Austin,
Glad to to have you on this forum. I look forward to rewarding collaboration.
Recent press reports mention Dhanush role also as an Anti-ship missile, in the same breath calling out its range as 350 Km. The challange hitting a moving navel target at 350 Km is first detecting and identifying a perticular ship in a fleet at that range, and projecting/extrapolating its position by the time OODA response time (which is much more than missile flight time).
Given that Dhanush is a hybrid semi-ballistic missile (with aerodynamic lift available most during of the trajectory, it does lend itself to terminal maneuvering). But for successful indiction, the Dhanush either:
1.) Gets final target position for interception via a data-link that is connected in realtime to observing platform. For most carrier bourn armada getting cloer to 300 Km radius from battle group is a difficult challange. However for a non-carrier battle group that is not very difficult.
OR
2.) Carry multi-sensor guidance package (RF and optical) to discriminate a perticular vessal in a battle group. Preferably passive and not active. This is a challenge that DRDO has yet to demonstrate mastery.
For high value navel targets, lack of terminal accuracy can be compensated by a high yield nuclear weapon. Unlike Brahmos that cant carry a big nuclear warhead (perhaps limited to ~20 kT), Dhanush can carry high yield FBF or TN and fly a trajectory using only passive guidance/sensors.
In either case Dhanush class missile with its slow speed is liable to interception by Agies class warships (US has sold many such ship to other countries), its winged maneuverability will however makes it bit more challenging to Aegis ABM interceptors.
Glad to to have you on this forum. I look forward to rewarding collaboration.
Recent press reports mention Dhanush role also as an Anti-ship missile, in the same breath calling out its range as 350 Km. The challange hitting a moving navel target at 350 Km is first detecting and identifying a perticular ship in a fleet at that range, and projecting/extrapolating its position by the time OODA response time (which is much more than missile flight time).
Given that Dhanush is a hybrid semi-ballistic missile (with aerodynamic lift available most during of the trajectory, it does lend itself to terminal maneuvering). But for successful indiction, the Dhanush either:
1.) Gets final target position for interception via a data-link that is connected in realtime to observing platform. For most carrier bourn armada getting cloer to 300 Km radius from battle group is a difficult challange. However for a non-carrier battle group that is not very difficult.
OR
2.) Carry multi-sensor guidance package (RF and optical) to discriminate a perticular vessal in a battle group. Preferably passive and not active. This is a challenge that DRDO has yet to demonstrate mastery.
For high value navel targets, lack of terminal accuracy can be compensated by a high yield nuclear weapon. Unlike Brahmos that cant carry a big nuclear warhead (perhaps limited to ~20 kT), Dhanush can carry high yield FBF or TN and fly a trajectory using only passive guidance/sensors.
In either case Dhanush class missile with its slow speed is liable to interception by Agies class warships (US has sold many such ship to other countries), its winged maneuverability will however makes it bit more challenging to Aegis ABM interceptors.