Saturday, May 22, 2010
The X-51 Waverider
The X-51 Waverider will accelerate to speeds of Mach 6. This should first fly next Tuesday. The X-51 is expected to lead in the short term to new missiles able to strike faraway targets quickly and hit so fast as to be extremely difficult to defend against.
At present the Indian developed and built BrahMos is the only operational supersonic cruise missile with a speed of 2.8 Mach and is three-and-a-half times faster than the American Tomahawk cruise missiles. Brahmos-2 is said to reach about Mach 5 so far.
The Bahmos missile has already been inducted into the Navy and the Indian Army, and the IAF is also working on integrating it on its frontline air superiority fighter SU-30MKI. A number of Naval ships have been armed with the BrahMos and the under-construction Talwar Class frigates in Russia will also have it as their main weapon.
At present the Indian developed and built BrahMos is the only operational supersonic cruise missile with a speed of 2.8 Mach and is three-and-a-half times faster than the American Tomahawk cruise missiles. Brahmos-2 is said to reach about Mach 5 so far.
The Bahmos missile has already been inducted into the Navy and the Indian Army, and the IAF is also working on integrating it on its frontline air superiority fighter SU-30MKI. A number of Naval ships have been armed with the BrahMos and the under-construction Talwar Class frigates in Russia will also have it as their main weapon.
# posted by uv : 7:28 AM
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