Russian 'Super-Holding' to Build Hypersonic Missile

Gestart door jurrien visser (JuVi op Twitter), 20/09/2012 | 10:16 uur

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Russian Armed Forces to Adopt Hypersonic Missiles on Mass Scale

19.01.2015

The development of hypersonic missiles in Russia and the United States currently stands at the same level, the CEO of Russia's Tactical Missiles Corporation believes.

MOSCOW, January 19 (Sputnik) — The Russian Armed Forces will receive hypersonic missiles on mass scale in about 15 to 25 years, with the first prototypes to be created by 2020, CEO of Russia's Tactical Missiles Corporation Boris Obnosov said in an interview with the "Defense of Russia" magazine.

"I think that the program will unfold as early as in the next decade, and the transition to the hypersonic [missiles] is a matter of the 2030s-2040s," Obnosov said.

He explained that the main difficulty in developing missiles able to fly significantly faster than the speed of sound was needed for new construction materials, capable of enduring the temperatures caused by flying at extremely high speed.

"Flying at Mach 6 [4,567 mph] is one task, but [doing it] at Mach 8-10 is an entirely another one. We could even speak of Mach 10-12. The tasks grows more difficult exponentially," Obnosov said.

The Tactical Missiles Corporation's CEO added the task of producing hypersonic missiles was also a challenge in terms of the construction of missile engines and on-board equipment.

The development of hypersonic missiles in Russia and the United States currently stands at the same level, the CEO of Russia's Tactical Missiles Corporation believes.

Joint Stock Company Tactical Missiles Corporation was established in 2002 and includes 26 companies, producing missiles and guided bombs, as well as air-, sea- and land-based missile systems.

http://sputniknews.com/military/20150119/1017084589.html

dudge

Citaat van: Nikehercules op 25/02/2013 | 20:04 uur
Idd, daar heb ik me ook wel eens over verwonderd. En dan met name over de Amerikanen.

Stiekem hebben we natuurlijk een mach 3.5 vliegend wapen dat tegen schepen ingezet kan worden. Zij het dat deze in bepaalde opzichten (o.a. sea skimming en sensor) minder capable is dan het subsone broertje.

IPA NG

Citaat van: jurrien visser op 25/02/2013 | 20:08 uur
Citaat van: Nikehercules op 25/02/2013 | 20:04 uur
Idd, daar heb ik me ook wel eens over verwonderd. En dan met name over de Amerikanen.

De vraag is: hoe gemakkelijk kunnen tegenmaatregelen genomen worden  en zijn wetserse CIWS systemen tegen ASM's met mach 5+ opgewassen.

Ik ben bang van niet. Ik denk dat er in ieder geval meer CIWS moet installeren. Bijvoorbeeld voor, achter en aan beide zijden. Dat klink misschien overkill maar ik denk het niet. Daarnaast moeten zij zelf dit soort dingen ontwikkelen. Raketten die lange afstanden afleggen op zeer hoge snelheid of bijvoorbeeld met jammers en meerdere warheads of iets dergelijks om CIWS te verslaan.

Dit ding is al een flinke stap in de goede richting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus_(missile)
Militaire strategie is van groot belang voor een land. Het is de oorzaak van leven of dood; het is de weg naar overleven of vernietiging en moet worden onderzocht. --Sun Tzu

jurrien visser (JuVi op Twitter)

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Citaat van: Nikehercules op 25/02/2013 | 20:04 uur
Idd, daar heb ik me ook wel eens over verwonderd. En dan met name over de Amerikanen.

De vraag is: hoe gemakkelijk kunnen tegenmaatregelen genomen worden  en zijn westerse CIWS systemen tegen ASM's met mach 5+ opgewassen.

Nikehercules

Citaat van: IPA NG op 25/02/2013 | 19:14 uur
Verwonderlijk dat wij nog steeds aan het aankloten zijn met subsone ASM's.
Zwaar inadequaat als je het mij vraagt.

Idd, daar heb ik me ook wel eens over verwonderd. En dan met name over de Amerikanen.

IPA NG

Verwonderlijk dat wij nog steeds aan het aankloten zijn met subsone ASM's.
Zwaar inadequaat als je het mij vraagt.
Militaire strategie is van groot belang voor een land. Het is de oorzaak van leven of dood; het is de weg naar overleven of vernietiging en moet worden onderzocht. --Sun Tzu

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Mach 5 tot 7 voor een toekomstige Brahmos II, toch iets om over na te denken bij de planners/bouwers van nieuwe marine schepen.


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25 Feb, 2013

BrahMos Aerospace to develop tech for hypersonic missiles

TIRUCHIRAPPALLI: BrahMos Aerospace, an Indo-Russian joint venture, has initiated efforts to develop technology for hypersonic version of the BrahMos missile which can travel at five to seven times the speed of sound, a top company official has said.

"The company is roping in academics to develop the requisite technology before going in for designing and developing missiles which can travel at Mach 5 to 7 (five to seven times the speed of sound). It will be BrahMos II version next to the present variants of Mach 2.8 to 3.5," A Sivathanu Pillai MD & CEO of the company told PTI.

He said the IISc, Bangalore, would collaborate with the company with a 20 member scientists' team developing technologies for high temperature material required to build the missile, cram-jet propulsions and energy modules and the requisite algorithms.

A separate centre has been created for this purpose in Indian Institute of Science while its Russian counterpart, the Moscow Institute of Aviation, would produce technologies for propulsion, kinetic energy modules for the hypersonic version.

In all probability, it would take a minimum of five years for these initiatives to crystallise. In the meantime, BrahMos would work out blueprints for setting up a production centre, choice of vendors for supply of necessary components and investment structure, he said.

After these operations, BrahMos Aerospace would take up development of missiles that can come back to the originating mode after destroying the designated target, he said.

Pillai said modernisation and expansion of manufacturing facilities at Hyderabad and Thriuvananthapuram are also on the cards since the domestic market demand is on the increase.

He said the Indian Air Force had also started placing orders for BrahMos and added that the Army and the Navy are regular customers.

Pillai was here to participate in a felicitation function held in his honour on being conferred the Padma Bhushan Award.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/brahmos-aerospace-to-develop-tech-for-hypersonic-missiles/articleshow/18670181.cms

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Russia looks at hypersonic flight plans

November 23, 2012 Andrei Kislyakov

Modern military operations are based primarily on the use of precision weapons — mainly cruise missiles launched from a variety of sites. The main drawback is their relatively low speed of flight. A new range of supersonic missiles (strategic, but not nuclear) is being developed by Russia, the United States, and China.

Russia is accelerating plans to set up a new holding company to develop hypersonic technologies. As stated by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, overseer of the entire defense industry, the project can be compared to the atomic bomb, in terms of the potential scientific and technological breakthrough.

The new holding company will include the Tactical Missiles Corporation (TMC) and the Scientific and Production Association of Machine Building (SPAMB), the latter of which is expected to withdraw from the Russian Space Agency.

"It's not just an attempt to link brain and industrial capacity. Looking ahead, we'll need to think about possible test sites. We believe that mergers, net takeovers, will help us raise the tempo in the field of hypersonic research," said Rogozin.

"The merger will help focus financial resources on priority areas to create new types of missiles, including ones based on the principles of hypersonic flight. Overall, the holding will be a key center of competence in Russia's expansion of both tactical and strategic weapons. It should be noted that the scientific and technological potential of TMC and SPAMB is very great indeed," said Igor Korotchenko, military expert and editor-in-chief of the journal National Defense.

In recent years, the development and implementation of hypersonic devices has become a stable trend in the global arms market. In particular, this year has seen the U.S. test-launch of its new X-51 Waverider missile. The tests failed, however.

Nevertheless, the race between the U.S., China, and Russia for dominance in hypersonic cruise missiles continues unabated. Over the years, these three countries have made huge technological strides, resulting in controllable missiles able to fly at Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound, or roughly 3,805 miles per hour).

The current batch of missiles with forward-flow ramjet technology - such as the Russian R-270 Mosquito and the U.S. Harpoon - cruise at a comparatively sedate Mach 2. They are quite slow and capable of being intercepted. However, trying to intercept a cruise missile flying at more than Mach 5 would be a daunting challenge.

The appearance of such missiles would put aircraft carrier groups and other such targets at serious risk. Of course, the atmospheric re-entry rate of China's Dongfeng-21 anti-ship ballistic missile is higher than the possible maximum speed of hypersonic cruise missiles, but the latter are much more maneuverable and can fly at low altitude to avoid early detection warning systems.

The first developments in this area were made by Soviet engineers in the 1950s. Tests back then produced hypersonic speeds of Mach 5. The first practical experiment in the field of hypersonic flight was the Spiral aerospace system, which consisted of an orbital plane attached to a hypersonic aircraft and launched at an altitude of about 20 miles.

The concept was to achieve Mach 6. Spiral, which was created as a response to the U.S. military's X-20 Dyna-Soar, was unable to fly - but neither was the American version.

A more realistic test of hypersonic technology was conducted in the final days of the Soviet Union. In late November 1991, the "Kholod" (Cold) flying laboratory took its first spin. The main component of the laboratory was a hypersonic ramjet engine capable of accelerating the delivery vehicle to several Mach at an altitude of 12-20 miles.

Prior to 1999, a number of tests were carried out that proved very successful, attaining speeds of around 1,180 miles per hour. But all further development of hypersonic technology was curtailed in the wake of the economic crash in 1998.

As of today, open sources define several key areas of hypersonic development: most important of all are combat maneuvering units for intercontinental ballistic missiles and sea-based launch sites. They are much larger and heavier, but they are still able to maneuver in the atmosphere, making it impossible for missile defense shields to intercept them.

In addition to these units, the Zircon anti-ship ballistic system with hypersonic missiles is being developed by SPAMB. It is based on the supersonic "Yakhont" (Ruby) missile defense system and set to be the basis for a new hypersonic missile being developed jointly by Russia and India.

Alongside these projects, an air-based missile system is also in development, though its name has yet to be revealed. This missile system is designed to achieve an almighty Mach 13.

As noted by Yury Zaitsev, academic advisor to the Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Pentagon has spent around $2 billion on its program to create hypersonic delivery vehicles in the last decade. Given Washington's increasing technological capacity, it is vital that Russia develop its own hypersonic capability, which includes the means to pre-empt the global missile defense system being developed by the U.S. and its allies.

If all of Russia's current projects are merged into a single holding company, the results will be far more effective, allowing for the creation of sea-, air- and land-based hypersonic missiles.

http://rbth.ru/articles/2012/11/23/russia_looks_at_hypersonic_flight_plans_20371.html

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Russian 'Super-Holding' to Build Hypersonic Missile

TULA, September 19 (RIA Novosti)

Russia will set up an aerospace "super-holding" company consisting of missile makers NPO Mashinostroyenie and Tactical Missiles Corporation to develop hypersonic weapon technology, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday.

"Initially, we are talking about a big 'super-holding' based on Tactical Missiles Corporation and NPO Mashinostroyenie," said Rogozin, who oversees Russia's military-industrial complex.

Discussions on the creation of such a super-holding have been underway at least six months, Rogozin said.

"We have found an acceptable solution on how to form this super-holding," he said. "The main idea for this holding is hypersonic technology."

Development of hypersonic weapons - meaning those capable of flying at several times the speed of sound, generally with scramjet engines - has been a pet theme of Rogozin.

In May, during a visit to Tactical Missiles Corporation's NPO Raduga missile design bureau, Rogozin called on Russia's defense industry to develop hypersonic air-breathing weapons as a future strike system.

He picked out American development work in the X-51, Falcon, HiFire and HyFly programs as examples of what he described as the perspective threat posed by U.S. hypersonic development work.

"The undertaking of this work allows us to lay the basis for the creation of a national competitor in hypersonic weapons," he said.

He has since frequently repeated his call for hypersonic weapons to be developed as a replacement for the Russian Air Force's existing long-range bomber fleet.

"I think we need to go down the route of hypersonic technology and we are moving in that direction and are not falling behind the Americans," he said on Rossiya 24 TV in August. "We will use this technology when developing a new bomber."

"The question is whether we will copy the Americans' forty-year experience and create a [Northrop] B-2 analog...or will we go down a new, ultramodern technology route, looking to the horizon, and create a machine able to penetrate air defenses and carry out a strike on any aggressor," he added.

Aerospace analysts contacted by RIA Novosti say hypersonic technology is more likely to be relevant to an air-launched weapon itself, rather than a manned aircraft.

Tactical Missiles Corporation, based in Korolyov, Moscow Region, was formed in 2002 by amalgamating a number of defense design and production enterprises, of which the main ones were Korolyov-based Zvezda-Strela (tactical air-to-surface missiles), Moscow-based Vympel (tactical air-to-air missiles), NPO Raduga (cruise missile design), and Region (tactical air-launched weapons).

NPO Mashinostroyenie, based at Reutov just east of Moscow, has designed and produced most of the Russian Navy's submarine-launched cruise missiles as well as satellites and other space systems, and has previously conducted extensive research into hypersonic weapons technology, including making a prototype hypersonic air-launched missile called GELA.

NPO Mashinostroyenie is also the Russian partner in the BrahMos joint venture with India to develop the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, based on the Russian 3M55 Oniks. BrahMos has said it is developing a hypersonic successor system to its existing supersonic missiles in partnership with India.

http://en.ria.ru/mlitary_news/20120919/176062184.html