Not a shorter range one. Brahmos NG is going to weigh about 1.5 ton and will be smaller in size to Brahmos, yet retain the speed and range as the original missile. 300 kms at 2.8 Mach.
Original Brahmos is 450-600km range. The 1.5ton being 300km in range is a short ranged one
Original Brahmos range was 290km to keep it under MTCR limits.
More like 5-6 years AFTER the project is approved.
The MTCR limits was kept by underfuelling the Brahmos or simply pretending that the Brahmos has 300km range. The same Brahmos were upgraded to 450km range once MTCR hurdle was cleared
It was never 290 km. It was just that India and Russia said it was. As soon as India joined MTCR, 450 km Brahmos was tested after some "software modifications".
It was 290km, same as the export version of Yakhont. It wasn't until MTCR was signed that the P800 engines were incorporated.
1) MTCR is not enforcable.
Poor analysis!
MTCR was not enforced to block Russia supplying cryogenic engines. Russia was simply pressurised to not give blueprint as Russia was deeply in debt and USA threatened to cut down loans. Nevertheless, Russia did handover 7 cryogenic engines without blueprint which India reverse engineered and even improved for GSLV Mk3 version.
As silly as it maybe, US did cite MTCR as the reason for blocking Russia's tech transfer of Cryogenic engines!
Brahmos is a JV but with an intent of allowing India to indigenise it over time. As of now, India is capable of making it fully in India, though it still allows Russia to provide engine/motor. But, that technology has been mastered by India already and the motor import is only a strategic thing, rather than capability deficit. The propulsion is dictated by guidance and hence the range can't be controlled by software change to RAMJET engine. It was supposed to have restrictions but the enforcement is opaque. Russia trusted India and hence gave technology without restrictions.
Irrespective of India's current capabilities, Brahmos propulsion (which includes fuel management etc) is provided by Russia - the software/hardware controlling the fuel flow can definitely restrict range (even if India knows how to override it, it normally wouldn't as it normally tries to adhere to the all its treaties/agreements)
"official wording" - those are the operative words (it doesn't matter what the intention behind those words were)!
Wrong! India gets ToT from several European countries!
No company will allow license productions of their products if it fears that India would steal their tech and not pay them royalties!!! OFB, BEML etc have been paying royalties to a ton of foreign companies for decades without violating the terms. That's why more companies are unafraid to transfer tech or setup shop in India!
First of all understand few things...........
Who said only ONE test has been performed for the extended range? Even the air-launched Brahmos has been tested for beyond 400kms range (to strike at sea based target!)
Brahmos was based on Russian Yahkont & P-800 Onik missile's base design - each of which do have 600+ kms range! What's so absurd about the idea of limiting the fuel as a quick way to satisfy the MTCR terms?
Total gibberish!!!!
The BrahMos missiles pre-MTCR membership had been hardcoded to nosedive post 300km range. That was there from the beginning. I can confirm this (bloody hell, this is public knowledge almost). Brahmos Aerospace always had the ability to remove this limitation as well. And we refrained until we joined MTCR.
India was not part of MTCR. So, there was no agreement at all. Russia was part of MTCR but it anyways gave India Brahmos and cryogenic engines. Duh!
India does not get highly critical technology from anyone except Russia. No matter what license fee is, the technology gained will cause losses to foreign players. It is not that Saudi Arabia will be able to buy license just because they will honour IPR.
Any source?
