xanaduBut is the MCA going to be more of an MKI type or the Rafale type? or a bit of both?
xanaduThe trishul as an anti aircraft missile should do much better than the naval version which was designed more as an anti-missile system a la barak.
xanaduBy the way wasnt the US and S korea to blame for N korea backing out of the NPT . They didnt finish the nuke reactors they had promised under a previous deal in time :rolleyes:
xanaduIs this the S-300 PMU integrated with the Green Pine?
Indigenous air defence system to be operational next year
By Y. Mallikarjun
HYDERABAD Dec. 14. An indigenous, DRDO-developed air defence system with a centralised command, control and communication structure and linked to several mission control units throughout the country to detect all incoming missiles and enemy aircraft is expected to be operational by the end of next year.
A part of the system is operational already and is being tested with simulated batteries and radars, according to V.K. Saraswat, Director, Research Centre Imarat, a DRDO institution and the focal centre for developing the air defence system in collaboration with other defence laboratories, including HAL and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).
Talking to The Hindu on the eve of the two-day seminar-cum-exhibition on `Aerospace Technology challenges in the millennium’ where the latest technologies relating to aerospace would be discussed, Dr. Saraswat said once the entire network of control missions with a central command control and communication system is in place, the batteries could be ordered to launch interceptor missiles to destroy the incoming missiles.
The country would have a “distributed air defence system” as the same command control and communication system could be made applicable for aircraft also.
`Scramjet’, a type of jet engine that works at a very high speed and one of the futuristic technologies for use in supersonic aircraft, has also been developed by the RCI and was currently on the test bed. It was expected to be fully operational in two to three years. Once it is available, a specially made airframe that will withstand very high temperatures of up to 3000 degree Calvin would have to be integrated with the engine for launching the supersonic aircraft. Work was currently on for developing such an airframe in several defence labs, including DMRL, using silicon carbide based composites.
Based on it, the technology required for putting satellites in low orbit could be developed and as a result the cost of launching satellites would come down. He said the RCI was also working on developing an advanced accurate navigation and control system and terminal guidance system with imaging seekers that would enable air and land missiles as also aircraft to carry out precision strikes. “With this capability, the missiles will have zero CEP (circular error of probability) system or zero miss-distance system.”
Another important project launched by RCI was to develop a low cost navigation system for precision-guided sub-munitions. This would enable a missile, for instance, to carry 20 sub-munitions with each of them targeting a specified area. “This will give a force multiplier effect for armed forces,” he said. “The integrated missile guidance programme launched in the early eighties by the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who was then the DRDO chief, has laid a very strong missile technology base in the country as we are now in a position to launch any new technology.”
xanaduhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/356172.cms
Brahmos on deployment track
RAJAT PANDIT
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2003 07:33:10 AM ]
NEW DELHI : The Navy will soon have Brahmos, the supersonic cruise missile, with a strike range up to 300 km, to deploy on its frontline destroyers, frigates and submarines.
The Navy was given the green signal for the induction of Brahmos, touted to be unique and much superior to the American Tomahawk missiles, after its six ‘‘successful’’ trials since the first one in June 2001.
‘‘The flight tests achieved all mission objectives. The missile has proved its performance,’’ defence minister George Fernandes said in the Lok Sabha, in a brief statement on Thursday.
Defence officials, in turn, say the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace Private Ltd had already established production facilities at Hyderabad . Incidentally, Bharat Dynamics, the defence PSU tasked with production of missiles, is also located in the same city.
‘‘The commercial production and subsequent induction of Brahmos, which can be launched from multiple platforms like ships, submarines, aircraft and land-based mobile autonomous launchers, should begin within six months,’’ said an official.
The air-breathing missile, with a 200-300 kg conventional warhead, incorporates the Russian liquid fuel ‘Ramjet’ propulsion system and self-homing device of the Yakhont or Onyx system and the Indian onboard computer guidance system.
‘‘The anti-ship missile, which can fly at a velocity of up to 2.8 Mach, is already configured to be launched from ships and submarines. It will take about two-three years for the ‘‘Brahmos-A’’ version to be developed for fighters like the Sukhoi-30MKI jets in the IAF,’’ said the official.
The ‘‘advantages’’ of the Brahmos missile, which India and Russia also plan to sell to ‘‘friendly third-world countries’’, include long-flight range, fire and forget principle of operation, low radar signature, variety of flight trajectories and high destructive capability.
‘‘The Indian and the Russian navies will be the first ones in the world to induct such supersonic missiles which are three times superior to other current subsonic anti-ship missiles in terms of velocity, flight range and seeker range,’’ he said.
xanaduThe Indian Air Force (IAF) would conduct such an attack. In recent years it has become not only superior to the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in quantitative terms, but its ambitious modernisation programme is quickly making it technologically superior as well. If current trends persist, by 2010 the IAF will have more than sufficient capability to conduct punitive precision conventional strikes into Pakistani territory without much concern about the PAF, which has been crippled by a decade of sanctions and have little ground-based air-defence support.
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Just a reason for uncle sam to supply the Pak’s with some military hardware in the name of preserving conventional balance and thereby averting a nuclear conflict . 😡
xanaduDoes Butan have an AF? Thought it was the IAF stationed there or at least the IAF was responsible for its airdefence.
xanaduWell IMHO the PAF has only now started to realise that the Mig-21 class/type of fighters are very unforgiving. It is only now when they have started to train on the F-7 and push its limits that they have started to learn how unforgiving an aircraft of its type is.
xanaduThe F-7 is pretty new to be crashing unlike the Mig-21’s of the IAF . There have been a handful of them recently with the PAF F-7’s . Whats the problem?
xanaduUpgrade of Deep Penetration Jaguar Fighters
(Source: Indian Ministry of Defence; issued Dec. 10, 2003)
A contract for upgrade of Jaguar aircraft to improve navigation and weapon aiming capabilities has been finalized with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).
HAL and Defence Avionics Research Establishment have jointly taken up indigenous development. The development has progressed satisfactorily. The Government has released sufficient funds for these projects and an advance payment has been made available to HAL.
This information was given by the Defence Minister Shri George Fernandes in a written reply to Shri Nandi Yellaiah in Rajya Sabha today
Other information released today by the defence ministry:
— The first SU-30 MKI aircraft under license manufacture at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is planned to be delivered to Indian Air Force in 2004-2005.
The Government has accorded sanction to the licensed manufacture of SU-30 MKI aircraft, its engines and accessories at HAL at a total cost of US $ 4809.3 million (Rs. 22122.78 crore at year 2000 price level and at 1 US $ = Rs. 46).
–The project Sonobuoy Processing and Control System was successfully developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Jun 1989. The technology was transferred to Electronics Corporation of India Ltd., (ECIL) Hyderabad.
The total development cost of the project was Rs. 215.03 lakh.
The efficacy and acceptability of the system has been established through extensive trials conducted on submarine and various airborne platforms. The system was cleared for induction in 1991. Production order for 11 systems has placed on M/s ECIL, Hyderabad.
India has a vast coastline and many strategic offshore and on shore installations, the use of Sonobuoys and Processing Systems offers very cost effective means of underwater surveillance.
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xanaduAll the top scientists were on board and were killed.There were reports at that time that said that the loss had set back the program back by around 3 years. That it would take that long to revive it. But after that the project was put on the backburner.
xanaduAEW CONFERENCE IN LONDON
An IDC Report
London, 03 December 2003
The International Quality & Productivity Center (IQPC) Conference opened in in London on 3 Dec at the Holiday Inn near Victoria. It attracted over 100 delegates from all over the world under one roof and on 3 Dec there was more AEW expertise to be shared than any other platform in the world. The participants included mid level service officers mainly the hands on experience variety, scientists, commentators and reps of the Military Industrial Complex that make the hardware and some of them were ex Air Force or Navy. The representation included 9 Western Countries, Jordan, Australia, three each from India (DRDO), Pakistan (Air Force), Israel and South America including Brazil.
Airborne Early Warning and Control Systems Aircraft (AWACS) have made rapid advances necessitating corresponding changes in command and control in net centric warfare also. The early versions of AEW were UAVs, Aerostats and radars fitted in MR Aircraft like PC3 Orion, Gulfstream, Astra, and even Dorniers, IL 38 and TU 142 and such.
The Duke of Wellington at Waterloo had voiced his predicament by saying he had spent all his life guessing what was on the other side of the Hill. This dilemma now appears solved. Today the countries with true AEW assets can see well over the radar horizon up to 350 miles and more with powerful radar, optical sensors and send down the data and pictures via appropriate links, so battle space management becomes easy and SURPRISE, a principle of war, can be used for missile action and air superiority with devastating results. This just shows that in the next decade almost every country will have Air Force AWACS capability and Navies will have AEW helicopters flying from ships or off aircraft carriers.
AEW is the most happening thing in RMA and today with the Boeing Sentry 2 AWACS, Northrop Grumman E2C Hawkeye 2000, British SEAKING MK 7 with Searchwater in Royal Navy’s 849 Squadron (just 13 of them) and SAAB and EMBRAER 145 and other adaptations like Boeing 737 AEW and C130 J with APS/ANS 145 radar which are all operational and being used in Afghanistan and Iraq, there is quest by even smaller nations like Mexico, India and Greece to quickly get equipped.
The AEW Conference in London had many answers regarding frequencies to be used, heights to be attained and how data can be moved in real time in peace for recce and surveillance and in war to cripple the enemy. This is revolutionary.
In early 2000, Defence Minister George Fernandes had announced that four KAMOV Ka 31 helicopters were contracted at $13.95m each from Russia and they have arrived on the scene. The DRDO had also made an AVRO 748 with a Rotodome as their version of AWACS but in Jan 2000 it crashed with the test pilots and the scientists, but that knowledge remains. At present the Phalcon AWACS has been signed for on three Uzbeck IL 76s for delivery in 2005. So India too is on its way and the Defence Ministry Annual Report 2001 had said India will get Aerostats, low level radars, UAVs and Air Surveillance Aircraft. This is happening now and no wonder the IQPC Conference is a success and those who missed it should get briefed or get the proceedings.
xanaduDid anyone report that the PV1 has flown?
Oops yes I think there was a post on that .
xanaduhttp://www.defenceindia.com/01-dec-2k3/news4.html
India, Brazil sign defence cooperation deal
Close on the heels of a major defence deal for the sale to New Delhi of six embarer executive jets, India and Brazil today signed a wide-ranging defence cooperation deal to explore possibilities of cooperating in future aviation programmes in air surveillance systems.
Besides, air surveillance systems the agreement also visualises exploring co-production and co-development of aircraft, warship building and sub systems such as software avionics and ordnance.
The agreement signed by the visiting Brazilian Defence Minister Jose Veiges Filho and his Indian counterpart George Fernandes came after marathon day-long talks between the defence delegations of the two sides.
Brazil, besides, US, France, Russia and Israel is the only country to boast of a well established air surveillance platform, which it had earlier offered to India. But New Delhi opted for the Israeli Phalcon radar to be mounted on Russian IL-76 frame for its airborne early warning and control system.
Fernandes during the course of talks repeatedly pointed to the Brazilian delegation India’s emerging aviation potential in the shape of its light combat aircraft, the advanced light helicopter as well as intermediate jet trainer.
Fernandes invited Brazil to participate in the forthcoming India defence expo to be held here in February.
New Delhi, Dec 01, 2003 (Zee News)
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