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Indian defence firm Cingularity Aerospace showcased it’s Aero India 2023 and according to company officials, it’s a Tandem wing configuration that allows it to carry twice the payload and comes with an AI function that allows it to visually scan the area for better situational awareness.

Tango Bravo comes with multiple choice of engines and can be equipped with a piston engine, turbine engine or a 4-stroke engine with the most efficient being the turbine engine for faster over the target area.

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Rolls-Royce has reinstated its stand that it is ready to co-develop a new engine for India’s 5th generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) program co-creating the intellectual property (IP) that goes into a new fighter engine.

Rolls-Royce claimed at Aero India that a new engine will be fully customized for India’s AMCA program with growth prospects for future next-generation fighter jets can be developed within a decade.

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Bharat Earth Movers Limited along with Bengaluru-based CDSpace Robotics Pvt Ltd has unveiled VTOL(vertical take-off and landing) UAV that the company claims can be used for Border Patrol and surveillance to Land-based Maritime ISR, Ship self Defense and offshore security.

VTOL UAV has an MTOW of 50kg and can carry a 5kg payload with an endurance of 6+ hours powered by IC engines. VTOL UAVs have an operational altitude of a sea level of 4000m and come with multi-redundant architecture for the safest flight operations.

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Bengaluru-based Newspace Research and Technologies Pvt Ltd is developing Ultra Small Guided Bomb (USGB) that can be used from the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Precision targeting capabilities.

USGB specifications were not revealed by Newspace but it is under development to be used from Short-range Tactical UAVs or Swarm drones.

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Next Gen Supersonic Trainer Hindustan Lead-in Fighter Trainer (HLFT)-42 revealed by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at Aero India 2023 turns out to be a bigger and more capable fighter than Tejas Mk1 in almost all basic features of the jets. Specification acquired of the jet by the idrw.org makes HLFT-42 jet bigger than Tejas Mk1 in all dimensions that can carry more fuel and weapons payload.

HLFT-42 has a maximum takeoff weight of 16.5 tons while Tejas Mk1 has demonstrated a maximum takeoff weight of 14 tons. HLFT-42 has 11 hardpoints, 2 on the wingtip, two beneath the port-side air intake, one under the fuselage (centreline station) and three hardpoints under each wing, while Tejas Mk1 has only 8 hardpoints.

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Bengaluru-based Newspace Research and Technologies Pvt Ltd has proposed to develop CATS Max (Mothership for Air teaming eXploitation ) which they claim will be a bigger and improved high-speed, high-altitude unmanned combat aerial vehicle that can function like a mothership and data centre for the CATS Warrior, CATS Air Launched Flexible Assets (ALFA) and CATS Hunter and other platforms that are under consideration.

idrw.org has been told at Aero India 2023 that CATS Max will be a bigger stealthy platform that can also be used as a standoff delivery platform without exposing the aircraft and manned piloted aircraft in strike missions over the enemy airspace.

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Next Gen Supersonic Trainer Hindustan Lead-in Fighter Trainer (HLFT)-42 revealed by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at Aero India 2023 will be developed technologies that are to be developed for the Tejas Mk2 and AMCA Program as the proposed Next Gen Supersonic Trainer will be going through further design refinements and other improvements and should be ready after 2030.

idrw.org has been told that the HLFT-42 will be a well-capable combat trainer that will provide real-combat experience to the new pilots before they embark to fly 5th-generation fighter jets like AMCA.

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Bengaluru-based Newspace Research and Technologies Pvt Ltd is developing Tactical Interdiction and Attack Air Vehicle (TIA-AV ) that will be India’s Hunter Killer low-observable, multi-role autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is under development for the Indian Air Force (IAF).

idrw.org at Aero India 2023 was told that the TIA-AV can be used for deep air support missions and also for Intelligence, surveillance, and target acquisition roles including Electronic Intelligence (ELINT).

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Godrej Aerospace has won an order from the Gas Turbine Research Engine Center (GTRE) a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) lab to manufacture eight modules of six engines with the first engine starting delivered in late 2024 while the company plans to complete the deliveries will by August 2025.

Godrej Aerospace will be manufacturing a Dry Kaveri engine that has a 46kN Class of thrust and is been developed to be used on the Unmanned Stealth Strike Aircraft Platform and also on the Unmanned Fighter jet program.

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Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) proposed Hindustan Lead-in Fighter Trainer (HLFT-42) aircraft will come equipped with AESA Radar and weapons that can be used as a light fighter trainer fully combat capable but also will be highly customizable for an export-oriented market where it will be scalable, interoperable and configurable as per customers requirements.

Switching to a metal airframe means it is durable, light, and relatively inexpensive but ditching composites (mostly carbon-epoxy) has added advantages since it will reduce airframe cost by over 30% and aircraft can be priced competitively in the International market.

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Netra Mk2 Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&CS) Mk2 program that will be mounted on Ex-Air India Airbus A321 aircraft will come with 4D Active array AESA radar mounted into the dorsal system that is based on the active aperture technology with 240° coverage on two radiating apertures on either side of the A321.

But the addition of an AESA Radar on the nose cone of the aircraft will give additional 30° coverage but, likely, it will also be equipped with a dual swashplate that will give a detection range of 300 ° coverage.

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According to a report in the ” Economic times”, India’s Indian Air Force, and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) along with US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) are close to agreeing on technical parameters of the Air Launched Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (ALUAV) program that can be launched and recovered from Transport aircraft like C-130J Medium Transport Aircraft.

Both countries will hold Joint IP Rights so that further development of the ALUAV is not hindered in any way as each country can develop future alterations of the same without needing each other’s permission.

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The National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), India’s highly specialised technical intelligence gathering agency will be acquiring 8 TAPAS BH-201 Medium Altitude Long Endurance unmanned aerial vehicles being developed in India by Aeronautical Development Establishment to be used for the technical intelligence gathering at border areas.

idrw.org recently reported that DRDO is working to develop a dedicated full-spectrum SIGINT pod for UAV applications and organisations such as NTRO are involved in hi-tech surveillance jobs, including satellite monitoring, terrestrial monitoring, internet monitoring, considered vital for the national security apparatus.

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Swedish aerospace major Saab is keen to offer its Gripen-E fighter jet for the Indian Air Force (IAF) tender for 114 jets and is considering a tie-up with a local partner in India to cement its commercial bid after it dropped Adani Defence as its partner last year.

While Saab is considering having a fully owned subsidiary for the manufacturing of these jets in the country if allowed by the Indian Ministry of Defence (MOD) but is also open to having local collaboration with Indian Aerospace manufacturers.

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Indian Army has issued Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for procurement of a 155 mm/ 52 Calibre Mounted Gun System (MGS) has been accorded by the Competent Authority to be procured under Buy (Indian- IDDM) under provisions of Chapter II of DAP 2020.

The broad characteristics in respect of the ‘155 mm/ 52 Calibre Mounted Gun System (MGS)’ are as under:-