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This is from 2022.Anti-tank missile Helina fired from ALH at a high altitude
According to DRDO, the Helina system has all-weather day and night capability, and can knock out enemy tanks with conventional and explosive reactive armour. | India News
My apologies Ashwin, it seem my annotations/comments did not go through with the post. I kept running into some error when editing. I had wanted to tie this with the recent post from HAL and was pondering about what happened to this after testing it. There has been little news since 2022/23. There was a notification for trial completion that was published. However, I am curious to know how many actually made it into production.
probably old news, the fabrication he is talking about has prolly been going on since 2023-24 ever since they conducted the 400s test to validate the scramjet.
The new commercial for ROCKS. Places emphasis on Penetration capability and GPS Independence.
R37m is for slow moving targets like awacs and refuellers. Gandiva is for fighter sized targets.
Doubtful, because both use way different propulsion setups.
No.
R 37M is more than capable of intercepting all type of maneuvering fighter jet currently in service anywhere in the world not just slow moving targets like AWACS & refuellers. No need to look far, Ukrainian fighter jet are getting knocked out of the sky by R 37 on monthly basis.
Agree that it can intercept all type, but effective ranges vary by targets & Ukrainian fighter jets that were shot down were unaware( no rwr, maws) ingressing targets.
R-37M, launched by Mig-31BM, Su-35 & Su-30SM2 have literally reigned havoc on Ukrainian Air Force fighter jets, knocking them out of sky from more than 200kms and this not only included old fighters like Su-27 or Mig-29 with archaic RWR but also modern fighters like F-16AM MLU that have very good EW.
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Correct clarification would be shot down some, and force others to go on defensive, in many cases abandoning the mission.
& that's the whole purpose of such long range missiles. A single SU 30 armed with 8 R-37 can cause whole enemy strike package to run for cover..... a basic simple fact to difficult for IAF joker leadership to understand.
Reported fighter jets shown down by r-37m are mig29,su27,su25.
Eh, the R-37Ms are still, as the others have said, capable of shooting down fighter sized targets at nearly the same range with one report of a Ukrainian Su-27 having been hit stating that it was fired at a distance of ~220km. The 37M, while optimised for HVTs, can hit a target maneuvering at 8G well past 250km according to its official data. Still, Gandiva is undoubtedly the super missile kinematically, due to the SDR giving it a massive NEZ (its effective range will not be 250km, it will likely be ~300 or more due to this fact) and insane energy + velocity at impact, but the R-37M does cut into its role partially. This is where my initial concern comes into play. Both missiles will be used to attack HVTs, and that's where my concern of the IAF possibly putting the order of the Gandiva on the back burner comes from should the 37M enter service, since the R-37M will force the opponent's aerial assets to fly even further out, thus making induction of the Gandiva slightly lower on the priority list (assuming the worst shines of the classic lethargic acquisition approach).
