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[Bajirao]

If pde become a success story then ramjet will become obsolute for cruise missile usage.pde wil have speed of ramjet and range of turbofan ..but,i think maturing pde tech may take 1-2 decade more

 

[Bajirao]

Tbrl is in chandigarh..is headed a punjabi guy from long time...it is in his ambitious move tbrl ventured into engine design on the principle of detonation..otherwise this lab mainly works on warhead detonation on terminal stage..

 

[tsunami]

Do we have any 200-250 km range MBRL system in development?

 

[Bajirao]

Do we have any 200-250 km range MBRL system in development?

In that range we have prahar/pranash tactical ballistic missile in devolopment

 

[Karthi]

Do we have any 200-250 km range MBRL system in development?

Pinaka MK 3 with 100-120 Km to replace Smerch under development , Payload 250 Kg no country has Rocket Launchers Greater than 120-150 Km Range .

 

[Bajirao]

Do we have any 200-250 km range MBRL system in development?

Our next mbrl will be in 100-120 km range

 

[Holy Triad]

Laser Science & Technology Centre (LASTEC), a
@DRDO_India
lab along with New Age Instruments and Materials Pvt Ltd has developed a UV disinfection tower for rapid and chemical free disinfection of high infection prone areas.
@akananth
1/2

 

[Holy Triad]

Bit OT,


I hope government follow through it,


After literally years of delay in placing actual orders, the Ministry of Defence is now apparently "contemplating" using the 'savings' from deferred import payments to 'fast-track' procurement of indigenous systems. Hah!





Savings from delayed foreign deals to push indigenous projects
Source said that foreign equipment manufacturers are being approached to understand which programmes are likely to see delayed deliveries and the way forward would be to defer payments for late deliveries, without invoking the penalty clause.



The defence ministry has initiated a process to identify potential savings that can be made this year due to delays in production orders placed on foreign companies and could channel some of the resources to fast-track indigenous programmes that hold the key to sustaining local industry.

Source said that foreign equipment manufacturers are being approached to understand which programmes are likely to see delayed deliveries and the way forward would be to defer payments for late deliveries, without invoking the penalty clause.


Once the exercise is complete, the ministry would be able to understand how much of its committed liability payments could be freed up this year and could be channelised for Make in India projects.

Several large ongoing programmes consume 90% of the defence capital budget, including the Rafale fighter jet deal, which is likely to see delayed deliveries by three to six months. With these large payments likely to be deferred, there is fresh focus on seven Make in India programmes that are in the final stages of signing and have the potential of sustaining more than 2,000 defence manufacturing units and MSMEs.

The largest of these is the Rs 39,000 crore order for 83 Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) that is currently awaiting a nod from the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS).


The order for seven squadrons of Akash air defence missiles worth over Rs 6,000 crore is also in the final stages and could be fast tracked to be signed this year.

The third project that could be fast-tracked is the order for six regiments of Pinaka Multi Barrel Rocket Launchers (MBRL) that has been pending since 2017.


On the shipbuilding front, four big projects hold the key to private sector yards making it out of the Covid-19 crisis. These include the order for eight Fast Patrol Vessels

While combined, these programmes are worth much more than the capital budget, kick-starting them would require only a 10% advance payment that could be channelised from savings made from foreign payments.

Savings from delayed foreign deals to push indigenous projects - The Economic Times

New Delhi: The defence ministry has initiated a process to identify potential savings that can be made this year due to delays in production orders placed on fo

m.economictimes.com

 

[Prashant12]

Savings from delayed foreign deals to push indigenous projects

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

 

[Suryavanshi]

Although very relevant and intriguing discussion, this is a bit off topic.
I think loc and IB will be the correct thread for this.
@ezsasa

 

[BangaliBabu]

WELL, there were some reports on an initial "failure" of India's ASAT test (the PDV Mk2) in Feb. which many assumed to be right based on some American data of that test. Looks like DRDO actually successfully tested their own terminal IIR seeker and didn't bother to report it until someone fact-checked now. Check out external forum (Strategic Frontier), they have jotted down the sketchy details today.........or check out this directly http://nitmeghalaya.in/convo2019/profile_cg.html

 

[sthf]

Okay what happened here?

 

[Karthi]

You can't disable a airbase for long time using non-nuclear missiles,you have to continuasly attack those bases to disable for long time,which is only possible by air operation using cheaper and small munation like saaw ,there is no shortcut...for saving fighterjets from missiles you have to use of infrastructure engineering and proper tactics (getting early warning when those long range missiles are coming and distributing jets among multiple airfield or, underground bunkers etc..)....that's why despite china having huge stock of deployed missiles iaf is quite relax but that's not mean that their is no threat to our airbases from missiles ,there is but not as gamechanger as china wants to make us belive..after s-400 and xrsam coming this type of threat will be more negligible..

Yes bro , this is where the capabilities of Industry and Indigenous products came into play they can mass produce Missiles in a short span of time . This why I am arguing @Steven Rogers and others at ORCA thread , China can mass produce Weapons Five time faster than us .

 

[ezsasa]

@Karthi @Craigs You can have your China LAC discussion at this dedicated thread..

India China LAC & International Border Discussions

Pinaka MK 3 with 100-120 Km to replace Smerch under development , Payload 250 Kg no country has Rocket Launchers Greater than 120-150 Km Range . I was going through below link and found many long range Chinese rocket systems...

defenceforumindia.com

 

[ezsasa]

Although very relevant and intriguing discussion, this is a bit off topic.
I think loc and IB will be the correct thread for this.
@ezsasa

Done...

 

[no smoking]

Rocket launchers are less precise especially in areas like Himalayas .

This kind of weapon is arming to cover large area target, such as military base, logistic center, armor group, etc, etc. The strengths are: fast, cheap, large area covering. Accuracy is not top priority.

If you miss the target you are inviting massive counter strike from Enemy

Well, that is the issue for any artillery regiment. Oh, we should say that is the issue for any short range weapon including cruise missile and ballistic missile.

so precious weapons like Brahmos is more suitable in these scenario

Brahmos is not the answer for everything. It is precious, so it is expensive. It is a big waste to use Brahmos for those low value targets. That is why even US/Russia/China have supersonic anti-ship missile for quite long time, but they still developed long range rocket artilleries over 200km. Different weapon for different scenario.

 

[no smoking]

no country has Rocket Launchers Greater than 120-150 Km Range .

US - M142 maxi 300km
Russia - Uragan-1M >200km
China - WS-2 >200km

 

[bhramos]

CL20?
Pune Based DRDO Lab Makes Most Powerful Conventional Explosive
https:/ /pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=67872

thank you mate.......

 

[Karthi]

US - M142 maxi 300km
Russia - Uragan-1M >200km
China - WS-2 >200km

Don't know how I missed HIMARS WS2 is highly inaccurate , Less than 3 percentage of Maximum range . They improved it but still very inaccurate

 

[Bajirao]

US - M142 maxi 300km
Russia - Uragan-1M >200km
China - WS-2 >200km

Uragan range is 70 km. M142 rocket range 70 km....it's become 300 km when the luncher use atacms missile... Ws-2 is 400 mm rocket weight 1.3 ton same as our prahar