The Akash Surface-Air (SAM) system, which was deployed in recent India-Pakistani hostility, has a connection of Tiruchi. The Ramprasad Ramakrishna project director was a graduate of chemical engineering from the National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi, from the dose of 1971-76.
Manyam died because of the massive cardiac arrest in 2012 at the age of 58, when he worked as an associated director of the Defense Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) in Hyderabad.
His contribution to the success of Akash rocket warned from defense experts.
“The Project Was Conceived in 1980s, But Took Over Two Decades to Succeded, Because of Electronic Connectivity Problems and the Completely New Materials Being. with the users, and took about two to three years to bring the project up to a stage of industry acceptance and production, ”Srinivasan Sundarrajan, Former Director of Nit-T and A Colleague Pgyam on the project, said Hindu on Monday.
During his golden jubilee in 2014, Nit-T awarded the posthumous prize for RR Manyam.
“While the newer and more innovative Sam was originally developed, Akash remains a pioneering role model, mainly because of Mr. Panyam.
Akash is in the same class as the US Patriot missile. It is equipped to destroy targets 25 km away, has a supersonic speed of 600 meters per second and can capture targets such as cruise rackets and unmanned air vehicles. Mr. Panyam contributed to the design and development of solid fuel integrated RAMJet missile for Akash.
In an interview with Hinduko from 2008, Mr. Mrsam said that Akash was cleaned by the Indian Air Force after sophisticated user off-road experiments in the integrated test range on the Chandipur-On-Sea in Odisha.
Mr. Panyam acquired the European Championship in Aerospace Engineering in 1978 from the Indian Scientific Institute in Bengalur and his pH. D V Aerospace from the Georgia Institute in the US, in 1983. In 1983, he joined DDL in Hyderabad.
Published – May 12, 2025 20:00
