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20/12/20 09:20 AM IST

Hypersonic Wind Tunnel

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the advanced Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HWT) test facility Hyderabad.

Highlights
  • India the third country after the US and Russia to have such a facility.
  • It is an indigenous development and an outcome of synergistic partnership with Indian industries.
  • The facility has the capability to "simulate hypersonic flow" over a wide spectrum and will play a major role in the realization of highly complex futuristic aerospace and defence systems.
  • Two anti-drone technologies were demonstrated by DRDO labs.
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
  • It is designed to generate a hypersonic flow field in the working section, thus simulating the typical flow features of this flow regime - including compression shocks and pronounced boundary layer effects, entropy layer and viscous interaction zones and most importantly high total temperatures of the flow.
  • The speed of these tunnels vary from Mach 5 to 15.
Key features
  • Secure communication link
  • Effective recoil management system
  • High firing angular resolution and vision-based target detection and tracking
Technological achievements
  • Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle (HSTDV)
  • Anti-Radiation Missile (RUDRAM)
  • Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM)
  • Supersonic Missile Assisted Release Torpedo (SMART)
  • Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)
Source: PIB

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