Shaurya- Feeling Empowered.

New Indian surface to surface missile shaurya had a successful test launch last month in Orissa. Previously this year an underwater  submarine launched ballistic missile called ‘Sagarika‘ was tested. Shaurya is said to be surface to surface version of the same. For reasons like, India doesn’t possess home made submarine, Sagarika wasn’t  that big a milestone. However Shaurya emphasizes as an important milestone of defense research in India.

Technical details are said to be the following.

Shourya, meaning bravery or velor especially in battle field is said to have been a land version of ‘Sagarika’, however like Sagarika this does not have to be  ballistic missile and is capable of flying at low altitudes. Easy to maintain, transport and store for longer shelf life this missile is capable of carrying one tonne of nuclear or conventional war heads and even at low altitudes it is capable of attaining speed of mach6. The range of this missile with one tonne payload is 600 to 700 KM.  The high maneuverability missile could also be fired from under ground and  makes it  stealth fire capable  making it hide from conventional satellite imaging and less susceptible to anti missile systems. This under ground and air booster missile has a maximum flight time of 700 sec and is guided by highly sophisticated ring laser gyroscope guidance system.( We can recall that previously  developed missile Agni is RLG guided).

Unlike ballistic missile which follows sub orbital ballistic file path, RLG  uses laser light interference with in optical ring, adaptation of  which makes shaurya capable of flying at low altitudes.

Feeling empowered

Sophisticated  home developed missile and the pace it which they are being tested and tested successfully has left India, Indian in India and world wide Proud, safe and empowered.

I want to conclude with personal appreciation towards this achievement of DRDO . Another factor I want to bring up here is that, the nominal naming of missiles and the usage of authentic words from sanskrit in doing so.

[I have refered, bharat rkshak, drdo official site, Wiki and few news paper to attain technical knowledge of the missile].