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^^^^ Why do they hold out info that is more important to be released? Like for example the countries that are showing interest in Akash, Nag and Tejas? Nag is already operational abroad but what about the interested parties that want to see Tejas and Akash? Tejas is not even released in our own air force! DRDO needs to be more mature in releasing what is relevant and what is not.
 

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I think the export potential for the LCA mkI is very small.
With Price being the only major plus point

But the MKII presents one of the cheapest solutions for 4.5 Gen aircraft.

But i doubt we have the manufacturing capability to both produce and export at the same time at least no in the numbers we are talking about
 

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^^^^ Why do they hold out info that is more important to be released? Like for example the countries that are showing interest in Akash, Nag and Tejas? Nag is already operational abroad but what about the interested parties that want to see Tejas and Akash? Tejas is not even released in our own air force! DRDO needs to be more mature in releasing what is relevant and what is not.
Does the sales happen like you go to a shop, pay the cash and whoa you have the product. This unnecessary whining does not help.
 

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We can not induct tejas MK-II and at the same time export it....we should first build sufficient Tejas MK-II for IAF...the current 99 engine order upsets me as i thought Tejas MK-II will be built huge in number till 2020..
 

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We can not induct tejas MK-II and at the same time export it....we should first build sufficient Tejas MK-II for IAF...the current 99 engine order upsets me as i thought Tejas MK-II will be built huge in number till 2020..
It is just the first batch i believe. Follow on orders will be placed i am sure.
 

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First Akash missile system to fill gap in air defence

With crucial Indian defence and nuclear establishments and vital infrastructure facilities open to an enemy air strike, many in India's military consider the shortage of anti-aircraft guns, missiles and radars as our single greatest security vulnerability.

For two decades, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has blocked overseas purchases, to allow the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) to indigenously develop anti-aircraft missile systems for replacing the obsolete Russian weaponry currently dotted around key headquarters, air bases, atomic power plants, nuclear installations and facilities like the Bhakra Nangal dam.


It has been a dangerous gamble. If war had broken out, the ineffectiveness of these Russian systems, especially the 50-year-old Pechora missile, would have forced the Indian Air Force (IAF) to use its combat aircraft more for defending Indian ground forces against enemy fighters than for attacking targets in enemy territory. But that gamble is finally beginning to pay off, with India's first modern air defence system readying to roll off the assembly line. On an exclusive visit to Bharat Electronics (BEL) in Bangalore, Business Standard was given the first-ever media look at an operational Akash missile system, which will be delivered to the IAF by March 2011. This first Akash squadron will protect the Gwalior Air Base, where the IAF bases its Mirage-2000 fighters.

BEL will follow this up quickly with a second Akash squadron by December 2011, which will safeguard Lohegaon Air Base at Pune, a major base for the front-line Sukhoi-30MKI fighters. Meanwhile, another defence public sector undertaking, Bharat Dynamics, will build six more Akash squadrons, most of these for the IAF's new fighter bases along the Sino-Indian border, including Tezpur, Bagdogra and Hasimara.

"BEL is building two Akash squadrons for Rs 1,221 crore," says Ashwini Datta, BEL's chairman and managing director. "The ground infrastructure would cost another Rs 200 crore, so each squadron effectively costs about Rs 700 crore. That is not just significantly cheaper than foreign procurement, but also permits better maintenance and allows for continuous technological improvements."

DRDO and MoD sources say the Indian Army is close to ordering a high-mobility version of Akash, mounted on T-72 tanks, that can move alongside tank forces. One of the army's three strike corps, which attack deep into enemy territory, has no anti-aircraft "area defence system"; the other two strike corps are equipped with the vintage Russian SA-6, designed in the early-1960s. This makes them dangerously vulnerable to enemy fighters if they advance deep into enemy territory.


The Akash – developed by the DRDO, in partnership with BEL, under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme – is a sophisticated amalgam of systems working in concert. The heart of the Akash is a mobile Rohini radar, which can detect an aircraft when it is 120 kilometres (km) away; automatically, a coded electronic interrogator ascertains whether this is an IAF aircraft, or a civilian airliner. With the target identified, the Rohini radar alerts the Akash squadron headquarters, which then controls the engagement.


As the enemy fighter races in at about 15 km per minute, the task of shooting it down is allocated through a secure digital link to one of the squadron's two missile "flights", which are normally about 25 km away, to cover the maximum area. The designated Flight Control Centre locks its sophisticated 3D phased-array radar onto the enemy fighter and calculates the launch parameters for an Akash missile to shoot down the target at its maximum range of 25 km.


Meanwhile, the flight's four Akash launchers raise their missiles to the launch positions and swivel automatically towards the incoming aircraft. At the calculated time of launch, the Flight Control Centre electronically passes a launch order to one of its four launchers. An audio signal starts beeping and the missile operator presses the launch button, which is quaintly labelled "MARO". A "ripple" of two missiles roars off the launcher, seconds apart, to increase the chances of a hit. The 3D radar guides the missiles throughout their flight, homing them onto the enemy aircraft. The DRDO claims that a two-missile "ripple" will destroy an enemy fighter 98 per cent of the time.


The dangerous shortage of India's air defence resources has been known to Business Standard for some time, but can only now be publicly revealed, with the induction of the Akash remedying the situation. The number of installations that need protection – each is termed a Vulnerable Area (VA) or a Vulnerable Point (VP), depending upon how large it is – has steadily increased. In a letter written on December 4, 2002, to the MoD, the IAF's Air Marshal Raghu Rajan pointed out that a study by the military's apex Chiefs of Staff Committee, ordered by the Cabinet Secretariat, had identified 101 Indian VAs/VPs in 1983. That went up to 122 in 1992; to 133 in 1997; and is now understood to be well above 150.
Without the anti-aircraft resources needed to protect these VAs/VPs, the outdated Pechora missiles, which began service in 1974 with a designated life of nine years, have been granted repeated extensions. The Russian manufacturers extended the life to 15 years; when they refused any further extensions, the DRDO extended it unilaterally to 21 years. By 2004, only 30 Pechora units of the 60 originally imported were still in service.


On January 15, 2003, the IAF boss, Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy, wrote to the MoD saying that 60 per cent of India's VAs/VPs could no longer be provided anti-aircraft protection. The IAF's top officer wrote: "By 2004"¦ terminal defence of VA/VPs would be only notional"¦ We need to import minimal number of systems to meet our national defence needs."Seven years later, the roll-out of the Akash from BEL will begin to fill this gap.


http://www.business-standard.com/in...ile-system-to-fill-gap-in-air-defence/415837/
 

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First Akash missile system to fill gap in air defence

BY: Ajai Shukla /business-standard.com

With crucial Indian defence and nuclear establishments and vital infrastructure facilities open to an enemy air strike, many in India's military consider the shortage of anti-aircraft guns, missiles and radars as our single greatest security vulnerability.

For two decades, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has blocked overseas purchases, to allow the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) to indigenously develop anti-aircraft missile systems for replacing the obsolete Russian weaponry currently dotted around key headquarters, air bases, atomic power plants, nuclear installations and facilities like the Bhakra Nangal dam.

It has been a dangerous gamble. If war had broken out, the ineffectiveness of these Russian systems, especially the 50-year-old Pechora missile, would have forced the Indian Air Force (IAF) to use its combat aircraft more for defending Indian ground forces against enemy fighters than for attacking targets in enemy territory.

But that gamble is finally beginning to pay off, with India's first modern air defence system readying to roll off the assembly line. On an exclusive visit to Bharat Electronics (BEL) in Bangalore, Business Standard was given the first-ever media look at an operational Akash missile system, which will be delivered to the IAF by March 2011. This first Akash squadron will protect the Gwalior Air Base, where the IAF bases its Mirage-2000 fighters.

BEL will follow this up quickly with a second Akash squadron by December 2011, which will safeguard Lohegaon Air Base at Pune, a major base for the front-line Sukhoi-30MKI fighters. Meanwhile, another defence public sector undertaking, Bharat Dynamics, will build six more Akash squadrons, most of these for the IAF's new fighter bases along the Sino-Indian border, including Tezpur, Bagdogra and Hasimara.

"BEL is building two Akash squadrons for Rs 1,221 crore," says Ashwini Datta, BEL's chairman and managing director. "The ground infrastructure would cost another Rs 200 crore, so each squadron effectively costs about Rs 700 crore. That is not just significantly cheaper than foreign procurement, but also permits better maintenance and allows for continuous technological improvements."

DRDO and MoD sources say the Indian Army is close to ordering a high-mobility version of Akash, mounted on T-72 tanks, that can move alongside tank forces. One of the army's three strike corps, which attack deep into enemy territory, has no anti-aircraft "area defence system"; the other two strike corps are equipped with the vintage Russian SA-6, designed in the early-1960s. This makes them dangerously vulnerable to enemy fighters if they advance deep into enemy territory.

The Akash – developed by the DRDO, in partnership with BEL, under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme – is a sophisticated amalgam of systems working in concert. The heart of the Akash is a mobile Rohini radar, which can detect an aircraft when it is 120 kilometres (km) away; automatically, a coded electronic interrogator ascertains whether this is an IAF aircraft, or a civilian airliner. With the target identified, the Rohini radar alerts the Akash squadron headquarters, which then controls the engagement.

As the enemy fighter races in at about 15 km per minute, the task of shooting it down is allocated through a secure digital link to one of the squadron's two missile "flights", which are normally about 25 km away, to cover the maximum area. The designated Flight Control Centre locks its sophisticated 3D phased-array radar onto the enemy fighter and calculates the launch parameters for an Akash missile to shoot down the target at its maximum range of 25 km.

Meanwhile, the flight's four Akash launchers raise their missiles to the launch positions and swivel automatically towards the incoming aircraft. At the calculated time of launch, the Flight Control Centre electronically passes a launch order to one of its four launchers. An audio signal starts beeping and the missile operator presses the launch button, which is quaintly labelled "MARO". A "ripple" of two missiles roars off the launcher, seconds apart, to increase the chances of a hit. The 3D radar guides the missiles throughout their flight, homing them onto the enemy aircraft. The DRDO claims that a two-missile "ripple" will destroy an enemy fighter 98 per cent of the time.

The dangerous shortage of India's air defence resources has been known to Business Standard for some time, but can only now be publicly revealed, with the induction of the Akash remedying the situation. The number of installations that need protection – each is termed a Vulnerable Area (VA) or a Vulnerable Point (VP), depending upon how large it is – has steadily increased. In a letter written on December 4, 2002, to the MoD, the IAF's Air Marshal Raghu Rajan pointed out that a study by the military's apex Chiefs of Staff Committee, ordered by the Cabinet Secretariat, had identified 101 Indian VAs/VPs in 1983. That went up to 122 in 1992; to 133 in 1997; and is now understood to be well above 150.

Without the anti-aircraft resources needed to protect these VAs/VPs, the outdated Pechora missiles, which began service in 1974 with a designated life of nine years, have been granted repeated extensions. The Russian manufacturers extended the life to 15 years; when they refused any further extensions, the DRDO extended it unilaterally to 21 years. By 2004, only 30 Pechora units of the 60 originally imported were still in service.

On January 15, 2003, the IAF boss, Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy, wrote to the MoD saying that 60 per cent of India's VAs/VPs could no longer be provided anti-aircraft protection. The IAF's top officer wrote: "By 2004"¦ terminal defence of VA/VPs would be only notional"¦ We need to import minimal number of systems to meet our national defence needs."

Seven years later, the roll-out of the Akash from BEL will begin to fill this gap.





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Vehicle-mounted sub-systems of the IAF's first Akash squadron, nearing completion at BEL, Bangalore. The first Akash squadron will be deployed at Gwalior Air Base by March 2011

 

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Its great to see BEL and our defence forces shifting from BHML built Czech TATRA tow trucks to TATA's LPS- 3516 tractor trailer.
 
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ofcourse you can....if your ultra conscious then give reference from scource of pics.
 

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NEW DELHI: Fighters, submarines or tanks may grab all the eyeballs but other military hardware also costs a packet. Over the next five years, the armed forces will induct three advanced surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems for well over Rs 30,000 crore. The SAM systems -- to detect and destroy hostile aircraft, drones and helicopters at ranges betweem 25 and 70 km -- are the indigenous Akash system and the two being developed with the help of Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) -- the long-range SAM (LR-SAM) and medium-range SAM (MR-SAM).

Latest status reports peg the R&D costs and orders placed for the 25-km Akash system, which has a multiple target handling capability with digitally-coded command guidance system to protect vital installations, at a staggering Rs 19,182 crore. While the joint DRDO-IAI project cost for LR-SAM to arm naval warships is Rs 2,606 crore, the MR-SAM for IAF is worth Rs 10,076 crore.

Akash systems are already on course to be inducted, with the IAF order being worth Rs 6,200 crore and the Army's Rs 12,402 crore. The first IAF Akash squadron, with two `flights' of four launchers each, is expected to be operational at Gwalior airbase by next year. Six of the squadrons will subsequently be based in the north-east to counter the Chinese threat.

The 70-km-range LR-SAM project -- with multi-function surveillance and threat radars, weapon control systems and missiles -- in turn, is slated for completion by May 2012. In the first phase, it will arm the three Kolkata-class destroyers being built at Mazagon Docks for Rs 11,662 crore. Under the MR-SAM project, which will also have a strike range of 70 km, the delivery of the first firing unit to the IAF is scheduled for March 2013, with the 18th one coming in October 2016.


All three projects are important because the armed forces are largely equipped with near-obsolete air defence units, like the Russian-origin Pechora, OSA-AK and Igla missile systems, even though the radar coverage of Indian airspace suffers from many gaping holes.

Interestingly, though IAI has been dogged by some controversy -- ranging from kickback allegations to exorbitant business charges -- the government has refused to blacklist the firm on the ground that it will prove "counter-productive" due to the "crucial" projects that are underway.

India is also importing several Spyder low-level quick-reaction missile systems from Israel to bolster its air defence capabilities. IAF had pushed for them due to persistent delays in the indigenous Akash and Trishul SAM systems. While Trishul has failed to materialise, armed forces now seem confident about Akash.

The sleek 5.6-metre-long Akash uses an integrated two-stage Ramjet rocket propulsion technology, and is powered by an air-breathing engine to carry a payload of 60 kg. As its computerised operation ensures a low-reaction time, Akash is designed to neutralise multiple aerial targets attacking from several directions simultaneously in all-weather conditions. With an 88% "kill probability", it can even take on sub-sonic cruise missiles, says DRDO

Read more: Not just jets, missiles too cost a bomb - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-a-bomb/articleshow/6996473.cms#ixzz16QBbhggk









 

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wasn't there rumours about the barrack-ER-SAM with range of 120+km meant for IAF. also there is no mention of our indegeneous bmd or maitri missile
 

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The AKASH system being the the replacement for the SA-6, a MR SAM with the Indian army , what are the probable replacements for the other missile and gun systems in the Indian army's ( air defence) arsenal
 

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The AKASH system being the the replacement for the SA-6, a MR SAM with the Indian army , what are the probable replacements for the other missile and gun systems in the Indian army's ( air defence) arsenal
Not much of an idea mate but I can say that the two Israeli projects for LRSAM and SPYDER are for long and medium range respectively. Also Pradyumna (PAD and AAD) ABM system is being currently tested to take down IRBMs and ICBMs.
 

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We can not induct tejas MK-II and at the same time export it....we should first build sufficient Tejas MK-II for IAF...the current 99 engine order upsets me as i thought Tejas MK-II will be built huge in number till 2020..
I guess 99 is because the remaining might be Kaveri. Might in the sense that they might be reaching near the development. Think about it; AMCA is going to start from next year, Tejas MK1 will join us in 2-3 months, and they have to get Kaveri to 100-110KN of thrust before AMCA is ready which will be around 2025 by modest estimates if all goes well; Till then the initial 100 Tejas MK2s will be armed with GE 414s. IAF said that MK2 and MK1 combined would be bought around 200-220. So I guess GE 414s are only a stopgap and needed only till midway when Kaveri might be ready.

The main issue with Kaveri is its thrust which is being tweaked now. Seriously, it cannot take more than the coming decade to just increase the thrust right. So who knows maybe the remaining 100 MK2s that IAF has mentioned of acquiring will be powered with a "simplified version" of Kaveri that's being expected for AMCA? :)
 

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SPYDER is short range & Akash is short range too.
 

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the patriot and s-300 missiles were initially developed as long range sam.they were later developed into ballistic missile defense role.can the AAD missile system be developed into the reverse role that is air defense against cruise missiles,aircrafts etc witth capabilities like the patriot pac-3 and s-400.
 

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AKASH and SA-6 and SA-3 almost fall in same range, hence they are all Medium range SAM ( 25-30km )..

Indian Army did have 3 strike crops but lack vision in long range SAM...

A Offensive force always need a SAM umbrella to protect them, Akash and SA-6 can only provide 25kms and vulnerable to Chinese made KH-31s..

For This kind of theater IA need some thing like S-300/400 units supported by various short range and medium range SAMs..
 

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SPYDER is short range & Akash is short range too.
If aakash is short range then, spyder is too short range :happy_2:

Aakash will be a Short-Mid Range SAM. Mid range will be of something in the rane of 50-80Kms
 

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