Akash Surface-to-air Missile

Kunal are do you like akash missile?

You mean the AA10 short range air to air missile

AA-8 'Aphid short range air to air missile..

Its a good system, Good for Air defense of Airfield and Armored thrust..

But it would have been better if it have its own radar seeker..

actually i like the point that you bring up about the SR71, there is a reason why it was retired and its concept was not taken further! for example there is no bladder for fuel as there was almost no substance that could withstand the temperatures so as a result fuel just kept leaking from the plane even before it took of, until it reached a certain speed and and temperature causing the titanium fuselage to expand and make a seal fuel kept leaking....

Blackbird Losses

A compilation on the loss history of the SR-71.

20 out of 50 planes crashed chief. thats 40%. either way, the plane cannot outrun modern SAM systems. Akash, well maybe, maybe not.

SR-71 can outrun SA-6 and SA-3 or Akash at certain altitude with speed, But cannot be same with S-300 /400/ 500..

The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Science : Akash missile's Air Force version successfully test-fired

what is difference between Airforce and Army versions...!!!!

^^ One is a product of BEL while other is of BDL, the missile hardware should be the same except the launch platform.

AF version is on truck and army version on tank.

Of course. I did not dispute that. But none were shot down though and that says a lot. Today it is obsolete. So it is not used.

Something better may replace it in the future.

I dont disagree with the how good the plane was. Only that the Akash shooting it down cannot be ruled out. You must remember that the Akash is a highly networked system. As the plane gets out of range of one missile, it comes within the range of another.

pakistan is testing cruise missile and we are testing sam, may be we will intercept those Pakistani cruise missiles.
DRDO is working on cruise missile detection and defence.

It all depends on the altitude of the plane, even IGLA MANPADS can bring down an SR-71. A low
flying F-111 was shot down by serbs and reverseed engineered by Chinese into J20.

http://weapons.technology.youngester...-of-f-111.html