Bhartiya Sainik
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Pretty sure that pic in the tweet is a Derby.
Astra Mk2 has always looked externally similar to Mk1.
"MARK II" is printed on it. But these all are CAD or static models.
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Pretty sure that pic in the tweet is a Derby.
Astra Mk2 has always looked externally similar to Mk1.
"MARK II" is printed on it. But these all are CAD or static models.
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The focus is not the diagram. My question was/is if someone has real pic of Astr-2.As you can see, it is printed on the missiles being carried by aircraft as seen in the tweets I posted as well. It's possible the design changed or they deemed any modification to the airframe unnecessary.
Either way, the diagram in the post you originally quoted is not any iteration of Astra at all - it's clearly Derby as you can tell by the highly triangular fins.
The focus is not the diagram. My question was/is if someone has real pic of Astr-2.
I can't say anything on ideal efficient design of a missile but after internet search i'm convinced that Astr-2 will have shorter fins & Astr-3 will be SFDR.
We also need a missile which can fit in more numbers in IWB of AMCA. A longer/wider chord/fin makes it difficult.
Well I've shown you missiles with "Astra Mk-II" printed on them releasing from Su-30.
I don't know how much more real it can get.