Information on all Indian air launched guided and unguided weapons

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This thread will contain information and related sources on all air launched guided and unguided weapons developed in India.

These include
1. Dumb bombs
2. Guided bombs
3. PGMs
4. Air launched missiles
5. Air launched aeroballistic missiles
Etc

List of unguided bombs

1.100-120 kg Prefragmented Bomb
2. 250 kg Prefragmented Bomb

3. 250 kg High Speed Low Drag (HSLD) Bomb
4. 450 kg High Speed Low Drag (HSLD) Bomb

5. 500 kg Preformed Fragmentation (PF) Bomb
6. 500 kg General Purpose (GP) Bomb

7. 500 kg Fuel Air Explosive (FAE) bomb

List of unguided rockets

8. 68mm Arrow Rocket HC (Hollow Charge)
9. 68mm Arrow Rocket HE (High Explosive)

List of guided bombs

10. 450 kg HSLD Bomb With Griffin Laser Guided Kit

11. 500 kg Gautham Long Range Glide Bomb

12. 1000 kg Gaurav Long Range Glide Bomb

13. 500 kg Precision Guided High Speed Low Drag Bomb (PGHSLD)

14. Smart Anti Airfield Weapon ( SAAW )

List of air to air missiles

15. Astra MK1 RF
16. Astra MK1 IR

17. Astra MK2

18. Astra MK3

19. Brahmos Anti-AWACS

List of air to ground missiles

20. RudraM-1
21. RudraM-2
22. RudraM-3

23. Brahmos Air Launched

24. ALCM

25. NASM-SR
 
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Astra Mk1 RF

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Astra Mk1 is DRDOs first beyond visual range air to air missile. It is designed to engage and destroy highly maneuvering and supersonic air targets.

Features :

1. Highly agile aerodynamic configuration
2. All weather capability
3. Advanced ECCM to tackle hostile jamming
4. Smokeless single stage solid fuel propulsion system
5. High explosive pre-fragmented aimable warhead
6. Radar proximity fuze
7. Digital data communication through MIL-STD 1553 bus
8. Rail launcher with swift release
9. Slaving of seeker with IRST / HMDS
10. Off bore sight launch +45° to -45°

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Missile speed : 4.5+ Mach
Carriage envelope : sea level to 20 km altitude at speed of upto 2.5 Mach
Target envelope : sea level to 25 km altitude at speed of upto 2.5 Mach
SSKP ( single shot kill probability ) : 0.9
Flight duration : 100 - 200 seconds
Range : 120 km
Lateral acceleration : upto 40G in pitch and yaw
Target acceleration : upto 9G maneuvering targets
Launch modes : LOBL and LOAL
Engagement modes : autonomous and buddy mode ( cooperative )

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Guidance

1. FOG ( fibre optic gyro ) based inertial navigation system
2. Mid course update using secure data link
3. Active radar homing ( Ku band )

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Dimensions

Length : 3840 mm
Diameter : 178 mm
Weight: 170 kg

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