Railway Science (Science and Technology – Missiles)

Astra (Air - to - Air missile) - It is an Indian all - weather beyond visual - range active radar homing air - to - air missile.

BrahMos - Fastest cruise missile in the world with a top speed of 2.8 Mach. It operates on ‘Fire and Forget Principle’.BrahMos Aerospace: It is a joint venture between Defence Research and Development Organisation of India and NPO Mashinostroyenia (NPOM) of Russia. The Prithvi was India's first indigenously developed ballistic missile produced by the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program.

'Nike Apache' was a US made sounding rocket. It was launched from Thumba near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on November 21, 1963, marking the beginning of the Indian Space Programme.
ISRO started launching indigenously made sounding rockets named Rohini from 1967. ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) : Established in - 15 August,1969. Founder - Vikram Sarabhai. Headquarter - Bengaluru.

It is a ballistic missile - Follows a ballistic trajectory to deliver one or more warheads on a predetermined target.
Prithvi-II Missile: Indigenously developed Surface -to-Surface Missile Short-Range Ballistic Missile (SRBM), which has a range of around 250 kilometer - 350 kilometer and can carry a one tonne payload.
Developed by - Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India under its Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP).

EyeROV Tuna - India’s 1st commercial underwater drone. Developed by EyeROV Technologies (A company incubating at Maker Village which is the largest hardware incubator in the country).

The Akash missile is a surface-to-air supersonic missile system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in India. The missile is supported by the indigenously developed radar called 'Rajendra'. Variants of Akash Missile - Akash 1S, Akash Prime and Akash NG.

Dhanush - It is the indigenously upgraded gun of the Swedish Bofors gun procured in the 1980s. Surya missile is a land variant of short-range Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile. Agni is surface - to - surface ballistic missiles with a great range and nuclear weapons capability.

The seeker is a critical component of the missile's guidance system that helps it locate and track targets. Types of Indian Missiles - Trishul (Surface - To - Air Missiles), Agni - I (Surface - to - surface Missiles), BrahMos (Cruise Missiles), Prithvi Air Defence (Ballistic Missile Defence), Helina (Anti - Tank Guided Missile).

INS Arihant - The 6,000 tonne vessel was built under the Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) project. Builder - Shipbuilding Centre (SBC) Visakhapatnam. Launched - 26 July 2009.
Homeport - Visakhapatnam. India is the sixth country to have a nuclear triad (capable of delivering nuclear weapons by aircraft, ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles).
Other countries having nuclear triad are Russia, United States, United Kingdom, France, and China.

Astra - Developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Variants - (Astra Mk - 1, Astra Mk - 2, Astra Mk - 3, Astra - IR, VL - SRSAM). Trishul - It is a quick reaction, low - level, short range surface - to - air missile. Akash - A medium - range mobile surface - to - air missile. Maitri - A short-range surface-to-air defence missile system.