Hypersonic option for nuclear weapons: India tests Shaurya missile

India on October 3 successfully tested the Shaurya medium-range ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching speeds of Mach 7,5.

This launch is the latest in a series of recent tests. weapons amid military tensions with China in the Ladakh sector

- explains the Hindustan Times.

As stated, the Shaurya rocket is capable of covering a distance of up to 800 km. It develops its maximum speed on the final flight path, switching to hypersound. It is possible to equip the rocket with both conventional and nuclear charges; the weight of the warhead is limited to 1000 kg. The length of the KR is 10 meters, weight is 6,2 tons. It is equipped with many advanced computing systems and high-precision navigation, efficient propulsion system, sophisticated control and guidance systems.

This kind of demonstration of potential is extremely important to send a loud signal to another nuclear country [...] Our opponents will be even more discouraged from using nuclear weapons

- said the former commander of the Northern Indian Army, Lieutenant General Jasval.

India is positioning a hypersonic option for nuclear weapons as a clear increase in its strategic power.

The launch took place three days after India tested the surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile BrahMos, whose flight range increased from 290 to 400 km.

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[tralflot1832]

Chassis is not Tatra by chance?

[Sergey_G_M]

And I was amused by the multi-colored bolts on the wheels - it's so Indian! ))

[tralflot1832]

So they asked me a job, what kind of bolts are so yellowish burgundy, maybe not twist them, but only paint them.

[cormorant]

And the tractor itself, so bright and spectacular in terms of color. It's not just unmasking signs, it's just a flashy color. Where in India is such a surface color? Although it's good that orange and gold are gone. Progress.

[halpat]

Quote: Sergey_G_M

And I was amused by the multi-colored bolts on the wheels - it's so Indian! ))

flying hypersonic shawarma is strong !!!

[Hypertension]

Quote: Sergey_G_M

And I was amused by the multi-colored bolts on the wheels - it's so Indian! ))

And still somehow grayish ... Doesn't look like them. Where is the fringe on the windshield? Where are the garlands on the radiator? Eh ... not that Hindu soldier has already gone, not the same ...

[Observer2014]

India on October 3 successfully tested the Shaurya medium-range ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching speeds of Mach 7,5.

What are non-hypersonic ballistic missiles?

Hypersonic speed (HS) in aerodynamics is a speed that is significantly higher than the speed of sound in the atmosphere.
Since the 1970s, the term has been commonly referred to as supersonic speeds with Mach (M) numbers above 5.

[Victor_B]

Quote: Observer2014

What are non-hypersonic ballistic missiles?

There!
Rockets of the Grad, Hurricane, Tornado, Buratina, etc. never hypersonic!
Which does not prevent them from being ballistic.
Not enough scope!

[Observer2014]

Quote: Victor_B

Quote: Observer2014

What are non-hypersonic ballistic missiles?

There!
Rockets of the Grad, Hurricane, Tornado, Buratina, etc. never hypersonic!
Which does not prevent them from being ballistic.
Not enough scope!

Hooray!!!! Found it! Have invented. And what prevents the non-guided missiles of the Second World War from being non-ballistic? Or the rockets with a powder charge that I used to launch at a rocket modeling circle as a child?

[Victor_B]

And they will cure you ... (c)

Quote: Observer2014

powder-loaded rockets that I used to launch at a rocket-modeling circle as a child?

It is truly ballistic!
For they fly like a stone after the combustion of gunpowder.

[Observer2014]

Quote: Victor_B

And they will cure you ... (c)

Quote: Observer2014

powder-loaded rockets that I used to launch at a rocket-modeling circle as a child?

It is truly ballistic!
For they fly like a stone after the combustion of gunpowder.

Well done, sit down. Five! So then you will take everything literally and we will reach a shot from a slingshot. What is not ballistics? We are actually discussing a modern hypersonic complex "Shaurya". How should this be understood? That the Indians have hypersonic weapons?

[halpat]

I wondered :)) if there is something NOT ballistic from objects launched by a human hand and so on. And I realized that NO :))
EUREKA!!
Even a flashlight launched at an opponent will fly along a ballistic trajectory
But if it is on, then the light from it will no longer be ballistic.
The paradox is straightforward

[Insurgent]

Quote: Observer2014

What are non-hypersonic ballistic missiles?

surprisingly for some, but not all ...

P-11M / SS-1B Scud A and P-17 / Scud B

[Victor_B]

India on October 3 successfully tested the Shaurya medium-range ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching speeds of Mach 7,5.

Duc to run it at such a distance, you need to fly very fast.
So, ALL BALLISTIC operational-tactical missiles, even the old Scud (!) HYPERSONIC!

[Insurgent]

Quote: Victor_B

So, ALL BALLISTIC operational-tactical missiles, even Scud (!) HYPERSONIC!

SAM "Patriot", albeit with dubious effectiveness, could initially hit hypersonic targets ?

[Victor_B]

Quote: Insurgent

SAM "Patriot", albeit with dubious effectiveness, could initially hit hypersonic targets

Why not?
On a collision course.
If there is enough working time.
During the war, one of our mortars from a mortar (!) AIMED (not just - I was shooting in the direction of that skyscraper, and he suddenly fell ...) shot down a German plane!

[Insurgent]

Quote: Victor_B

Why not?
On a collision course.
If there is enough working time.

That's why this empty chatter "If", without taking into account the real performance characteristics of the same R-17 and" Patriot "in conjunction with practical launches / interceptions?

[Victor_B]

Quote: Insurgent

without taking into account the real performance characteristics of the same R-17 and "Patriot" in conjunction with practical launches / interceptions?

Well, the Scuds last month in Saudi Arabia quite knocked them down. Hussite.
The operational-tactical ones (except for the maneuvering Iskander) are quite capable of bringing down today's ones.
"Medium" range over 5000 km, I think with great difficulty and with low probability, and "small" (legion of them in different countries) quite.

[Insurgent]

Quote: Victor_B

Well, the Scuds last month in Saudi Arabia quite knocked them down. Hussite

Well, you write nonsense without understanding and taking into account the fact that the "Scud" is ancient, and the "Patriot" has undergone several stages of modernization / improvement ...

[Victor_B]

Quote: Insurgent

Well, you write nonsense

You are evil ... I will leave you ...

Quote: Insurgent

that "Scud" is ancient, and "Patriot" has undergone several stages of modernization / improvement ...

Scud Saddam shot at Israel at a distance of more than 1000 km.
What speed did it have at its maximum?

the Shaurya rocket is capable of covering a distance of up to 800 km.

medium-range ballistic missile "Shaurya", which is capable of reaching speeds of 7,5 Mach.

It looks like it, like Iskander, flies along a Quasi-ballistic trajectory - flat, and to the maximum range it will fly along an optimal BALLISTIC trajectory and (maybe) will have the same speed at the terminal section as Scud's.

[hwostatij]

AIM

How do you imagine aiming a mortar at an airplane? Please share, because it is very interesting

[Victor_B]

Quote: Hwostatij

AIM

How do you imagine aiming a mortar at an airplane? Please share, because it is very interesting

This is not for me, but from the award list.
Gugel will help you.
It is a fact. Famous.

[Charik]

Some kind of morning mouse without explaining - minus puts

[tralflot1832]

You didn’t offend anyone in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict?

[KVU-NSVD]

Interestingly, and what for they paint missiles in camouflage? And why isn't the whole rocket in the TPK?

[Crash]

So the view is more formidable And you can immediately see that they are not bluffing, and TPK is not empty

[Sergey_G_M]

This is not a TPK at all, but just a part of the launcher in the form of a pipe.
As for camouflage, this is the norm, we also paint strategic ballistic missiles. That's why they didn't paint the entire launcher xs, maybe just a prototype for now.

[KVU-NSVD]

Quote: Sergey_G_M

we also paint strategic ballistic missiles.

Only TPK on PGRKSN is painted in camouflage.

That's why they didn't paint the whole launcher xs,

Well, so and I for scho ...

[Errr]

Quote: Sergey_G_M

This is not a TPK at all, but just a part of the launcher in the form of a pipe.

It is this pipe that is called the launch container, with the only difference that ours (on Topol-M) also has a cap.

Our rockets on the Topols are generally not visible in the transport position and therefore there is no need to paint them in "camouflage".

[maktub]

I wonder where the technology comes from, there is a missile technology nonproliferation treaty

[silverwolf88]

Given that China has strategic nuclear forces, all these demonstrations are rather weak ... one could just as well give news about the transition of the Indian army to new machine guns ...
The very idea of ​​a possible exchange of nuclear strikes is already a deterrent ... not one of the parties to the conflict has a reliable missile defense system ...

[Operator]

But 80 years have passed since the Indians experienced an analogue of the hypersonic FAU-2

[rocket757]

So everyone is following the path of increasing the number and range of missile strike systems. All who can, of course.
For weak air defenses, this is a real problem.
Here's how with systems that can withstand them, that's a real problem.

[fa2998]

Quote: Operator

But 80 years have passed since the Indians experienced an analogue of the hypersonic FAU-2

It seems to be a military site, but like children! Now it has become a buzzword - "hypersonic". ALL OTR and ICBMs starting with the Soviet R-7-ALL HYPERSONIC. Speeds 3-7 km / sec. A little more and will go into orbit (and R- 7 and came out) .Something with the advice, such hymns were not sung, that our missiles are hypersonic.

[opuonmed]

even all began to call hypersonic missiles)))

[lucul]

even all began to call hypersonic missiles)))

Yes, it's better hypersonic - than hipersonic)))

[The eye of the crying]

Quote: lucul

Yes, it's better hypersonic - than hipersonic)))

Of course better. "Hypersonic" is at least written without error.

[Editor]

Until recently, the concept of "zeroing the American missile defense system by Russian hypersonic missiles ..."

[iouris]

Given the size of India and neighboring "potential partners", the missile is not strategic. Flies. Well done.

[ivanec]

Yes, a couple hundred million fewer people will not even notice that China, that India ...

[Old26]

As stated, the Shaurya missile is capable of covering a distance of up to 800 km. It develops maximum speed on the final flight path, switching to hypersound.

Damn, specialists ... Not on the final flight trajectory, but at the final stage of the active segment of the flight trajectory. That is, at the moment when the engines stop working. After that, the rocket begins to decelerate and "on the final flight trajectory", that is, near the ground it already has a supersonic speed

Quote: tralflot1832

Chassis is not Tatra by chance?

Looks like. Moreover, they produce EMNIP "Tatra" with such a wheel arrangement under license

Quote: Observer2014

What are non-hypersonic ballistic missiles?

Yes, most often these are short-range missiles. Flight speed - supersonic

Quote: Victor_B

India on October 3 successfully tested the Shaurya medium-range ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching speeds of Mach 7,5.

Duc to run it at such a distance, you need to fly very fast.
So, ALL BALLISTIC operational-tactical missiles, even the old Scud (!) HYPERSONIC!

Not at all, Victor. The same scud at its apogee has a speed of 1130 m / s, at the ground - 1400 m / s. Maximum - 1500 m / s. But at what height it is unknown. Although this speed, purely theoretically, can be considered hypersonic. But the speed will be slightly more than 5M

Quote: Victor_B

It looks like it, like Iskander, is flying along a quasi-ballistic trajectory - flat, and at the maximum range it will fly along the optimal

What prompted you to conclude about the quasi-ballistic trajectory of the Indian missile, if there are no parameters other than range and speed

Quote: maktub

I wonder where the technology comes from, there is a missile technology nonproliferation treaty

Restrictions apply only "for sale". The country itself can create missiles of any range and accuracy, if it is not subject to sanctions restrictions. In addition, all these restrictions for India (in particular, on the range of the "Brahmos") no longer apply. They apply exclusively to countries that have not signed the Wassenaar Accord. And India signed the EMNIP Wassenaar Arrangement in 2018.

Quote: silberwolf88

Given that China has strategic nuclear forces, all these demonstrations are rather weak ... one could just as well give news about the transition of the Indian army to new machine guns ...
The very idea of ​​a possible exchange of nuclear strikes is already a deterrent ... not one of the parties to the conflict has a reliable missile defense system ...

It's not entirely clear why this demo is weak. This means that if China demonstrates a new rocket to replace the previously existing ones, this is the norm, but when India arranges such a demonstration, the demonstration is rather weak.

[nobody75]

Sorry, judging by the photo, the rocket has a detachable head, which does not allow launching it along a quasi-ballistic trajectory. And, by the way, control of this missile is possible on OUT. At the apogee - only correction. She can walk to Iskander - two-horned as to the moon. Iskander, due to its quasi-ballistic trajectory, is controllable in all areas. This was a fundamental requirement of the TK due to the specific warhead. "High-precision navigation" - what is it?
Sincerely