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Agenda
What is BGRV Why BGRV Indian Context Shourya Agni missile family Summary
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What is BGRV?
Re-entry vehicle
Protects payload from extremes of temperature and deceleration experienced when spacecraft re-enter plants atmosphere Spacecrafts use thick blunt nose RV
generate separating shockwave to keep away heated gas Loses most energy at higher altitude, slow terminal velocity
SRE (PSLV)
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Missile RV
Mk-6 RV
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Drawbacks of dumb RV
Accuracy
Depends on RV behaving consistently, accurate weather estimate Missiles ability to impart correct final velocity at point in space when RV is detached
Warhead
To compensate for accuracy require bigger high yield warhead
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What is MBRV?
Maneuvering Ballistic RV (MBRV) is different from Ballistic Glide Reentry Vehicle (BGRV) Accuracy Augmentation
Pitch and Cross range correction Accurate to few meters Radar scene correlation
ABM
Upto 100 G maneuver
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What is BGRV?
Ballistic Glide Re-entry Vehicle
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BGRV
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BGRV
Aerodynamics
Long, high aspect ratio body Slight angle of attack to generate lift. Control surfaces: fins | paddles | small gas thrusters
Flight
On board flight control and navigation: Hi Accuracy ~ 25 G maneuvering Porpoise maneuver in pitch axis S shape maneuver in azimuth plane Rolling to spread heat and reduce thermal shielding
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BGRV
Stealth and ABM resistant
Non-predictive flight trajectory ~ 25 G maneuvering Rolling spreads heat
Reduce thermal signature Reduced plasma RF RCS signature
Glides below Long Range Radar horizon Flies below space based sensors altitude threshold Small, light warhead
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Why BGRV?
Accuracy
Small, light warhead (Low / medium yield) against hardened or counter value targets
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Shourya
BGRV Booster lifts BGRV to 5 Km Main stage imparts kinetic energy for cruise at 40 km altitude
Evade space sensor and ground radar
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Bharat Pratham and India Research Foundation Bharat Pratham and India Research Foundation
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MBRV
Maneuvering Ballistic RV:
Lightning Bolts, First Maneuvering Reentry Vehicles by William Yengst
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Pitch
CrossRange
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What is BGRV?
S Curve on Azimuth plane
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BGRV Re-entry
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US MRV
MRV Mk4A
Lightning Bolts, First Maneuvering Reentry Vehicles by William Yengst
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Pershing-II MARV
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Pershing-II MARV
Lightning Bolts, First Maneuvering Reentry Vehicles by William Yengst
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Agni MRV/BGRV
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Agni MRV/BGRV
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Russian Topol-M
Porpoise (skipping) trajectory
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Development timeline
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Performance
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Reference
DRDO, Technical Publications Lightning Bolts, First Maneuvering Reentry Vehicles by William Yengst ISBN # 978-1-61566-547-1 Indian Defense Review, Lancer Publication Wikipedia
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22 October 2005
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Reading Material
22 October 2005
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Reading Material
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Reading Material
Lightning Bolts, First Maneuvering Reentry Vehicles by William Yengst
ISBN # 978-1-61566-547-1
22 October 2005
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