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Extension for Nirbhay, panel to identify flaws

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By Hemant Kumar Rout | Express News Service | Published: 07th January 2017
BHUBANESWAR: India’s own cruise missile project Nirbhay has got an extension of 18 months amid speculations over the weapon system’s operational capabilities. Launched in 2004, the projected date of completion for the prestigious project was December 31 last.

At a recent review meeting, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar gave green signal for the extension. Ministry of Defence sources said the Nirbhay team has been asked to deliver their best by June, 2018.

Under developmental trial since 2013, the missile is yet to perform as per the expectations. Of four tests in as many years, the indigenously developed weapon had failed three times though it could cover the intended range once in 2014.

Meanwhile, an independent technical committee has been formed to identify faults in the system that led to failure of the missile during its fourth trial on December 21.

The probe committee led by founder director of ISRO Inertial Systems Unit Dr Nagarajan Vedachalam will not only ascertain the faults but also recommend possible measures to make the system robust.

Like in its maiden trial and third test, the missile had veered off the trajectory minutes after take off during the last launch and the mission had to be aborted mid-air.

An official associated with the project, however, informed that the blame game between two laboratories of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) cost the project more than the faults in the system.

While Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), which has designed the missile, has been blaming Research Centre Imarat (RCI) for supplying defective hardware, the latter points fingers at ADE-developed software for recurring failure of the missile.

‘’The probe committee will ascertain which is defective, the software or hardware. It may also inspect metallurgical deficiencies,’’ the sources said.

Having a strike range of around 1,000 km, Nirbhay is first homegrown subsonic cruise missile project. According to DRDO, the missile can challenge weapons of its class.

Nirbhay blasts off like a rocket and unlike a missile, it turns into a vehicle akin an aircraft. Flying at tree-top level, it can deceive enemy radars making it difficult to be detected. Unlike other ballistic missiles, this cruise missile has wings and distinct tail fins. After reaching near the target area, it can hover around, hitting at its will from any direction.

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DRDO’s cruise missile project Nirbhay on verge of closure

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Nirbhay is the country’s first indigenously built long-range sub-sonic cruise missile | EPS

By Hemant Kumar Rout | Express News Service | Published: 23rd December 2016
BHUBANESWAR: Once a pride for Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), India’s own cruise missile project Nirbhay is on the verge of closure.
A highly placed source told ‘The New Indian Express’ that the project is likely to be closed as the missile has failed to deliver desired results even 12 years after the project was launched. A review of the project will be conducted shortly.
Nirbhay is the country’s first indigenously built long-range sub-sonic cruise missile which can be compared with America’s Tomahawk in terms of its capability. Designed by Bengaluru-based Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), the missile was designed to fly at different altitudes ranging from 500 meters to four km.
Launched in 2004 at a cost of Rs 48 crore, the projected date of completion (PDC) for the prestigious project was December 31, 2016. However, under trial since 2013, the missile is yet to perform as expected after four attempts in the last four years.
The project has been plagued with difficulties as the scientists are still struggling to fix the problems in the flight control software and navigation system while some others point fingers at the hardware.
While the Research Centre Imarat (RCI) blamed ADE-developed software, ADE was pointing towards the defective hardware supplied by RCI. “However, it could not be ascertained which is defective, whether the software or hardware, but Nirbhay missile failed in its fourth attempt,” an insider said.
There has been problem with the control software since beginning. The RCI had developed navigational hardware for their applications and it was adopted by ADE for Nirbhay. There are always differences between ADE and RCI regarding its functional efficacy, the source claimed.
Defence experts have raised questions on the requirement of such a subsonic missile, which can cruise at a speed of 0.8 Mach, when supersonic cruise missile BrahMos, developed jointly with Russia, is already inducted in the armed forces.
BrahMos, which flies at a speed of Mach 3, has a strike range of 290 km. Though Nirbhay can strike targets 1,000 km away, with India joining the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), it can now develop long range cruise missiles as joint ventures.
While initially the expected cost of ‘Nirbhay’ was around Rs 10 crore per piece, DRDO has so far spent more than Rs 100 crore on R&D and trials.
DRDO Chief Selvin Christopher and Project Director of Nirbhay Vasanth Sastri did not respond to the calls and queries from ‘The New Indian Express’. Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister G Satheesh Reddy, however, said he is unaware of any such move.                           

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SATYAMEV JAYATE -III – 30714/2013/ Vigilance 9 complaint has been sent to CVO MINISTRY OF DEFENCE for necessary action on 26th December 2013

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Believe me fellow citizen, the culprits of deliberately creating hindrances in the opportunity and fundamental rights of the lakhs of the youth of this great nation for consideration for public employment in DRDO will be very soon brought to the book only with the active cooperation of the concerned youth candidates and their parents.

CVC Registered the complaint – vide 30714/2013/ Vigilance 9 on 25th November 2013
30714/2013/ Vigilance 9 complaint has been sent to CVO MINISTRY OF DEFENCE for necessary action on 26th December 2013

Appeal

I call upon all concerned youth members of the public of this great nation who either applied for various posts in CEPTAM 06. in DRDO And didn’t get call letters and who wanted to apply but couldn’t apply due to the deliberate bottleneck created in the form of mobile registration, concerned parents of those youth candidates and fellow honest citizens (which inter-alia includes honest employees and officers of DRDO also) to provide information of the following kinds of acts and omissions of deliberate corruption done in the form of sugar coated capsules (seemingly making believing the general public at large as if the culprits acted in public interest) containing only poison which turned out fatal to all those members of the youth who either applied against the various post under CEPTAM 06 in DRDO but could not get call letters or who could not succeed in applying just for want of mobile registration since after repeated attempts mobile registration couldn’t take place.

1. Corruption in the form of making mobile registration as mandatory for applying for the various posts

(a) Kindly provide the information of the attempts made by you and by your parents for mobile registration at mobile no. between to to complete the first mandatory step for applying for the various posts in DRDO against CEPTAM -06 .

(b) Kindly provide the information of the time period in which the website of CEPTAM Delhi remained un operational/un-accessible due to which you couldn’t apply online for the various posts in DRDO against CEPTAM-06.

2. Corruption in the form of non-issuance of call letters to the persons who applied online and also sent offline applications for direct recruitment of various posts in DRDO against CEPTAM-06

(a) Kindly send the print out of your online application form against which you did not get call letter.

(b) Kindly send photocopies of your offline application forms against which you did not get call letter.

(c) Kindly send photocopy of the counter foil of the Indian Postal Order which you have attached with your offline application form sent with the CEPTAM, Delhi under CEPTAM-06 in respect of which you didn’t get the call letter.

(d) Kindly intimate me the manner through which you submitted your offline applications form to CEPTAM, Delhi against which you did not get the call letter.

(e) Kindly intimate the efforts made by you to get issued call letters from CEPTAM (including the information of the phone number of CEPTAM Delhi on which you made your efforts) and the results of such efforts.

(f) Kindly intimate the name of the officials of CEPTAM whom you contacted personally or on official telephone of the CEPTAM, Delhi but still your grievance was not redressed.

3. Corruption in the form of issuing defective call letters.

(a) Kindly send photocopies of the online print out of your application from and the defective call letters issued to you due to which you could not appear in the exam of CEPTAM-06 of DRDO.

(b) Kindly send photo copies of your offline application forms and the defective call letters issued to you due to which you could not appear in the exam of CEPTAM-06 of DRDO.

4. Corruption in the form of allotting exam centre at far off places altering the choice given by the candidate.

(a) Kindly send photo copies of your online print application form and the call letter issued to you un which the centre of written exam was allotted at different far off place due to which you could not appear in the written exam.

(b) Kindly send photo copies of your offline print application form and the call letter issued to you in which the centre of written exam was allotted at different far off place due to which you could not appear in the written exam.

5. Corruption in the form of non-ensuring of the website of CEPTAM operational and functional just some days before the exam.

(a) Kindly intimate the date of your failed attempts when you wanted to access the website of CEPTAM to download the call letter but you could not open the website and hence you could not appear for the exam.

6. Corruption in the form of late sending the call letter to the candidates.

(a) Kindly send the photocopies of the call letters which you received late.