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[NutCracker]

Buzz in sm
Specially by alpha defence is that
Brahmos aerospace gonna modify a brahmos...
For a sam test by navy
Brahmos will be used as a target
So it will be mrsam vs brahmos

Yousuf Unjhawala said on Chawda's podcast that we rely on Russia for the engines of Brahmos. How true is that.
Other member can also provide info.

 

[Chinmoy]

Yousuf Unjhawala said on Chawda's podcast that we rely on Russia for the engines of Brahmos. How true is that.
Other member can also provide info.

Absolutely true. We use Russian engine in Brahmos. Even fuel.

 

[NutCracker]

Absolutely true. We use Russian engine in Brahmos. Even fuel.

So our production capacity bottleneck is how many engines Russia can provide, currently situation might be more dire.

So many decades of JV yet we are not self reliant on critical tech.
Ab to Mal(n)ik hi sahara hai . At least subsonics missiles will be ours.

 

[Chinmoy]

So our production capacity bottleneck is how many engines Russia can provide, currently situation might be more dire.

So many decades of JV yet we are not self reliant on critical tech.
Ab to Manik hi sahara hai .

We do manufacture the engine components in India. If we would go on and stat using our own engine in Brahmos, where is the meaning of JV?

 

[NutCracker]

We do manufacture the engine components in India. If we would go on and stat using our own engine in Brahmos, where is the meaning of JV?

Question was slightly ambiguous "who makes Brahmos propulsion" . Y.U. said "Russia".

It's good if engine components are made in India.

 

[Chinmoy]

Question was slightly ambiguous "who makes Brahmos propulsion" . Y.U. said "Russia".

It's good if engine components are made in India.

Yes. Its just like the Al-31 engine. The components used in the engine are sourced from Russia and the engine is Russian tech. As I said, even the fuel used is sourced from Russia.

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

We do manufacture the engine components in India. If we would go on and stat using our own engine in Brahmos, where is the meaning of JV?

I just want to know it something happens tomorrow and we are no longer in contact with Russia can we still use brahmos?

 

[AnantS]

Yes. Its just like the Al-31 engine. The components used in the engine are sourced from Russia and the engine is Russian tech. As I said, even the fuel used is sourced from Russia.

Also we dont have a working scramjet as of yet of our own to be placed in cruise missile. Our own Scramjet Ramjet projects are work i progress I think. (I am not counting Akash and ASTRA MK3)

 

[Chinmoy]

I just want to know it something happens tomorrow and we are no longer in contact with Russia can we still use brahmos?

You mean in case of a diplomatic failure??

 

[Chinmoy]

Also we dont have a working scramjet as of yet of our own to be placed in cruise missile. Our own Scramjet projects are work i progress I think. (I am not counting Akash and ASTRA MK3)

We do have a working SCRAMJET.

 

[AnantS]

We do have a working SCRAMJET.

Sorry for typo. I meant Ramjet. Any news on STAR missile status which was being developed?

 

[raju1982]

So our production capacity bottleneck is how many engines Russia can provide, currently situation might be more dire.

So many decades of JV yet we are not self reliant on critical tech.
Ab to Mal(n)ik hi sahara hai . At least subsonics missiles will be ours.

Brahmos is now 75% indigenous. 100% is not possible as its a JV with Russia. Some of the works must go to them.

BrahMos missile project has achieved 75% indigenous capability: Atul Dinkar Rane

Rane said that when BrahMos launched their first missile in 2004, they had only 13 percent of indigenous components inside, but in the next 25 years, it increased to 75 per cent

www.thehindubusinessline.com

That is the reason DRDO working on LFRJ and few others like Scramjet.

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

You mean in case of a diplomatic failure??

Yes I mean what happens with it then?

 

[Chinmoy]

Sorry for typo. I meant Ramjet. Any news on STAR missile status which was being developed?

Then you should say Liquid RAMJET engine. You already mentioned that you are not talking about Akash which uses a RAMJET engine.

LFRJ for STAR is already completed as per DRDO.

 

[Chinmoy]

Yes I mean what happens with it then?

Then there would be no JV and hence no BRAHMOS. It would exists by some other name.

 

[Blademaster]

Then there would be no JV and hence no BRAHMOS. It would exists by some other name.

Enough with the wordplay. Will India have that capability to produce brahmos type missiles including engine and fuel if all collaboration with Russia were to stop?

 

[standard snowball]

Enough with the wordplay. Will India have that capability to produce brahmos type missiles including engine and fuel if all collaboration with Russia were to stop?

Short Answer No

Long Answer We don't know, while it's true that the Engine is Russian, it is not known whether it is manufactured in Russia or in India with Indian materials or we do a CKD assembly of the engine from imported Russian parts

 

[Chinmoy]

Enough with the wordplay. Will India have that capability to produce brahmos type missiles including engine and fuel if all collaboration with Russia were to stop?

Always remember, you don't make something because you can make it.

 

[Fatalis]

 

[Fatalis]