It is being claimed that Pakistan is preparing the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), which will have access to America.
Missiles have been in discussion for a long time. Missiles were used fiercely in the Israeli-Iran war. Aerial battle was fought more than two thousand km from each other. Meanwhile, Japan tested the missile and now Pakistan is being discussed. American intelligence agencies have claimed that Pakistan is preparing the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). ICBM is a missile that targets the enemy for long distances and has the ability to carry heavy explosives.
It has also been claimed that this missile equipped with nuclear weapons will be able to target even America. In such a situation, the question arises that how is the missile built, what happens in it? Which technique leads to control and how is it decided how far? How long does it take to become a missile and how much it costs?
Weapon -carrying rocket
The missile is a kind of self -propelled weapon. In easy language, the missile is a kind of rocket, which has the facility to carry weapons. The upper part of it is called the nose cone. Weapons are kept in this. Therefore, it is also called Warhead section. Missiles have a payload, guidance system and fusing mechanism in missiles.
Now a guidance system is installed in it to tell how the missile will target its target. In fact, the guidance system is part of its control section, which also has a navigation system in addition to the guidance system, which gives the right condition and direction to the missile. Apart from this, there will be an explosion when the missile collides or when the target goes close only, fusing mechanism is used to decide.
Thrst vectoring is used to determine the direction of missiles. This is a system that adjusts by rotating the missile’s nozel. This is why missiles are capable of walking right and moving on their right tragects i.e. path.
BrahMos missile
Use of fuel and motor
Fuel is used to run missiles. For this, missiles contain fuel tanks, in which propalent and oxidizer are filled. These two together provide energy to a missile to reach the target. Actually, it goes to the motor of the rocket in the lower part of the fuel missile. The rocket’s motor missile gives the thrust to move forward. How much this power will be, it is determined by the height of the missile, the fuel of the rocket motor. Two types of motors are used in the missile. One is a solid rocket motor and the other liquid fuel motor.
Distance is fixed with rocket motor and warhead
Missiles can be classified on several basis but there are three types of missiles in general. Ballistic missiles that fly in a high arch and then target their goals. This includes intercontinental ballistic missiles and moderate and short distance ballistic missiles. Ballistic missiles initially get strength from its rocket motor, but later they automatically move forward on their path. The rocket motor engaged in ballistic missiles is the power to raise them up and bring them to the high velocity. Then the engine is cutoff and the missile enters the second stage. Then it passes through space with the effect of gravity and in the last phase it once again comes into the Earth’s atmosphere and descends towards its goal.
Belistic missiles are classified on the basis of how much distance they can cover. How much distance they will cover, it depends on how powerful their rocket motor is, what will be the weight of payload or warhead. A rocket motor is installed on top of one to bring the missile to a longer distance, which gives more power to the missile.
Low -distance ballistic missiles are able to cover a distance of less than 1000 km, medium -range ballistic missiles 1000 to 3000 and intercontinental ballistic missiles more than 5500 km. At the same time, the capacity of Tactical ballistic missile is less than 300 km and the capacity of intermediate range ballistic missile ranges from 3,500 to 5,500 km. It has been told in media reports that Iran has spent up to about 1 million dollars to make ballistic missiles on Israel.
Japan first missile of Test
How much is the price of a missile?
On the other hand, jet engines are used in cruise missiles and they can be launched from land, air or sea platforms anywhere. This missile fly in the Earth’s atmosphere at low altitude. Since the engine of this missile works continuously, it is easy to control them. Even after flying, their direction can be changed in the air. However, the cruise missile fly at a lower speed than ballistic missiles. Talking about the price, the price of different types of cruise missiles can vary. However, the cost of each unit of the latest cruise missile AGM-181A of the US Air Force has been stated to be $ 13 million. This missile is also capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
Hypersonic missile speed
There is a hypersonic missile in the competition to become the leading in the world of missiles. This special missile runs five times faster than the voice speed (Mac 5). Its speed is so high that it is almost impossible to track and kill it. This missile is used for the fastest action against the enemy.
Super Advanced Hypersonic missile ‘Sound’
There are two types of hypersonic missiles
1- Hypersonic boost glide vehicle (HVV): It is almost like a ballistic missile, which is fired from a rocket into space, after which it is left with the help of the upper atmosphere to move towards the target. However, like a ballistic missile, it is not forgotten after being completely stained, rather it fly a boost glide vehicle at low height, which can change its target and path several times even in the middle of this hypersonic missile flight.
2- hypersonic cruise missile: This missile works on the lines of cruise missile and during the entire flight, it gets power from advanced rocket or high speed jet engine. We can directly say that this is a fast-paced version of the cruise missile.
The cost of making hypersonic missiles is the highest. The cost of a unit of US state -of -the -art dark eagle hypersonic missile is said to be up to $ 41 million. At the same time, the time taken to make different missiles is also different. There are some missiles that are prepared in a few weeks. According to a report by Wall Street General, it takes up to two years to build some state -of -the -art missiles of America.
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