Here's something to occupy yourselves with this weekend! What is this structure? Where is it? What does it do?
I never said this would be easy!
Best answer wins. If the factual route doesn't work, you're welcome to try the wisecrack route... but the track record of wisecrackers has not been good on Broadsword quizes!!
Missile launcher for testing at Wheeler Island , orissa
ReplyDeleteVertical Test Facility to test Liquid Propulsion engines at DRDL
ReplyDeleteAn electronic surveillance facility of some kind??
ReplyDeletethe board with the letters 'VTF',i think it would have been funny if it was 'WTF',you know what i mean.
ReplyDeleteany way sticking to the topic, i think it is some kind of testing chamber,may be for engines of missiles,since your previous article was on missile, i think that this photo was taken in the missile testing complex.
surely it's not for bungee jumping or is it?
vertical static test stand for R motors!! :)
ReplyDeletenirbhay test launch site.!
ReplyDeleteIt is remotely operated vertical test facility to test rocket engines.
ReplyDeleteVTF name board gives it away.
ReplyDeleteThe Vertical Test Facility was indigenously designed and developed to test LP engines. The control panel of this facility is electrically controlled from a remote location. This facility is used for testing the propulsion stages to prove the functional integrity.
From DRDO's website.
A trial facility for testing canistarised Agni 5 ?
ReplyDeleteStand alone Liquid propulsion engine vertical testing facility. Since its enclosed and with all those Helium or Nitrogen gas storage, I am guessing its a high altitude test facility.
ReplyDeleteNotice that its located in a remote location with a hill behind so just in case if things go wrong.
This is a structure in DRDL Hyderabad. I know it because i live near DRDL, Hyderabad and it is visible by roadside.
ReplyDeleteI think it is used for testing canister launching of missiles which is evident by the cylinders present at the bottom level.
New vehicle assembly building of ISRO
ReplyDeletemy 1st guess is that it is a mining shaft. My other guesses would be access to some underground storage for bombs or missiles.
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Vertical Test Facility (VTF). Vertical Test Facility was indigenously designed and developed to test LP engines. The control panel of this facility is electrically controlled from a remote location. This facility is used for testing the propulsion stages to prove the functional integrity. located at DRDL HYDERABAD and created by M/s Engineering India Limited.
ReplyDeleteit looks like a canister
ReplyDeleteThis is the Agni "Vehicle Test Facility" used to to conduct launch simulations and tests.
ReplyDeleteSome sort cooling tower?
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ReplyDeletetest facility for cryogenic engines
ReplyDeleteIndian Navy's, Submarine Escape Training Facility.
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ReplyDeleteI guess they are finally going to hang Kasab...new gallows they are building !!!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's DRDO's LP engine vertical test facility.
ReplyDeletePSLV launch pad, ISRO, Sriharikota..
ReplyDeleteIs this the third launch pad which is under construction at sriharikota ... wild guess..
ReplyDeleteVertical Test Facility at ASL, Hyderabad.
ReplyDeleteUsed to test Liquid propulsion engines.
Canister ejection test facility for validating A-5 et al!
ReplyDeleteCrayo propellant storage facility?
ReplyDeleteTower for separation of the chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)from the heavy water at some unspecified facility and location.
ReplyDeleteVertical Test Facility. According to http://drdo.gov.in, it was indigenously designed and developed to test LP engines. The control panel of this facility is electrically controlled from a remote location. This facility is used for testing the propulsion stages to prove the functional integrity.
ReplyDeleteThis is in DRDL Lab, Hyderabad
Vertical Testing Facility for Missile/rocket engines.
ReplyDeleteBtw...I've always been curious about the conventional role of the Agni I. Any answers on that please?
Vertical Test Facility for rocket and jet engines.
ReplyDeleteNavy's deep water rescue/survival training tank . if i am not wrong it is at Cochin
ReplyDeleteIt's spelt incorrect. the 'V' should be 'W'.
ReplyDeleteVertical Test Facility (VTF)
ReplyDeleteVertical Test Facility was indigenously designed and developed to test LP engines. This facility is used for testing the propulsion stages to prove the functional integrity.
There are a lot of air receivers around the building.Can be some kind of "Vertical Test Facility" for the Submarine launched Brahmos system.
ReplyDeleteVertical Test Facility in ASL, Hyderabad.
ReplyDeleteVTF is used to lest liquid propulsion engines.
Source : Google :-)
Is it some launch vehicle thingy in shriharikota of ISRO, bcoz that's what it looks like....
ReplyDeleteA launch pad
ReplyDeleteWhat: Vertical test facility
ReplyDeleteLocation: DRDL, Hyderabad
Purpose: Testing Liquid propulsion engines.
Cheers!
Dinesh
VTF is giving away the answer sir :)
ReplyDeleteIt's Vertical Test Facility used for testing the propulsion stages.
its the vertical test facility to perform static tests of liquid propellant engines
ReplyDeleteThis is a Vertical Test Facility. According to DRDO website, it was indigenously designed and developed to test LP engines. The control panel of this facility is electrically controlled from a remote location. This facility is used for testing the propulsion stages to prove the functional integrity.
ReplyDeleteThis is in DRDL laboratory, Hyderabad
I think I have seen this structure in DRDL Hyderabad. It is a Vertical Test Facility. It was indigenously designed and developed to test LP engines. The control panel of this facility is electrically controlled from a remote location. This facility is used for testing the propulsion stages to prove the functional integrity.
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VTF and the pillar like shape suggests an Vertical Take off or Test facility for missiles or rockets.
ReplyDeleteCylinders on ground also suggest this.
It could also be test facility for canister based missiles.
I choose the harder of the two paths - the wisecrack path.
ReplyDeleteIs it the new multi-level outdoor toilet developed by DRDO? This particular picture shows the Vanity Testing Facility (VTF).
- cujo
Vertical Test Facility DRDL
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ReplyDeleteSir, it seems to be a Cooling Tower for some kind of huge central air conditioner!!
ReplyDeleteVertical test facility (VTF).
ReplyDeleteIce cream maker at Wheeler Island!!!
ReplyDeletethere was side pic of gslv 5 rocket testing on your blog(livefist?,BR?) few years back from same test site
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ReplyDeleteLooks like SHAR Launch pad where the rocket gets assembled.
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cryo engine vaccum test facility
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ReplyDeleteVertical Tube Food designed for serving food easily.
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ReplyDeleteThe IAF should be chastised for not equiping the jags with auto[pilots , this just simple logic. There is a talk of making the jag a fly by wire ac is it possible? the one bae made had stakes in front. It also claims in a blog that harm missiles will be integrated as well as the aasm, , all true?
This is in Sharad Pawar's hometown.
ReplyDeleteA sugarcane mill for his voter base that also doubles up as a cement factory to help his builder friends in mumbai.
Cars are parked near the facility. Seems like that would be safety hazard. Not sure if this is related to any kind of testing. Is this just a show piece / prototype of an actual testing facility?
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ReplyDeleteIndian Navy's, Submarine Escape Training Facility.
8 September 2012 23:24
I will second this. If memory serves right, this was on the National Geographic Mission Navy.
How come no one is noticing that there are vehicles parked around and trees so close by, how can this be a engine test facility
Interestingly, if you go by the name on the platform and http://drdo.gov.in/drdo/labs/DRDL/English/index.jsp?pg=facility.jsp it looks like a engine test facility, but this is odd with all those trees around.
ReplyDeleteLooks like An Automated Vertical Multi-level Car Parking Facility..
ReplyDeleteCars going up, down, in and out...
Looks like An Automated Vertical Multi-level Car Parking Facility..
ReplyDeleteCars going up, down, in and out...
well it says there what is it: VTF (Vhat the fuck?)
ReplyDeleteIt is Vinyl terminated Fluid Plant
ReplyDeleteUsed for producing heat and radiation cured coating
I think 69 attempts are good enough for us lesser mortal. May I request 'the High Priest' of this blog 'the Great Shuklaji' to finally reveal the truth.
ReplyDeletevibration test facility for acoustic testing
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ReplyDeleteOKAY, HERE'S THE ANSWER: THIS IS THE VERTICAL TEST FACILITY THAT WAS BUILT IN THE 1970s TO TEST THE LIQUID FUELLED DEVIL MISSILE... A LIQUID FUELLED MISSILE THAT WAS MODELED ON THE SOVIET SA-2.
ReplyDeleteWHILE THIS WAS NOT A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT, IT LED TO THE THEN FLEDGLING DRDL ACCUMULATING SEVERAL IMPORTANT CAPABILITIES... WHICH HAVE FED INTO THE CURRENT GENERATION OF MISSILES.
THE DEVIL'S ENGINE, AS ALSO THOSE OF OTHER MISSILES OF THAT GENERATION, USED TO BE GROUND TESTED IN THIS FACILITY.
NO GOLD STARS FOR CORRECT ANSWERS BECAUSE IT SEEMS MOST OF THEM HAVE COME FROM GOOGLING 'VTF'. I SHOULD HAVE OBLITERATED THAT, SO THE FAULT IS REALLY MINE.
NO WISECRACK AWARDS FOR "WTF". IT WAS TOO OBVIOUS!
WISECRACK AWARD No 1: FOR "ANONYMOUS", 9TH SEPT 16:31... for his answer: NEW MULTI-LEVEL OUTDOOR TOILET DEVELOPED BY DRDO... THIS IS THE VANITY TEST FACILITY (VTF).
WISECRACK AWARD No 2: FOR "ANONYMOUS", 9TH SEPT 00:11... GALLOWS FOR HANGING KASAB!
new building at MDL? or new lab of DRDO?
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ReplyDeleteTo the Folks here , You can see similar facility but in latest avatar in ISRO LPSC Mahendragiri near Nagercoil.
As some one said here surrounded by hills to minimize the impact of any accidental blasts
I remember somewhere in early 2000's reading a news item in local vernacular press a Israel tourist was attracted by tower among hills and tried to get through the hills to find out
A facility to suspend Ajai Shukla from many metres up in the air until he promises NOT TO WRITE ANOTHER MESSAGE IN CAPS WHICH IS ANALOGOUS TO SHOUTING.
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ReplyDeleteIt is vertical car parking system
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