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Perhaps you have an early (late?) onset of Alzheimer's. Just go back to your early posts and your physics lectures to refresh your memory!! My original post was about the fact that Brahmos was always designed as 600 km range missile - and you wasted several hours/days (of mine) arguing some BS...

Dude!! @Chinmoy!! How did this magic happen?? DRDO geniuses redesigned the ramjet engine, fuel tank and everything else in just a few months....probably they weren't versed in the F=md physics (thank god for that!!)!! If you remember, I asked you to look out for this announcement imminently...

Dude!!! I thought you went away!!! But you're back nagging about the same issue!!! Why don't you take your fight to sayareakd - he agrees with the reality of Brahmos actually being a 600 km missile (he's also the moderator of this group, so I presume he knows something)!! But it's my weakness...

Exactly my point. They're good for point defence scenarios; but then there are scenarios where you need to put up an 'air defence perimeter' and be able to chase any aerial intrusion in any direction - an area where other type of missiles may be more suited. There's much clamor that Barak-8 is a...

Only thing is - Barak is not good for a chase, owing to its low speed. It's a an excellent 'point defence' SAM - where the missile/aircraft is directly headed into the Barak missile! I think Akash has a slight edge and Ashwin is way superior when it comes to air defence perimeter.

There was talk about deploying Ashwin as a long range SAM; I think with it's 200 km range and 4.5 mach speed it would be an exceptionally good long range SAM - it beats the crap out of Barak-8 (even with all its extensions)!! Also, being completely indigenous it might cost much less too. Barak-8...

Not sure what the connection with Brahmos missile is. But then Barak-8 is a damn good missile whose range has already been extended. One area where Akash kicks Barak-8's butt is the price!!! Then again Barak-8 is designed as a 'point defence' weapon as such it's own speed and altitude ceiling is...

You don't seem to seem to get the fundamental point that Brahmos (from Oniks) was always designed and already built as a 600 km range missile. It was configured to fly only half that distance (at least official statement is thus - it may have been fully capable of full range all along too, but...

You don't necessarily need to take down the entire air defence system before you launch missile/aircraft to the other side of the defence perimeter!! That is the essence of a missile - all the more so for a supersonic cruise missile (which is hard to detect and chase). Brahmos is not for taking...

You're being very simplistic and incorrect in your view of the battlefield. Just because the aircraft is out of range of the SAM, it does not mean your missile will hit any arbitrary target with whatever piddly range the stand off weapon has! Imagine S400s deployed as a fence and your target is...

Well, why not? When one can have a stand off weapon for 290 km, why not for 550 km?? Technically the aircraft acts as a range extender - it essentially becomes a very long range cruise missile!!! I have to go ahead and disagree with you. Brahmos was always designed as a 600 km cruise missile...

Does anyone know if Brahmos-A will also get the range extension (to 550+ kms)? Just curious if Su-30MKI frame strengthening (to carry the 2.5 tonne Brahmos-A) was done to accommodate the future increase in fuel load (within the missile) also. Any idea what the new weight of the missile would...