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Watch this. MoD bureaucrats and diplomats from MEA will also be there in the Space Agency.

Tomorrow we are going to formally establish the much awaited Space Agency. It will initially be headed by an Air Vice Marshal. Tomorrow has been chosen since tomorrow is the centenary birth anniversary of Marshal of the Indian Airforce, Arjan Singh. According to the kabootar, an amount of...

This is for kids. This is the real deal. https://www.airspacemag.com/space/soviet-star-wars-8758185/ A 37m long, 4 metre wide 80 ton space station. You can call it an orbital battlestation. Straight out of Star Wars. Had a 1 Megawatt CO2 laser for blasting other sats to smithereens. Yes you...

All these time, nuke warheads were used in ballistic missile defense interceptors. For example Galsoh 51T6 ABM-3 53T6 ABM-4 It's the same story with US ballistic missile defense programs. Spartan. Only recently, did they swap 10 kT nuclear warheads with conventional ones in the 53T6M and the...

You want us to go back to the mid 60s and 70s. Is this what you want? Read up about A-35 program that defended Moscow. A-35 used ABM-1 Galosh which used a 1 MT nuclear warhead to incinerate the incoming RVs. Then the follow up A-135 program used this similar approach up until recently. The...

Edit - Not as a monopropellant. As a bipropellant. Oxidizer MMH combo. The EKV carries oxidizer tanks. The RKV on the other hand uses solid propellants.

Raytheon EKV and Leap too use hydrazine as a monopropellant. Hydrazine N2O4 combo. Hydrazine has a ISP of around 220. It's not exactly high and again not too low. The reason for the humonguos KKV and the huge volume of propellant carried is to give the kill vehicle sufficient divert capability...

An all total of three LRTR and two MFCR at four different locations were involved in Mission Shakti. A LRTR MFCR pair is deployed somewhere near Balasore. The third LRTR is deployed somewhere in Madhya Pradesh. There is no need to know the exact location. The second MFCR is deployed...

The KKV used in the ASAT test has been live tested in the Feb 12th PDV test. Besides there has been extensive ground tests and simulations. The best thing is this new kill vehicle will now be retrofitted on the PDV exo atmospheric interceptors. The new KKV will get further upgradations. Read 1K...

AD-1 is a modified PDV mounted on a slim but long booster. AD-1 is to PDV as thaad is to thaad ER. AD-2 has a modified KV compared to AD-1 plus a sustainer with more propellant loading. Plus the long and slim booster. PDV MKII is a thoroughbred mid course hit to kill interceptor meant for...

Watch the entire video. The 10 metre velocity issue will get clarified .

IR in his article in DDR has said it weighs 1.8 tons. We don't know for sure how much it weighs. 1.8 tons is speculation. Having said that, yes the boosters gave the KKV the required velocity to reach sub orbital speeds. But the KKV itself has a 200+ km slant range.

I am not obliged to make you understand. Either you take it or leave it. I don't know from which background you are. But as far as I am concerned, from an engineering background. I know a thing or two about basic physics and maths.

According to Dr G Satheesh, the second stage solid booster cut off over 100 kms. But the actual intercept took place at 280 kms.. So the kinetic kill vehicle reached this altitude all by itself, covered a verticke distance of more than 150 kms . At the same time its moving forward. So, the KKV...

TGC start in this pic implies Terminal Guidance control taking over from Mission Ground Control.

Dr G S Reddy had said the IIR seeker used had a range of 200 kms. And the Kill vehicle also has a 200+km range. The seeker's sheer range can be gauged from this picture. Look at the point from where the IR lock on takes place and the then position of Microsat R.

I didn't miscalculate anything. I had never said lateral velocity is equal to closing velocity. The miss distance figure of 10 metres that I had quoted isn't lateral motion. Having said that, yes if one uses a higher resolution FPA, then the kinetic kill vehicle will be able to make precise...

A great news for my fellow bhagwas. I had overlooked it the first time. There's a LRTR deployed somewhere in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. As can be seen from the above screenshot. This takes the total no of LRTR used to three. This also implies that most of the elements of the floating...

There's another best part. The KV itself can travel for over 200 kms. That's the advantage of this not so compact kill vehicle. It's a large heavy duty robust vehicle meant for the big boys.

Nope. It's 5 km/sec. With the new KV, PDV and PDV MK 2 can take out Godfather of Shaheen 2 and 3. Ding a Dong 24 and 31 can also be brought down.