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Upgraded Pechora Missile By Alpha Design clears key test - The Times of India
Science News: BENGALURU: Bengaluru-based defence equipment manufacturer Alpha Design Technologies Ltd (ADTL) has completed a major upgrade of the Indian Air Force’s.
Alpha Design has completed a major upgrade of IAF's Pechora SAM system.
Iirc, the IAF also had a long running requirement to reverse engineer the Russian origin FAB 500 M62 GP bomb. ARDE failed despite multiple attempts and was even pulled up by CAG.
Any clarity on when A2A tests from Su30 are planned?
India conducts successful demonstration of Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet technologymany possible future applications. this is one of the enabling tech pillars. Other tech like multipulse rocket motor, SFDR , hybrid rocket motor, scramjet, PDE etc all are tech enabling pillars. You can scale it up or down and use as building block in a hybrid system as suitable. All types of missiles can be made Surface to air, air to surface, air to air everything. Key idea is this tech allow supersonic flight at lower altitude by using air breathing engine, so the missile need not carry oxidizer with fuel. That means weight save useful for design of good optimised long range missile system that can do cruise flight.
This is the original targeted specs of the LFRJ:
Notice the range and speed. 600km at Mach 3.2.
But here Indranil is saying the speed will be Mach 2.4. The decrease in cruising speed would mean reduced rate of fuel consumption. Which in turn means increased range. Given the fact that this is initially aimed to hit aerial targets (as AAM or SAM), the focus will be on preserving speed and ability of accelerating and changing directions fast. For an AShM...
When BrahMos solid booster burns out, its innards are thrown out as liquid ramjet kicks in. In SFDR the booster is much simpler in design and you don't have to eject stuff out when transitioning to ramjet mode. Also, there's huge volume saving where you can fit more fuel.
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cant be, maybe m1 and m2 ground tests at most, i dont think theyve announced any flight tests. They usually would especially for a critical but ublic system like this unlike the LRAShM
LRASHM test was actually mentioned in passing in a PIB release much much before the publicised second test. People simply didn't pay attention. (https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1989502®=3&lang=2)
