Nirbhay Family of Subsonic Cruise Missiles : News and Discussions
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The fact that our indigenous all-weather turbofan engine (Manik) is now in flying perfectly is a positive development.
The engine was almost flawless itself ie working condition wise. The failed test where th missile fell off in the sea, there was a problem with the liner so the engine ignition did not start hence right after booster burnout the article fell down in the sea. Some defect which for the QT batch was not spotted, had that been the acceptance testing sample it would have been spotted and sent for fixing/rejected. From the video today its quite clear to imagine what had happened in that failed test case, you can construct the days event bit by bit easily.
LRLACM arde order for the pcb assy which Ameya precision engg got order for is also set to be completed by April 2024. Its probably already delivered as dev orders are completed much ahead of time 1-2 months at least. So overall there is good progress.
LRLACM arde order for the pcb assy which Ameya precision engg got order for is also set to be completed by April 2024. Its probably already delivered as dev orders are completed much ahead of time 1-2 months at least. So overall there is good progress.
Another urgent development of a stealth cruise missile like Storm Shadow/Scalp is required. I hope DRDO is working seriously on this.
It was antiship which due to its ability , our forces adopted to land attack/multi use precision strike version. Now while this is practical approach ie more mission-centric where the success of mission is paramount compared to saturation strike, cruise missile like this can still not provide the large punch that a BM delivers to a much longer range.
As it is already said, anything that flies over 500km goes straight under SFC garb with nuke tag which is kinda irritating if you are a theater level commander as options are severely restricted. Only recently, like in last 2 decades , did the armed forces started to seriously consider a subsonic payload delivery option. Various reasons for that, chiefly being almost certainly GPS being blocked and lack of anything substantial enabling tech (like TERCOM, waypoint nav, algo writing, mission command structure etc even ignoring the engine) that would enable high success rate mission rate. Plus the Govt always had very defensive mindset with weapons which still persists somewhat imo.
Our warfare will never mirror to what the big powers do, or how very high tech war fighting is done in other battlefields. It will be mission specific , smaller scale mostly.
Per BDL production opportunity not before FY 2027-28 , that is if the project is not closed due to not meeting deadline (by June 2025).
Few days ago there was news of DRDO given approval for our desi Storm Shadow equivalent:
https://******/threads/india-to-boo...ble-air-launched-cruise-missile-project.5547/
Its ID-RW article without references. Please avoid those.
Good work by Midhani
MIDHANI is proud to be associated with development of long range subsonic indigenously developed cruise missile” by DRDO. All critical materials were developed in mission mode. I also thank QA agencies and GTRE team for supporting us. Big moment for nation.
MIDHANI is proud to be associated with development of long range subsonic indigenously developed cruise missile” by DRDO. All critical materials were developed in mission mode. I also thank QA agencies and GTRE team for supporting us. Big moment for nation.