Bharat Rakshak

I read a 2005 report from somewhere where Dada said that we wouldn't be using Green Pine for our homegrown ABM. If that's true, then we must've developed a new radar specifically for this purpose.

Interceptor apart, I am thinking about the positive implications this has on Prithvi's own guidance control. What percentage of the CEP # is attributable to the guidance error bars in the boost phase itself/less than 60km altitude. Or does all of the CEP accumulate after that.

I want to say, we are not in pressurised position like US to prove something to their gov/pub/ etc...with a dummy test.

To my knowledge, they used the radars to search, detect, track and guide.

Kanson,

The dummy test is the baseline.

Whoever comes in and says India you should buy our ABM stuff has to show his wares are atleast this good in a dummy test. If they can't we are not buying.

Radar was used to verify not to guide.

We don't have what it takes to detect. We don't have what we need to see what we need to see and after that we need a lot of integration to actually process what we do see into a form that can be used to carry out intercepts.

Was it an Akash, was it a trishul? who knows what it was. The Pioneer leader should find something better to do with his hands.

Pradeepe,

Thank you, that is exactly the point, better control over launch conditions and flight performance suggests improvements in CEP.

Our friends in Fatehjung are busy painting the latest imports but what is their CEP and how are they going to prove it?

Ofcourse they could always unilaterally withdraw from Siachen instead.

This was displayed in defexpo as a launcher for Akash SAM, wasn't it?



Can something be read into non-definite interceptor length of 10-12 metres being qouted widely in the press?

Victor said



This exactlt what our front line batsmen cant do when McGrath and Brett Lee bowl at slow speed of 95 MPH with paddle like bat to the cherry!

But then even if we dont have good detection system to track a launch and then shoot down a missile, we atleast made the two missiles fly in a controlled collusion.

We have now two projects to work for decades make the Tejas fly with local engine and TMD system which can track a launch and destroy before it reaches the target.

Paarklam.

Vijay J,

Just read the interview given by DRDO chief appeared in THE HINDU.

Its say lots of software and hardware integration taken place in this effort.

Here Prithvi? is used as booster. Actual Interceptor(2nd stage) is something different which they didnt revealed.

Kanson While I am not buying VijayJ's take on the 'collision', that line is even more incredible for that means that India can lob pea sized nukes in Mushy's lap. So its good psy-ops.

the bigger deal actually is that mushy has lost another blustering red line option, or atleast its assurance to cause us harm has been eroded significantly - or threatens to do so.

mush can't take it for granted that he can lobb nukes willy nilly at us and hope to hit something to make the cowering yindu shiver in dhoti and back off without total escalation - in a way it will force them to go strategic and then they know we have overkill against them

now even mush must have enough brain cells left to figure out that last point

I've sent an email to the Daily Pioneer pointing out just how hard hitting a missile with another missile is.

ramana,

I agree.. we need psy-ops too. But that alone is not sufficient. I believe our people wont ruffle the feathers, without knowing what is the consequences

I remember the days when we could not write the required codes for any programming home work. We just fool our instructor just by writing something which would give us required output for some "fixed range" of input and take those output for verification of our codes.

Same way I think after so much bashing of DRDO (so many faliure in past), they have come up with a very similar idea. It wont surprise me if they have lowered the speed of the target prithvi for this particular test and might have manipulated other missile parameters which would be completely different from an incoming "enemy" missile.

It was just an image makeover, not a breakthrough.

Would a proximity fuse warhead have been used (as in SAMs) rather than a direct hit (as in a 'hittile')

Jagan, After Desert Storm PAC-III vs Scuds, the best option is a 'hittile' due to vagaries in fuze timing. Fuzing works for aircraft.

Sudhanshu, Whats happening?

Explosive warhead has limitation. Explosion is something like a shock wave.

Based on the experience, US is planning to use Kinetic warhead even for hitting short range ballistic rockets/missiles.

This Prithvi exercise is only a technology demonstrator. To demonstrate the technology, all Companies or Agencies use controlled enviroments, implying that it is always a SUCCESS !!! So don't believe any crap anybody throws at you - THIS IS NOT AN ABM SYSTEM.

In reality, Prithvi-X is not the weapon or the platform for an ABM system. ABM's rely on a massive and complex network of radars and early warning systems - Which we do not have in place or will have in place for the next 10-20 years. ABM missiles boasts of speeds over Mach 4 - to make Prithvi that kind of missile would be like transforming an elephant into a race-horse.

mods ban him right now.
not only hes wrong, but he dont have any bloody technical information.

prithvi is modified to carry a solid stage with 16 tonne thrust.
do you know that thrust if shoved in your back can fly you more than 4 mach per seconds?

what radars are you talking about?
NOOB.

crapette, burnout speed for Prithvi is reported to be in the range 4 mach. How much more you want ?

I was under the impression that the output of all the patriot v/s scud matches was whitewashed with a pliant media. This is why PAC III had so many doubters even today.

Sudhanshu's allegation has been made against DRDO for a while now. Somehow when a foreign supplier demonstrates how his super advanced missile can hit a old Mig 15 flying subsonic on a pre laid trajectory no one finds it in their veins to say anything like what Sudhanshu is saying now. All this investigative brilliance is reserved for DRDO's work only.

Kanson,

Yes there was integration. doesn't affect anything I said.

Badais to all!!

Hmm, now the missile can be guided accurately to the Mussharrafs of Crore Commanders.

How come there has been deluge of such posts in the recent times on BR. crapette, your name going to be changed soon - why do not you read what the experiment was and let us know what it is rather than posting your expert opinion of what it is not? If you know what India has or does not have for the next 20 years please post some proof and get some BR methai.

Just because you passed the exams by cheating doesn't make every Indian a fraud, but this is something that no Indian seems to grasp easily.

We are seeing the same kind of responses appear that we saw after Shakti 1998 except now BJP is where Congress was.

Yes ABM system is much more than just one test like a deployed nuclear arsenal is much more than a few blasts at Pokharan.

So what?

How is that relevant?

DRDO has done what no one would give it credit for.

It is time to rejoice.

Kanson, where did you get this incorrect information?

crapette, you are now carapette . ( Forum Guidelines

So, pls tell us what is the correct information ?

Dude you didnt explained what i said, you know if your from other nation i dont have a problem but talk with facts in hand.

I can prove you this time completely wrong and i normally dont curse around.

so dont try to waste the discussion, if you have something to contribute do so.
read the whole reports you'll have entire idea.

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/MISSILES/Prithvi.html


a] Does not imply speed of mach 4; mach numbers are different for different altitudes; the Mach 4 statement is very vague.

b] The mach 5 reference is descent. As a ABM there is no trajectory associated with descent.
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Wht is your point..you only said ABM needs min 4 Mach.(you too didnt mentioned what alt it is for)

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I clearly answered your dumb question,
Second stage was used which is new,
please please go behind and read the things.
The second stage DRDO developed it can give it a thrust of 16 tonnes.

that explains your answer.
ABM has no trajectory associated with descent? what do you mean by this the trajectory is calculated by the radar and the ABM is scrambled into that way.

Joey,

take to the woods...

If you don't want to read my postings you don't have to; Honestly.

Nothing will satisfy you chaps. If you think the likes of Saraswat and co would commit fraud, it speaks more about what you dont know about the BM program, then about them.

Vijay J,

I thought i can give some inputs. Thats fine.

DRDO and its scientists have far too much to lose by either claiming a foreign product as homegrown or falsifying tests.
The foreign arms lobbies have delivered their liafas and all the media knives are out for the DRDO. Problem the critics face is that this ABM interception is a big deal.. really hard technology... makes it difficult to adopt the paki "dodo" moniker when they've done something this difficult

Yes Gerard..Its very hard for them to digest. Its like they got hit by 440V.

They thought that DRDO is a sinking boat. Now it is flying at supersonic speed. If they didnt react then what happens to naysayers belief,ego and prestige ?

Gerard just lok at fannes post.

Secret notes - Scientist 1 - The ABM has worked. It was the 5th test of interception. The individual system tests have been challenging. The seeker had to be mounted many times on Trishul and Akash. The target towing according to press release was done by Lakshya (we know better) Many ‘Prithvi’ testes had verified the design success of the first stage of the n stage masala. The radar has been a great fusion of many Indian and other technologies. We acquired the Green pine and Antey radars many years ago and we have fused that technology with many home grown ones. I am myself confused by many names that we gave them to hide this. We have been perfecting the interceptor radr for a long time. Every TSP no-dung have been successfully tracked. Rest of the details as agreed upon will not even be committed to paper.

That explains everything.
Akash is a success for sure.
and this is not a short project.

some good links (to read and then ask questions)

http://www.fas.org/spp/eprint/jfq1603.pdf

http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/pdf/bmdsbook.pdf

http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/tmd050499.pdf

http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/dstp2000/jw ... 9-jtmd.pdf

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Missil ... /HL683.cfm

John why are you giving those links? are you also among those who thinks this is Arrow 2?[which has been proven wrong]
just asking, but those links are pretty informative.

No not at all. Just the complexity and the amount of work that needs to be done to make it from crucible to users.

How many nations have ABM programs?
How many have achieved a successful interception?