

The Shaurya has none of these issues. Its solid-fuel, two-stage rocket accelerates the missile to six times the speed of sound before it reaches an altitude of 40 kilometers (125,000 feet), after which it levels out and cruises towards the target, powered by its onboard fuel. While ballistic missiles cannot correct their course midway, the Shaurya is an intelligent missile. Onboard navigation computers kick in near the target, guiding the missile to the target and eliminating errors that inevitably creep in during its turbulent journey.

The Shaurya, say DRDO sources, will strike within 20-30 metres of its target after travelling 750 kilometres.

Conventional cruise missiles, like the American Tomahawk and the Indo-Russian Brahmos, offer similar accuracy. But their air-breathing engines carry them along slowly, rendering them vulnerable to enemy aircraft and missiles. The Shaurya’s solid-fuel, air-independent engine propels it along at hypersonic speeds, leaving enemy fighters and missiles far behind.

“I would say the Shaurya a hybrid propulsion missile”, says Dr Saraswat. “Like a ballistic missile, it is powered by solid fuel. And, like a cruise missile, it can guide itself right up to the target.”

Making the Shaurya even more capable is its ability to manoeuvre, following a twisting path to the target that makes it very difficult to shoot it down. In contrast, a ballistic missile is predictable; its trajectory gives away its target and its path to it.


Link-http://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/
 
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Shaurya is underwater nuclear missile.It's a Hybrid missile.

Shaurya-surfaces-as-india's-underwater nuclear missile:New "Hybrid" Technology more Advanced than China's.

The country’s top defence scientist has, for the first time, revealed that India’s new Shaurya missile, which can carry a one-ton nuclear warhead over a distance of 750 kilometers, is specially designed to be fired from Indian submarines, and could form the crucial third leg of India’s nuclear deterrent.

If launched from a submarine off the China coast, it is capable of reaching many of China’s major cities, including Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai.

Air and land-based nuclear weapons are delivered to their targets by fighter aircraft and ballistic missiles respectively. Since these can be knocked out by an enemy first strike, the most reliable nuclear deterrent has traditionally been underwater, missiles hidden in a submarine.

Dr VK Saraswat, the DRDO chief and Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister, revealed to Business Standard at the ongoing Defexpo 2010, “We have designed the Shaurya so that it can be launched from under water as easily as from land. The gas-filled canister that houses the missile fits easily into a submarine. The underwater leg of the nuclear triad needs to be totally reliable and needs a state-of-the-art missile.”

India’s undersea deterrent has so far revolved around the K-15 ballistic missile, built with significant help from Russia. The K-15 was to equip the INS Arihant, India’s lone nuclear-powered submarine, which is being constructed in Visakhapatnam. But now, after rigorous underwater testing, the Shaurya could be the mainstay of Arihant’s arsenal.

“The Shaurya was developed from ground up as a submarine-capable missile”, confirms Dr Prahlada, the top DRDO scientist responsible for liaising with the military. “Every piece of technology for fitting it in a submarine is already in place.”

Shortly before the Defexpo 2010, Dr Saraswat had publicly stated that India’s missile technology was ahead of China’s and Pakistan’s.

Now top DRDO scientists have revealed that the Shaurya is not a ballistic missile, as it has been thought to be; it is actually a hypersonic cruise missile, which never leaves the atmosphere. A ballistic missile is like a stone being lobbed towards a target. Rockets toss it upwards and towards the target; after the rocket burns out, gravity pulls the missile warhead down towards the target. Buffeted by wind and re-entry forces, accuracy is a problem; and, since the ballistic missile’s path is predictable, shooting it down is relatively easy.

The Shaurya has none of these issues. Its solid-fuel, two-stage rocket accelerates the missile to six times the speed of sound before it reaches an altitude of 40 kilometers (125,000 feet), after which it levels out and cruises towards the target, powered by its onboard fuel. While ballistic missiles cannot correct their course midway, the Shaurya is an intelligent missile. Onboard navigation computers kick in near the target, guiding the missile to the target and eliminating errors that inevitably creep in during its turbulent journey.

The Shaurya, say DRDO sources, will strike within 20-30 metres of its target after travelling 750 kilometres.

Conventional cruise missiles, like the American Tomahawk and the Indo-Russian Brahmos, offer similar accuracy. But their air-breathing engines carry them along slowly, rendering them vulnerable to enemy aircraft and missiles. The Shaurya’s solid-fuel, air-independent engine propels it along at hypersonic speeds, leaving enemy fighters and missiles far behind.

“I would say the Shaurya a hybrid propulsion missile”, says Dr Saraswat. “Like a ballistic missile, it is powered by solid fuel. And, like a cruise missile, it can guide itself right up to the target.”

Making the Shaurya even more capable is its ability to manoeuvre, following a twisting path to the target that makes it very difficult to shoot it down. In contrast, a ballistic missile is predictable; its trajectory gives away its target and its path to it.

POSTED BY BROADSWORD AT 07:57
 
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I hope DRDO develops a cruise missile of the range of agni 3.It would be a world beater.:yahoo:
 
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To the best of my Info, its Sagarika aka K15 which is the sub based missile.

Shaurya is the land based, canister deployed version of the same.
 
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If shaurya can carry a 1 ton payload for 750 KM does it means that the actual range is much longer with a 500 kg payload ?
 
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If shaurya can carry a 1 ton payload for 750 KM does it means that the actual range is much longer with a 500 kg payload ?

You my friend, just asked a top secret question.
And people say India does not have ICBM (consider Agni5 missile also)....
 
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If shaurya can carry a 1 ton payload for 750 KM does it means that the actual range is much longer with a 500 kg payload ?

yes , its range may be 1200-1300 km under less then 500 kg payload ,then it makes me think then why Nirbay cruise missile (1000km) ?
 
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yes , its range may be 1200-1300 km under less then 500 kg payload ,then it makes me think then why Nirbay cruise missile (1000km) ?

1. we want different options to surprise enemy.

2. we want different options to confuse enemy defense systems.

3. nirbhay is a subsonic and shaurya is hyper sonic.

4. nirbhay is costly

5. nirbahy for mass production
etc etc.

One more I have talked with the Shaurya guys they says the group which is developing nirbhay and brahmos is different and their rival.
 
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Shaurya is a DT tactical ballistic missile. It is not a cruise missile!
 
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1. we want different options to surprise enemy.
-Rite.

2. we want different options to confuse enemy defense systems.
-Rite. It may be easy to destroy Nirbhay but it is almost impossible to destroy Shourya and Brahmos.

3. nirbhay is a subsonic and shaurya is hyper sonic.
-Correct. Nirbhay is a low flying pure cruise missile while Shourya is semi cruise missile.

4. nirbhay is costly
-No. Nirbhay is cheap.

5. nirbahy for mass production etc etc.
-Yes. It will be cheaper than Brahmos and Shourya and can be mass produced.

One more I have talked with the Shaurya guys they says the group which is developing nirbhay and brahmos is different and their rival.
-Shourya and Brahmos will destroy strategic and heavily defended targets which can not be destroyed by the Nirbhay.

:cheers:
 
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Can you please explain what is a semi-cruise missile??? seems like lot of confusion on what exactly Shourya is...

- A ballistic missile
- A cruise missile
- A missile having features of both ballistic(as shourya has solid fuel) as well as cruise missile(as shourya never leaves earth atmosphere and can manoeuvre)
 
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in a semi ballistic and semi cruise missile, the terminal phase can be directed unlike a complete ballistic missile.
 
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If shaurya can carry a 1 ton payload for 750 KM does it means that the actual range is much longer with a 500 kg payload ?

I don't think so because in case of ballistic missile there is boost for just for initial stage so a lighter warhead would increase the parabolic distance of the projectile. But in case of a missile like shaurya, the propulsion would be active for major part of the course. So it's range might not increase by more than 5-6% cause it's already moving at velocities where drag would be more than the advantage offered by the less weight.
 
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