vic wrote:The average speed of normal missile is around Mach 1.5 but Ramjet Akash has average speed of around Mach 2.5 which means its "effective" combat range is larger because it would not let the target get away. But DRDO guys are idiots and foreign maal is super best.
Not Effective Range but Effective End Game Energy to Engage the target , the range will be the same 28km but it will be powered flight all the way.
Its surprising though DRDO has not worked on Akash-2 of range ~ 50 km , Somewhere around 1998-99 Janes carried an interview of the then SA APJ Kalam where he disclosed of adding booster and optimising ramjet for doubling the range , Its been more than 15 years and there is no Akash-2/mk2 development.
Had they carried on developing Akash we would probably never had to venture into Barak-8/MRSAM
The current version of Akash though is better then the 1998 version with range increased from 25 km to 28 km and altitude from 15 km to 20 km