More phots of the Gaurav from the Adani plant:
Notice that cylindrical hole in the bulkhead? This tandem charge warhead goes in there:
In tests this warhead has managed to cut through more than 3 meters of RCC.
55 kg pre-fragmented warhead of Rudram 1:
The launcher is critical, Dhruvastra project had mention of launcher mkII last year. Maybe its due to weight, after trial might need to reduce total weight again. Vikram VT21 also has a nag variant to be installed. So three could be more proto nos.
Nice to see this line may be still active, eveen if the whole thing is being re-worked and upgraded as a new one.
The Pralays that are on order should be rolling off the same line, right? Same weapon essentially, just without the nose cap and cannister?
Same airframe design of course won't mean that both have similar form factor. The rocket motor can be different, both propellant burn rate and grain geometry wise. Pralay is 9 meters long and yet its range , reach etc is far understated, maybe restricted intentionally compared to Sagarika?
Shhhh.......aurya
Pralay doesn't have the stage 1 booster. This is something else
The Pralay is being positioned as a replacement for Prithvi and eventually A1.
Except it reportedly has an ARH seeker for AShM capability. Our answer to Amriki PrSM. Range quoted publicly is 500km.
We have the A1P for longer range targets.
Except it reportedly has an ARH seeker for AShM capability. Our answer to Amriki PrSM. Range quoted publicly is 500km.
We have the A1P for longer range targets.
Finally ARDE is about to start work on the ramjet 155mm shells , indicating theory part is complete with IITM help perhaps.
EDIT: Its actually an existing contract ie work ongoing for a year at least, proto and all.
EDIT: Its actually an existing contract ie work ongoing for a year at least, proto and all.
Some wind tunnel work is being done for the SAAW. New version incoming?
EO-SAAW was already being made with the IIR seeker shown in defexpo, will there be a larger variant ? surely a 250kg class or greater makes sense compared to the existing one?
Old pics of canister testing by ASL for the sagarika class system, both ground and sub surface ones developed from this.
