DRDO to develop anti-radiation missile

[Bheeshma]

Let them first make a decent AAM in the category of RVV-AE or AIM-120D, the PL-21 garbage will be lucky if it is effective at 40 km.

 

[DivineHeretic]

Are they lost their mind? Seriously - will be a single-stage, liquid-propelled system
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If they want 100km range antiradiation missle? They can tweak the astra 150km version by increasing the warhead wt and replacing active radar.

Astra is an A2A missile designed to take down aircrafts. The payload is not large enough to knock out a radar with certainity, and no matter how much one attempts to modify them, it would still not be able to carry an effective amount of munition without severely compromising its flight characteristics.

 

[DivineHeretic]

do you want me to believe that this tiny missile has a range of 450km?

Just be honest, does it matter if its range is 450 or 250km? For the anti pak awacs role, even 200km is a good enough. You should know the width of Pak never exceeds 400km. And an Awacs 200-300km away from the battle front is as good as the biggest gun kept in storage.
The Novator is a sort of area denial weapon against Awacs, and whether its accuracy is 80% or30%, an Awacs would be hard pressed to maintain its position if the face of this missile.

 

[sasi]

Astra is an A2A missile designed to take down aircrafts. The payload is not large enough to knock out a radar with certainity, and no matter how much one attempts to modify them, it would still not be able to carry an effective amount of munition without severely compromising its flight characteristics.

Even we can accept that. But,liquid-propelled system?

 

[DivineHeretic]

Even we can accept that. But,liquid-propelled system?

DRDO is not exactly cutting edge when it comes to munitions production. Maybe they figured that liquid propelled system would be easier and faster to develop, because I doubt there is any justification as far as performance is concerned.

 

[sasi]

DRDO is not exactly cutting edge when it comes to munitions production. Maybe they figured that liquid propelled system would be easier and faster to develop, because I doubt there is any justification as far as performance is concerned.

I don't think so. Most of our missles are solid propelled!

 

[From Realm of D&T]

misinfo to fool enemy

I guess there is misinformation campaign being carried out by GOI, intended to spread wrong information about several DRDO made platforms and Weapons.

Just look at the news in The Hindu that Agni 6 is under development and on other hand Avinash Chander denies that there is any project called Agni 6.

 

[jmj_overlord]

I guess there is misinformation campaign being carried out by GOI, intended to spread wrong information about several DRDO made platforms and Weapons.

Just look at the news in The Hindu that Agni 6 is under development and on other hand Avinash Chander denies that there is any project called Agni 6.

maybe the DRDO and other such agencies are trying to keep such matters secret, while GOI is boasting they have this and that to scare off the enemies...

 

[Twinblade]

Saurav Jha: What is the status of the anti-radiation missile and the long range anti-ship missile?

Avinash Chander: For the anti-radiation missile design is in progress, in fact hardware is being readied for the first trials. We expect successful trials of this ARM from an aircraft in about the next three years.

Saurav Jha's Blog : Interview with Dr Avinash Chander, DRDO Chief and Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister

Last year a certain missile was seen undergoing testing at NAL. This might possibly be the anti radiation missile (either that or the Air Launched Article).

 

[Twinblade]

The program is named NGARM

SauravJha: Dr Reddy, the recently unveiled missile autonomy mission will see the development of tactical missiles that would clearly need seekers for the end game. In that context would you tell us more about the radio frequency (RF) seeker technology being developed here in RCI?

Satheesh Reddy: On the RF seeker front, we have quite a few developments taking place. We have developed a millimeter wave (MMW) seeker that is being produced by private industry. This MMW seeker is capable of both lock-on-after-launch(LOAL) and lock-on-before-launch(LOBL) configurations.

SauravJha: What is the MMW seeker meant for?

Satheesh Reddy: It is meant for PGMs and for the next generation anti-radiation missile (NGARM).

Saurav Jha's Blog : Seeking the future: An interview with Dr G Satheesh Reddy, Director Research Centre Imarat

 

[Prashant12]

New Generation Anti-Radiation Missile (NGARM): DRDO is involved in the design and development of NGARM. AKU-58 launcher after suitable modification will be used for missile integration on Su-30 MKI aircraft. During the year, captive flight trials (CFT-1) sorties were carried out at AF Station, Pune with Su-30 MKI aircraft.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx

 

[SajeevJino]

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AKU 58 launcher ..looks like the BGARM is somewhat modified Kh 58 missile or else identical to Kh 58

below picture, Kh 58 on a AKU 58 launcher

hope @Twinblade also say something

 

[HariPrasad-1]

Let them first make a decent AAM in the category of RVV-AE or AIM-120D, the PL-21 garbage will be lucky if it is effective at 40 km.

Air to air missile is done now.

 

[SajeevJino]

Air to air missile is done now.

still we using the Russian seeker on our astra

 

[airtel]

still we using the Russian seeker on our astra

http://www.dailypioneer.com/todays-newspaper/seeker-to-revolutionise-indian-defence.html

 

[HariPrasad-1]

still we using the Russian seeker on our astra

So what,.........................?

 

[Prashant12]

A Closer Look At DRDO’s New Generation Anti-Radiation Missile


With the Indian Air force (IAF) looking to seriously enhance its standoff strike capabilities, there is a newfound emphasis on the creation of air to surface missiles (ASMs) for varying roles by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO). If we keep aside the air-launched version of the Indo-Russian Brahmos, the most advanced indigenous ASM in terms of development is the so called New Generation Anti-Radiation Missile (NGARM) being developed by DRDO’s Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), which is India’s oldest missile laboratory. As its name suggests, NGARM is meant to be used to engage enemy radar sites and communications nodes emitting at radio frequencies (RF) with precision. It would be worthwhile to take a brief look at this system which was showcased in a video released by the IAF on the occasion of its 85th anniversary in 2017.


Passive Homing
NGARM was sanctioned for development in 2012 at a cost of Rs 317.20 crores with a project completion date (PDC) of December 2017. However, that PDC has been extended according to DRDO sources and developmental trials are still underway. Like most other anti-radiation missiles (ARMs), NGARM’s primary guidance system is an on-board passive homing head (PHH) with broadband capability, which allows it to discriminate and lock on to a target of interest among a number of emitters available in its field-of-view (FoV).

Image 1: Location of the PHH on NGARM. Source: DLRL




This 2-D PHH has been developed by DRDO’s Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DLRL) and can detect RF emissions from up to a 100 km away. DLRL’s PHH operates in the D-J frequency band and has a wider FoV than legacy PHH’s used on imported systems. It also has a compact front-end owing to the use of monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology.

Image 2: Low Band and High Band elements of the PHH. Source: DLRL



The PHH of course comes into play when the target is actually emitting. In legacy systems, a memory based autopilot using purely inertial guidance would typically keep the missile on an intercept trajectory towards the last known location of an emitter as detected by the PHH, once the target had stopped emitting. The actual success rate of such systems against relocatable emitters as well as those that were manned by well-trained crews maintaining strict discipline with respect to the duration of emission was very low. It was only with the advent of on-board inertial navigation system (INS) that could use updates from a global positioning system (GPS) to remove accumulated errors, that the success rate of ARMs showed significant improvement. NGARM, of course, has an on-board INS that can receive multi-constellation updates.



End-game


But what promises to make NGARM a truly contemporary system, is the fact that it can also be equipped with a millimeter wave (MMW) seeker which likely operates in the W- band for the endgame. This is very much in keeping with Western trends towards the use of terminal guidance on ARMs to counter emitter shutdowns. MMW-based terminal guidance means that by simply shutting down their radars quickly or by changing position and/or using decoys, enemy operators do not ensure survivability of their systems. A good MMW seeker head should be able to discriminate between decoys and actual targets and also locate emitters that have packed up and are on the move within an arc of a few km.


To make the fullest use of its terminal homing capability, NGARM is propelled by a dual-pulse solid rocket motor built by Premier Explosives Limited (PEL) under transfer of technology from DRDO’s High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), that allows it to strike targets between 15 to 100 kilometres (km) away and can be launched from a Su-30 MKI flying at altitudes of 0.1 to 15 km. The missile is capable of operating in both lock-on-before-launch (LOBL) and lock-on-after-launch (LOAL) modes.



The dual-pulse propulsion (DPP) scheme is an outgrowth of the work done by DRDO’s missile complex and Premier Electronics Limited (PEL) for the long range surface to air missile (LRSAM) project, which is the first system for which DRDO has fielded a DPP motor. For NGARM, a DPP motor will allow it to reduce the reaction time that enemy mobile radars will have once they have been targeted during the close-in stage. Indeed, the combination of MMW-based terminal guidance and the DPP scheme certainly holds the potential for NGARM to become a truly lethal system for enemy radars.

Representative Image: Dual Pulse Propulsion Scheme For the LRSAM. Source: HEMRL



The imaging capability of its seeker will also help NGARM attack the most vulnerable parts of radar systems such as the antenna etc, by using the target’s characteristics available on the database of the missile’s on-board processor (OBP).The fact that NGARM uses a laser proximity fuze (LPF) for detonating its warhead (which is specifically designed to attack key radar parts) is also indicative of a desire to fully exploit the imaging capability of its terminal guidance scheme to accurately target the most vulnerable parts of an enemy emitter.




Status
Some earlier reports suggesting that the IAF was concerned about the weight of NGARM as compared to imported systems and was therefore not too keen on it, have proved to be unfounded. NGARM has successfully cleared both captive flight trials (CFTs) as well drop flight trials (DFTs) from Station 8 of an IAF Su-30 MKI whose AKU-58 launcher was modified to receive the NGARM. Here are clippings from those trials as shown on the IAF’s 85th Anniversary Video:

Source: IAF

The first lot of CFTs, held in May 2016, were done with the objective of ‘proving mechanical integration aspects of the missile to SU-30MkI for the carriage envelop conditions’. According to DRDO, ‘The post flight data analysis has shown that all the structural design parameters were within the predicted bounds and based on the results, NGARM is cleared for carriage conditions at station 8 on Su-30MKI’. Moreover, the DFT conducted during December 2016, from Air Force Station Kalaikunda proved that NGARM could be safely released from Station 8 of an Su-30 MKI. This DFT saw NGARM being released from a Su-30 MKI flying at an altitude of 6.5 km and a speed of 0.8 Mach. As on date, NGARM is also being qualified for carriage and subsequent separation release with Station numbers 5,6 and 7 on two Su-30 MKI being used for this purpose.


Though it is primarily meant for carriage by the IAF’s Su-30 MKI, the missile will also be compatible with the Mirage 2000 TI and Jaguar. As far as the missile itself is concerned, laboratory test trials with NGARM’s radome for selected frequencies have been completed and the static firing of its rocket motors at sea-level conditions has also been done. As such, NGARM is headed for powered flight trials later this year once all residual CFTs and DFTs are complete.

http://www.delhidefencereview.com/2...-drdos-new-generation-anti-radiation-missile/