Indian Missiles & Nuclear Development News and Discussions

[aaaditya]

hey guys ,according to this news artcile it seems that india will be giving up the trishul missile project in favour of the super barak(this is a 300 million dollar 50:50 joint venture between india and israel to develop a long range surface to air missile for the indian navy).

however there is a mistake in this article regarding the range of the super barak which is officially claimed to be 80 kms and not 60 kms as mentioned in this article.

here check out this link and article:


http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/15/stories/2006101502771000.htm

R&D work on Trishul missile to be stopped

Special Correspondent
`Focus on developing advanced Barak'

The decision could cast a shadow on Akash and Nag
Controversy will not inhibit development of next generation Barak
NEW DELHI: Research and development work on the indigenous ship defence missile Trishul will be stopped in December, official sources confirmed here on Saturday. Instead, the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) will focus on developing an advanced version of the Israeli Barak missile, now in the middle of a controversy following allegations of bribery in its imports.
The sources said Trishul was intended only as a technology demonstrator, meaning work on it would have formed the basis for developing missiles of the same category. They implied that the missile was not intended for induction in the Indian Navy although statements at various points of time by DRDO scientists suggested otherwise. At least 50 trials have been conducted and nearly Rs. 300 crore has been spent on developing the Trishul, which is meant to shoot down missiles homing in on a ship.
The decision could cast a shadow on two other missiles — Akash and Nag — being developed by the DRDO as part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme. While the DRDO has managed to develop Nag, meant to destroy tanks, it has had little success with the advanced versions, available off the shelf in the global armaments market for a decade. Akash's case is also the same and the Indian Air Force is understood to be hunting for alternatives abroad.
Officials do not think that the current controversy would inhibit the joint development of the next generation of Barak, which would be effective in a range of 60 km instead of the present 9 km. According to the CBI investigation, the Navy imported the Barak anti-missile systems and missiles despite DRDO objections and a middleman allegedly paid Rs. 2 crore to the then president of a political party.
Barak, the only choice

Barak remained the only choice out of 14 companies tried out by the Navy on its three ships INS Brahmputra, Beas and Betwa that were readied for Trishul fitment after the then programme chief A.P.J. Abdul Kalam assured the Government that the indigenous missile would be ready by 1994. However, none of the 13 missile systems except Barak could fit in the space made on the ships.

 

[vijayshimla]

Indian Missile Dev

Actually guys, we Indians need to be pragmatic- gradually with availability of proven missile systems- all indegenous missiles dev. will have to come to an end-because of actual non performance of indegenous systems. This has been happening slowly- but will accelerate and inevitable i.e. No significant Indian missile in actual service will come to be!

 

[aaaditya]

Actually guys, we Indians need to be pragmatic- gradually with availability of proven missile systems- all indegenous missiles dev. will have to come to an end-because of actual non performance of indegenous systems. This has been happening slowly- but will accelerate and inevitable i.e. No significant Indian missile in actual service will come to be!

well what about prithvi,also iam quite sure that the nag and akash will make it ,since their performance has been quite exceptional unlike that of trishul whose performance has been at best erratic.

 

[vedang]

i DONT AGREE WITH U.....

well what about prithvi,also iam quite sure that the nag and akash will make it ,since their performance has been quite exceptional unlike that of trishul whose performance has been at best erratic.

U R pretty optimistic aaaditya.look at the condition of the integrated missile development program.

PRITHVI::inducted but still not "perfectly" developed,,,eg:the fuel,etc..
AGNI:: AGNI-3 test(which took years to take) a failure
TRISHUL::CANCELLED
AGNI and AKASH::hv been in "testing" since the birth of mahatma gandhi....

 

[aaaditya]

U R pretty optimistic aaaditya.look at the condition of the integrated missile development program.

PRITHVI::inducted but still not "perfectly" developed,,,eg:the fuel,etc..
AGNI:: AGNI-3 test(which took years to take) a failure
TRISHUL::CANCELLED
AGNI and AKASH::hv been in "testing" since the birth of mahatma gandhi....

buddy ,you exaggerate a lot,prithvi has been inducted and is in service,agni 1 and 2 have been inducted and are in service,prithvi3 with solid fuel(also known as dhanush) is currently under development ,it suffered a couple of failures but was then successfully test fired.

the reason the trishul had failed was that,it had a very low hit probability ,the akash and nag are much better,however nag will be inducted with only the iir and not with the mwr,while indians managed to successfully test the nag with a french designed iir and are currently negotiating with french for the tot of this iir,india is also looking to israel for joint development of the mwr for the nag.

the other missile currently under development is the indo-israeli lora-e tactical surface to surface missile which will replace the prithvi1 and prithvi2 and off course agni3.

 

[aaaditya]

besides the devil missile programme ,trishul is the second missile programme to be dropped ,however while devil was completely cancelled and was followed by the integrated guided missile development programme under which the prithvi missile was produce,the trishul missile has been converted to a technology demonstrator ,which meen some proven technology or concepts from this missile may be used in a future surface to air missile programme.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys i just read an interesting article in the week magazine about the north korean surface to surface missiles and technology intended for pakistan which were captured by the indian coast guard at kandla.

unfortunately i do not have a scanner and hence cannot post that article.

according to it in 1997 indian coast guard boarded,searched and confisticated a north korean vessel carrying enough equipment and spare parts to manufacture 10 liquid fuelled missile ,which can be launched by rail and having a range of 300 kms along with the technical documents for their assembly,this entire equipment was packed in 150 crates.the name of the vessel was mv koo-wol-san.

 

[vedang]

buddy ,you exaggerate a lot,prithvi has been inducted and is in service,agni 1 and 2 have been inducted and are in service,prithvi3 with solid fuel(also known as dhanush) is currently under development ,it suffered a couple of failures but was then successfully test fired.

the reason the trishul had failed was that,it had a very low hit probability ,the akash and nag are much better,however nag will be inducted with only the iir and not with the mwr,while indians managed to successfully test the nag with a french designed iir and are currently negotiating with french for the tot of this iir,india is also looking to israel for joint development of the mwr for the nag.

the other missile currently under development is the indo-israeli lora-e tactical surface to surface missile which will replace the prithvi1 and prithvi2 and off course agni3.

hey i thought that dhnush was a naval derivative of prithvi and wasnt a much of a success of a success....thats why the programme for "sagarika" was introduced..

and do tell me 1 more thing...Since how much time hv AKASH and NAG been under testing????MUST be sumthin wrong with them...

Although i did read an article stating AKASH to be equivalent to PATRIOT-1..but still luking at the public's money all these projects hv eaten, i wud call them a failure...

 

[aaaditya]

hey i thought that dhnush was a naval derivative of prithvi and wasnt a much of a success of a success....thats why the programme for "sagarika" was introduced..

and do tell me 1 more thing...Since how much time hv AKASH and NAG been under testing????MUST be sumthin wrong with them...

Although i did read an article stating AKASH to be equivalent to PATRIOT-1..but still luking at the public's money all these projects hv eaten, i wud call them a failure...

dhanush is the solid fuelled derivative of the prithvi missile ,there is too much confusion regarding the sagarika missile hence we should not discuss about it at this stage ,some sources say that it is a submarine launched intermediate ranged cruise missile and some say it is a ballistic missile.

we dont even know if this missile project is going on for sure and if so at what stage it is.

 

[aaaditya]

and by the way the trishul missile project is not as dead as it seems or rather it seems to have been revived.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=NATION&file_name=nt4.txt&counter_img=4

Govt not shelving Trishul project: Pranab
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here on Tuesday that the Government was not shelving the Trishul anti-missile defence project and it was given an year's extension on a suggestion from the Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO).

Stating this in the wake of a proposal to wind up the slippages which marred the 15-year old project and cost Rs 250 crore, and saw more than 80 tests, the Defence Minister said the work on the Trishul Anti-Missile Defence system, which forms part of the bouquet of Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP), was in progress and likely to be completed by December 2007.

Responding to questions from the media on the sidelines of the Naval Commanders' Conference here, he said the project's completion date was to get over by December 2006 and on the suggestion of the DRDO, he had extended the same by one year on September 29, 2006. "Therefore, there is no question of shelving the project," he said, stating the sanction was given on September 29.

Mukherjee also said the scientists managed to achieve some milestones and these included perfection over guidance and control of missile against sea skimming targets, interception of air target by warhead system, showing accuracy and efficacy, integration of surveillance radar, tracking radar, missile guidance system and launcher in one vehicle system. Besides as required by the Air Force, higher altitude and longer range were demonstrated, he said.

Sources had said on Monday the Government was closing down the Trishul programme by the end of the year and wanted to retain it for research and development purposes and as a technology demonstrator. The anti-missile project was the first choice of the Navy when it wanted the system in 1999 and the DRDO said it would be able to develop the missile system by 1993.

However, when the DRDO was not able to do so, the Navy then started looking to foreign companies after due clearance from the DRDO and the Israeli-made Barak system was selected from a group of ten such systems and after intensive trials. The Trishul missile was dogged by repeated failures in missile guidance and control systems.

As regards the CBI case against former defence minister George Fernandes, his party colleague Jaya Jaitley and the then naval chief Admiral Sushil Kumar on charges of irregularities in the Barak missile deal, Mukherjee said the CBI was probing into the acquisition to ascertain whether there was any criminality in the transaction.

"The case is to find out whether procedures have been duly followed and whether there is any criminality in the transaction," the Minister said. "Only on these two issues, an FIR has been filed by the CBI," Mukherjee said, pointing out that the case was not about the merits or demerits of weapon system or any other system as being made out by the media.

"The entire (media) focus is whether a particular system is good or bad - it is not the issue. The issue is totally different," the Minister said. His comments came a day after Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash came out in full support of the Barak missile system saying it was comparable to the best in the world.

Asked whether similar action will be taken against Israel Aircraft Industries, the makers of Barak, as in the case of South African artillery giant, Denel, the company which was blacklisted, the Minister said, "There is no such decision right now." He said, "As and when decision is taken, it will be communicated to you."


and also check out this:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200610171531.htm

Trishul missile project given extension: Pranab

New Delhi, Oct. 17 (PTI): A day after reports spoke of government shelving 'Trishul' anti-missile project, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said extension of time has been given for the complex programme.
"The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) had sought approval for extension of the programme and I have given my approval on September 29," he told reporters here.
Maintaining that there was "no question of shelving the project", Mukurjhee told newsmen on the sidelines of the Naval Commanders conference that some "confusion" had arisen as the project's completion date was to be over by December 2006.
"That was an old decision", the Defence Minister said pointing out that DRDO had been allowed to go ahead with the project, which has been dogged by repeated failures in missile guidance and control systems. Yesterday, unnamed officials had said the government intended to close down the Trishul project.

well this is the latest news and it is from the defence minister himself,it is the defence minister who ultimately decides the status of the trishul missile project and not the naval chief.

 

[vedang]

Blunder Again!!!!!

nooooooooooooooooooooo.....not AGAIN!!!!!!!!how the hell can the indian govt. again start making mistakes which it has corrected????

the TRISHUL programme shud be dumped...&&DRDO shud put all its resources in developing BARAK-2....TRISHUL can be taken as a tech demonstrator...thats it...:lul

 

[aaaditya]

nooooooooooooooooooooo.....not AGAIN!!!!!!!!how the hell can the indian govt. again start making mistakes which it has corrected????

the TRISHUL programme shud be dumped...&&DRDO shud put all its resources in developing BARAK-2....TRISHUL can be taken as a tech demonstrator...thats it...:lul

well,the drdo and the indian navy are definitely giving priority to the barak2 missile project and have heavily invested in it ,i believe the investment is to the tune of 300 million dollars under a 50:50 joint partnership.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys check out this article on the upgraded egyptian pechora missiles,they seem to be a pretty formidable system.i was wondering wether the indian army can upgrade its pechoras to the similiar standards,also i wonder if the indian army can mount the 4 or 5 pechora's on a single high mobile vehicle instead of just 2 on the egyptian version.

here check out this link and article:

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20061018/54917248.html

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Viktor Litovkin) - A military parade was held in Cairo to mark Independence Day on July 29. Three-axle trucks, each carrying two missiles inside sloping bodies, rolled by the VIP grandstands.
These missiles did not look like any other known shorter- or intermediate-range missiles. Their pointed warheads and four rows of fins on each stage closely resembled the well-known S-125 Pechora (NATO reporting name, SA-3 Goa) surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, which took part in several Egyptian-Israeli wars and reportedly downed dozens of enemy aircraft.
The stationary S-125 SAM was mounted on special platforms, rather than trucks, and had four launching rails, whereas the one displayed in Cairo featured two guiding rails.
Foreign military attaches did not expect the Egyptian military to show off such obsolete equipment, even if out of mere respect.
But the military attaches were wrong. The Egyptian army now wields brand-new Pechora-2M SAMs, "grandchildren" of the good old S-125, which knocked down nearly 4,000 U.S. aircraft in Vietnam and even one F-117 Stealth Fighter during the 1999 war against Yugoslavia.
Some countries, which cannot afford to replace the S-125 with the more advanced S-300PMU SAM system, opt to upgrade it in line with modern standards and objectives because of substantially lower costs.
The Russian-Belarusian financial-industrial group Oboronitelnye Sistemy (Defensive Systems) overhauled the S-125 SAM system on orders from Egypt and renamed it as the S-125 Pechora 2M. This R&D project can be compared to a quantum leap, of sorts.
The Soviet Union supplied S-125 SAMs to 35 world and seven CIS countries. However, Oboronitelnye Sistemy first decided to modernize the weapons owned by the Egyptian army, after winning an international tender, which was announced by Cairo in 1999, and which also involved Poland and Belarus.
But the Russian offer turned out to be more attractive, and the combat efficiency of the Pechora-2M was better than that of other systems. In fact, the Pechora-2M has outperformed its forerunner.
Viktor Vashchuk, deputy CEO of Oboronitelnye Sistemy, said the Egyptian contract was a real breakthrough for his company and for Russia, because military-technical cooperation with Egypt had been frozen for nearly a decade after the Soviet Union's break-up.
Spartak Narbikov, PhD, Oboronitelnye Sistemy chief engineer, explained the difference between the S-125 and the Pechora-2M. It took over three hours to transport the stationary S-125 launcher from one firing position to another, but the mobile Pechora-2M with the 5P73 index can change positions in just 20-25 minutes. Enhanced maneuverability contributes greatly to combat survivability, because approaching enemy aircraft can promptly attack exposed SAM launchers.
A state-of-the-art elements base is another crucial difference. Unlike the older S-125 system, which featured lamp electronics, solid-state and digital units account for 90% of the Pechora-2M's electronic network. The service life of advanced microprocessors has increased from 30-40 to 2,000 and even 10,000 hours. Moreover, the new jam-resistant system can successfully cope with enemy ECM (Electronic-Counter-Measures) systems and missiles.
Experts recall that the United States had used Shrike anti-radar missiles against targets in Vietnam. But things have changed since then, and even the sophisticated HARM anti-radar missile is unable to hit Pechora-2M aerial posts because they simply vanish off the screen. Unlike its predecessor, which had a 26-km range, the new SAM system can hit enemy aircraft 35 km away.
The Pechora-2M features an optronic network consisting of one TV channel and one thermal imaging channel. This network makes it possible to attack and destroy aerial targets day and night in conditions of radio-electronic warfare. Consequently, the Pechora-2M can hit F-16 fighters at 30-km ranges and larger aircraft at a range of up to 35 km.
The Izhevsk-based electromechanical plant Kupol and the Ulyanovsk mechanical plant, which are part of the Almaz-Antei Air Defense Concern, turn out revamped Osa-AKM, Tor-M1 and Buk-M1-2 SAM systems with similar optronic networks for the Russian army. These weapons have other ECM-protection systems.
Pechora-2M systems feature more powerful and effective missiles with the 5V27D and 5V27DE index. They have more advanced radio proximity fuses and warheads. Improved missile-guidance methods and the propulsion unit's higher power-to-weight ratio also deserve mention.
The MKB Fakel machine-building design bureau near Moscow manufactures these missiles and their 5V27DE equivalents. The latter feature heavier solid-propellant boosters for higher speed, range and hitting power. Only two, rather than four, missiles can now be launched. However, this will not impair the system's combat efficiency because each warhead now contains 270% more fragments, whose weight has increased 60%. The radio proximity fuse, which is activated 20 meters from the target, leaves no chance for any enemy aircraft, shorter- or intermediate-range missile. Fragmentation patterns make it possible to destroy the target's vital elements and missile warheads even at high angular speeds. Consequently, all targets flying at up to 750 meters per second cannot escape. This remarkable achievement makes older SAM systems obsolete.
The Pechora-2M, which can effectively hit incoming targets, uses new 5V27D and 5V27DE missiles, as well as the older 5V27 missiles.
Oboronitelnye Sistemy experts said their new invention was capable of firing any kind of ammunition. This is very important because foreign armed forces, including the Egyptian army, have many unspent missiles.
The new system's aerial and command posts are located up to 300 meters from missile launchers. Commanders relay orders via telecode and optronic communications networks, which shield telecommunications and combat-control equipment from enemy ECM systems and enhance personnel survivability in case of air strikes.
Viktor Vashchuk said the S-125 Pechora-2M SAM system could destroy any aerial target. Unlike other similar weapons, it is particularly effective against low-flying and small targets.
Other countries have asked Vashchuk's company to upgrade their S-125 SAM systems. The Military Balance, an annual report published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, says Myanmar, Cuba, Peru, Slovakia, Vietnam, Syria, Libya, Bulgaria and India all have about 500 such systems, 200 to 250 of which can be overhauled. This means that Oboronitelnye Sistemy will have a lot of work in the foreseeable future.

 

[vijayshimla]

and by the way the trishul missile project is not as dead as it seems or rather it seems to have been revived.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=NATION&file_name=nt4.txt&counter_img=4

Govt not shelving Trishul project: Pranab
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here on Tuesday that the Government was not shelving the Trishul anti-missile defence project and it was given an year's extension on a suggestion from the Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO).

Stating this in the wake of a proposal to wind up the slippages which marred the 15-year old project and cost Rs 250 crore, and saw more than 80 tests, the Defence Minister said the work on the Trishul Anti-Missile Defence system, which forms part of the bouquet of Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP), was in progress and likely to be completed by December 2007.

Responding to questions from the media on the sidelines of the Naval Commanders' Conference here, he said the project's completion date was to get over by December 2006 and on the suggestion of the DRDO, he had extended the same by one year on September 29, 2006. "Therefore, there is no question of shelving the project," he said, stating the sanction was given on September 29.

Mukherjee also said the scientists managed to achieve some milestones and these included perfection over guidance and control of missile against sea skimming targets, interception of air target by warhead system, showing accuracy and efficacy, integration of surveillance radar, tracking radar, missile guidance system and launcher in one vehicle system. Besides as required by the Air Force, higher altitude and longer range were demonstrated, he said.

Sources had said on Monday the Government was closing down the Trishul programme by the end of the year and wanted to retain it for research and development purposes and as a technology demonstrator. The anti-missile project was the first choice of the Navy when it wanted the system in 1999 and the DRDO said it would be able to develop the missile system by 1993.

However, when the DRDO was not able to do so, the Navy then started looking to foreign companies after due clearance from the DRDO and the Israeli-made Barak system was selected from a group of ten such systems and after intensive trials. The Trishul missile was dogged by repeated failures in missile guidance and control systems.

As regards the CBI case against former defence minister George Fernandes, his party colleague Jaya Jaitley and the then naval chief Admiral Sushil Kumar on charges of irregularities in the Barak missile deal, Mukherjee said the CBI was probing into the acquisition to ascertain whether there was any criminality in the transaction.

"The case is to find out whether procedures have been duly followed and whether there is any criminality in the transaction," the Minister said. "Only on these two issues, an FIR has been filed by the CBI," Mukherjee said, pointing out that the case was not about the merits or demerits of weapon system or any other system as being made out by the media.

"The entire (media) focus is whether a particular system is good or bad - it is not the issue. The issue is totally different," the Minister said. His comments came a day after Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash came out in full support of the Barak missile system saying it was comparable to the best in the world.

Asked whether similar action will be taken against Israel Aircraft Industries, the makers of Barak, as in the case of South African artillery giant, Denel, the company which was blacklisted, the Minister said, "There is no such decision right now." He said, "As and when decision is taken, it will be communicated to you."


and also check out this:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200610171531.htm

Trishul missile project given extension: Pranab

New Delhi, Oct. 17 (PTI): A day after reports spoke of government shelving 'Trishul' anti-missile project, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said extension of time has been given for the complex programme.
"The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) had sought approval for extension of the programme and I have given my approval on September 29," he told reporters here.
Maintaining that there was "no question of shelving the project", Mukurjhee told newsmen on the sidelines of the Naval Commanders conference that some "confusion" had arisen as the project's completion date was to be over by December 2006.
"That was an old decision", the Defence Minister said pointing out that DRDO had been allowed to go ahead with the project, which has been dogged by repeated failures in missile guidance and control systems. Yesterday, unnamed officials had said the government intended to close down the Trishul project.

well this is the latest news and it is from the defence minister himself,it is the defence minister who ultimately decides the status of the trishul missile project and not the naval chief.

FLOG A DEAD HORSE ( TRISHUL ) & IT WILL RUN RUN RUN- typical response of a politician as a defence minister. !!!!!

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys great news the fiscal sops for the astra beyond visual range air to air missile project has been further,this shows that the astra misisle project is still alive and that the governement is fully commited towards developing this missile.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=424263


Fiscal sops to Astra missile project extended by 6 more years

NEW DELHI, OCT 23 (PTI)
The Government has extended fiscal sops given to prestigious indigenous air-to-air missile project, Astra, by six more years.
The extension of the sops, in the form of excise and customs duty concessions, till August 31, 2012 will cost the exchequer Rs 200 crore.
The concessions to the project, aimed at developing beyond visual range air-to-air missile, were to expire this year, the Central Board of Excise and Customs said in two notifications issued recently. The excise duty sops were given to the project originally in 1995 and customs duty concession the following year.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys great news,russia will sell engines along with technology transfer for the indian lakshya pilotless target aircrafts ,these engines will considerable enhance the endurance of the lakshya.

here check out this link and article:

http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/oct/26uav.htm

Russia will supply rocket engines for India's unmanned aerial vehicle Lakshya under a $100 million deal although transfer of technology under license could be withheld due to international ban on missile technologies, a media report said on Thursday.

Russian jet engine manufacturer NPO Saturn will supply 200 miniature engines to India for Lakshya UAVs in 2007, according to Kommersant.

"The engines for India with 500 kg thrust will be developed on the basis of TRDD-50MT engine, originally designed for Soviet cruise missiles. Its flight resource will be enhanced from the present 45 minutes to tens of hours," Kommersant quoted deputy commercial director (exports) of NPO Saturn Igor Grigorie as saying.

According to commercial director of NPO Saturn Vasily Danilov, the first one-year contract with India was signed in April and the design and experiment work is already underway.

All aspects of transfer of license for production of TRDD-50MT are under study by FSVTS, which may not give its nod because of New Delhi's plans to develop a cruise missile with the range of 600 km and capable of carrying 350 kg payload on the basis of Lakshya.

"Such missiles fall under the MTCR and Russia honours this regime. With licensed production India would uncontrollably put these engines on UAVs and cruise missiles," an official of FSVTS told Kommersant.

The NPO Saturn officials underscored that at present the deal does not violate Russia's international obligations under Missile Technology Control Regime as it does not involve transfer of technology.

However, in the next stage of the contract India wants licensed production of these engines in the country and the deal could have a rough time, the daily said.

"We do not rule out setting up licensed production and testing facilities in India," Danilov was quoted as saying by the daily.

As long as India uses these engines for UAVs or drones, there is no problem in their export, Kommersant quoted sources in Federal Service for Military-technical cooperation, the arms export oversight body.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys great news, mbda is helping india with its anti tank missile programma and air defence missile programmes.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.defencetalk.com/news/pub...futes_Misleading_Reports_2006102416008571.php


The 18th September 2006 issue of Defense News claims that MBDA will be supporting a series of Indian missile programmes, specifically the Sagarika cruise missile as well as the Prithvi and Agni theatre missile systems.
MBDA categorically refutes these totally erroneous claims which were neither checked nor verified with MBDA by either of the two journalists responsible for the article.
What is accurate in the article is that MBDA has indeed agreed with India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to support a number of anti-tank and air defence programmes.
The quotes attributed to Indian and French diplomatic sources in the article are highly misleading in that they do not specifically mention the programmes involved. This has undoubtedly served to confuse readers about MBDA's actual area of cooperation with the DRDO, a cooperation which is fully compliant with not only French but also all international agreements.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys great news,india and russia are planning to manufacture 1000 brahmos cruise missiles over the next 10 years ,50% of which would be exported ,the current manufacturing capacity for the brahmos missile is 100 missiles per year,india is also looking at developing a more advanced version of the brahmos cruise missile.

http://www.defencetalk.com/news/pub...ce__Sell_1_000_Supersonic_Cr_710616007106.php

India and Russia intend to make 1,000 BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles over the next 10 years through their joint venture company, with nearly 50 per cent of them expected to be sold in third countries, defense sources said today.

"We already have a capacity to produce 100 missiles a year. One thousand missiles in 10 years is a reasonable target. Nearly 50 per cent will go to exports," a source told PTI.

India and Russia have so far invested 300 million dollars in BrahMos Aerospace, which was established to design, develop, produce and market the missile by using the technological skills and capabilities of both countries.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced last month that BrahMos (named after the Brahmaputra and Moskva rivers) has been inducted into the Indian Navy.

Speaking to PTI here, BrahMos Aerospace CEO A Sivathanu Pillai said the missile's land-based version is expected to be inducted into the Army next year.

Pillai, also chief controller of research and development in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), said the company is undertaking a project to instal BrahMos missiles on the Sukhoi-30MKI combat jets of the Indian Air Force.

"Now, we are fitting one BrahMos in the belly (of the Su-30) to start with. With certain reinforcement of the wings, we can fit up to three," he said.

Pillai said the joint venture company, established in India in 1998, is now looking at an upgraded version of BrahMos but added that no final decision has been taken. He, however, hinted that one area of focus could be increasing the speed of the missile. "It can be speed," he said.

Noting that BrahMos is the world's only supersonic cruise missile -- others are subsonic -- and that there is no competition for it, he stressed the need for retaining the competitive edge.

"Having reached this stage, it's necessary that we keep that edge. We are definitely working on that (upgraded version of BrahMos)." The 2.5-tonne BrahMos has a strike range of 290 km and has a maximum speed of Mach 2.8 (one km per second).

Pillai said BrahMos would be sold in third countries "very soon" but did not name the nations or give any timeframe.

He said the price of BrahMos depends on several variables like "country-to-country (relations), political situation and credit line".

"There is no competition for BrahMos. Our prices are competitive. We are not greedy about making money out of it. We are not greedy people," he commented.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys,great news ,india will be testing the agni3 missile once again next year,this missile would be improved over the last one,in that it will have a new motor casing made of special steel which would increase the range of the missile by 15-30 percent from its existing range of 3500 kms.

here is the link and article:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/381678.cms

CHENNAI: Undeterred by the failure of the test of the Agni-III missile, the DRDO will go ahead with the programme and conduct another launch next year, DRDO chief M Natarajan said on Thursday.

In an informal chat with reporters here, he said an expert committee was looking into the reasons for the failure of the first test of the Agni-III on July 9.

"We are going ahead. We will conduct the re-trial of Agni next year. Since we are making corrections, we will re-trial next year. There is no question of dropping the project," said Natarajan, who is also scientific advisor to the defence minister.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation will use a new critical motorcase hardware made of special steel for the test, he said.

"We will transfer technology to units which are manufacturing components of the missile," he said after visiting Ramakrishna Engineering Company here that is involved in making Agni missile components.

The new device, made of special steel, will increase the range of the missile by 15 to 30 per cent, he said.

The Agni-III test failed when the missile's second stage did not separate and it fell into the sea. The missile was designed to have a range of 3,500 km.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys great news ,the sagarika (oceanic) cruise missile is to be tested next year ,developed with israeli assistance this missile is to have a 700nm (1300 kms) range and would be able to carry a 500kg warhead.this missile is primarily intended to arm the indian nuclear attack submarine.

here check out this link and article:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cruise_missile_to_be_tested_next_year/articleshow/416869.cms

NEW DELHI: Sagarika, India's first submarine-launched nuclear-capable cruise missile, will be ready for flight trials by early next year, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) sources said.

The turbo-jet powered, vertically launched cruise missile with a range of 700 nautical miles and capable of delivering a 500-kg warhead, is being developed by DRDO with Israeli assistance. India is simultaneously seeking to rope in European missile firms for the project that is being kept under wraps.

The sources said the missile's first prototype, incorporating a solid fuel booster, should be ready for a test flight by early 2008.

At the same time, the DRDO is continuing the development of the submarine-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile developed jointly with Russia.

The development of these two missiles, which will turn India into only the world's fifth power with such a capability, appears to be the silver lining in the country's missile programme that has been plagued by long delays and huge cost overruns.