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India successfully test-fires long range hypersonic missile
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|u/typing-from-Area51 - 6 hours
|
|Details regarding this Hypersonic missile:-  Range: 1500kms+  The Indian
|missile, developed by the state-run Defence Research and Development
|Organisation and industry partners, is designed to carry payloads for
|ranges exceeding 1,500 km (930 miles) for the armed forces, the
|government said in a statement."The flight data ... confirmed the
|successful terminal manoeuvres and impact with high degree of accuracy,"
|it added.  Defence Minister Rajnath Singh called the test a "historic
|achievement" in a post on X, adding that it placed India among a select
|group of nations possessing such critical and advanced technologies.
|Recent trials feature a boost glide vehicle configuration.  This test
|was probably the Glide Vehicle test of HTDV on which India had been
|working on for quite some time.  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperson
|ic\_Technology\_Demonstrator\_Vehicle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyp
|ersonic_Technology_Demonstrator_Vehicle)  (HTDV \^\^)  Sources:-
|[https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-successful-test-hypersonic-
|missile-puts-it-among-elite-
|group-2024-11-17/](https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-
|successful-test-hypersonic-missile-puts-it-among-elite-
|group-2024-11-17/)  [https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/india-long-
|range-hypersonic-missile-drdo-army-rajnath-singh-test-
|trial-2634622-2024-11-17](https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/india-
|long-range-hypersonic-missile-drdo-army-rajnath-singh-test-
|trial-2634622-2024-11-17)  [https://idrw.org/drdos-tests-mystery-
|missile-likely-hypersonic-anti-ship-missile-
|system/](https://idrw.org/drdos-tests-mystery-missile-likely-hypersonic-
|anti-ship-missile-system/)


|u/Lord_K123 - 7 hours
|
|Interesting; the range and speed seem to indicate this was a [Brahmos-
|II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrahMos-II) prototype?


  |u/ff7100 - 6 hours
  |
  |No it's by DRDO


  |u/spacegymnerd - 4 hours
  |
  |It's not a Brahmos 2. Completely different program.  LrAShM Long Range
  |Anti Ship Missile.  It's a quasi ballistic hypersonic missile with a
  |range of 1500 kms for targeting naval ships. Estimated top speeds of
  |Mach 9.  The Brahmos 2 is a cruise missiles program with a top speed
  |of Mach 6.


  |u/TravellingMills - 7 hours
  |
  | No one knows the complete details tbh, its not like they will share.


|u/ShiraLillith - 2 hours
|
|Friendly reminder, a true hypersonic missile can maneuver at speeds past
|Mach 5, and currently, there are no such missiles in the world.   You
|can go as fast as possible, if you slow down at the end, you're just as
|easy to be intercepted as a regular missile.   "Hypersonic" is just a
|buzzword that awes people who aren't autistic about war hardware


  |u/EmergencyHorror4792 - 1 hour
  |
  |Oooooh and this would be why the SR72 going Mach 6+ is such a huge
  |deal


  |u/billwang52 - 40 minutes
  |
  |Seems you didn't read the report. This missile is hypersonic
  |throughout it's flight regime which is entirely within the atmosphere
  |(it's not even partially ballistic) and it is maneauverable at all
  |stages, including terminal. This was validated by several sensors on
  |the ground, on  aircraft and on downrange ships. The top speed has
  |been speculated to be around mach 9. This is not a buzzword meant to
  |awe anyone. It's an unstoppable ship killer.


  |u/FuryDreams - 50 minutes
  |
  |>a true hypersonic missile can maneuver at speeds past Mach 5,  Wrong,
  |there are already some missiles that can maneuver at hypersonic
  |speeds. MaRVs can do that even at very high hypersonics (Mach 20-25).
  |For within atmosphere cruise missile there is Zircon and some unknown
  |US missile.


  |u/Whatshouldiputhere0 - 1 hour
  |
  |Yep. If you say “Hypersonic” is any missile that *goes* faster than
  |Mach 5, that would be the vast majority of ballistic missiles. What
  |you’d actually need is a missile that can accurately maneuver *while*
  |going faster than Mach 5, and as HLC says, “there’s no way you have
  |one, because we haven’t developed one for you to copy yet”


|u/Wants-NotNeeds - 7 hours
|
|Time for a super laser defense network ringing the boarders of every
|country!


  |u/Spare-Abrocoma-4487 - 3 hours
  |
  |Problem is line of sight that's needed for laser weapons. Unless it's
  |a point or area defense, the missile would pass the laser defense by
  |the time it heats up or get damaged.


    |u/Algopops - 2 hours
    |
    |Could you bend it with a magnetic lens?


      |u/ParentPostLacksWang - 54 minutes
      |
      | No. Photons aren’t charged, so their paths are unaffected by a
      |magnetic field. An electron beam, yes, but not a laser.


        |u/Algopops - 35 minutes
        |
        |Cool, thanks


        |u/Algopops - 21 minutes
        |
        |Ah, I forgot the Delbrück scattering, it can bend it to some
        |extent


          |u/ParentPostLacksWang - 19 minutes
          |
          |Not to the degree it will matter considering the power of
          |magnet you could mount in a missile though :)


            |u/Algopops - 13 minutes
            |
            |Totally, not even sure it's detectable. Thanks again


|u/No-Duhnning - 1 hour
|
|Hooray


|u/bannedin420 - 6 hours
|
|Canada we need to look out for


  |u/Sure-Sympathy5014 - 6 hours
  |
  |Honestly what are you gonna shoot at?   Take out some paper pushers
  |from branches of US companies in Toronto?  Ottawa where the 1/2 the
  |MPs only show up 1/2 the time?   Tim hortons workers living in
  |Brampton?  Abandoned factories in Windsor?


    |u/TXTCLA55 - 42 minutes
    |
    |God our economy sucks... Five companies in a trenchcoat living in a
    |million dollar shack.


  |u/typing-from-Area51 - 6 hours
  |
  |India Canada relations are going to become better again after Clowntin
  |Trudeau & Jagmeet Singh (Khalistani Sympathizers) will be out of power
  |next year.  India Canada are fundamentally never gonna be enemies.
  |Unlike India China , India Pakistan , India Bangladesh etc.


    |u/uneducatedDumbRacoon - 5 hours
    |
    |Khalistanis are deeply integrated within Canadian politics. Expect
    |absolutely nothing to change


      |u/typing-from-Area51 - 5 hours
      |
      |With the recent Trump Administration coming in & Tulsi Gabbard
      |becoming Director of National Intelligence , US itself will clamp
      |down hard on these criminal terrorist "americans" "canadians" very
      |hard along with all the pro palestinian pro hamas "americans"
      |"canadians". Deep cleansing awaits all these low lifes.     The
      |American deep state is about to get deep cleansed & Trump DOJ will
      |throw out cases related to "attempted assassination" of low life
      |Khalistanis . Trump himself doesn't want such kind of immigrants
      |into his country . Enjoy the show from 20th January 2025.


        |u/opfulent - 3 hours
        |
        |me when i fall for misinformation like an idiot


        |u/uneducatedDumbRacoon - 4 hours
        |
        |Then I certainly hope that is the case.


    |u/Professor-Noir - 5 hours
    |
    |India Canada relationship is not going to improve even if Trudeau
    |loses.  There are currently 14 police departments in Canada that
    |have connected Indian diplomats to crimes throughout our country
    |including extortion and murder.  I know the modi propaganda train
    |says this is political but this is bigger than just one murder by
    |the Indian government.  Even the conservatives cancelled a Diwali
    |celebration on parliament hill and the Americans just issued an
    |arrest warrant for a former Indian diplomatic employee connected to
    |organized crime.


      |u/typing-from-Area51 - 5 hours
      |
      |Have you seen the recent news shown on CTV's youtube channel
      |regarding one of India's most wanted Terrorist being having
      |arrested by RCMP in an unrelated shooting incident. That guy along
      |with 20+ other Khalistanis are being requested for extradition by
      |the Indian government . And many (atleast conservative Canadians)
      |also want such people to thrown out of their country & are openly
      |saying that such people being in Canada is an example of the
      |failure of the immigration system of Canada under Trudeau in the
      |first place. Just visit that video's comment section. People
      |aren't shy about their opinions on the internet.  With the recent
      |Trump Administration coming in & Tulsi Gabbard becoming Director
      |of National Intelligence , US itself will clamp down hard on these
      |criminal terrorist "americans" "canadians" very hard along with
      |all the pro palestinian pro hamas "americans" "canadians". Deep
      |cleansing awaits all these low lifes.


        |u/Professor-Noir - 5 hours
        |
        |Peoples opinions on the internet are not important for improving
        |relations.  The RCMP and FBI are conducting investigations that
        |link the Indian government to organized crime leaders in India
        |and North America.  To date the individual you mentioned has
        |been arrested, and also Indian diplomats have been expelled for
        |providing information to organized crime.   There will likely be
        |revelations released periodically now that some of the diplomats
        |were expelled last month.


      |u/typing-from-Area51 - 5 hours
      |
      |The American deep state is about to get deep cleansed & Trump DOJ
      |will throw out cases related to "attempted assassination" of low
      |life Khalistanis . Trump himself doesn't want such kind of
      |immigrants into his country .  Enjoy the show from 20th January
      |2025.


        |u/Professor-Noir - 5 hours
        |
        |You’re quite naive if you think the American judicial system
        |will turn their eyes away from a state that willingly works with
        |organized crime on American soil.    The fact that the paid
        |Indian agent was dumb enough to try and hire an FBI informant to
        |murder a khalistani activist shows how amateur these attempts
        |have been from the Indian side.


          |u/typing-from-Area51 - 5 hours
          |
          |American judicial system right from Supreme Court to lower
          |levels were & will be even more so in future be filled with
          |Trump appointees. None of whom want such type of immigrants in
          |their country & consider them being American/Canadian
          |citizenship as a failure of what the immigration system has
          |been in the first place.  A good amount of evidence against
          |these Khalistani criminals terrorists & all the Trump judges
          |will want to free US of such people.


            |u/AdHom - 3 hours
            |
            |You don't understand America at all then. Its not even about
            |Khalistanis or what they stand for, even Trump and his
            |supporters will not be in favor of allowing India to
            |infringe on American sovereignty like this. It will not get
            |swept under the rug so easily.


        |u/VagueSomething - 1 hour
        |
        |You might want to loosen your tinfoil hat.


  |u/spacegymnerd - 3 hours
  |
  |Canadians have a very grandiose view of themselves.  You really are
  |not as important on the world stage as you think you are.


  |u/netraider29 - 3 hours
  |
  |Lol the diplomatic tussle there is quite overblown and is used by
  |Trudeau for political capital. Relationship will normalize as soon as
  |he is out


  |u/govegan292828 - 25 minutes
  |
  |First Indian-Canadian war


|u/billwang52 - 31 minutes
|
|Curious about it being meant for "all three forces". I can see it being
|on ships and on land but what will the air force do with it? If the buzz
|about the Tu-160 or Tu-22M joining the IAF is true, then it would make
|sense.


|u/JamsJars - 2 minutes
|
|They got a long range hypersonic missile system yet they still have the
|Caste system and poor beggars stay as poor beggars indefinitely. What a
|strange country.


|u/Alterragen - 7 hours
|
|This planet sucks..


  |u/Hrit33 - 7 hours
  |
  |tbh war has been one of the biggest driver of Innovation, the next one
  |being money


    |u/Venerable_Rival - 6 hours
    |
    |Both can be true.


    |u/Alterragen - 7 hours
    |
    |That’s never been a justification for it.. innovation would happen
    |regardless..


      |u/h4p3r50n1c - 6 hours
      |
      |It hardly does. That’s just the reality.


        |u/goiterburg - 6 hours
        |
        |That's not true at all. Sure, innovation increases with certain
        |technologies during wartime, but scientific progress marches on
        |regardless. This includes medicine. And the more we see
        |innovation from ai, the less human mobilization will have to do
        |with it.


      |u/Homelandr - 6 hours
      |
      |Ofc Innovation happens regardless,it's just that weapons race sped
      |up things ,Wernher von Braun's research and America's race for
      |missile supremacy over Soviet union and vive versa is why today
      |humans were quickly able to figure out rockets and satellites ,
      |things like Radars were fruits of weapons research


|u/Key_Buffalo_2357 - 5 hours
|
|China > India


  |u/Shogouki - 5 hours
  |
  |A full scale war between those two nations would be prohibitively
  |devastating, even for China.  Neither nation is going to do more than
  |posture unless one or both country's leaders lose their minds.


  |u/typing-from-Area51 - 5 hours
  |
  |Yeah but seeing as how much of a bloody nose non Nuclear country
  |Ukraine (without even an Airforce) can deliver to Russia , i doubt
  |China will want to get into a long war with India.  Plus China will
  |end up burning a lot of its military resources if it attempts to annex
  |Taiwan.


|u/lonelyRedditor__ - 6 hours
|
|Lamo it flew off with the cap


  |u/hckr182 - 1 hour
  |
  |If you observe carefully, the cap opening sequence was slower than the
  |speed of the missile. So, it got stuck on the pointy head.


  |u/est19xxxx - 1 hour
  |
  |It's too pointy the cap got stuck in it I guess


|u/s1me007 - 5 hours
|
|shitting brics


|u/SoftFluid7908 - 4 hours
|
|Tech help from Russia in exchange got oil purchases?


  |u/ssbn-510 - 3 hours
  |
  |Self made by DRDO


    |u/Finwolven - 1 hour
    |
    |And 'industry partners', don't forget them!