AIR LAUNCHED BRAHMOS now with ranges of 600+ km (high altitude release will lead to even more increased range).

(it was always with 600km range, the quoted figure of 300km was a hoodwink , i had mentioned this 3 or more times since 1 and a half years back here)

LUH/LOH with cheetak/cheetah helicopter which it is going to replace

fire a few rounds to encourage the photographer

beautiful display of vortex generation due to the canards

gripen in aeroindia 2017

super heron uav

akash radar vehicle and command and control vehicle

can anybody guess what this is ?

nemesis2u:
can anybody guess what this is ?

might as well answer it
it is KC-46's air tanker remote boom operator station with 3D glasses

IAI Rotem-L loitering kamikaze quadcopter

IAI Panther tilt-rotor fixed wing UAS

rotor UAV from UMSSkeldar

Model of the DRDO/GTRE mini jet engine for UAV applications. Being developed for next gen in-development UAS.

Hermes 900 MALE UAS

Lockeed Martin's F-16 Block 70 in Indian Air Force colours

waste of money, what is the MOD even thinking ?

advanced hawk

NAG ATGM
Back in 2005, the IA had ordered 443 Nag missiles and 13 NAMICA tracked carrier/launch vehicles, and is expected to order another 7,000 Nag missiles and around 200 NAMICAs.

red bulls

red bulls again

MANIK small turbofan engine suitable for cruise missile applications on a GTRE test-bed.

phalcon awacs

JAGUARS with AESA radar

DARE developed High Band Jammer for Su-30MKI intended to replace Russian SAP518 pod. Spoofs ground/air radars with false targets etc

MFD page of DRDO DARE developed Dhruti digital RWR for Su-30MKI which will interface with under development High Band Jammer (HBJ)

Ashwini radar

MALDJ.

India today successfully test-fired its indigenously developed supersonic endo-atmospheri interceptor missile capable of destroying any incoming enemy ballistic missile at low altitude.

AAD endo-atmospheric interceptor missile is part of Indian ABM system , also there is an exo-atmospheric interceptor missile for engaging targets at 150+ km altitude (which was tested earlier for 100 km altitude)

pic 1 endo-atmospheric interceptor missile

pic 2 target missile

pic 3 exo-atmospheric interceptor missile

video of an earlier indian ABM test ie exo-atmospheric interceptor missile


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sihuXP-VCnM

lets see how many of the readers know about missile

can anyone guess why the first missile shown being launched in the above video is moving side ways ? (the missile and its launcher arms is shown swaying from side to side just before launch )

anybody up for the challenge ?

OSA-AKM sam

latest info on Indian ABM

tier 1

PDV (PRITHVI DEFENCE VEHICLE)

PDV is an exo-atmospheric interceptor for India's ballistic missile defence (BMD) system.

PDV replaces the PAD ABM interceptor, which was first tested in 2006, as the kill vector in the exo atmospheric interception leg of the two-tier system conceived under Phase-I of India’s BMD programme.

while PAD was essentially a high endo-atmospheric system with a ceiling of around 85 km, PDV is a true blue exo-atmospheric interceptor capable of destroying targets at altitudes of up to 150 km.

This puts PDV in a different category in terms of its navigation set-up and homing seeker capability. Instead of sporting a radio frequency (RF) seeker like PAD, PDV uses a strap-down IIR seeker developed by DRDO’s Research Centre Imarat (RCI) with a 128 x 128 focal plane array.

an interception of a ballistic missile re-entry vehicle (RV) outside the Earth’s atmosphere requires that the BMD system distinguish between it (i.e the RV) and decoys, that might be released by the boost vehicle in order to create false targets. This target discrimination is achieved in the ‘cold’ of space by using an IIR seeker.

PDV’s inertial guidance package that includes a ring-laser gyroscope (RLG) moved its solid-fuelled booster towards the estimated point of interception as calculated by ground-based radars, till such time the KKV was released and its IIR seeker took over in the end game to track the RV. After which, the KKV (kinetic kill vehicle) steered itself continuously to plot a collision course with the incoming RV. In the end, the KKV managed to smash right into the central portion of the RV ie KKV was used by PDV by destroying an actual incoming warhead in a HTK (hit to kill) mission.

PDV is designed to have a shelf life of 10 to 15 years and its motors have a high margin for safety while retaining quick reaction capability – all of which contribute to it being a ready to use package slaved to an automated launch mechanism. also, The DACS on board PDV’s KKV is fuelled by hypergolic propellants, with high thruster valves which can precisely control the flow of propellant to the rocket engines used for KKV steering to allow full proof hit to kill (HTK).

it is a clear demonstration of the low earth orbit (LEO) capabilities of PDV.

there is another new exo-atmospheric interceptor currently under development that can neutralize RVs at altitudes of over 300 km which will succeed PDV in the future.

Taken together this means that India has all the elements in place for a direct ascent counter space system that can potentially be used for anti-satellite purposes.

This in turn means that India now has a very strong hand in the Space NPT that is currently being quietly negotiated by the world’s nuclear powers.