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As part of developmental tests, the flight trial of Astra, Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM), was successfully carried out by scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation recently at Balasore, Orissa.DRDO sources told The Hindu here on Thursday that the missile’s dual mode guidance was fully proved when it was fired from the ground at an imaginary target. Astra is a high-end tactical missile and is envisaged to intercept enemy aircraft at supersonic speeds in head-on mode at a range of 80 km and in tail-chase mode at 20 km.Once the full-fledged flight test is completed, the missile will be integrated with the IAF’s Sukhoi-30, MiG-29 and the Light Combat Aircraft (Tejas).
4 comments:
by the time this missile comes into action it will be outdated ,this is nothing but wastage of time and money
by just upgrading R27 with western or russian seekers along with mid course guidance and also upgrade IR version of R27 with western IR seeker would work much much better than uncertainity of developing new missile
so this is much better option than developing astra
astra would be 3 folds cheaper then upgrading R27.
thanks
amit how come you get this 3 folds chepaer than upgrading r27
how much money being spent on development of astra and still nowhere near completion ,and the same money can be spent on upgrading exixting missiles
I am sure you guys do realize that when R-27 was designed. It carries Semi-active radar homing or Infrared homing, passive homing using Avtomatika 9B-1032 seeker head. It is very heavy missile when compared to current generation of BVR missiles like R-77, Mica, Aim-120, PL-12/SD-10A etc and is not suitable for carriage on light weight fighters like LCA. R-27AE AA-10 Alamo-E Active radar homing version was offered but never took off.
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