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The missile launchers on INS Anvesh...these are huge.

Even ballistic missiles like Pralay SRBM can be launched from these.

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Official graphic via DRDO

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Clockwise:

STAR -- supersonic target missile
HELINA (Dhruvastra) -- air-launched ATGM
BrahMos -- supersonic cruise missile
MPATGM -- manportable ATGM
Astra Mk.1/2 -- BVRAAM
QRSAM -- mobile short range SAM
Akash Mk.1/1S -- mobile medium range SAM
LRSAM (Barak-8) -- mobile/ship-based long range SAM
SFDR -- supersonic ducted Ramjet demonstrator
NGARM (Rudram-1) -- anti-radiation missile
NAG -- mobile ATGM
K-15 (B-05) -- submarine launched ballistic missile
HSTDV -- hypersonic cruise vehicle demonstrator
Akash NG -- nextgen mobile medium range SAM

Images not to scale.

@Nilgiri - First time seeing the HSTDV in a full HCV configuration with the large solid rocket booster
 

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Given its proximity to the armor units it may come under indirect fire. In that case, a tracked chassis would have been better for such platform. both in terms mobility and protection.
 

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Actuators - Electro-hydraulic & Electro-mechanical systems. Once tech-denied, these are now under production by Indian industries.
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Very good to know that India is trying to replace foreign subsystems for indigenous subsystems.

The manik engine is now progressing w.r.t ITCM.



BHUBANESWAR: India has finally achieved much needed success in its indigenous technology cruise missile (ITCM) programme validating the newly developed small turbo fan engine (STFE) in a fresh test from a defence facility off Odisha coast on Tuesday.

Defence sources said the ITCM, a technology demonstrator, was tested on subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay platform from launching complex III of the integrated test range (ITR) at about 10 am.

Equipped with the indigenously developed small turbo fan engine (STFE) Manik and an upgraded radio frequency seeker, the missile was test fired for a reduced range. The technology demonstrator that would pave the way for a long range land attack cruise missile, which is now under development, had failed as the engine reportedly developed snags during a trial on October 28 last year.

The domestic Manik engine with a thrust rating of 450 kgf has been designed and developed by Bengaluru-based Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) for cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. It is a generic twin spool engine without afterburner.

“The engine will be used in long range cruise missiles after a couple of more tests. Once the perfection is achieved, several variants of the cruise missile equipped with a turbo fan engine can be developed in future,” the sources added.

So far, four tests of ITCM technology demonstrator have been conducted since 2020. While two of the tests had failed, one trial on August 11, 2021 was partially successful.

Before the ITCM project, India had inducted subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay that was powered by a Russian NPO Saturn 36MT engine. India is planning to develop a 1,000 km range supersonic cruise missile for land attack and a 1,500 km range naval version with the new Manik engine.

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