Indian Missiles News

BRAHMOSTRA: The unseen story of arguably the world’s fastest, supersonic cruise missile

Eureka with Dr Sudhir K Mishra

This is for Agni-6 MIRV’s capable ICBM suppose to be in 60 + Tons all up weight

http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/advanced-agni-6-missile-with-multiple-warheads-likely-by-2017-113050800034_1.html

A missile carrier trailer manufacturer is making a trailer for 70 ton missile. A fabricator is making support structures for 70 ton missile canister. There is no 70 ton missile. Or is it ?

Good videos and feels good when you get peoples participation. Booster separation to the end, second video shot from Chennai have a better angle during booster separation and we see the main stage continuing.

couple of good videos

Full coverage of the GSLV-MK-III launch, DD.

More from ISRO Gallery

http://isro.gov.in/gslv-mk-iii-d1-gsat-19-mission/gslv-mk-iii-d1-gsat-19-mission-gallery

ISRO’s big leap with GSLV-MK III, so glad to see it happen. 😎 :applause:

ISRO’s GSLV MK-III
http://www.isro.gov.in/launchers/gslv-mk-iii

What a beauty! 😎

Progress like this in space systems is what the evil empire didn’t want India to achieve and tried to scuttle the project starting the early 90s with good success.

Brahmos mini (aka brahmos NG), shall be capable of tube launch from sub and will have a range of 300 km.

http://zeenews.india.com/india/india-to-increase-range-of-brahmos-missile-to-450-km_1977387.html

Brahmos missile to be tested for 450 km next month, after lifting of MCTR regulations. The next block of Brahmos to have 850 km range.

Man portable Nag missile, coming soon.

In the list of other projects being undertaken, there are two new names, SLCM and XRSAM.
SLCM is rumoured to be similar to Klub variant with terminal supersonic speed. XRSAM, I assume, is the new name for VLR-SAM project.

SAAW stand off weapon, under testing.

New LGB family finally revealed (it’s been under testing for the last 5 + years). Its similar to Laser guided JDAM. Range 30 km when launched at 10 km altitude.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/defence/interceptor-missile-successfully-test-fired/articleshow/57094070.cms

PDV (Prithvi Defence Vehicle) interceptor tested recently intercepting target missile at 97 km altitude. PDV is a solid fuelled missile, which replaces liquid fuelled PAD (Prithvi Air defence) interceptor, which was in turn derived from Prithvi missile. PDV has an IIR seeker and is a hit to kill interceptor.

Throttleable Ducted Rocket, same as Meteor.

Indeed. Current project name SFDR (Solid fuel ducted ramjet) missile.

A2A missile, Baseline design from Astra.

A new mystery missile is under development. High energy, long ranged, solid fuel ramjet propulsion.

This is separate from liquid fueled ramjet cruise missile.

Throttleable Ducted Rocket, same as Meteor.

^^ India is in the best position to test Barak-8/MR-SAM against supersonic Brahmos or subsonic Uran/exocet/harpoon as it is operator for all these class of missile.

Israel’s ultimate ship defense now validated on land

Title is mis-leading. The article’s testing refers to the MR-SAM variant of the LR-SAM/Barak 8 for the Indian and Israeli Navies respectively. Posting it here since it is going to be in service with the Indian Navy first and then the Israeli Navy

TEL AVIV — The Israeli Navy’s “ultimate answer” to the Russian Yakhont anti-ship sea-skimming cruise missile has been validated in India for land-based air defenders, according to India’s Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the prime contractor for the joint program known here as Barak-8.

The June 30 test of the Indian Air Force MRSAM – a medium-range, land-based version of the longer-ranged Barak-8 system produced for the Indian and Israeli navies – “validated all components of the weapon system to the satisfaction of the customer,” according to IAI.

According to a July 7 statement, Israeli and Indian program officials witnessed three flight tests, each one simulating “different extreme reference scenarios validating various system capabilities.” Launched from land-based mobile launchers, each of the three tests successfully destroyed targets simulating enemy threats.

“This is an important milestone in the cooperation between India and Israel and in the development of the MRSAM advanced air defense system,” said S Christopher, DRDO chief.
The vertically launched intercepting system, with a range of some 70 kilometers, provides persistent 360-degree coverage against saturation attacks by long-range missiles and a spectrum of air-breathing threats, including the Russian sea-skimming cruise missile known by its NATO designation SS-N-26.

“Barak-8 is one of the most advanced air defense systems in the world in its sea-based and land-based versions. … It is Israel’s answer to the latest threat to come from the north,” Levy said, referring to the long-range missiles sold to Syria and assumed to be in the hands of Lebanon-based Hezbollah.

Boaz Levy, IAI executive vice president and general manager of the company’s Systems Missiles and Space Group, said Barak-8 had been validated in operational tests in Israel and abroad over the past year. It provides the “ultimate answer” to the Russian Yakhont, which Levy said posed “a significant threat in the Middle East in general and to the Israel Navy in particular.”

According to Levy, the Barak-8 radar as well as the interceptor’s seeker, airframe, propulsion and warhead were designed especially for sophisticated threats like the supersonic, sea-skimming Yakhont.

“It allows robust defense against aircraft, helicopters and missiles of all types, but for Yakhont, there’s nothing else in Israel that has the energy and the maneuverability to intercept the target in the air at very low levels, a few meters above the sea.”

In a recent interview, Brig. Gen. Yossi Ashkenazi, head of materiel for the Israeli Navy, supported Levy’s claim, insisting that Barak-8 “will give an appropriate answer to all cruise missile threats, including the sea-skimming class of the Yakhont.”

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http://www.livefistdefence.com/2015/09/exclusive-indo-israeli-lrsam-range.html?m=1

Barak-8/LRSAM interceptor designed by DRDO has performed better than advertised. The official range has been increased by almost a third to to 90km+ from 70km.