India’s Hypersonic Missile Ambitions
Hello friends, India is going to become a superpower in the world in terms of hypersonic missile systems. India is developing 12 different hypersonic systems. Recently, DRDO has said that projects are going on to develop 12 different hypersonic systems in India, which are going to help India in air, sea, land and defence.
For your information, let me tell you that apart from India, at present, Russia has the Zircon hypersonic missile. Apart from this, China has hypersonic missiles. But we do not know exactly what type it is because there is a lot of secrecy inside China. On the other hand, the United States of America has been trying to make hypersonic missiles for a long time, but has not been able to make them yet.
Now, in such a condition, if India develops 12 different hypersonic systems, then it will be an outstanding achievement in itself, and it will not take much time for India to do this. You will remember that some time ago, the DRDO chief had said that if India decides to make a missile today, then India can make that missile within 2 years because India’s missile-making capacity has increased a lot.
In such a condition, these 12 systems that we are developing will be developed in India within the next few years, and India will have about 12 hypersonic systems.
Understanding the Systems
Exactly which are these projects that have been announced by DRDO? Come on, friends, now let’s try to understand what has happened here. Look, you will remember that last year India had tested the Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle, now after that, India is working very fast on the hypersonic system.
Now you will say which hypersonic system is hypersonic, and what is this hypersonic glide vehicle? What is a hypersonic cruise missile? Look, there are different types of rockets available in the market. The first type of missiles is ballistic missiles. You must have heard of Agni missiles, etc., right? What is this? It goes out of the atmosphere into space and then comes back and hits the target. It has a rocket engine. And due to the rocket engine, it is pretty easy to achieve hypersonic speed here. And many countries have hypersonic ballistic missiles.
But the problem with ballistic missiles is that the radar installed here gets more time to detect them.
On the other hand, there is a hypersonic glide vehicle. What happens in it? A rocket launches the missile at hypersonic speed, and then after that, the missile glides. That means the rocket does not have the capacity to move at hypersonic speed, so it takes the help of another rocket through which it achieves hypersonic speed.
Then there is a third type of missile which moves downwards while being completely maneuverable, and this type of missile is called a cruise missile. And if the speed of this cruise missile is more than 5 Mach, then it is called a hypersonic cruise missile.
Apart from this, India has BrahMos in supersonic and Nirbhay missiles in subsonic. But we do not have a hypersonic rocket yet. We want to develop this hypersonic missile system in India.
Now, if you see, many countries in the world have the technology of hypersonic weapons available. But you will not find the technology of ballistic missiles everywhere. But if I say hypersonic cruise missile, then only Russia and China have it; apart from this, no other country has it. Russia has Zircon, and China has ZF. Apart from this, the United States of America is also developing its hypersonic missile. But it has not been able to create it yet.
Engineering Behind Hypersonic Cruise Missiles
Now, the question arises: is it so challenging to develop a hypersonic cruise missile?
Generally, supersonic missiles have a ramjet engine installed inside them. What is a ramjet engine? It keeps moving. It keeps taking oxygen and keeps burning fuel. And a jet engine is being used. Meaning this is a cruise missile. Because I told you what is in a ballistic missile? A rocket engine is used. Because you are taking it outside the atmosphere. But if we talk about a cruise missile, then it is running in the atmosphere itself. That is why a jet engine is used here.
The Ramjet engine is seen as a very efficient engine that can travel farther on less fuel and less weight. But the biggest problem with this Ramjet engine is that it works very efficiently up to a speed of 3 Mach. After the speed of 3 Mach, it almost fails.
Then we need another new type of design called a scramjet engine, which can work well even after the speed of 3 Mach, and the same thing is used in hypersonic missiles, and the same thing is with China and Russia. But India does not have a hypersonic cruise missile yet. The demonstration vehicle we used was a glide vehicle.
DRDO’s 12 Hypersonic Projects
But there are about 12 different projects going on in India.
- The first project is BrahMos 2, in which we are making land, sea, and submarine-launched hypersonic missiles. Whose speed will be around 8 Mach.
- Apart from this, we are also making a long-range hypersonic anti-ship missile system in India. Whose range will be around 1500 km.
- A BM4 missile project with a glide body is also going on in India.
- We are also making air-launched hypersonic missiles in India, which will be integrated with the Sukhoi 30 and AMCA.
- We are even making hypersonic torpedoes for underwater fights.
- Hypersonic interceptor systems are also being made in India to detect hypersonic missiles.
- Efforts are being made to make scramjet engines in India.
- Efforts are being made to make air-breathing engines.
- Common hypersonic warhead bodies are being developed in India.
- Under Project Vishnu, we are developing a hypersonic missile by achieving a speed of 12 Mach.
- We have already tested the Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle.
So these 12 different projects are being seen in India. Through which India is going to beat the world in hypersonic technology. Now you must have understood all these things exactly.
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