HOW A MISSILE WORKS?...(BrahMos) world fastest supersonic cruise missile/ learn from the base

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BrahMos
The BrahMos is a medium-range ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarine, ships, aircraft, or land. It is the fastest supersonic cruise missile in the world.
Maximum speed: Mach 3 (3,700 km/h; 2,300 mph; 1.0 km/s)
Launch platform: Ship, submarine, aircraft, and land-based mobile launchers
Unit cost: US$2.75 million
Used by: Indian Army; Indian Navy; Indian Air Force
Accuracy: 1 m CEP
Variants: Ship-launched; Surface-launched; Submarine-launched; Air-launched; BrahMos-II
Place of origin: India, Russia
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In this video, we go to look how dozen supersonic cruise missile works, such as BrahMos, and we look
at all the components of the missile. Let's start with some brief introduction of the missile.
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile is considered to be the world's fastest cruise
missile. At the moment with speeds of around 2.8 times the speed of sound,
that means 1 kilometer per second. Let's jump into the technical details.
This is the nose cap of the missile. They serve as protective covering for a missile,
and at a certain point it's no longer needed. Let's take a look inside the missile and explore
each part of the missile. At the nose of the missile, there is a seeker is located.
The seekers are essential to the missile's effectiveness and make it possible to acquire
and track ground and air targets. The technology it has perfected, thermal imaging cameras,
infrared imaging, platform stabilization, high-precision inertial navigation, etc.
This is the controlling system. The missile control system keeps the missile in the proper
flight path. By receive command from the navigation system. The warhead. It contain
explosive or toxic material for destroy the target. These are the fuel bladder. The liquid
fuel are stored in this bladder. These are the combustion chamber. The air fuel mixture are
burning inside the combustion chamber. These are the solid propellant. Here is the question.
How does the missile hit the target accurately? It can achieve with the help of sensors and other
on-board equipments. Let's explore it. With the help of sensors and other on-board equipments,
the missile will generate a traveling path to the target. On the basis of the guidance system,
the missile traveling path are divided into two. The mid-course and the terminal phase.
During the mid-course the missile use inertial navigation system.
During the terminal phase the missile is near to the target, so it need more accuracy to hit
the target. So the missile shift the guidance system to active radar homing. Let's check how
an inertial navigation system work. An inertial navigation system is a navigation device that
uses motion and rotation sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers. There is three
gyroscope sensors for measuring or maintaining the orientation and angular velocity of the missile,
such as yaw, roll, and pitch. And the three accelerometer sensors for measuring the proper
acceleration of the missile. Then these all information are send into an autopilot computer
and the computer send the commands to the guidance electronics. The guidance electronics
use the aerodynamic surface to steer the missile with the help of fins. Let's see how an active
radar homing technology work. Active radar homing is a missile guidance method to find and track
its target autonomously, in which a missile contains transmitter and receiver. The missile
transmits an electromagnetic radiation to the target and these radiation are bound back to the
missile receiver. Some electronic equipment measure the time taken for receive the signal
and also measure the velocity, acceleration, distance, and other variables of the target.
Then these information are send into the autopilot computer. Then the autopilot
computer steer the missile on proper way for hit the target accurately. Let's check what happens
after launching the missile. This missile had two-stage propulsion system, solid and liquid
propulsion. During first stage the missile is powered by solid propellant engine. Approximately
after nine seconds, the solid propellant engine are fell down. And then the missile is powered by
Let's explore how an ramjet engine is works. During the high velocity of the missile,
the atmospheric air will enter into the missile at high pressure. Then the compressed air will
goes to the combustion chamber. In combustion chamber, the fuel are sprayed by the fuel
injector. With the help of igniter, the air fuel mixture is ignited. Due to the ignition,
a combustion takes place. Due to the combustion,
a force or thrust will produced in opposite direction. This thrust propels the missile.
Then the missile hit the target.
