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All of you missing a very important point. Speed reduces maneuverability. Ballistic missiles can do a max of 5g. Drones although slow can do 40 g. Air to air missiles are likely to face difficulty intercepting a highly maneuverable slow target than fast moving target(not extreme fast targets ).

Actually this is pre production trials. They had done a series of user trials last year and had ordered a batch of 50 missiles to check the production quality. These set of trials would result in induction

I think Astra Mk-2 will have dual pulse motor and not the current mk-1 version.I did google out to find out that Meteor does uses variable thrusted ramjet. infact looking at the recent tenders DRDO floated,it is trying to get a long duration,high energy solid fueled ramjet which probably could...

If this is so obvious,Do you think DRDO would have factored this into the missile? BTW,do you know examples of other AAM which uses this variable thrust?

Do you mean to say missile should slow down to mach 2 to hit aircraft trying to evade at 9g?

Astra missile sucessfully fired when the fighter jet was performing a “very high-g manoeuvre” DRDO scientists plan to conduct another trial on Thursday to prove the long range capability of the missile. After postponing twice, the indigenously-developed beyond visual range air-to-air missile...

perhaps you can give it a try.I will bookmark it and read it whenever i dont get sleep.

Khagesh, There are lot of factors. Firstly the pilot will fire a series of missiles to attack the opponent jet fighter. So although 27G might not be theretically enough to destroy opponent fighter jet,it is more than sufficient if fired in multiples.And we have just stared with version 1. Once...

For every G pulled by Aircraft missile needs to counter it by multiple G's to outbeat it. 24g's is generally not good enough to defeat a fighter with good pilot.

That is how such missiles work normally. But i am not sure whether target was guided by su-30 till missile took over action or missile glided from su-30 just to track object via its radar and destroyed it? The distance of the target is not given here.

One question - was astra missile guided to the target or did missile itself identified the target to destroy?

After Akash, Astra missile would be a big hit for DRDO. Expect huge orders this time for Astra. Eagerly waiting for astra mark - 2 to make its first flight. Just got information of Vijainder Thakur,ex pilot that It meets SQR(Staff qualitiative requirements).Hopefully Astra meets all its...

Today's Astra trial was a test of the g-limits of the missile in the end game. The Astra pulled 27Gs - Saurav jha

Top speed of astra is 3-4 mac and not 1.4 mac as mentioned in the hindu news paper.Dont know when defense reporting will improve.

Any news on the Astra missile test?