Zircon is a Hypersonic Cruise Missile. This is a hypersonic Quasi Ballistic Missile.Will this be the equivalent of Zircon?
Zircon has a sustained speed of 5 Mach + and is designed for both land based and anti ship missions.
I wonder if our missle too can achieve these speeds throughout or only at the terminal phase.
NoSorry for the question, but does this mean a scramjet engine was successfully tested for a long duration?
Enough of utter chaos going on this thread since morning...let me too contribute one last time in this
What have been tested is more or less just a ground launched, ER version of Rudram-III. PERIOD
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• There's isn't any absolute contemporary to this that I can compare it to, just like SMART.
• The closest in terms of concept would be the Aster-15/30 but again, those are SAMs.
• The closest in terms of concept among Ballistic Missiles would be Rudram-III
• Neither an air-breathing thing like HSTDV
• Nor a glide vehicle as we all had earlier assumed from that single cutaway pic. (Side note; whoever made that model/cutaway should be tried for treason)
• Just a simple Rudram-III like set-up where you've a booster that separate after initial launch and then the missile continues with its own motor
• Wings are minimalistic and helps more in countering roll/pitch/yaw than generating lift; like Rudram-III
• Follows pretty much the same quasi-ballistic path followed by other contemporaries like Shaurya/LORA
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• Only difference being more propellant compared to others in 2nd stage resulting in longer burn; more power to lose energy in maneuvering while evading defences and still having enough to regain speed.
• Saying it's hypersonic and doing the usual "Bharat ka hypersonic jawaab, Pakistan bola aap hi mere Baap" or "Hindustan ka naya Brahmastra, Modi ne kiya Xi ko parast" (daamn, I'm getting quite good at this) on TV/YouTube would glorify this too much; undermining the long way we still have to cover in this field.
Saying it's hypersonic is like saying a rifle round is supersonic or a torpedo is waterproof.
And some personal takes that's just pure yapping backed by my brainrot
* The warhead looks like the one from BrahMos based on the dimensions
* The second stage looks like Shaurya; but shorter though
* It'll be tough firing it from a ship, as claimed earlier given it's size and thrust
* Deploying just three batteries in Gujarat, Kerala and Andaman would effectively solve most of the naval "defence" issue
You can call it a HGV be if there's any kind of propulsion power in that thing then terminologically if can't be a glide vehicle. The whole idea of a glide vehicle is to change trajectory without using any propulsion.I got ur notion but there was a document with lrashm along hgv
That's the reason why many are believing hgv theory
Can a Glide Vehicle actually be used against a small target like a ship ? How does one ensure precision targeting in spite of sensors?You can call it a HGV be if there's any kind of propulsion power in that thing then terminologically if can't be a glide vehicle. The whole idea of a glide vehicle is to change trajectory without using any propulsion.
The only way it can even remotely be a HGV is if in the endgame phase the second stage booster too separates from the warhead and the warhead continues like this
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This system is more similar to american AHW( advanced hypersonic weapon) glide systemYou can call it a HGV be if there's any kind of propulsion power in that thing then terminologically if can't be a glide vehicle. The whole idea of a glide vehicle is to change trajectory without using any propulsion.
The only way it can even remotely be a HGV is if in the endgame phase the second stage booster too separates from the warhead and the warhead continues like this
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Your assumption is wrong, read my previous comment.Enough of utter chaos going on this thread since morning...let me too contribute one last time in this
What have been tested is more or less just a ground launched, ER version of Rudram-III. PERIOD
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• There's isn't any absolute contemporary to this that I can compare it to, just like SMART.
• The closest in terms of concept would be the Aster-15/30 but again, those are SAMs.
• The closest in terms of concept among Ballistic Missiles would be Rudram-III
• Neither an air-breathing thing like HSTDV
• Nor a glide vehicle as we all had earlier assumed from that single cutaway pic. (Side note; whoever made that model/cutaway should be tried for treason)
• Just a simple Rudram-III like set-up where you've a booster that separate after initial launch and then the missile continues with its own motor
• Wings are minimalistic and helps more in countering roll/pitch/yaw than generating lift; like Rudram-III
• Follows pretty much the same quasi-ballistic path followed by other contemporaries like Shaurya/LORA
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• Only difference being more propellant compared to others in 2nd stage resulting in longer burn; more power to lose energy in maneuvering while evading defences and still having enough to regain speed.
• Saying it's hypersonic and doing the usual "Bharat ka hypersonic jawaab, Pakistan bola aap hi mere Baap" or "Hindustan ka naya Brahmastra, Modi ne kiya Xi ko parast" (daamn, I'm getting quite good at this) on TV/YouTube would glorify this too much; undermining the long way we still have to cover in this field.
Saying it's hypersonic is like saying a rifle round is supersonic or a torpedo is waterproof.
And some personal takes that's just pure yapping backed by my brainrot
* The warhead looks like the one from BrahMos based on the dimensions
* The second stage looks like Shaurya; but shorter though
* It'll be tough firing it from a ship, as claimed earlier given it's size and thrust
* Deploying just three batteries in Gujarat, Kerala and Andaman would effectively solve most of the naval "defence" issue
American RW Xtians are absolute subhumans. Explains why all mass-evangelism of pagan tribals in India and elsewhere comes from their NGOs and why they love hitler so much. Offtopic though.
Yup; one of most precise weapons to be ever developed by mankind are the KKVs on Anti-Ballistic Missile; second only to sniper rifles. After seperation they lose the forward thrust pretty quickly and simply drift toward the interception point. And for guidance use micro thrusters (or whats technically called a DACS) and even with those achieve God level of precision. The enemy warhead moving kilometres per second, this KV too moving at comparable speed and still manages to engage a target at small as one metre square.Can a Glide Vehicle actually be used against a small target like a ship ? How does one ensure precision targeting in spite of sensors
No, absolutely not.This system is more similar to american AHW( advanced hypersonic weapon) glide system
Wo sab to thik hai, par ye dara kis ko raha hai be
And your assumption is wrong because you seem to miss the point of me drawing parallel between Rudram-III and this based on the fact that both have quasi ballistic trajectory, both uses separating 1st stage, have minimal wingsYour assumption is wrong, read my previous comment.
This missile achieved Mach 9 top speed, while Rudram 3 will be at most Mach 5-6.
True, totally agreeing with that fact that even with minimal wing you can generate sufficient lift using the speed.Second those minimalistic wings are to generate lift, at the speed it will travel you do not need large wings or flat surfaces to generate lift and make it glide, though it still can't glide as far away as a conventional looking hgv that china/nk uses.
Koi na, Kokila Ben ki beti se to achha hi haiLooks like it is going to a family of different systems including the land attack and anti ship versions.
Other projects under development:
ET-LDHCM is Project Vishnu a scramjet engine powered hypersonic cruise missile.
Project Dhwani is an unpowered Hypersonic Glide Weapon which will be mounted most probably on a ICBM.