Shourya : Another Arm in Indian Nuclear Arsenal

After successful journey of Chandrayan-I, India roared again with "Shourya" in a way to enhance its capability to handle Nuclear arms. India's DRDO, on 12th of Nov'08, successfully test-fired surface to surface missile at 11:25am from Integrated Test Range at Balasore, Orissa.

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It enhances our second strike capability i.e. we have got more options for retaliation, incase we are attacked by another force at first. This is why, it had been fired from pit of depth 30-40 meters. After travelling 600kms for about 485 seconds at a speed of Mach 5 (i.e 5 times the speed of sound), Shourya hit a target in Bay-of-Bengal, precisely.

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The speciality of the Shourya include high manoeuvrability, ability to carry nuclear war heads of 1 ton weight and longer shelf life. Many has dilemma that its the land version of K-15 missile as few were thinking that silo, from which its fired, was full of water. This was crossed by DRDO officials. Shourya k-15 or sagarika, india's first undersea ballistic missile, was fired 9 months ago offshore of visakhapatnam from pontoon simulating submarine conditions.

Method of traversing:

As Shourya fired from the canister, it flew vertically for 50 kms and from that point it flew horizontally. During this time it achieved speed of MACH 5. Its temperature was raised to 700 C. Method of cooling its surface was 'Rolling at its own longitudinal axis'. Then the trajectory was changed as per the destination i.e. in bay of bengal. Sources said it hit target at pin point accuracy.

Interesting observations is that temperature of surface of missile will be raised to few hundred degrees Celsius. Where as for Agini-III, it was about 2000 degree Celsius.

Technical things of shourya wasn't detailed by DRDO. so, few things of Shourya at a glance are:

Manufacturer: DRDO

Project/missile's programme Director: A.K. Chakrabarti

Director general, DRDO: Natarajan

Dtae of Test fire: 12th November, 2008

Purpose: To carry Nuclear warheads & Conventional warheads

Place of testing: Balasore, Orissa (Eatern India)

Range of Missile: 600 Kms @1000kgs or 500kms @ 1200kgs.

Velocity, at max : Mach 5 (5 times the speed of sound)

Propellant Used: solid propellant

Surface Temperature of missile during flight: 700 C

Specalities: Nuclear weapon carrying capacity, Can replace Prithvi, can do Secondary strikings, Can't be easily traced

This is all what about Shorya and lets hope DRDO,our nation pride, will make india impervious to be attacked.