Advancements in designing and testing a potential ramjet for the US Army Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) could extend the weapon's range up to 1,000 kilometers, and a...
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Is a Ramjet or Scramjet Propulsion for Tayfun or Cenk possible ?
Standard PrSM missile US is testing is no different in size; but about a foot longer than the ATACAMS-140 missile.
Somehow they have attained a very high speed (just under 5 Mach) and nearly 200km extra range with the PrSM.
But still due to being a semi ballistic missile it will lose a lot of speed at terminal stage and as they may have attained this superior performance thanks to a very light weight shell , it will have a very low terminal weight whence exhausted it's fuel; thus effecting it's terminal speed detrimentally.
Introducing a throttle controlled ramjet engine in to a PrSM will render it more lethal as it will be able to hit it's target at nearly 3 Mach.
This will be US's Brahmos on steroids.
It would be most intriguing to see when they release technical details of this missile.
Turkey is already working on two different ramjet powered missiles; Tubitak's liquid fuelled Gokhan and Roketsan's solid fuelled Akbaba. Not much technical detail has leaked about these. But they are prospective game changers when they become part of our inventory. A missile that can hit moving targets that are 300-500km away like a ship at 3 Mach will have so much kinetic energy that it will pulverise any hull to smithereens.
First news about these two missiles were that the Gokhan to be a meteor replacement; hence air to air.
Akbaba to be a Harm anti radiation missile.
But there is nothing to hold us from applying this technology to bigger missiles and AShM once they are perfected.
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