Brahmos with 800-km Range capable of striking deep inside China - Coming Soon

[WolfPack86]

Recently, the supersonic Brahmos Cruise Missile was successfully tested in India with an extended range of 450 kms from the current 290 km range. The new extended range missile achieved the same precision strike capability as its predecessor.

Minor hardware changes to carry more fuel and software updates allowed the missile to fly for a longer period, hence achieving an extended range. This could be done by India and Russia only after we became the latest member of the Missile Technology Control Regime in 2016.

The most anticipated Missile for India is definitely the Brahmos Hypersonic Missile that will probably fly at 5 to 6 times the speed of sound. Research and Development work on the Hypersonic version is currently underway at Brahmos Aerospace.

But before the Hypersonic Version, Brahmos Aerospace is getting ready to build a bigger, longer supersonic cruise missile which will have a range of 800 km. DRDO Chief S Christopher has confirmed the development of this missile and will be tested in 2019. The development of this missile is solely targeted towards China. This will help India bring major Chinese defence installations within firing range of the unstoppable Brahmos.

Once successfully tested, all Brahmos Missiles in Army's inventory will be upgraded to 800-km range. The missile will soon enter mass production on consecutive successful tests.

With India's MTCR Membership, all hurdles for the development of Brahmos-Next Generation Missiles are also cleared.
http://www.defencenews.in/article.aspx?id=251217

 

[Hari Sud]

A very informative journalistic type of article about Brahmos missile has been published in the American THE STRATEGY Page website.

Please read it here.
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htart/articles/20190927.aspx

 

[Dark Sorrow]

unstoppable Brahmos.

What is unstoppable Brahmos? Looks to me like creative journalism. Any thing can be intercepted. You just need powerful radars and powerful computers to give you firing solution. One doesn't need to chase Brahmos but just put another object (like missile or shell) in its flight path.

If ICBMs can be intercepted so can cruise missiles.

 

[Spindrift]

What is unstoppable Brahmos? Looks to me like creative journalism. Any thing can be intercepted. You just need powerful radars and powerful computers to give you firing solution. One doesn't need to chase Brahmos but just put another object (like missile or shell) in its flight path.

If ICBMs can be intercepted so can cruise missiles.

Couple of things that stand out, 1). Speed and 2) it's capability to perform a 'S-maneuver’ shortly before impact.
Also, it's ground or surface hugging so detecting it is bit difficult.

 

[Flying Dagger]

What is unstoppable Brahmos? Looks to me like creative journalism. Any thing can be intercepted. You just need powerful radars and powerful computers to give you firing solution. One doesn't need to chase Brahmos but just put another object (like missile or shell) in its flight path.

If ICBMs can be intercepted so can cruise missiles.

Ballistic missile should be easier to track compared to a cruise missile . But yes anything can be intercepted but chances of getting a hypersonic brahmos down would be pretty low with the tech available right now. Atleast porks can't

 

[Armand2REP]

Ballistic missile should be easier to track compared to a cruise missile .

Brahmos isn't exactly a cruise missile, it has a high-low flight profile where the cruise phase is at high altitude.

 

[asianobserve]

Couple of things that stand out, 1). Speed and 2) it's capability to perform a 'S-maneuver’ shortly before impact.
Also, it's ground or surface hugging so detecting it is bit difficult.

The Americans are busy practicing against supersonic maneuvering cruise missiles in the Brahmos class.

U.S. Navy conducted first East Coast launch of Coyote supersonic target

https://www.google.com/amp/s/defenc...t-launch-of-coyote-supersonic-target.html/amp

 

[asianobserve]

A video of the first test lunch of Coyote. Notice maneuver and flight height of the missile. I believe the video was from 2003 and since then Coyote has been further refined.

 

[Flying Dagger]

Brahmos isn't exactly a cruise missile, it has a high-low flight profile where the cruise phase is at high altitude.

Really what exactly it is ?

 

[Flying Dagger]

The Americans are busy practicing against supersonic maneuvering cruise missiles in the Brahmos class.

U.S. Navy conducted first East Coast launch of Coyote supersonic target

https://www.google.com/amp/s/defenc...t-launch-of-coyote-supersonic-target.html/amp

After all they are American .... Now they will be able to take down every brahmos from the sky like mosquitoes . Good for them.

 

[asianobserve]

After all they are American .... Now they will be able to take down every brahmos from the sky like mosquitoes . Good for them.

What it means is that there's no magic wand. Given enough resources and training any hightech weapon can be neutralized. What is needed is redundancy or layers in both offensive and defensive systems.

 

[Flying Dagger]

What it means is that there's no magic wand. Given enough resources and training any hightech weapon can be neutralized. What is needed is redundancy or layers in both offensive and defensive systems.

Hmm and the mighty USA system with ample resources and so much practice could not defend Saudi.

 

[Dark Sorrow]

Hmm and the mighty USA system with ample resources and so much practice could not defend Saudi.

I couldn't understand the relevance here? It's Saudi who is fighting war in Yemen not US.

 

[Dark Sorrow]

Ballistic missile should be easier to track compared to a cruise missile . But yes anything can be intercepted but chances of getting a hypersonic brahmos down would be pretty low with the tech available right now. Atleast porks can't

Brahmos is not a terrain hugging missile. If it has to achieve close to max. range it has to follow high-low path with most of its flight path taking place in altitude. This is where Brahmos can be intercepted.

 

[asianobserve]

Hmm and the mighty USA system with ample resources and so much practice could not defend Saudi.

It was the Saudis defending themselves incompetently. The US are defending US assets only. In fact, US military advisers in Saudi keep complaining about Saudi incompetence.

But even the US cannot defend itself all the time. Again, given enough planning, unconventional tactics and luck even irregular forces can defeat US assets (at least once).

 

[Armand2REP]

Really what exactly it is ?

In regards to its observability compared to a ballistic missile during mid-course flight it is not much different. They are both flying high. As opposed to a terrain hugging cruise missile that is virtually invisible to ground based radar in all phases of flight.

 

[Dark Sorrow]

Couple of things that stand out, 1). Speed and 2) it's capability to perform a 'S-maneuver’ shortly before impact.
Also, it's ground or surface hugging so detecting it is bit difficult.

1. As earlier said by me, one doesn't need to chase Brahmos but just put another object (like missile or shell) in its flight path. Modern radar won't have problem tracking missile just because it is fast. Lets not forget the massive heat signature from the missile during its flight path.
2. 'S-maneuver’ tends to reduce speed of missile or make missile inaccurate if you maintain speed. What about interception of missile in its flight mode hen it is at altitude?

 

[Armand2REP]

It was the Saudis defending themselves incompetently. The US are defending US assets only. In fact, US military advisers in Saudi keep complaining about Saudi incompetence.

But even the US cannot defend itself all the time. Again, given enough planning, unconventional tactics and luck even irregular forces can defeat US assets (at least once).

It is suspected that it was an Iranian cruise missile that hit the oil refinery. For that a Patriot or THAAD defence is not going to detect it. The Saudis have a serious lack of short range defence around their strategic infrastructure and they paid the price.

 

[asianobserve]

It is suspected that it was an Iranian cruise missile that hit the oil refinery. For that a Patriot or THAAD defence is not going to detect it. The Saudis have a serious lack of short range defence around their strategic infrastructure and they paid the price.

More than hardware, i think its their military organization, competence and willingness to fight that is lacking. Most Saudis are spoiled, lazy and morally hypocritical brats.

 

[Armand2REP]

More than hardware, i think its their military organization, competence and willingness to fight that is lacking. Most Saudis are spoiled, lazy and morally hypocritical brats.

They have no problem shooting at things they can see. When the PAC-3 can't detect cruise missiles it is a failing of the system and not the soldier. Hopefully SKA will order VL Mica so they can protect their assets from this new threat.