Aerospace Diary

Posted by-Neelam Mathews June 1, 2013 Press Release Dr  Avinash Chander has been appointed as the new Scientific Advisor to Defense Minister, Secretary Dept of Defense RndD and DG DRDO.  “I feel honoured to take up this new responsibility. Dr Saraswat  has set DRDO on a good course, I have to continue and take it to the next level” he said .   Chander, is an eminent Missile Scientist and the Chief Architect of the Long Range Ballistic Missile System AGNI. He Envisioned and evolved the Strategies for Long Range Missiles and led the design and development of AGNI series of Missile Systems – AGNI A1, A2, A3, A4 and A5 providing cutting edge, decisive Strategic Weapon systems to the Armed Forces, leading to the development of the ‘5000+ Km range AGNI 5 Strategic Weapon System’ propelling India to join the elite club of five advanced nations. Development of Agni Range of missiles in highly restrictive International Contr...

Posted by Neelam Mathews Dec 1, 2011 AGNI (A1) was successfully Flight tested from Wheeler Islands at 9.30am today- Dec 1 - by the military. The missile was launched from a Road Mobile Launcher System and reached the target point in the Bay of Bengal. The missile was tracked by Radar, Telemetry stations located along the coastline. Two Naval Ships located near the target point tracked the missile in the terminal phase of the Flight. The missile, indigenously developed by DRDO is already in the arsenal of Indian Armed Forces., says DRDO.  

News Aerospace Daily & Defense Report Feb 09 , 2010 , p. 08 Neelam Mathews NEW DELHI — India’s long-range Agni-3 missile was successfully flight tested by the Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO) at 10:50 a.m. Feb. 7 from Wheeler Island, in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Odisha in East India. Agni-3 was tested for its full 3,500-kilometer (2,200-mile) range, hit its target and met all the mission objectives, according to a DRDO statement. Two downrange ships located near the target tracked and witnessed the missile impact. The Agni-3 missile is 17 meters long with a 2-meter diameter and features a two-stage solid propellant system with a payload capability of 1.5 metric tons. During the course of flight the missile reached a peak altitude of 350 kilometers and re-entered into the atmosphere, successfully tolerating surface temperatures of nearly 3,000 degrees Celsius. V.K. Saraswat, scientific advisor to the defense minister and director general of DRDO, was quoted ...