Nuclear Capable Agni-5 Ballistic Missile Tested Successfully
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
A Monthly Bulletin of Defence Research NEWSLETTER and Development Organisation www.drdo.gov.in FEBRUARY 2018 | VOLUME 38 | ISSUE 2 NUCLEAR CAPABLE AGNI-5 BALLISTIC MISSILE TESTED SUCCESSFULLY INNOVATION >> p09 TOT>> p10 ARDE CONDUCTS SUCCESSFUL PENETRATION TRIALS OF 125MM FSAPDS MK-II AMMUNITION FOCUS>> p22 USER TRIAL OF LAND-BASED PROTOTYPE FOR AIR INDEPENDENT PROPULSION (AIP) COMPLETED DRDO IN PRESS>> p31 SUCCESSFULLY FEBRUARY 2018 VOLUME 38 | ISSUE 2 CONTENTS ISSN: 0971-4391 COVER STORY 08 Nuclear Capable Agni-5 Ballistic Missile tested successfully INNOVATIONS 09 HRD ACTIVITIES 17 ARDE conducts successful Penetration Trials of 125mm FSAPDS Mk-II Ammunition FOCUS 22 User Trial of Land-Based Prototype for Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) Completed Successfully PERSONNEL NEWS 26 TOT/TD 10 EVENTS 12 SPORTS ROUNDS Up 27 VISITS 28 DRDO SERIES 29 DRDO IN PRESS 31 DOWN THE MEMORY 32 LANE 2 FEBRUARY 2018 www.drdo.gov.in DRDO NEWSLETTER Defence Research & Development Organisation NEWSLETTER ISSN: 0971-4391 FROM THE DESK OF THE CHAIRMAN 37th Year of Publication Editor-in-Chief: Dr Alka Suri Senior Editor: B Nityanand; Editor: Manoj Kumar Asst Editor: Geeta Sharma; Editorial Assistance: Biak Tangpua Dr S Christopher Multimedia: RK Bhatnagar CHAIRMAN Printing: SK Gupta, Hans Kumar; Distribution: Tapesh Sinha, RP Singh For feedback, please contact: [email protected] Defence Research & Development Organisation Tel: 011-23902403; 23902474; Fax: 011-23819151 & LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS SECRETARY Ahmednagar: Lt Col. AK Singh, Vehicles Research & Development Department of Defence Research & Development Establishment (VRDE); Ambernath: Dr Susan Titus, Naval Materials Research Laboratory (NMRL); Balasore/Chandipur: Shri Santosh Munda, Integrated Test Range (ITR); Dr AK Sannigrahi, Proof & Experimental Establishment (PXE); Bengaluru: Shri Subbukutti S, Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE); Smt MR Dear Friends, Bhuvaneswari, Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS); Smt Faheema AGJ, Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR); Ms Tripty Rani My Best wishes to the DRDO family for a Happy and Prosperous Bose, Centre for Military Airworthiness & Certification (CEMILAC); New Year as well as DRDO Day. What a better way of ending the year Smt Josephine Nirmala M, Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE); Shri Kiran G, Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE); with a success story! In fact, we served the services more than ever Shri KM Veerabhadra, Electronics & Radar Development Establishment before in the year gone by. (LRDE); Dr Vishal Kesari, Microwave Tube Research & Development Centre (MTRDC); Chandigarh: Dr HS Gusain, Snow & Avalanche Study I would like to thank and wish all my colleagues and the entire DRDO Establishment (SASE); Shri Ashok Kumar Dahiya, Terminal Ballistics family, for their untiring efforts in making the year very successful. Research Laboratory (TBRL); Chennai: Shri PD Jayaram, Combat Having seen such a wonderful year, we must now look forward to the Vehicles Research & Development Establishment (CVRDE); Dehradun: Shri Abhai Mishra, Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory (DEAL); year, which is ahead of us. I am sure that we will succeed in achieving Shri JP Singh, Instruments Research & Development Establishment the targets we have set our sights on. (IRDE); Delhi: Shri Ashutosh Bhatnagar, Centre for Personnel Talent Management (CEPTAM); Dr Rajendra Singh, Centre for Fire, Explosive Our achievement is not a complete picture of what we have done. & Environment Safety (CFEES); Dr Dolly Bansal, Defence Institute of This is only a glimpse of few things that we could do. Let me summarise Psychological Research (DIPR); Shri Navin Soni, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS); Shri Anurag Thakur, Institute the landmarks our clusters achieved in the year 2017. for Systems Studies & Analyses (ISSA); Dr Indu Gupta, Laser Science & Technology Centre (LASTEC); Shri Sanjay Pal, Recruitment & Assessment AERO CLUSTER Centre (RAC); Ms Noopur Shrotriya, Scientific Analysis Group (SAG); Dr Rupesh Kumar Chaubey, Solid State Physics Laboratory (SSPL); Gwalior: You all are aware that LCA has been inducted into the Indian Air Shri RK Srivastava, Defence R&D Establishment (DRDE); Haldwani: Force (IAF) and we now have a production clearance for 83 LCA Mk 1A Dr Atul Grover, Defence Institute of Bio-Energy Research (DIBER); at a cost of Rs 53,000 crore. Weapon release trials of bombs and derby Hyderabad: Shri Hemant Kumar, Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL); Shri Pramod K Jha, Centre for Advanced Systems (CAS); BVRAAM and PIDs for envelope expansion in operations cleaning Dr JK Rai, Advanced Numerical Research & Analysis Group (ANURAG); configuration of the aircraft have been completed successfully. Shri JP Singh, Centre for High Energy Systems & Sciences (CHESS); Our indigenously developed Airborne Early Warming and Control Shri ARC Murthy, Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DLRL); Dr Manoj Kumar Jain, Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (AEW&C) system, inducted into the IAF last year, participated in the (DMRL); Dr K Nageswara Rao, Defence Research & Development Akraman exercise as well as several large fleet exercises. The aircraft Laboratory (DRDL); Shri N Venkatesh, Research Centre Imarat (RCI); has completed 250 mission sorties conducted for a total duration of Jagdalpur: Dr Gaurav Agnihotri, SF Complex (SFC); Jodhpur: Shri Ravindra Kumar, Defence Laboratory (DL); Kanpur: Shri AK Singh, 500 hr. Tejas and AEW&C system were also part of the fly-past in the Defence Materials & Stores Research & Development Establishment Republic Day Parade 2017 and 2018. Induction of AEW&C system has (DMSRDE); Kochi: Shri S Radhakrishnan, Naval Physical & made the country one of the four elite countries in the world with this Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL); Leh: Dr Dorjey Angchok, Defence Institute of High Altitude Research (DIHAR); Mussoorie: Dr Gopa technology. B Choudhury, Institute of Technology Management (ITM); Mysuru: Dr M Palmurugan and Shri NV Nagraj, Defence Food Research Another area where Aero Cluster has done well is Unmanned Air Laboratory (DFRL); Pune: Dr (Mrs) JA Kanetkar, Armament Research Vehicles. Rustom-I was demonstrated to Central Reserve Police Force and Development Establishment (ARDE); Dr Vijay Pattar, Defence and a command range of 200 km was manifested. The Medium Altitude Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT); Shri AM Devale, High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL); Shri SS Arole, Long Endurance (MALE) UAV Rustom-II also successfully completed Research & Development Establishment (Engrs) [R&DE (E)]; Tezpur: 10 design validations flights. It is almost in the process of reaching Dr Jayshree Das, Defence Research Laboratory (DRL); Visakhapatnam: highest altitude range as well as endurance. Work is also in progress Dr (Mrs) V Vijaya Sudha, Naval Science & Technological Laboratory (NSTL) to enhance the capacity of its engine to enhance its payload capacity. Nine flight trials of weaponised remotely piloted air vehicle Lakshya, were carried out successfully with 20 m circular error probable. All Aero developments require secluded place away from civilian www.drdo.gov.in FEBRUARY 2018 3 Chairman’s MESSAGE Aeronautical Test Range was dedicated to the nation by the then Hon’ble Raksha Mantri Shri Arun Jaitley (inset). air zone. DRDO’s own Aeronautical Prithvi Defence Vehicle and Akash Weapon System, already in Testing Range (ATR) was inaugurated Advanced Air Defence Vehicle were service with the IAF, was refurbished at Chitradurga by the then Hon’ble successfully tested for the lower with the IR seeker to the satisfaction Raksha Mantri Shri Arun Jaitley. The altitude. With this we are moving of the user. We are now in process of ATR is intended for conducting trials closer towards induction of our own exporting the system to the friendly of UAVs, air-to-ground weapons, Ballistic Missile Defence System. countries. parachutes and aerostats. In another first, we flight tested The other landmark weapon BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, system, which the Aero Cluster a joint venture of DRDO and NPOM successfully tested is Nirbhay Sub- Russia, from Su-30 Mk-1. The Sonic Cruise Missile. One of its kind air launched BrahMos–a 2.5 ton in the world, Nirbhay can travel up to supersonic air-to-surface missile 1000 km. With this India has entered with range of more than 400 km–is in a small group of countries having the heaviest weapon to be deployed indigenous cruise missile technology. on Su-30. Indian Air Force has shown interest We also carried out successful in endorsing 40 Nirbhay. Hopefully, operational flight of Army, Air Force Army and Navy would also follow the and Naval versions of LRSAM, suit. MRSAM and QRSAM. The missiles MISSILE & STRATEGIC are being developed jointly with SYSTEM CLUSTER Israel. In addition, anti-tank missile Nag and its helicopter launched The Missile and Strategic System version HELINA, with indigenously cluster has several accomplishments developed IIR seeker, were also tested to its credit. Agni series of strategic in the presence of senior officers of missiles, which have been inducted Armed Forces. into the services, were periodically Advanced Air Defence Vehicle was In another landmark, Smart Anti- tested by the users. tested successfully 4 FEBRUARY 2018 www.drdo.gov.in Chairman’s MESSAGE DRDO NEWSLETTER Airfield Weapon (SAAW) was tested 65 km and 75 km range. PSQR-based Air Independent Propulsion with flying colour by IAF with high user trials of