R37M is a much heavier missile with no ramjet. Gandiva IS going to be superior.
My understanding is that R37M is for non higly maneuverable targets since it has more drag even in the end game. Gandiva faces no such issues.
R37M is a much heavier missile with no ramjet. Gandiva IS going to be superior.
My understanding is that R37M is for non higly maneuverable targets since it has more drag even in the end game. Gandiva faces no such issues.
I think what I was going to write has been covered by babablacksheep in his post. Thank you.
In most cases it comes down to whether the target has warning or not and that's all about the seeker. AESA seekers are a recent thing and they'll be devastatingly effective even at long ranges (far beyond what you would expect for a BVR to make a kill shot against a fighter).
*Cough cough*
RWRs need to be updated. DRDO claims "excellent sensitivity" for DR118, not sure if it extends to LPI radars
Not *most* all 3 top airforces have majority of their fighter jets with RWR, many with maws
Everyone has RWR. Not all RWR can intercept LPI radars though.
MAWS don't work against BVRAAMs (unless you have really good thermal sensors but they have a huge weight penalty)
RWR's from late 1990s to early 2000s were already designed to incorporate LPI radars.
And their effectiveness is a spectrum against various radars & frequencies, based on their own capabilities.
MAWS are less effective against BVRAAMs COMPARED to WVR missile or heat-seeking missiles.
MAWS is not ineffective against BVRAAMs, again, their effectiveness is a spectrum against various threats.
DR118 is a digital RWR which is specifically designed to detect and pinpoint LPI AESA radar signals. In future RWR-NG, will have GaN based antennas and will be able to intercept all signals within 1GHz to 40GHz band.
DR118 allows MKI to play the cat and mouse game where it can pinpoint all hostile emitters both ground-based and airborne and then can decide to engage or disengage at will. RWR-NG will take it one step further.
SAAW tweeted by defence production India..
Are we moving to mass manufacturing of Saaw ?
Someone i think @marich01 told me why the delay in Saaw ..
Many components of Saaw were imported ..
When indigenous equivalent components were made.. testing will be repeated..
That and this tweet means we are ready to mass produce SAAW ?
Both the launcher weight and payload indicates ~3tons missile at the minimum, can't say if it will be like an air launched pralay or a subsonic missile.
Probably serial production is about to start. We need a modern runway denial munition. The work on a powered variant has also started.
Yes, supply chain issues forced an early indigenization. Otherwise, these items would have been replaced gradually in a few years.
2-3 tons, I think. Should be 1000+km in range depending on launch speed & altitude. High hypersonic terminal phase, 400-500 kg warhead. Our Kinzhal equivalent.
Too small to be dhvani, dhvani will easily achieve 7000km, most likely Agni seriesPlease be Dhvani
its a step by step range test for projects like dhavani, first 1500km then 3k then 7k and then 10k(maybe)
Different profiles can give Different ranges.