India tested a hypersonic weapon with a speed of 7500 km / h, will get rid of the enemy!

India successfully tested its Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle on Friday, 27 January. It is also called HSTDV in short. It was tested off the coast of Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha. The Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) did the first test of this weapon in 2019. What is this weapon and why was it made, you should also know about it.

Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) is a missile-like weapon designed hypersonic Built to fly at speed. (Hypersonic objects are said to be five times faster than the speed of sound) An update by ANI quoted defense sources as informing about its successful test. Even before this it was tested in 2019 which was its first test. In fact before 2008 D R d o Chief VK Saraswat had said that the objective of this project was to show the capability of the scram jet engine, how a scram jet engine performs at an altitude of 15 to 20 km. With the help of this engine, this vehicle can fly at a speed of 7408 kilometers per hour i.e. about 7500km/h.

A scramjet engine is an engine that can be operated at hypersonic speeds. Like a normal jet engine, fuel is filled in it, but the special thing is that it uses the oxygen of the atmosphere to burn that fuel. Also, it compresses the oxygen entering inside it due to its speed. After which it gets compressed and reaches the combustion chamber.

Therefore, the principle of its flight becomes such that its engine starts only after it reaches a certain speed. Before starting the engine, it is normally brought to a speed just like a rocket engine. Fuel and oxidizer are both present in a normal rocket engine, but only fuel is present in this supersonic weapon. Therefore, it can fly only in such an environment where sufficient amount of atmospheric oxygen is present. The purpose of conducting the HSTDV test is that in the coming time, India can develop supersonic missile can make