[quote name='sumishi' date='08 October 2011 - 05:28 PM' timestamp='1318074651' post='113219']
[size="3"][url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/pioneer-news/todays-newspaper/11724-with-russian-help-india-to-join-icbm-big-league-soon.html"]With Russian help, India to join ICBM big league soon[/url] : The Pioneer, 08 October 2011
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[quote name='Bharat_2009' date='08 October 2011 - 08:52 PM' timestamp='1318086885' post='113220']
Russian seeker technology ??? is this article some kind of joke???
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ICBM and IRBM missiles are almost always tipped with nukes; Target seeker technology is only useful where one is trying to hit a small or moving target with a conventional bomb whose radius of destruction is few meters or at most few tens of meter.
Nukes have many hundred meters if not Kilometer of radius of destruction.
What matters in long range missiles is a good Navigation system, lacking which one would do sensor fusion to get navigation correction.
Recent Shourya test over bland sea range with accuracy of few meters speaks of accuracy of Indian missile navigation system (read INS or INS+Radio Nav system) with out any seeker capability (recall sea surface does not lend itself to any seeker technology).
Prior Agni test test have also yielded similar accuracy verifications. I believe the turning point was realization of Ring Gyro (the heart of Inertial Platform and IMU). Fuzing it with stellar navigation or ground based Radio Nav aid sealed the targeting spatial position accuracy to few meters.
If at all this article is talking of any seeker that might be useful in Long range missiles it might be optical sensors for star fixing in stellar navigation.
[size="3"][url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/pioneer-news/todays-newspaper/11724-with-russian-help-india-to-join-icbm-big-league-soon.html"]With Russian help, India to join ICBM big league soon[/url] : The Pioneer, 08 October 2011
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[quote name='Bharat_2009' date='08 October 2011 - 08:52 PM' timestamp='1318086885' post='113220']
Russian seeker technology ??? is this article some kind of joke???
[/quote]
ICBM and IRBM missiles are almost always tipped with nukes; Target seeker technology is only useful where one is trying to hit a small or moving target with a conventional bomb whose radius of destruction is few meters or at most few tens of meter.
Nukes have many hundred meters if not Kilometer of radius of destruction.
What matters in long range missiles is a good Navigation system, lacking which one would do sensor fusion to get navigation correction.
Recent Shourya test over bland sea range with accuracy of few meters speaks of accuracy of Indian missile navigation system (read INS or INS+Radio Nav system) with out any seeker capability (recall sea surface does not lend itself to any seeker technology).
Prior Agni test test have also yielded similar accuracy verifications. I believe the turning point was realization of Ring Gyro (the heart of Inertial Platform and IMU). Fuzing it with stellar navigation or ground based Radio Nav aid sealed the targeting spatial position accuracy to few meters.
If at all this article is talking of any seeker that might be useful in Long range missiles it might be optical sensors for star fixing in stellar navigation.