Indian Missile News And Discussion

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Arun what is the specific advantage of Gel fuel based missile over liquid fuel ?



As I understand it can be stored as solid fuel and engine can be stopped and started in flight as liquid fuel.



Do they offer higher ISP over solid fuel like liquid fuel does ?



Are they safe and robust to store and operate ?





Since India and Russia are jointly developing Brahmos-2 here is some development on scramjet front



http://www.russiandefenseblog.org/?p=624

Russia will develop a target missile with a strait-flow engine in two or three years. The missile may be the prototype of a hypersonic aircraft, a Russian defense sector source told Interfax-AVN.



“The target missile development started in 2009, and the entire works will take three years. Documentation is ready,” he said.



The target missile “may eventually develop into a hypersonic vehicle, because it is easier to test prospective technologies this way,” he said.



“Key elements of the new engine were tested in the aerodynamic tube of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Research Institute this year. A model of the target missile will be tested in 2010,” the source said.