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[not so dravidian]

The one with lattice fins is a strategic bomb

I will share something which I never did before

Last time DRDO used the term strategic bomb in its project defination long time ago - I found out it was for aircraft launched nuclear bomb

Now you decide

Personally I think it is for HDBTs with special purpose conventional warheads ( or few maybe with nuclear warheads as last resort )

Hdbt = hardened deeply buried target

Saar by the way is it tetrahedral SiC or hexagonal SiC??

 

[porky_kicker]

Saar by the way is it tetrahedral SiC or hexagonal SiC??

What Saar ? No Saar

Sic context ?

 

[not so dravidian]

What Saar ? No Saar

Sic context ?

The material of the penetrator and structure

 

[Lonewolf]

Saar by the way is it tetrahedral SiC or hexagonal SiC??

Tip for penetration ?

 

[porky_kicker]

Tip for penetration ?

Refer this @not so dravidian

Yeah that's correct

Point is you never target a HDBT at its strong points . You target it's weaknesses like blast doors , entryways , ingress / egress tunnels for personnel , maintenance and supply , air ducts , ventilation points , escalators vents , support systems like cooling system , ventilation system , power supply points etc etc.

Thats why intelligence driven ops are carried out to identify vulnerabilities in HDBTs .

You primarily use aerial assets or space based assets for that including HUMINT .

Topography , terrain analysis , geological analysis , stratigraphy analysis are the tools that help to find points of vulnerability where correct application of force can lead to over pressure in adjoining areas leading to cave in and collapse of underground caverns.

Military victory is not all about target kill , it involves mission kill too.

If I can render a HDBT like a WMD storage location inoperable by destroying it's exits points , then no WMD will be deployable from that location and thus render it useless.

It is interesting that India is researching diamond-SiC . Their only utility is very high deformation resistance coupled with very high hardness.

Only single crystal diamonds are known to outperform them in the same .

Even at high hypersonic impact , the diamond-SiC will not deform beyond acceptable level necessary for penetration through very thick basalt rock layers.


Anyways American Thor orbital bombardment system with KE penetrators is a good idea but thing is it will wipe out everything like cities etc in proximity to the underground target through high seismic upheavals.

 

[IndianHawk]

MKI cannot carry anything over 3 ton under its strongest central pylon. MKI ferrying over 5 ton missile on its central pylon can only happen in cartoons.

And yet that is the info that su30mki will launch air delivery munitions.

Perhaps the conclusion then is to bring air launch pralay wait under 3 tons .

 

[Lonewolf]

And yet that is the info that su30mki will launch air delivery munitions.

Perhaps the conclusion then is to bring air launch pralay wait under 3 tons .

Or there is no air launched pralay

 

[Lonewolf]

@porky_kicker didn't u posted earlier about a missile model under testing ,that looked like SMART but wasn't smart . Could it be that ?

 

[IndianHawk]

Or there is no air launched pralay

PKS has probably drawing of it . But I'm not logged in to his blog .

Besides for a true nuclear traid there must be air launched nuclear warheads. Bomb drops won't do in this century we need air launched nuclear missile.

 

[porky_kicker]

@porky_kicker didn't u posted earlier about a missile model under testing ,that looked like SMART but wasn't smart . Could it be that ?

That has tandem fins and booster , not seen here

 

[Dessert Storm]

Wait for more details about FUFA ji.

Some more details

 

[Lonewolf]

That has tandem fins and booster , not seen here

I meant for that air launched pralay rumor

 

[IndianHawk]

This is what I found in comment saction of trishul blog . Mods please delete it if any copyright issue arises.

Like its predecessor, the SS-150 Prithvi, the Pralay is NOT a ballistic missile, but a SS-BSM whose solid-propellant rocket remains in use the very end. And here is its air-launched version:

https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-80446777,width-1200,height-900,resizemode-4/.jpg

Both the SMART & Pralay use near-identical airframes & sub-systems. However, for terminal guidance, the Pralay will use an X-band monopulse radar, like this:

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BlSMOwF5pCA/WF7PEDJXyvI/AAAAAAAAMHg/nUyYb_lYUFI-8WO5njb1vr6pwy2Uw1izwCLcB/s1600/Nirbhay%2BLACM%2527s%2BX-band%2BSAR%2Bseeker.jpg

Hence, for terminal guidance, the seeker for BrahMos-1, Nirbhay & Pralay will be one & the same.

 

[SavageKing456]

Some more details

Clickbait thumbnail tho

 

[THESIS THORON]

@SavageKing456 the 6th gen fighter will be optionally manned or totally unmanned ??

 

[SwordOfDarkness]

Once IAF is done with SEAD/ DEAD Ops... The final step will be this Tungsten rod at >Mach 5-7 Speed on strategic underground bunkers for missiles and senior army officers. Instant conversion of 30-50 feet deep bunkers into graveyard.
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Nuclear silos would be perfect, no sympathetic detonation too.

 

[SwordOfDarkness]

MKI cannot carry anything over 3 ton under its strongest central pylon. MKI ferrying over 5 ton missile on its central pylon can only happen in cartoons.

Air launched variants are smaller than land based usually, might be possible.

 

[ladder]

Wait for more details about FUFA ji.

7th generation Tauji...

 

[SavageKing456]

@SavageKing456 the 6th gen fighter will be optionally manned or totally unmanned ??

First of all who said that FUFA ji is 6th gen?
Did I?
Seriously don't hype things up!
We just don't know what it is.
So cannot say ANYTHING related to that mate,I saw the tender so posted as it is.
But it's not ghatak/swift

 

[Lonewolf]

First of all who said that FUFA ji is 6th gen?
Did I?
Seriously don't hype things up!
We just don't know what it is.
So cannot say ANYTHING related to that mate,I saw the tender so posted as it is.
But it's not ghatak/swift

Iitk lot of research and check up on their aerospace faculty , and their project section to know what this is about