02-11-2010, 12:10 AM
[quote name='Gagan' date='10 February 2010 - 11:16 PM' timestamp='1265823497' post='104086']
The post boost vehicle or the bus indeed seems to be a very complex piece of equipment. It has to know the exact speed of the missile, the orientation along the 3 vectors, the exact location of the missile and the intended impact point of each of the RVs.
It then has to align the RVs to the required angle? so that they re-enter the atmosphere with the heat shield directed correctly.
Indeed amazing science and engineering!
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Mr. Gagan of BR fame, post-boost vehicle is the re-entry system. PBV deploys the RVs in a very precise (and typically covert) manner, and place whatever countermeasures it might have aboard to obscure the RV from any possible anti-missile system. The vehicles are covered with material to protect them during re-entry through the atmosphere to their targets and are mechanically attached to the deployment module. The attachments are unlatched by gas pressure from an explosive cartridge broken by small, exploding bolts, which free the re-entry vehicles, allowing them to separate from the DM with little disturbance. Each deployed re-entry vehicle follows a ballistic path to its target.........
India has to cover some ground on this - hence 5 more years I reckon, and since assumption is mother of all the mess ups - its no good speculating on this whether the process of drawing board to proto type is over with....
The post boost vehicle or the bus indeed seems to be a very complex piece of equipment. It has to know the exact speed of the missile, the orientation along the 3 vectors, the exact location of the missile and the intended impact point of each of the RVs.
It then has to align the RVs to the required angle? so that they re-enter the atmosphere with the heat shield directed correctly.
Indeed amazing science and engineering!
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Mr. Gagan of BR fame, post-boost vehicle is the re-entry system. PBV deploys the RVs in a very precise (and typically covert) manner, and place whatever countermeasures it might have aboard to obscure the RV from any possible anti-missile system. The vehicles are covered with material to protect them during re-entry through the atmosphere to their targets and are mechanically attached to the deployment module. The attachments are unlatched by gas pressure from an explosive cartridge broken by small, exploding bolts, which free the re-entry vehicles, allowing them to separate from the DM with little disturbance. Each deployed re-entry vehicle follows a ballistic path to its target.........
India has to cover some ground on this - hence 5 more years I reckon, and since assumption is mother of all the mess ups - its no good speculating on this whether the process of drawing board to proto type is over with....