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...

NEW DELHI — India’s Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO) plans to test its 5,000-kilometer (3,100-mile) range Agni-V ballistic missile in a year’s time, following the third successful trial of the 3,500-kilometer range Agni-3 on Feb. 7. Agni-5 is in the subsystem testing phase, according to DRDO chief V.K. Saraswat, scientific advisor to the defense minister. Agni-3 has an all-composite structure, which will be gradually used in the Agni-5. “The building blocks are in a mature stage today. Technology has grown from metallic rocket motors to composite rocket motors applicable to Agni-3 and beyond,” Saraswat said. Two years ago, DRDO developed and tested a large rocket motor with a carbon filament-wound composite casing. “This is a major breakthrough because it provides the key technology for going into longer missions [for instance, the Agni-5 missile] with lighter missiles,” said Avinash Chander, director of DRDO’s advanced systems laboratory. “With this development of moto...