Aditya_V wrote:Reverse Engineering is overhyped, the condition of ereakage, nothing useful was left. Why haven't Pakis got a 1000 heron copies after 1 was shot down in Pak in 2002?
Assuming that the missile was accidently fired off sans warhead, per press reports, there should have been no fire on impact unless the residual fuel, if any, ignited on impact. The reports also say that the missile was airborne until it ran out of fuel.
even so, the debris field would have been somewhat spread out it would be wise to assume that the fire, if any, would not have been able to consume all the debris
No one is talking "reverse engineering"
The israelis didn't reverse engineer the styx missile to counter it. They just developed systems to jam or confuse the guidance and homing subsystems of the styx and rendered it totally useless in battle
This they did by recording and analysing emanated frequencies from the styx and developing counters to render them ineffective. This is one way but not so effective these days.
There will be some antijamming measures built into the brahmos. It is not outside the realm of belief that the pakis and the cheenis may be able to guess/workout some of these features from the items recovered. Since there was no warhead, and hence no explosion, it is best to assume that some components may have survived in a state that could enable recognition. Even in the case of an impact and subsequent fire, some individual components are almost always recognizable.
ICs, partially recovered circuit boards and what not can give an indication as to the rough function of the board per se.
Many IC numbers may still be decipherable or can be physically matched to samples. Many times manufacturer's (COTS or even MIL grade ICs) data sheets will give application and configuration details for a smart engineer to get a rough idea of what the board may have been used for.
Many years ago, an airhostess survived after being trapped in the tail section of the aircraft that broke up at great height and free fell from a height of almost 30-40,000 feet. She was in the rear section when the aircraft broke up and she was the sole survivor.
Every impact doesn't mean the the wreckage turns to unrecognizable powder after it is "pulverized" on impact
Regarding the shot down heron, how do we know what the cheeni have done with it.
Since this an open forum, one will not go into the serious implications of the heron being shot down
If the shoe was on the other foot and we had recovered a paki missile wreckage, DRDO, the services, BEL, HAL, Bharat Dynamics Limited, etc would have been very keen to inspect the wreckage and the debris and a fairly voluminous report would have been the result.
And one can bet his boots that some very educated guesses along with the reasoning based on available component and some circuit board details would be included in this report, and engineers of various sub and super specialities would have a long and interesting discussion, possibly leading to some tangible outcome
Vesna Vulovic, an air stewardess who survived the highest ever fall by a human being after her plane broke up at 33,000ft (10,000m), has died aged 66.
According to investigators, Vulovic was trapped by a food cart in the plane's tail section as it plummeted to earth in freezing temperatures.
State TV in Vulovic's home country of Serbia said she was found dead in her apartment in Belgrade. The cause of death was not immediately known.
Vulovic was working on a Yugoslav Airlines Douglas DC-9 on 26 Jan 1972 when a suspected bomb brought the plane down among mountains in Czechoslovakia.