Indian Missile News And Discussion

[laltaputu]

This whole Shourya saga is creating some confusion

what i understand reading all these articles is that

a ballistic missile leaves the atmosphere,re enters then descends towards the target

but

in case of Shourya it reaches 40-50km at Mach 6,then it does not leaves the atmosphere but moves or "cruises"

towards the target burning own fuel then it descends towards the target at hypersonic speed and it can do maneuvers in the descend phase and also correct it's trajectory by Ring laser gyroscope and terminal guidance unlike normal ballistic missile thus making it more accurate.

peoples am i correct

also the nose cone of Shourya in the November 12, 2008 test and the nose cone shown in the defexpo 2010 seems to be different can anyone tell about that.