More Missile Tests This Month

[Kunal Biswas]

Lets wait for more conformation ..

 

[SajeevJino]

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Why don't they ripple fire the Akash to Destroy the PTA

 

[Yusuf]

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Why don't they ripple fire the Akash to Destroy the PTA

Saar missiles are expensive not some cheap bullets. The missile is supposed to do its job.

 

[SajeevJino]

Saar missiles are expensive not some cheap bullets. The missile is supposed to do its job.

More than that they need Solid Performance of Single Missiles Hit Result ..

If in War time they will Ripple launch to kill the enemy Flyer If first Missile misses the target

 

[Sea Eagle]

India will conduct its first long-range missile defense test next week, according to the head of its military technology agency.
Avinash Chander, Director General of India's Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), told reporters over the weekend that Delhi will test its anti-ballistic missile defense system beyond 100 km from Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast.The Times of India
noted that India has previously tested its anti-ballistic missile system six times, but only from ranges of between 20 and 30 km. Most notably,in November 2012, India simultaneously shot down two separate missiles.
"It is a system to intercept enemy missiles with a range of 2,000 km. The missiles will get intercepted at range of more than 100 km away so that damage to our cities can be prevented,"-Chander was quoted as sayingby
The Times of India.
The report went on to explain that the test would start with an Indian Navy vessel launching a missile that would mimic the enemy weapon. In an automated process, the ballistic missile defense system would shoot its interceptor, destroying the fake enemy missile midair.
In the weeks following the test, DRDO plans to test two emerging missiles in its arsenal. The first is the Nirbhay, a long-range, surface-to-surface sub-sonic missile with a range of about 1,000 km. The Nirbhay is often compared to the U.S. Tomahawk. It can carry multiple warheads and engage several targets, a DRDO official toldThe Hinduback in 2012.
"Even if there are multiple targets, it can pick out a target and attack it. It is a loitering missile; it can go round and round a target, perform several maneuvers and take it apart. It has precision, endurance and accuracy. It is an important missile,"The Hinduquoted theDRDO official as saying.

The Nirbhay's maiden test flight took place in March of 2013 and failed. DRDO later said the failure had to do with issues with the missile's inertial guidance system. Chander had previously promised the second test flight of the missile—which will initially be employed by India's Navy—would take place sometime in February of this year. The missile has been plagued by other various delays as well.
As Chander explained it to reporters earlier this year: "Nirbhay is a typical model of how we should not do project R&D. Earlier it was piecemeal work, but new thrust has been provided to this project."
Over the weekend Chander said that the second test flight of the missile will take place early next month.

Chander also said that DRDO will conduct the first test of its new Astra missile around the same time. The Astra is a beyond visual range air-to-air single stage, solid-fueled missile. It will be tested from one of India's Russian-made Su-30 aircraft. According to
The Times of India report: "If Astra is successfully fired, India will break into [an] elite group of nations, including the U.S., France, Russia and Israel, possessing such missiles. The missiles are capable of engaging ultra-modern supersonic fighter jets. Astra can carry a 15-kg high-explosive warhead."

 

[Sea Eagle]

@shiphone
The NOTAM you mentioned earlier is surely for Astra missile.

Also try searching for some info about Nirbhay test.

 

[Sea Eagle]

No PDV test ?
Its already 9:56

 

[Yusuf]

No PDV test ?
Its already 9:56

Test fired today

 

[ladder]

No PDV test ?
Its already 9:56

Already test fired this morning at 9.11 am. Will confirm whether success or failure later.


Added later

Cross posting from other thread (posted by Apollyon)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-interceptor-missile/articleshow/34281509.cms

 

[Sea Eagle]

1. PDV -> Tested and Successful

2. Akash -> 4 missiles test fired.

3. Nirbhay Cruise Missile -> This week

4. Astra -> End of first week of May

:hippo:

 

[Srinivas_K]

India successfully test-fires new interceptor missile

India on Sunday successfully test-fired a new interceptor missile capable of neutralising any incoming long-range missile at higher altitude.
The interceptor, positioned at launch pad–IV of Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island, about 100 km from here, roared into the sky at about 9.10 AM to hit its target.
The target, mimicking an incoming enemy missile, was first test fired from a naval ship at 9.06 AM and after getting signals from the radars, the interceptor went into action.
"The trial was conducted successfully and all the mission objectives were met," DRDO Spokesman Ravi Kumar Gupta told PTI over phone.
The details of the 'kill effect' of the interceptor missile were analysed after retrieving all the data from various radars and telemetry stations, an official said.
Earlier Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which is the premier agency to develop such a sophisticated interceptor, had successfully tested six interceptor missiles developed by it, both in endo-atmosphere (within 30 km altitude above sea level and exo-atmosphere stage (above 30 km altitude).
The Prithvi Air Defence interceptor missile has already demonstrated its killing capability at an altitude of 50 km and 80 km while the Advanced Air Defence interceptor missile has smashed the target missile at an altitude of 15 km to 30 km.

India successfully test-fires new interceptor missile | The Indian Express