TRISHUL: January 2013

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Astra BVRAAM, LRCMs In Asia & Other DRDO Updates

Below are information posters and visuals pertaining to the Astra BVRAAM that has been under development for more than a decade. One really wonders why the DRDO at the very outset did not resolve to develop a medium-range air-launched anti-radiation missile (ARM) variant as well as a vertically-launched SAM variant for a futursitic land-mobile/shipborne SHORADS system.

Below are the posters dealing with road-mobile TELs developed so far by both the DRDO and Larsen & Toubro for NLOS-BSMs and TBMs, as well as for strategic ballistic missiles.

Below are visuals of supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles that have already been developed to date by China (air-launched YJ-12), Japan (air-launched ASM-3) and Taiwan (shipborne Hsiung Feng-3).

Below is the DRDO-developed Ku-band active radar seeker (laboratory-model) for the PDV exo-atmospheric interceptor missile that is still under development.

Posted below is data pertaining to the T-72 Combat Improved Ajeya and Arjun Mk1 MBTs, plus data on their indigenously developed APFSDS ammunition. R & D is now underway to introduce 125mm and 120mm APFSDS rounds capable of penetrating 600mm of RHA.

Below is data on some of the indigenously developed enhancements and import-substitutes for T-72M-1982, T-90S and Arjun Mk1A MBTs.

Further data can be found below on the range of mini-UAVs (MAV) developed indigenously thus far.

The CLGM (below) and not HELINA, should be the favoured standoff precision-guided munition of choice for the HAL-developed Rudra helicopter gunship as well as the projected HAL-developed Light Attack Helicopter (LAH). In fact, this lightweight CLGM also ought to arm the re-engineered NAMICA tracked vehicle.

Posted below is data on the range of IRDE-developed and BEL-built multi-function hand-held thermal imagers. More than 10,000 of each type of such sensors are now being ordered for both India's armed forces and the Central Armed Police Forces.