ITCM
is Technology Demonstrator Program, LRLACM is successor to Nirbhay Program
Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile (ITCM) is just a Technological demonstrator program for the testing and validating the Manik Engine / Small Turbo fan Engine. In a way ending speculation that the subsonic cruise missile program is an active missile program that will eventually enter production.
India’s
troubled Nirbhay Cruise missile entered service in limited number after facing
years of delays in the developmental trials phase where the missile had a high
rate of failures and had received too program extensions before it was closed.
Later it was revealed that ITCM is a successor to the Nirbhay program that will
further increase and validate indigenous content in the missile system
including its 4.25 kiloNewton thrust turbo fan engine that has been under trial.
But it is now clear ITCM is just a Testbed program that is using Nirbhay
airframes to test and validate the STFE engine that was planned for the subsonic
flight of the missile and the missile will not enter production.
4.25
kilo Newton thrust turbo fan engine eventually will find its way into (LRLACM) Long
Range Land Attack Cruise Missile program that DRDO is developing. LRLACM will
have a range of over 1,000km and can be launched from the same launcher that is
used by the BrahMos missiles that are installed on over 30 Naval Warships.
LRLACM will take off with help of a booster stage and in the second stage will
be powered by an STFE engine for its subsonic flight for its maximum range but
in the third stage ramjet propulsion will kick in for the last mile supersonic
sprint at the terminal stage making it harder for air defense systems to
intercept it.
The
naval variant of LRLACM will have an extended range of 1500km and the Air Launched
variant and Surface to Surface variants will have over 1000km range.
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Pralay
Missile that can dodge Air defense system
India
has carried out first official trial of the Pralay Tactical Quasi ballistic
missile that will play a crucial role in the upcoming Rocket force, the fourth
arm of the Indian Armed forces that will be raised soon. Pralay (havoc,
destruction) as its name is exactly what its role will be to strike fast and
strike valuable targets inside the enemy camp while also having the ability to
evade the air defense system due to its non-parabolic trajectories.
Pralay
with help of its jet vane control system and its tandem fins can fly depressed
trajectories and can change its flight in the terminal phase, a ballistic
missile that flies like a subsonic cruise missile inside the atmosphere but at
near hypersonic speeds will make it near to impossible for it to be intercepted
by any modern dedicated anti ballistic missile defense system and impossible to
be intercepted by an air defense system.
Pralay
carries a Preformed Fragment warhead of either 175kilograms or 385kilograms
that will be used for targeting Command, Control, Communications, Computers,
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, installations, radars and communication
infrastructure. Pralay has a range of 350km with a 1 ton payload and 500km with
a 500 kilograms payload.
India
is also working on a Pralay variant that will be equipped with a W band MMW
seeker that has a lock on before and locks on after launch with 3km detection
range against ground targets like ground-based radars. Pralay will be the
workhorse of the upcoming Integrated Rocket Force due to cheaper production
costs and also since the missile is entirely made up of systems and components
of other missiles that are already in production.
Army
Looks to Buy Precision Kill Systems with 120 Loitering Munitions to Detect
& Kill Targets
The
Army is looking to procure 10 sets of medium range precision kill system
comprising 120 loitering munitions for its artillery units to detect, engage,
strike and destroy static and moving targets with precision. Loitering
munitions are effectively unmanned combat aerial vehicles popularly known as
drones which can continue to loiter in air close to the designated target, when
directed, attack it by self-destructing into it.
Once
launched, the munitions should be able to loiter in the air and provide real
time imagery on the target to the operator on ground. On the detection of the
target, the loitering munition carrying a warhead should be able to strike it
with precision, thus reducing collateral damages.
Indian
vendors who qualify on the technical, commercial and project requirements will
be issued a project sanction order to develop a prototype of the system.
The
future battlefield requirements make the possession of the precision guided
munitions to achieve first strike kill is a must and this requirement is
further fuelled because of the wide spectrum of conflict ranging from sub conventional
operations to full scale war.