excerpt the-week.com



Months before the September 11 attack, US spy satellites picked up a
satellite-phone signal from somewhere near Khost in Afghanistan.
Signal intelligence specialists in the US read it as terror mastermind
Osama bin Laden's. Ships out in the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf
were given the exact location of the source of the signal. Within
minutes dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles flew towards Khost.

Sleeker than Tomahawk: Dr Sivathanu Pillai, CEO and MD of BrahMos
Corporation, with a model of the cruise missile

The missiles flew at subsonic speed and hit bin Laden's camp. But the
wily lord of al Qaeda wasn't hit. By the time the Tomahawks arrived,
bin Laden had escaped. If India were to launch such an operation a
year from now, the chances of hit would be much higher. By then India
would have BrahMos, the world's only long-range supersonic cruise
missile.

For all the American hype about Tomahawks, the fact is that they fly
much slower than sound. BrahMos, India's true brahmastra, would fly
three times faster than the Tomahawk and is three to four times
sleeker. The sleekness is not just an aesthetic parameter; the sleeker
the missile, the smaller it appears on an enemy radar. Not only would
the missile have a very low radar signature, but it also has
electronic counter-measures.

Of course, India will not be the only country to have BrahMos. As the
missile was designed and developed and is going to be produced and
marketed (yes, it will be on sale) with the Russians, the latter would
also have the missile.

Not that BrahMos is the world's only supersonic missile. There is the
Russian-developed Moskit with a range of 120 km, which the Chinese
have purchased. But then, BrahMos has a range of 280 km. While Moskit
can be launched only from ships, BrahMos can be launched either from a
ship or from the land. The ship-launched version is being developed so
that a salvo of seven can be possible.

The recent final test, with a decommissioned Indian ship as the
target, was a perfect hit. In one shot BrahMos hit the bull's-eye. "We
have done six launches so far, and all were successful," said a
BrahMos official. "No one has scored such a hit rate so far." The land
version, fitted on a truck to make the missile mobile (so that the
enemy does not bomb the launcher), is also ready. In fact, the fifth
launch was from one such launcher, and two from a frontline warship.
All were sea targets; testing on a land target is yet to be done.

Why a cruise missile now? "The world has been dominated by cruise
missiles [because of] their capability and universality of being
launched from different platforms, and low altitude and
precision-attack capabilities," said Dr Sivathanu Pillai, chief
executive officer and managing director of the BrahMos Corporation
formed with an initial investment of $250 million (50.5 per cent
Indian and 49.5 per cent Russian). There are some 12,000 subsonic
missiles in the world, including the Tomahawk. "Nobody has thought
what would happen if their speeds could be supersonic," said Pillai.
"We are going to see higher kinetic energy on impact ensuring lethal
effect giving virtually no time for the enemy to react. The future
therefore lies with supersonic cruise missiles."

Surging ahead: BrahMos on display
at the Republic Day parade

The beauty of BrahMos is that it is not easy for anyone to replicate
it. Pakistan tried to match India test for nuclear test in 1998. When
India developed Arjun tank, Pakistan came out with al Khalid, though
with technology borrowed from China. And for each of India's Prithvis
and Agnis, Islamabad develops or tests a Ghaznavi or a Ghauri. "But
this is something they can't dream of matching us in the next many
years," said a scientist. "Forget Pakistan, even the developed
countries don't have anything like BrahMos."

Though not part of the integrated guided missile development programme
which President Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam once headed, the BrahMos venture
was also partly his brainchild. As scientific adviser to the defence
minister, Dr Kalam and Dr Herbert A. Yefremov, who was heading NPO
Mashinostroyenia, a Russian establishment which is considered the
world leader in designing cruise missiles, came together to form the
joint venture. "The company and the missile are named after the two
rivers, the Brahmaputra and the Moskva," said Dr Pillai.

India is attaching much importance to BrahMos mainly because it has
virtually transformed the military-strategic relationship between
India and Russia. Earlier Russia was the giver and India the buyer.
"This is a joint venture in which we pool the technological
strengths," said Pillai. "This is the first time the Russians are
conceding equal partnership." While the renowned missile specialist Dr
Alexander Leonov is chairman of the company, the chief executive
officer and managing director is Pillai, who is also chief controller
of Defence Research Development Organisation. Another Indian,
propulsion expert P. Venugopal, is the project director. It is learnt
that most avionics and electronics that have gone into the missile are
of Indian origin. Even the onboard computer and the inertial guidance
electronics are Indian.

The missile, claims Pillai, is perhaps the world's most versatile one.
Unlike other missiles which have separate versions for separate
platforms, the same version of BrahMos can be launched from a variety
of platforms. "It can be configured depending on the users'
requirements," said Pillai. An air-launched version, which will be
still sleeker, is now being developed. A missile shot from a plane
would already have got its speed from the flying aircraft. "So we can
reduce the solid propulsion," said Pillai. "Thus the weight would be
less." The same technology can be used for developing a
submarine-launched missile carrying a 200-kg warhead.

A cruise missile is an unmanned plane. It is launched like any
ballistic missile and initially flies on inertial navigation. But as
it closes in on its target, the missile's navigation computer takes
over. From this stage the missile flies on a trajectory by matching
with the ground data, either gravitationally or matching the terrain
with images already fed into its navigational computers. The
trajectory is designed in such a way that it would be able to evade
enemy radars and anti-missile systems. "On launch it would fly low,
then climb and then, as it approaches the target, plunge down to hit
from almost ground level," said a scientist.

Habshi wrote:
[snip]
Nothing.

Hey stooopid wog, a cruise missile is subsonic and stealthed. A
supersonic cruise missile will have fat audible,, thermal, and radar
signatures (plus crappy mileage). It will then be shot down. You
must assuredly be astoundingly stooopid if you cannot kill Pakistanis
by the millions - and they you.

Good hunting to both of you.

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/eotvos.htm
(Do something naughty to physics)

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:52:50 -0800, Uncle Al
wrote:

Habshi wrote:
[snip]
Nothing.

Hey stooopid wog, a cruise missile is subsonic and stealthed. A
supersonic cruise missile will have fat audible,, thermal, and radar
signatures (plus crappy mileage). It will then be shot down.

You must assuredly be astoundingly stooopid

don't single him out that applies to all Indians,

How would you like to extend the indian ocean all the way to Nepal?
http://home.cogeco.ca/~choot/futureindia.JPG

Habshi wrote:

Sleeker than Tomahawk: Dr Sivathanu Pillai, CEO and MD of BrahMos
Corporation, with a model of the cruise missile

Is it powered by the horizontal Rope Trick?

Bob Kolker

"Habshi" wrote in message
...
excerpt the-week.com
snip By then India would have BrahMos, the world's only
long-range supersonic cruise missile.

For all the American hype about Tomahawks, the fact is ...

.... they have a range of up 8.6 times that of the "long-range" Brahmos - the
term "long-range" is questionable, at best. Oh, and Tomahawks are
operational, I hear.

Regards, Brett Aubrey.

Uncle Al wrote in message ...
Habshi wrote:
[snip]
Nothing.

Hey stooopid wog, a cruise missile is subsonic and stealthed. A
supersonic cruise missile will have fat audible,, thermal, and radar
signatures (plus crappy mileage). It will then be shot down. You
must assuredly be astoundingly stooopid if you cannot kill Pakistanis
by the millions - and they you.

Good hunting to both of you.

supersonic cruise missiles use active and passive stealth technolgy,to
minimise radar cross section,apart from, infra red absorbing paint,saw
tooth heat deflecting wing flap and engine intake inlet design,to
minimise heat generation and missile signature..active stealth
tecnology jams radar, to obsure and obstruct location and range
finding radars.



plz read.

http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/re...20Missiles.pdf

Gulshan Khan wrote in message . ..
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:52:50 -0800, Uncle Al
wrote:

Habshi wrote:
[snip]
Nothing.

Hey stooopid wog, a cruise missile is subsonic and stealthed. A
supersonic cruise missile will have fat audible,, thermal, and radar
signatures (plus crappy mileage). It will then be shot down.

You must assuredly be astoundingly stooopid

don't single him out that applies to all Indians,

How would you like to extend the indian ocean all the way to Nepal?
http://home.cogeco.ca/~choot/futureindia.JPG

ah clever one, what are yu going to power yur paki cruise missile
with,yur devdasi matha,with 10 kgs of peanuts,which yu got from u.s.a
in leiu of f-16 planes, stuffed into her gob,with the exhaust outlet,
piped into her arse,to power the missile without radar
signature....its not beyond yu pakis,to get it working with some
n.korean,ding dong missile tecnology, as technology upgradation,the
north koreans grow special organic peanuts,which on contact with
digestive juices,produces flatulency and releases 100 times more
gas,effectively...yu can increase range of yur mom,with this.

(Habshi) wrote in message Sleeker than Tomahawk: Dr Sivathanu Pillai, CEO and MD of BrahMos

[Nothing better to do]

While Moskit can be launched only from ships,

Can launch from a ship but not from land???
What if you drove the ship aground, would it be land-launched then?


The recent final test, with a decommissioned Indian ship as the
target, was a perfect hit. In one shot BrahMos hit the bull's-eye. "We
have done six launches so far, and all were successful,"

What is the market potential for hitting decommissioned Indian ships
with supersonic cruise missles? Seems like a very narrow marketing
niche to me.


"Forget Pakistan, even the developed countries don't have anything
like BrahMos."

Might be a reason for that.


A missile shot from a plane
would already have got its speed from the flying aircraft.
The same technology can be used for developing a
submarine-launched missile carrying a 200-kg warhead.

The same technology for air-launch and submarine-launch, huh?
Only way I can see how this works is that your submarines fly,
or your airplanes end up under water. Hmmmm.


From this stage the missile flies on a trajectory by matching
with the ground data, either gravitationally or matching the terrain
with images already fed into its navigational computers.

No GPS?? Bummer, Dude!

Rotsa Ruck,
Tony

On 17 Dec 2003 01:29:21 -0800, (koolfire_or)
wrote:

Gulshan Khan wrote in message . ..
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:52:50 -0800, Uncle Al
wrote:

Habshi wrote:
[snip]
Nothing.

Hey stooopid wog, a cruise missile is subsonic and stealthed. A
supersonic cruise missile will have fat audible,, thermal, and radar
signatures (plus crappy mileage). It will then be shot down.

You must assuredly be astoundingly stooopid

don't single him out that applies to all Indians,

How would you like to extend the indian ocean all the way to Nepal?
http://home.cogeco.ca/~choot/futureindia.JPG

ah clever one, what are yu going to power yur paki cruise missile
with,yur devdasi matha,with 10 kgs of peanuts,which yu got from u.s.a
in leiu of f-16 planes, stuffed into her gob,with the exhaust outlet,
piped into her arse,to power the missile without radar
signature....its not beyond yu pakis,to get it working with some
n.korean,ding dong missile tecnology, as technology upgradation,the
north koreans grow special organic peanuts,which on contact with
digestive juices,produces flatulency and releases 100 times more
gas,effectively...yu can increase range of yur mom,with this.


For you it will be lord circumcised linga...bhaRAT matha belonds to
all its neighbours. Chini, Paki, BD, SL hee even yanks wants piece of
the pussy. ****ing choora chamar Pakis are gona wave lord
circumcised URANIU linga and bhaRAT mathas Russkie missiles and nukes
are not gona work like last year. heheheh every body ordered
evacuation from bhaRAT..LOL.... AAGRR TTHHOO chamar RUsskie missiles
were designed to woek with farts and bhaRAT is lots of farts ..LOL..

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 21:32:50 -0500, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote:



Habshi wrote:

Sleeker than Tomahawk: Dr Sivathanu Pillai, CEO and MD of BrahMos
Corporation, with a model of the cruise missile

Is it powered by the horizontal Rope Trick?

Bob Kolker


LOL, that is funny Bobby boy