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One test after another. This standoff with China is doing wonders for the arms industry.

More clarity on the Nirbhay missile deployment : India moves terrain-hugging Nirbhay missiles with 1,000-km range to defend LAC The Nirbhay subsonic cruise missile will be inducted into the army and navy after the seventh trial next month Updated: Oct 01, 2020; 06:36 IST By Shishir Gupta...

Firing trials of indigenous Howitzer gun successful at LPR Khamaria Date :30-Sep-2020 By Ashish Rajput Development level firing trials of indigenously developed 155 mm x 39 calibre Ultra Light Howitzer gun evoked good results at Long Proof Range (LPR) Khamaria in Jabalpur. The gun is being...

Oh right.....I was going to post about this. Totally forgot. Looks like the date of launch has been pushed back by 2 years. Previously it was 2023, now its 2025. COVID impact ? This is not good. I hope all missions are not be impacted this way. Anyway here what we know so far : As a...

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More photos from today's test :

MOD NOTE: All developments related to the Indian BMD and ASAT program to be compiled here. @Nilgiri write a thread a few days back. Don't know if you have seen it :

The NASM will have multiple variants both by range and by operating platforms. We have plenty of large patrol boats that are essentially unarmed. At some stage it is likely that some variant of the NASM will find itself mounted on those boats using inclined launchers. Those jet vanes will come...

We often fail to appreciate how well this thing has served us, despite the initial problems.

Its hard to make sense of these things sometimes. During conflict the usual testing and equipping cycle goes for a toss, you use what you have. For example, there has been reports from multiple new sites about the deployment of Nirbhay missiles near the LAC. When did the Nirbhay enter service ...

Munitions with continuous trust output for a majority of their flight profile are called missiles. Cruise missiles/ballistic missiles have an engine continuously firing to provide them with thrust power. The SAAW one has no engine at all, its a glide bomb. It is dropped from a height, then it...

There were prototypes available that were meant for weapon testing. Production orders hadn't come in then.

The SAAW is a 125kg precision guided bomb with 100 km striking range. The warhead is some 72kg in weight. The guidance is driven by NavIC/GAGAN and an RCI developed IIR seeker in the terminal phase. The entire body is made out of composites to make it stealthier. Even the wings are made of...

Agree with @Nilgiri here. It is mostly about capacity building, also about time. Some of those ships were sitting in Russian yards without the Ukrainian engines after Russia's Crimean adventures. Russian's were offering them at a lower price to us & Ukraine has no problem selling engines if the...

Politics is important mate. Look at the US and USSR during the cold war space race. Politics drove tech development. Of course there must be nuance & we must ask questions like : How much of it must be driven by politics ? not Why is politics driving this ? Politics is omni-present. I see a lot...

A senior ISRO official recently gave a presentation on the organisation's future. This is broadly what they are working on this decade : Work on most of these technologies/goals have begun. Some have made significant progress already. All this is fine but you need powerful launchers for this...

@Nilgiri @Paro et al..... A tender is out calling for the development of a 140 ton chassis missile launcher likely for the newest member of the Agni family. It will be significantly bigger than the Agni V. The Agni V itself is no small thing : Agni V is a 50 ton missile with ~8, 000 km...