Indian Missiles and Guided Munitions

An honest question from Indian users of this forum.

Why can't Indian military industry produce an air to ground missile on its own? This leaves India at same level of incompetent Arab kinglets that import their breakfast from EU and USA.

Maybe that is why India is engaged in love affair with Israel. Incompetence at its finest shape.
Commercial ventures are free to produce whatever they want on our soil. Creating spare capacity isn't a bad idea apart from having own. Also Hammer is not a missile, it is a guidance kit for dumb bombs.

Incompetence would've been having nothing other than ballistic missiles with 100m CEP to fire at adversary instead of Air launched munitions including systems like Hammer or our Tara/Gaurav etc.

As of now this is just an MoU.
 
Commercial ventures are free to produce whatever they want on our soil. Creating spare capacity isn't a bad idea apart from having own. Also Hammer is not a missile, it is a guidance kit for dumb bombs.
The reality is that India despite having free access to international markets, still fails to assemble a guidance kit. I used to admire Indian IT engineers who had almost once conquered microsoft company. But as it seems, India does not care about indigenous programs which forces Indian scientists to leave the country. That is pathetic and a sign of huge corruption inside the country.

You speak of Iran. While this news says that India fails to make a guidance kit for guiding a dumb bomb without French help.

Iran develops a guidance kit for unguided rockets of Hezbollah enabling them to have 150,000 guided rockets :



Take a look into this one:


Speaking of fighter jet, Iran does not buy American engines, Israeli avionics, Russian weapons system to integrate them into so called HAL Tejas.

We have local plans for fighter jets but as of now Iran has been able to lonely counter NATO in Iraq, Syria, Israel and their assets in Qatar, Kuwait, KSA and other Arab kinglets.

India compared to Iran in the military field is a sad joke.
 
While this news says that India fails to make a guidance kit for guiding a dumb bomb without French help.
Nowhere in the news says India failed to build any of that. We've built our own laser-guidance kits and glide kits. Just because an Indian PSU signs MoU to build a product in India doesn't mean we can't make them here, it isn't some sci-fi tech.

Take a look into this one:
Most of that is improvised products made of COTS components, including commercial GPS receivers, relying on Amriki satellites. We have our own NavIC satellite navigation system, albeit regional.


Our kits have multiple seeker options for higher accuracy, unlike TV guidance in 2025.


Speaking of fighter jet, Iran does not buy American engines, Israeli avionics, Russian weapons system to integrate them into so called HAL Tejas.
Yeah it produces it's own like Qaher-313.

No wonder IRIAF is non-existent leaving high CEP MRBMs as only option.

I wonder which afterburning turbofan, AESA radar or weapon system one is talking of which doesn't end up being some copy of old American or foreign weapon system, again made with COTS components.


We have local plans for fighter jets but as of now Iran has been able to lonely counter NATO in Iraq, Syria, Israel and their assets in Qatar, Kuwait, KSA and other Arab kinglets.
Congratulations if you genuinely believe in what you just wrote 😃

India compared to Iran in the military field is a sad joke.

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Anyways many foreign companies including European and Israeli ones are using Indian production facilities as a backup production capacity and a means to pitch it to India when need arises, especially after Israel-Gaza and Russia-Ukraine war.

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Almost all of them are for exports especially those made here but not in active Indian service.
 
An honest question from Indian users of this forum.

Why can't Indian military industry produce an air to ground missile on its own? This leaves India at same level of incompetent Arab kinglets that import their breakfast from EU and USA.

Maybe that is why India is engaged in love affair with Israel. Incompetence at its finest shape.
Hammer is part of Rafale Deal. So it's god that production is partially moving to India. It's a mutually beneficial decision..
As far as indegeous equivalent are concerned
We have two Programs
1. Gaurav and Gautham LRBG
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2. DRDO SAAW
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Hammer is part of Rafale Deal. So it's god that production is partially moving to India. It's a mutually beneficial decision..
As far as indegeous equivalent are concerned
We have two Programs
1. Gaurav and Gautham LRBG
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2. DRDO SAAW
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ranges with no wind conditions is interesting considering at the sorts of launch altitudes youd have a SHIT TON of wind
 
ranges with no wind conditions is interesting considering at the sorts of launch altitudes youd have a SHIT TON of wind
This term is used by all manufacturers. It simply means under standard atmospheric conditions.
 
Probably the 1st test firing of the K4 SLBM from INS Aridhaman before induction.
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NewSpace Sheshnag-150, Low-observable long range loitering munition.
Range: 1000+ KM
Endurance: 5 hours
Warhead: 25-40 KG
Other applications: ISR and Electronic Warfare
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NAL building a competitor with Solar Defence
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NewSpace Sheshnag-150, Low-observable long range loitering munition.
Range: 1000+ KM
Endurance: 5 hours
Warhead: 25-40 KG
Other applications: ISR and Electronic Warfare
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NAL building a competitor with Solar Defence
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Much needed evolution. These rising startups are key to future. If we nurture them, in next 15 years, we can greatly cut imports...Somethings are still too hard, like engines but still.
 
Much needed evolution. These rising startups are key to future. If we nurture them, in next 15 years, we can greatly cut imports...Somethings are still too hard, like engines but still.
These use Wankel engines. We make them here. Even micro-turbojets as well.
 
I meant jet engines. I see us building most everything else in 15-20 year window.
We would've got them done if suars had made all required testing infra at home instead of licking boots of their favourite firangis every now and then. The fact that we ended up making an after-burning Kaveri jet engine for $250mn is a miracle.

This was 15 years ago. Internal sabotage I'll say.
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Harpy and Harop drones made in India by Adani Defence and Aerospace
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Elbit SkyStriker made in India by Alpha Design Technologies
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Solar Industries Nagastra series loitering munitions
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