In the next four to five years, the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) says it could develop a complete hypersonic cruise missile system to boost India’s missile strike capabilities. The complete hypersonic cruise missile system will have the ability to strike its targets at speeds at least twice that of the world’s current fastest BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.
In early September 7, the DRDO piloted the Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV), which is expected to lay the groundwork for the development of a hypersonic cruise missile system. The successful testing of the HSTDV, conducted by the DRDO, places India in an elite group of nations possessing hypersonic cruise vehicle technology.
Give details of the HSTDV test shot to the news agency AND MEDRDO chief Dr. G Satheesh Reddy said that cruise missiles are the lowest flying missiles.
“In that cruise missile, we have varieties called subsonic cruise missiles, supersonic cruise missiles, and then hypersonic cruise missiles. Hypersonic cruise missiles are the ones that actually travel six times, seven times … eight times … more than the speed of sound which is approximately 300 meters per second at the surface of the earth, “said the head of DRDO.
“This what we have tried has a scramjet engine, which works at hypersonic speed by breathing the air in the atmosphere, taking in oxygen from the atmosphere and then burning it and that happens at hypersonic speed,” Reddy added.
Reddy also said that the DRDO-developed scramjet engine has been tested for a specific time to see how it is performing. “It has been a scramjet vehicle, which is the hypersonic cruise vehicle, it has been brought to a designated height and released at the specific Mach number and then the engine has been started and the engine has been tested,” he said.
The head of DRDO said this was the first time that India’s main defense investigative agency has conducted such an experiment for a good amount of time and “it has worked successfully and thus paves the way. for us to work on these technologies for longer distances. “
When asked how long it will take for a hypersonic cruise missile system to be fully developed, Reddy said: “It will probably take us four to five years to work on all these things and get a complete missile system that works for a good amount. rank.”
In comparing the speeds of the additional hypersonic cruise missile with the existing BrahMos supersonic cruise missile system, he said it will be at least double that speed at around Mach six to seven.
India tests fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile
A few days ago, India successfully tested the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with a range of around 400 km, according to reports.
The BrahMos cruise missile travels at a speed of Mach 2.8, almost three times that of sound. The missile firing test was conducted by the DRDO off the coast of Balasore in Odisha.
BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture between India and Russia, produces the supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, planes, or from land platforms.
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