Trishul missile test fired

[KashifAsrar]

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Trishul missile test fired

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Sunday, July 23, 2006 (Balasore):


The country's most sophisticated short-range surface-to-air missile Trishul was test-fired from a range near Balasore, defence sources said.

The missile was test fired from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-Sea, about 15 km from Balasore, at about 11.50 am (IST).

Trishul was targeted at a micro-light aircraft that had been flown in earlier.

Powered by a two-stage solid propellant engine, the missile was fired over a range of nine-kilometres.

The range of the missile, indigenously developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), could be enhanced with the completion of trials, the sources said.
Supersonic speed

Trishul, about three metres in length and 200 cm in diameter, flies at supersonic speed and is capable of carrying a 15-kg payload.

The missile has a triple battlefield role for the army, Air Force and Navy and can engage targets like aircraft and helicopters by using its radar command-to-line-of-sight guidance.

With high maneuverability, the missile has earlier been flight tested in a sea-skimming role and against moving targets.

The naval version of Trishul, part of the integrated guided missile development programme, has a sensitive radar-altimeter and height lock-loop control.

The Army variant, called the Trishul Combat Vehicle (TCV) system, is based on a tracked BMP-1 infantry combat vehicle and houses equipment like radars, command-guidance system and missiles, the sources said. (PTI)

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Why's a SAM sea skimming?

[TexasJohn]

Why's a SAM sea skimming?

The Navy version is. My guess is there are going to be more than one variant, as the article suggests.

[Owais]

what is maximum range of this missile?

[melb4aust]

what is maximum range of this missile?

Around 15 - 16 km's

[KashifAsrar]

Trishul, Akash missiles far from being operational


Rajat Pandit | TNN


New Delhi: The Trishul ‘‘quick-reaction’’ surface-to-air missile may have been tested yet again on Sunday but — just like its sister Akash missile — it’s still far from being inducted into the armed forces.
The frequent time, cost, technical and operational slippages in the 9-km-range Trishul and 25-km-range Akash surface-to-air missile programmes has meant that the country’s air defence cover continues to have gaping holes.
Pakistan, in sharp contrast, has always accorded high-priority to its air defence management, with a multi-tier surveillance cover, air defence fighters, quick-reaction short-range missiles and an integrated control and reporting system.
The Indian armed forces, however, continue to make do with their obsolete air defence systems.
The IAF, for instance, has ageing Pechora, Igla-1M and OSA-AK missile systems, and that too in woefully-inadequate numbers. While Trishul was to replace its OSA-AK weapon system, Akash was meant as a substitute for Pechora.
But both Trishul and Akash air defence missile systems, part of the original Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme launched as far back as in 1983, have been dogged by development snags in their ‘‘command guidance and integrated Ramjet rocket propulsion’’ systems.
Trishul, for instance, has been tested over 80 times so far without coming anywhere near becoming operational. It was, in fact, virtually given up for dead in 2003 after around Rs 300 crore was spent on it, before being revived yet again.
Trishul’s repeated failure, in fact, forced the Navy to go in for nine Israeli Barak anti-missile defence systems for its frontline warships, along with 200 Barak missiles, at a cost of Rs 1,510 crore during the 1999 Kargil conflict. The Navy is now inducting even more Barak systems due to Trishul’s continued failure.
Defence Research and Development Organisation, on its part, contends the seven Trishul trials so far this year, including a flight test with enhanced range of 11.5 km against a remotely-piloted aircraft, have ‘‘met all mission objectives’’.
Trishul can engage targets like aircraft and helicopter, flying between 300 metres and 500 metres, by using its radar command-to-line-ofsight guidance system, it says.
The report card for Akash, tested 16 times since January 2005, is even better since it has completed all its development trials. ‘‘On January 28 this year, interception of two moving targets by two Akash missiles with live warheads was successfully carried out,’’ said an official.
‘‘Akash has multiple-target handling capacity, with digitally-coded command guidance system. Its user trials are now in progress,’’ he said.
The missile’s ‘Rajendra’ radar, a multi-function phased array radar which carries out surveillance, target-tracking, missile acquisition and guidance, can simultaneously track several aircraft within a range of 40 to 60 km.

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good post kashif especially the highlighted portion.

[KashifAsrar]

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good post kashif especially the highlighted portion.

Your choice .... :whatever: