India comes one step closer to developing Hypersonic weapons and fourth country to do so
The scramjet powered vehicle achieved the speed of Mach 6 and an altitude of 30 km in just 22 seconds according to government officials. The HSTDV is designed and developed by India's state owned organisation DRDO and it aims to successfully develop its first hypersonic weapon or missile by 2025.
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| Image-HSTDV |
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| Image-HSTDV model |
DRDO also aims to use this technology for civilian purposes like launching satellites at low cost.
Hypersonic weapons when fully developed will be an challenge to the enemy country and will find it difficult to restrain the missile from attacking its designated targets. Due to its high speed most modern radars won't be able to detect it quick enough to intercept the incoming missiles using modern air defense systems.
Recently USA have successfully completed the design and testing phase of the scramjet powered hypersonic missile.
With the successful testing India now joins the table with elite group of three other countries including USA,Russia,China with successful and promising hypersonic weapon technology.
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| Image-Indian hypersonic technology test |
Japan is also developing hypersonic anti ship missile technology and is in its early design phase.
Another important aspect of hypersonic weapon technology is hypersonic glide vehicle which will be highly maneuverable. Hypersonic glide vehicle is an priority for all the above mentioned countries and all of them are known to work on them.
You can read about the recent development of US hyerpsonic weapons program here-https://defensespace.blogspot.com/2020/09/race-for-hypersonic-missile-technology.html
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