Nag missile test fired

It achieved the maximum range and was bang on target

The anti-tank ‘Nag’ missile on display at the Research Centre Imarat in Hyderabad.




HYDERABAD: The third generation hit-to-kill anti-tank missile, Nag, was successfully testfired at Pokhran in Rajasthan on Tuesday. The advanced weapon system damaged the target, a stationary tank four km away.

Talking to The Hindu from the launch site, Nag’s project director S.S. Mishra said the missile achieved the maximum range and was bang on target. “We got the bull’s eye,” he said after the missile was launched around 1.20 pm. The test-firing was preceded in the last few days by pre-launch transportation trials in the desert terrain “with full combat load.”

Director, Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), P. Venugopalan said all the mission objectives were met during the testfiring he described as the “last developmental trial.” He said the changes wanted by the user were incorporated in the missile which could be operated both during the day and night. He said the user trial would be conducted in a couple of months.

S.K. Chaudhuri, associate director, Research Centre Imarat (a key laboratory of the DRDO’s missile complex) and chairman of the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for the trial, said the missile proved the capability for “highest technology in seeker and control guidance system.” Equipped with Imaging Infrared Seeker and lock-on-after-launch capability, and carrying a real warhead, it was fired from Namica, a dedicated missile carrier.

Within 21 seconds of its launch, it homed in on the target and with the help of a “precursor charge” created a huge hole on the tank, demonstrating its “top attack” capability. Soon after the precursor charge made a hole, the main warhead zoomed into the tank and exploded, causing damage to the derelict vehicle.

The indigenously-developed Nag is a two-stage solid propellant missile and each Namica carries 12 missiles with eight of them in ready-to-fire mode.

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Nag test-fired again

HYDERABAD: For the second day in a row, DRDO scientists successfully test-fired the third generation anti-tank missile, Nag, at Pokhran in Rajasthan. Moments after the launch around 10.15 a.m. on Wednesday, the rocket zeroed in on a “moving target” and shattered it to smithereens.

Launched from the dedicated missile carrier, Namica, the fire-and-forget missile hit the specially-designed target, which was moving on rails at an intermediate range of two km. It was successfully test-fired against a stationary target at the maximum range of four km on Tuesday.

Talking to The Hindu, P. Venugopalan, Director, Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), said: “Hundred per cent objectives of the trial had been achieved”, marking the completion of the developmental tests. The Defence Research and Development Organisation and the user would together plan holding user-trials shortly. He hoped that Nag production would begin next year.

Project director S. S. Mishra said the moving target was specifically designed by the Army for the mission. The developmental trials established the ruggedness of the entire system to travel long distances in harsh terrain. The DRDO scientists plan to evaluate Namica’s “flotation performance” in water on Thursday. The carrier with eight missiles on-board would be tested to see whether it could move without sinking.

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WTF are these Indians posting their garbage in this China & Far Eastern Strategic Issues forum now ? Get the F... out of here.

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=fYVgeZn2Vjc
chau

India's lunar sat scheduled to launch in April, which is already later than previously planed, any news on it now?

No the lunar is scheduled to launch in September!
chau

Chandrayaan launch delayed

Special Correspondent

It is likely to take place in mid-October

Chandrayaan-2 is being planned for a 2011-2012 launch

ISRO will consider new satellites to accommodate new channels

CHENNAI: The launch of Chandrayaan, India’s moon mission project, will be delayed past the scheduled date of September 18 to mid-October, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said here on Wednesday.

He said that the systems had already been fully integrated and that thermo-vacuum tests would be conducted soon. The launch would be possible about 45 to 60 days after that.

Alignments were the key to a successful launch along with climate conditions. Only about three days each month would provide favourable alignments, he said.

Chandrayaan-2, which would involve a moon orbiter and a land rover, was already being planned for a 2011-2012 launch. Agreements had been signed with Russian space authorities and plans had started, he said.

On the entry of private players into satellite launches, Dr. Nair said cost was an important factor. It took about 7 to 8 years for a Rs. 600 crore-1,000 crore investment in a satellite launch to break even. This was why private players showed only a mild interest.

Many companies, including TataSky and Reliance, had come forward to buy slots in the Ku band for direct-to-home (DTH) transmissions. ISRO would consider new satellites to accommodate new channels. All Ku band slots had been sold out and negotiations with international bodies were required to increase spectrum allocation, he said.
Manned mission

Dr. Nair said that India’s manned mission project could become a reality in the near future as ISRO was preparing a project report for the perusal of the government. Manufacture of indigenous cryogenic satellites could also be possible from the next year, as a thorough study had been made.

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With the foreign J.V. which India did in the last 3 to 4 years to bring back to life all the projects which had gone hay wire by DRDO is now paying off.

However, it would also mean core components would remain European, Russian and Israeli !

care to share which core components are European, Russian and Israeli (and any other country which you forgot to mention here).

hey wait a minute.
nag missile is not a joint venture between any country.
it was self made by India.
chau

Namica amphibious trial successful

aug 7

HYDERABAD: Close on the heels of test-firing of the anti-tank Nag missile on stationary and moving targets, DRDO scientists successfully completed an “amphibious trial” of Namica, dedicated carrier of the weapon system, in the Indira Gandhi canal at Nachna in Rajasthan on Thursday.

“This was the first time that such a trial had been carried out,” Nag project director, S.S. Mishra told The Hindu. The carrier, weighing 14.5 tonnes, was in full combat load with eight missiles in the turret and it crossed the canal by demonstrating its “mobility in water.”

In a war scenario, Namica would be required to not only stay afloat but also negotiate and overcome obstacles while moving at seven km an hour, he said.
chau

3 days and 3 tests, all were successful!
A big achievement for DRDO!
chau

Baktar Shikan, range=4 KM

but can it vertically hit the target just like nag and javelin?
chau

yes it does for airborn launch.

can u give a related video for that?
i didn,t know about that. does it also launched on "fire and forget" basis?
chau

Precision Strike


DRDO developing two new variants of the Nag for the IAF

By Prasun K. Sengupta

aug (2008)


At press time the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) was gearing up for conducting the definitive developmental trials of the ‘Nag’ anti-armour guided-missile (ATGM) at the firing range in Pokhran. The 4km-range ‘fire-and-forget’ ATGM, under development since the late Eighties at a cost of three billion rupees and thus far being subjected to more than 60 test-firings since November 1990 (with the first fully-functional test-firing being conducted on September 9, 1997), will be subjected to seven test-firings over a two-day period starting July 27 against both stationary and moving targets in both daytime and at night. Subject to the test-firings being successful, final user’s trials of the ATGM will be carried out this October, following which series production will get underway by the year’s end at the Hyderabad-based production facilities of state-owned Bharat Dynamics Ltd (BDL). The Indian Army is likely to place an initial order for 443 ‘Nag’ ATGMs, along with 13 ‘NAMICA missile launch vehicles, which are modified BMP-2 tracked infantry combat vehicles each of which houses an inclined swiveling launcher containing eight ATGMs, 12 missile reload rounds, and a target acquisition system using a second generation thermal imager and a laser rangefinder, both with a range of 5.5km. The 42kg ‘Nag’ ATGM makes use of an airframe built out of aluminium alloys, and a DRDO-developed cadmium zinc telluride-based imaging infra-red (IIR) seeker for giving the missile a lock-on before launch capability. It has a flight speed of 230 metres per second, is armed with a 8kg tandem shaped-charge warhead, has a rocket motor using nitramine-based smokeless extruded double band sustainer propellant, has a single-shot hit probability of 0.77 and a CEP of 0.9 metres, and has a 10-year maintenance-free shelf-life. Efforts are now on to develop a mast-mounted missile launcher that will be hydraulically raised out to a height of five metres to enable the NAMICA to acquire its targets out to a distance of 8km.

The DRDO is now developing two new variants of the ‘Nag’ for the Indian Air Force (IAF): the 8km-range ‘Helina’, which will be launched from twin-tube stub wing-mounted launchers on board the armed ‘Dhruv’ ALH and Light Combat Helicopters that will be produced by state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL); and a 10km-range variant that will be launched from tactical interdiction aircraft like the upgraded Jaguar IS. The ‘Helina’ will, like the ‘Nag’ make use of an IIR seeker for target engagement, while the Jaguar IS-launched ATGM will use a nose-mounted millimetric-wave active radar seeker. User trials of these two variants of the ‘Nag’ will be conducted by late 2010. All three variants of the ‘Nag’ will have top-attack capabilities, thanks to the incorporation of a digital autopilot for automatic trajectory shaping. All in all, about 4,000 ATGM rounds of all types (vehicle-, helicopter- and air-launched) are expected to be produced by BDL.

In another development aimed at optimising its single-seat Jaguar IS strike aircraft for undertaking tactical interdiction/anti-armour missions (which were once the missions for the MiG-23BNs now being retired from service), the IAF has awarded a 24 billion rupees contract to HAL for refurbishing and upgrading an initial 68 licence-built Jaguar IS. Work involves airframe life extension and addition of a fixed inflight refuelling probe on the nose of each aircraft, plus installation and integration of the DARIN-3 navigation-and-attack system, which has been indigenously developed by the DRDO’s Inertial Navigation-Attack Systems Integration Organisation (IIO) and the Defence Avionics Research establishment (DARE). Making use of the MIL-STD-1553B digital databus, the DARIN-3 suite includes an AMLCD-based digital map generator, one AMLCD-based multi-functional display, a mission computer, digital flight data recorder, and a SIGMA-95 ring laser gyro-based inertial navigation system coupled to a GPS receiver. For target acquisition, use will be made of a belly-mounted Litening-2 target acquisition/laser designator pod supplied by Israel’s RAFAEL Armament Authority. Earlier, between 2000 and 2007, HAL had supplied the IAF with 37 new-build DARIN-3-equipped Jaguars, of which 20 were single-seaters and 17 were tandem-seaters. Both the new-build and upgraded Jaguars will remain in service until 2018.


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Indian tanks are equal from all sides. don't worry. pakistani missiles usually expect to hit them from the back.

hahaha .
u r the men! i did n,t know that Pakistan had made new guidance system for their missile .
what about other missile in Ur inventory?
chau

Old Baktar Shikan:



New Version:




The whole system now weighs approx. 22.5 kg (compared to a previous 65 kg), and each individual missile weighs 11.2 kg (compared to the previous 24.5 kg). The new missile is a tandem HEAT warhead developed by the NDC. The system can quickly be disassembled into 4 sub-units, making it easily man-portable. The range is up to 4000m (4km). The system includes a thermal imaging night sight.

but what about the tank like t-90 which are protected by the era protected layer?
chau

i am talking about the explosive brick that the t-90 used against the anti tank missile!
chau

yeah yeah...out of the many failures something from the great drdo defence empire works and u ppl r ecstatic :p

something is better than nothing. don,t u think that?
chau

agreed!!

Well, since the T-90 armor is classified, I couldn't really tell you. But, the old version of the Baktar Shikan easily destroyed Serbian M-84s, which are nearly identical to the T-72. They had a 90% hit and penetration rate or something like that against the Serbian M-84s.

M 84's were actually serbian version of T 72 and were reportedly better in terms of protection etc..
the T 90 is NOT a from-scratch brand new tank.it actually is an extensive upgrade of the T 72. but as u said,armor is classified so no speculations.

Yes, the M-84 were reportedly slightly better in some ways as compared to their Russian counterparts. And yes again, the T-90 is actually the T-72 BU, it was renamed after Desert Storm, when images were shown of burning T-72s of the Iraqi army (probably for better export purposes).

Mod kindly move this topic to ghAnd-hi 'garbage' section. Over joyed these haramee bhindians spreadi gandh in every fourm section

Calm down.. For once we are actually having a civilized discussion based on facts rather than pure nationalism..

Question: Is it known on which tank it was tested on??

THE FIRST TEST WAS CONDUCTED ON A TANK( DON,T KNOW WHICH ONE) MAY BE T-55.
CHAU

SECOND TEST WAS DONE ON specially-designed target, which was moving on rails at an intermediate range of two km. It was successfully test-fired against a stationary target at the maximum range of four km on Tuesday.