Indian Missile News And Discussion

[Raj Malhotra]

The bits and pieces that have appeared on Indian Air lauched ground attack missiles and PGM programme is as follows:-





1. Laser guided bomb kits but details unknown

2. There seems to be ongoing programme for air dropped PGM kits but whether this is the same programme as LGB above or full family of PGMs like AASM or family of glide bomb kits + data links, booster or wing kits etc, is not known

3. Nirbhay (light and Heavy??)

4. Anti radiation missile – details ??

5. Now if there is a new 1000km range missile mentioned by Chandragupta then my guess would be something like Kh-31 ramjet powered missile



So our R&D in missile family is:-



SAMs:-



Manpads – Igla equivalent – Nil

VSHORAD – Mistral equivalent – Nil

SHORAD – presently – NIL

Mid or long range - Akash & Barak-2 family

BMD – AAD & PAD family



Ground to Ground:-



Pinaka 1 & 2

Prithvi family – what will replace it ? in conventional role? Brahmos?

Agni family

Shaurya

Brahmos



Naval missiles



Nirbahy 1 & 2

Brahmos

Light Ramjet equivalent to Kh-31 – as per open sources Nil

Light and heavy (elec & thermal) torpedoes



Air to Air



WVR follow on to ASRAAM 132

BVR Astra

Long ranged BVR – KS 172 ?



ATGMs



RPG- Nil

Nag

Air launched long ranged Nag

Man portable Nag

LAHAT derived series man portable and cannon launched



Loitering PGM



Some talk but no open source info. Though I wonder why Nishant or Nirbhay/Laksya cannot be converted to loitering ammo "easily"





UAVs



Mini from israel



Nishant



NRUAV



Rustom



Talk of Hale but no info



LCA based UCAV also talked about



Unmanned Ground vehicles - full family of Daksh upto BMP size



Under water - there is one but cannot remember



Over water - Nil