Nirbhay Cruise Missile Development

[LETHALFORCE]

The range is more than the usual cruise missile.

 

[LETHALFORCE]

^^ He meant Nirbhay Cruise missile as a Payload of Agni.

Thursday, October 4, 2012
India's first 'made-in-Bangalore' missile Nirbhay set for Dec launch | DRDO makes changes to launcher
By Anantha Krishnan M

. The cost of Nirbhay is expected to be around Rs 10 crore a piece with DRDO spending around Rs 70 crore so far. Though the project was sanctioned in 2004, the scientists ran into many critical challenges. "There were many unforeseen events we had to counter and overcome while developing Nirbhay. The project picked up momentum in 2010 onwards," sources said.

2.3 Million dollars for 1 Nirbhay is more than the tomahawk 1.5 million each.

 

[KS]

India's first 'made-in-Bangalore' missile Nirbhay set for Dec launch | DRDO makes changes to launcher

I hope there are no more delays in the maiden test firing. Already twice it has been postponed if I am not wrong.

 

[sayareakd]

subsystem and softwear is tested on lakshya so no need to worry on delay.

 

[sayareakd]

you guys must have read that lakshya was tested on new digital fight control, just imagine what it meant for Nirbhy.

 

[Defcon 1]

2.3 Million dollars for 1 Nirbhay is more than the tomahawk 1.5 million each.

Has the figure been adjusted for inflation? Tomahawk should have been ordered years ago.

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Has the figure been adjusted for inflation? Tomahawk should have been ordered years ago.

This is the latest number I think a few years back tomahawks were 1.3 million each.

 

[Defcon 1]

This is the latest number I think a few years back tomahawks were 1.3 million each.

2.3 million for Nirbhay means that you have assumed the value of dollar to be equal to 45 Rs. Currently it is near to 51. So, the price will fall below 2 million. Also, US orders larger number of missiles, so their costs are bound to be lower.

 

[Singh]

10 crores for a turbofan cruise missiles is awfully expensive. The price should be 1/5th atleast.

 

[sayareakd]

relax guys this is cost of production as on today, when we actually start is production in bulk its cost will come down, plus we will make engine in India.

 

[Singh]

^^ I thought we had started developing an indigenous turbofan, hence the delay ?

 

[sayareakd]

^^ I thought we had started developing an indigenous turbofan, hence the delay ?

they are ADA guys, they take time for everything.

 

[agentperry]

the price quoted is the price of single nirbhay made for trials. once in production this job production will convert to mass production where price falls dramatically

 

[sathya]

come on, its going to be November.. no news about test yet ?

 

[sathya]

there is cyclone crossing AP + regular rains last few weeks too..

If the missile had been made ready, they might be waiting for clear weather ..


WISHING A HAPPY DIWALI.. this year..

 

[sayareakd]

cross post

A DRDO official said the Nirbhay launch was delayed because modifications had to be made in the launcher. While India already had had a successful supersonic cruise missile in BrahMos, it felt the need to develop a sub-sonic cruise missile. Hence the development of Nirbhay, which would fly at 0.65 Mach. The Aeronautical Development Establishment, a DRDO unit in Bangalore, designed Nirbhay, which had been derived from Lakshya, a pilotless target aircraft. Nirbhay is a two-stage, surface-to-surface, terrain-hugging missile. "It takes the oxidiser from the air. So it can travel for a longer duration and a longer distance. Its range is around 1,000 km."

The Hindu : News / National : DRDO to conduct eighth ballistic interceptor missile test this month

 

[sayareakd]

from the above post interesting part

A DRDO official said the Nirbhay launch was delayed because modifications had to be made in the launcher. While India already had had a successful supersonic cruise missile in BrahMos, it felt the need to develop a sub-sonic cruise missile. Hence the development of Nirbhay, which would fly at 0.65 Mach. The Aeronautical Development Establishment, a DRDO unit in Bangalore, designed Nirbhay, which had been derived from Lakshya, a pilotless target aircraft. Nirbhay is a two-stage, surface-to-surface, terrain-hugging missile. "It takes the oxidiser from the air. So it can travel for a longer duration and a longer distance. Its range is around 1,000 km."

if you look at Lakshya PTA its max speed is Mach 0.7
DRDO Lakshya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

since it is made by same lab, it will be super cruise missile with true capability of loitering missile based on PTA experience.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

We may ended up seeing something like this :

 

[mikhail]

We may ended up seeing something like this :

well this looks cool!but it has got some striking similarities with Lakhsya PTA!i guess they ADA and DRDO don't end up building another PTA instead of a cruise missile!

 

[Kunal Biswas]

It is very possible DRDO is using PTA as test bed for new technologies..

But lets see how this goes..