12 Facts About Akash missile

The Akash missile system is fully mobile and capable of protecting a moving convoy of vehicles.

The Indian military's combined orders of the Akash missile, including radar systems, have a total worth of ?28,800 crore.

Design of the Akash missile is somewhat similar to that of the SA-6 with four long tube ramjet inlet ducts mounted mid-body between wings.

Composite technology for Akash missile includes radome assemblies, booster liners, ablative liners, sustainer liners, compression molded wings and fins.

Akash missile has certain unique characteristics like mobility, all-the-way-powered flight till target interception, multiple target handling, digitally-coded command guidance and fully automatic operation.

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Akash missile-1S was fired five times against multiple targets and successfully completed the trials.

The Akash missile is equipped with an improved active radio-frequency seeker to further increase the accuracy.

Akash missile Prime is optimized for low temperature and high altitude operations with modified ground system.

Each missile is expected to have starting costs below US$500,000 i e under ?2 crore which is less than half the cost of similar Western missiles which usually cost between US$1.

On 3 March 2012, the Akash missile was officially inducted into Indian Air force at function at Hyderabad.

On 28 January 2016, the Akash missile was successfully test fired from complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range at Chandipuri in Odisha.

On 3 December 2020, the Indian Air Force carried out 10 Akash missile firing at Suryalanka to bolster its capability among ongoing Indo-Sino border tension.