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Development of Ramjet Powered Supersonic Loitering Munition System
The war scenario is evolving and current trend increasingly points towards the fact that conflicts will commence with aerial attacks using UAVs & small missiles. This requires countering enemy Air Defense and using element of surprise to strike high value/ high payoff targets in the first strike. Loiter Munitions (LMs) are a cost effective and less risky method of conducting missions in such a scenario. However, currently the LMs are subsonic/ low speed UAVs and thus can be neutralized through various counter measures which are evolving rapidly. Thus, there is a need to develop effective weapon systems to neutralise enemy assets. One proposed solution to stay ahead of enemy's evolving Air Defence counter measures is by developing a Ramjet Powered Supersonic Loiter Munition System which will provide very little reaction time to enemy for activating counter measures because of extremely high speeds of operation.
