India Missiles and Guided Munitions

[Gessler]

The MANIK turbofan engine developed by GTRE.

The 400kgf (~4 kN) turbofan is meant to power long-range subsonic cruise missiles and was recently test-flown for the first time on a ITCM (version of Nirbhay with indigenous engine) LACM.

 

[Nilgiri]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1453372828745703432

 

[Lonewolf]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1453372828745703432

Personally I don't like the design ,too heavy a design , a new ICBM is required with composite motors and what's the obsession with pointy missile (this isn't the dictator movie ) .

 

[Zapper]

Personally I don't like the design ,too heavy a design , a new ICBM is required with composite motors and what's the obsession with pointy missile (this isn't the dictator movie ) .

 

[Gessler]

 

[Gessler]

Interesting take by GODOFPARADOXES:

 

[Paro]

Not specifically related to Indian systems

 

[Nilgiri]

Personally I don't like the design ,too heavy a design , a new ICBM is required with composite motors and what's the obsession with pointy missile (this isn't the dictator movie ) .

Minimalist design....since its just single warhead. It is similar with number of minuteman series.

Ogive fairing is just one more thing that can go wrong....so I guess they chose not to have it till its proper MIRV.

 

[Lonewolf]

Minimalist design....since its just single warhead. It is similar with number of minuteman series.

Ogive fairing is just one more thing that can go wrong....so I guess they chose not to have it till its proper MIRV.

Mirv is almost there , remember agni 1 anti airfield warhead .

Well there are atleast two more ICBM in development (name not specified , except few calling nsurya and agni 6 ) ,but they have heavy throwaway weight and much more compact deriving from k4 and a1p

 

[Nilgiri]

Mirv is almost there , remember agni 1 anti airfield warhead .

Well there are atleast two more ICBM in development (name not specified , except few calling nsurya and agni 6 ) ,but they have heavy throwaway weight and much more compact deriving from k4 and a1p

This was a user trial so hence the regular deployed design.

We have all seen the slide presentation with the MIRV concept by now I am sure.....fairing and all.

Compact stubby ICBM ecosystem will definitely be priority given that is where the focus must lie (to assure maximum return on deterrence from investment i.e underwater SLBM driven)....rather than going for larger bulkier bigger + heavy missiles (given setting of our priorities).

I would say Agni V is volumetrically the high water mark needed as is.....it can reach 10k km range or more with relevant variants....doing volume calc of even solid fuel energy imparted....vis a vis its contemporaries.

Agni III (which later led to Agni V) when I first saw it I already knew this is volumetrically more than enough to work with to evolve all the variants needed. It was marked change from the pencil missile agnis before it.

 

[Lonewolf]

This was a user trial so hence the regular deployed design.

We have all seen the slide presentation with the MIRV concept by now I am sure.....fairing and all.

Compact stubby ICBM ecosystem will definitely be priority given that is where the focus must lie (to assure maximum return on deterrence from investment i.e underwater SLBM driven)....rather than going for larger bulkier bigger + heavy missiles (given setting of our priorities).

I would say Agni V is volumetrically the high water mark needed as is.....it can reach 10k km range or more with relevant variants....doing volume calc of even solid fuel energy imparted....vis a vis its contemporaries.

Agni III (which later led to Agni V) when I first saw it I already knew this is volumetrically more than enough to work with to evolve all the variants needed. It was marked change from the pencil missile agnis before it.

I really like k 4 and agni 1p the best

 

[Nilgiri]

The first user trial of Agni-5, India's first intercontinental ballistic missile, has been successful. It comes amidst the Ladakh standoff; the missile has a range of over 5000 km, which means it can cover the whole of China. On 'The Gist', StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale is in conversation with Dr Avinash Chander, former director general of DRDO and one of the key architects of India's Agni missile programme.

 

[Lonewolf]

The first user trial of Agni-5, India's first intercontinental ballistic missile, has been successful. It comes amidst the Ladakh standoff; the missile has a range of over 5000 km, which means it can cover the whole of China. On 'The Gist', StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale is in conversation with Dr Avinash Chander, former director general of DRDO and one of the key architects of India's Agni missile programme.

Agni 1 p can hit moving target , aircraft carrier

 

[Gessler]

Agni 1 p can hit moving target , aircraft carrier

That much was already deduced by keen watchers (including yours truly, on this very forum), and I believe Dr. Chander is doing the same, keep in mind he no longer serves in DRDO and it was a while back when he was Chairman, probably before A-1P program started. Former personnel are not necessarily appraised of current developments due to security issues.

 

[Nilgiri]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1456507312345075712

 

[crixus]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1456507312345075712

seems like its very difficult for both China and Pakistan to track the missile test in A&N , good spot for testing

 

[Lonewolf]

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seems like its very difficult for both China and Pakistan to track the missile test in A&N , good spot for testing

Myanmar , china radar facility

 

[Gessler]

seems like its very difficult for both China and Pakistan to track the missile test in A&N , good spot for testing

Even the traditional test area (Bay of Bengal, launching from Wheeler island) was not possible to track using land-based radars in Pak or China. If the Chinese resort to using their MRIS vessels positioned in international waters in BoB/IOR, then they can track even this test in A&N, let alone in wider IOR.

The reason why we're testing here is because BrahMos will be evaluated for accurately hitting a land target, like shown multiple times in this video:

(except the upcoming test looks like land-to-land instead of sea-to-land as depicted in the video)

 

[Nilgiri]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1456921021844373511

 

[Nilgiri]

https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2021/oct/29/india-successfully-flight-tests-long-range-bomb-from-a-fighter-aircraft-2377343.html

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1455023100135870465