Indian Missile News And Discussion

[ramana]

Some quick points:

- There are interstages between the first an second and second and third stages. Its just below the band where the TEL holds the vehicle.

- No truss structure between the F/S and S/S. Means they have mastered the timing issue between separation and SS motor ignition i.e the bottle type igniter is being use for reliability. So no need for the vented structure.

-Most likely the separation is by shaped charge and not MDF type cutting charge.

- Third stage is a frustrum of a cone!

- The payload is a unitary one like in AIII and not a bus with MIRVs yet.



I haven't seen conical motors except on the Sprint ABM which made it go hypersonic in just a few secs. The conical motor has static stability and needs much less control margin.



So the T/S and RV section are traveling at very high speed but still in atmosphere.