Indian Missile News And Discussion

[Arun_S]

[quote name='Austin' date='28 February 2010 - 10:48 PM' timestamp='1267377033' post='104641']

There was this news article on Hypersonic Brahmos 2 which stated that Brahmos 2 will be lighter than supersonic Brahmos 1 and it will be air launched.



The air launched makes sense because Scramjet will need high altitude and supersonic speed for it to burn and only airlaunched variant probably carried by Su-30/FGFA will be able to do that , a land launched variant will need huge booster and will make it heavy.



The lighter part is probably because it need to carry less about of fuel for the MTCR restricted range of ~ 300 km making it lighter as it can achieve the same range because of higher Isp achieved by Hypersonic Missile.



Here is something on hypersonic missile from official website



[url="http://www.brahmos.com/content.php?id=27"]http://www.brahmos.c...ntent.php?id=27[/url]

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I think hypersonic engine will have lower ISP compared to supersonic engine.