Correct! It must have been difficult and expensive for the Indians as well, since they started the project in 2013 and first test was done in 2018 without success. Missile failed to activate the ramjet. Then in 2019 another test was performed. This time the missile achieved the desired Mach number before touching ground. Finally in Mach 2021 a missile was fired, that performed to required parameters. So it took them 8 years before a successful missile test. It still is not in the inventory yet. It is still being developed. The project budget has already been revised to best part of 125 million dollars.
Brahmos started with a budget of 325 million dollars. Now it is estimated to have reached 1 billion dollars. (That includes the scramjet program too)
Of course they must be thankful to the Russians for the help they got until now. The DRDO initially began developing SFDR technologies as a joint development project with Russia’s defence export agency, Rosoboronexport. After jointly developing state-of-the-art propulsion technology, and high-tech sub-systems such as a nozzle-less booster, fuel flow controller and boron-based sustainer, the DRDO is now going it alone.
We don’t have a big brother that is holding our hands like that. So any achievement that Tubitak Sage makes in this field, has more meaning to us.
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Turkey has passed the final phase of the liquid fuel RamJet Project!
