I'd bet serious money that their engineers have Kerbal Space Program loaded on their PC's.
India tests Mach 6 scramjet
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully tested a Mach 6 scramjet. Scramjets ignite a stream of gas moving at supersonic speed. The result is serious energy and the ability to hit astounding speeds it's hoped might one day make air travel less tedious, or provide a method of lifting spacecraft high into …
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Monday 29th August 2016 20:31 GMT Lars
Re: Congratulations India
@Chris G, India not a force to be reckoned with to day?. A economy about three times larger than the UK economy. No other country with political infighting you could name?. Your congratulations sound a lot like the "Good for You" in best British tradition. Perhaps you should ask them to build the Skylon.
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Monday 29th August 2016 21:53 GMT Chris G
Re: Congratulations India
India is a force to be reckoned with today but there has always been an undercurrent of corruption and there is a huge amount of infighting that limits the potential of many things that India has already achieved but not taken as far as it could go.
An economy 3 times that of the UK with a population 20 times that of the UK is somewhat limiting but with a growth in GDP of 5% in 2013 it is outstripping most of the World. If India could get it's act together who knows what it could achieve?
My congratulations are genuine, coming from someone whose mother was half Indian and having relatives in India. But, I know they could do better and so do many Indians.
As for Skylon, the Aerospace industry is certainly more productive as a whole in India, perhaps a partnership would be worth a shot now that the EU is on it's way out of the picture.
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Tuesday 30th August 2016 13:48 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Congratulations India
"As for Skylon, the Aerospace industry is certainly more productive as a whole in India, perhaps a partnership would be worth a shot now that the EU is on it's way out of the picture."
We'd be competing with Russia, with whom India has been collaborating on several aerospace projects, most relevant to the article being the BrahMos supersonic & BrahMos 2 hypersonic cruise missiles. India is also collaborating with Sukhoi on future development of the PAK FA.
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Tuesday 30th August 2016 10:05 GMT Johnboy22
Re: Congratulations India
Meh. Sour grapes. Secular, stable and plural, quietly and not spectacularly noise wise, developing, as we always do...we have been around long enough and faced off enough of the barbarian simpleton to know how to pace things in this shocked and awed world.
So, tough luck, chum.
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Tuesday 30th August 2016 17:33 GMT thegroucho
Re: Scramjet uses
Laser, railgun, CIWS or even traditional SAMs will do nicely, provided you have the radar to detect the threat and provide guidance.
Admittedly railgun and laser are not mature enough tech but so is the scramjet.
Typically you will be shooting in the direction where the scramjet is coming from, so even if you are slower that is not necessarily a problem.
And unlike A10 Warthog which can take a lot of abuse the smallest of hits will cause the scramjet to evaporate in a spectacular fireball.
Although if it is a sea-skimmer then chances are you will need to learn to swim pretty quickly.