Isn't the Brahmos already near hypersonic? How much technology overlap is there?
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by78
General
It's yet another publicity stunt, just like their Mars mission in 2013, which had a mission payload so pitifully small that it weighed around the same as six iPads. No useful science was done whatsoever despite India's fantastical claims. It did however snap some grainy images of Mars. It was essentially the most expensive photo expedition in world history, done with a $10 camera.
That's India for you in a nutshell: it operates like a .
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Brahmos is high supersonic missile with a Mach 3.0 top speed. The speculated Brahmos II was the next generation hypersonic variant with claimed top speeds of Mach 7.0. It received great hype in India and Russia. But its development was very quiet. Till now.
I suspect the recent testing of a Mach 6.0 HGV with scramjet is the Brahmos II.
There is a lot of Russian technology in this Brahmos II. So I suspect that's why Indian development of a hypersonic missile is relatively fast. Brahmos II was announced in 2011, and it took 9 years till today for India to have a working HGV prototype. Nothing like the decades China and USA spent to develop hypersonic technologies from scratch.
If Russia still trusts India and gives them more hypersonic technology. Then India would be able to get their Brahmos II in a few years time. How lucky.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
For comparison, the Chinese Lingyun-1 and MF-1 scramjet demonstrators respectively achieved speeds of Mach 7 & 5.33 and altitudes of 30 km & 63.3 km.
Not that far off.
They are still developing towed artillery???
by78
General
Yep, and they still will be 10 years from now.
Skywatcher
Captain
I don't know why they don't just go and license the tech from Denel or ask the South Koreans.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Would not surprise me if they did and still manage to cock it up.