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India’s 5th Gen Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) will be in top gears soon as Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) plans to complete Critical Design Review (CDR) by end of December this year. idrw.org has been told at DefExpo 2022 that the rollout of the prototype has been planned in mid of 2025 and the first flight by end of 2026 or in 2027.
ADA is seeking 15000 crores for the program and once CDR is completed ball will be in motion for clearance of the grant for the program sometime in early 2023. ADA and its manufacturing partner HAL have started sourcing and manufacturing some of the equipment and parts for the program but until the official grant comes fabrication of the aircraft won’t commence.
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Paras Aerospace has showcased its Griffon UCAV at “DEFEXPO INDIA 2022”. the company claimed to idrw.org that the program is still in the design stage and it has offered it to Indian tri-service. Griffon UCAV has an all-up weight of 5 tons and will be powered by two Turboprop engine that can take a payload of 1.2-tons and has a range of 7500km.
Griffon UCAV has a cruise speed of 280km and a top speed of 400km. Paras Aerospace officials told idrw.org that it has an endurance of 25 hours and an operational altitude of 10,700m.
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Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Larsen & Toubro (L&T) co-developed Zorawar Light Tank Scaled Model was showcased at the DefExpo 2022. Zorawar Light Tank rollout has been planned for mid-2023 and work on the program is progressing at good speed claimed L&T officials to idrw.org.
Zorawar is a 25-ton Light tank that has been designed specifically for operations in high altitudes and will be powered by a High Altitude Operable Power pack (Engine + Transmission) of 1,000hp. Indian Army is looking to procure around 350 units to counter Chinese ZTQ 105/Type 15 lightweight tank deployment in the entire Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) including in Eastern Ladakh and opposite Sikkim.
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Indian Navy has revealed plans to develop an Indigenous Integrated Mast that will be installed on future destroyers of the Indian Navy. A horn-shaped structure in which numerous antennas for tactical data link, TACAN (Tactical Air Navigation System), and communications are integrated within the design of the mast itself to Reduce signature, Reduce ship-building time, Better operational performance, and Enormous savings in below-deck space.
The program will be executed in two phases, In Phase-I, the integration of R-ESM, COMMIT, V/UHF communication, and Datalink antennae will be integrated into a single mast without Radome. In Phase II, a radome will be integrated that can withstand marine environments and can also operate without hindering various frequency bands of the antennas that are integrated into it.
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DRDO’s LRDE at “DEFEXPO INDIA 2022” showcased UTTAM AESA(Active Electronically Scanned Array) Fire Control Radar (FCR) but upon closer observation, it was sported with 912 TR modules which are more than 780 TR modules usually seen in earlier Uttam models that were displayed.
UTTAM Mk2 program will cater to the Tejas Mk2 program and also of Mig-29K program of the Indian Navy. DRDO also has plans to develop Uttam with a rotating repositioner that allows the pilot to take a beyond-visual-range missile shot and then turn 90 degrees while still giving mid-course updates to the missile fired.
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DRDO-TATA/Kalyani developed a 155mm/52cal caliber gun system mounted on Tatra T815 27ET96 28 300 8×8 terrain vehicle that has been displayed at the DefExpo 2022. Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (VRDE) was involved in the design and development of an armored crew protection cabin for the MGS that was later integrated with the ATAGS 155mm/52cal caliber gun at the Kalyani facility.
Indian Ary needs 814 mounted gun systems (MGS), and it was accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AON) by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) in September 2011, but since then little progress has been made. RFI states that the 155 mm/ 52 Calibre Mounted Gun System will be employed in plains, mountains, high altitude areas, semi-desert, and desert terrain along the Northern and Western Borders of the country for the execution of Artillery tasks.
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India’s Long range Air to Surface Hybrid RudraM-III model was displayed at the DefExpo 2022 for the first time. RudraM-III is a 1.6ton Air to Surface missile system that has a range of 550km and a warhead of over 200kg. Integration of RudraM-III Missile on Su-30 MKI aircraft (NonUMC) is already in progress and nearly 20 units are being fabricated to be used for the developmental trial of the new missile system.
RudraM-III program was sanctioned in 2017 with developmental trials to begin in 2022 for 485 crores. DRDO is also working on RudraM-II and RudraM-IIA which are also Air to Surface missiles with a range of up to 250-350km.
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Satyanarayan Nandlal Nuwal, Chairman and Non-Executive Director of the Indian private sector Solar Explosives in an interview with zee news said that the company had submitted a proposal to develop a 130-150km Guided Pinaka Indigenous multi-barrel rocket launch (MBRL) system. Satyanarayan claims that the proposal has been accepted by the Indian Army and work on the development of such a system has begun.
Guided Pinaka with a range of 130-150km will be the most advanced multi-barrel rocket launch (MBRL) system developed in the country and will surpass the range of the Russian 300 mm BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher that has a range of 90km that is already inducted by the Indian Army.
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Satyanarayan Nandlal Nuwal, Chairman and Non-Executive Director of the Indian private sector company, Solar Industries in an interview with zee news shed some light on the recent order placed by the Armenian defense forces with India for its indigenous Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launch (MBRL) system. Satyanarayan confirmed that Armenia indeed has placed orders for three variants of the Pinaka in a deal worth $250 million for 4 batteries.
Pinaka Mk-I with a range of 37.5 km, Pinaka Mk-I Enhanced with a range of 45 km, and Guided Pinaka with a range of 75km are being purchased in combination by Armenia. Guided Pinaka is the most advanced version of the three that has an Inertial navigation system + Satellite navigation Guidance and comes with the longest range.
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After deploying 350 artillery systems at various forward locations on the eastern border with China, the Indian Army plans to procure 80 mini remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), 10 runway-independent RPAS, 44 upgraded long-range surveillance systems, and 106 inertial navigation systems will be issued within the next few days, as per Times of India report.
The army is seeking RPAS that has an operational range from 15-20km to 60-90km that will be used to provide advanced support for artillery units by locating targets and transferring their coordinates to the firing unit, with hits marked on the GCS display, assuring accurate fire and intelligent battle damage assessment (BDA).
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Paras Aerospace, a subsidiary of Paras Defence and Space Technologies Limited, has announced that it will be showcasing at DefExpo 2022 unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) that claims to be researched, designed, and manufactured by the company in India. Unnamed UCAV is a High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) that the company proposes to develop in India that has 8 hardpoints and is equipped with two turboprop engines.
Unnamed UCAV is around 5 tons and can carry over 1 ton of payload on its 8 hardpoints. Paras Aerospace Claims it can be equipped with electronic support and countermeasure systems, dual satellite communication systems, air-to-air radar, collision avoidance radar, and national advanced synthetic aperture radar. As seen in the above image it also has Aft mounted EO Pod.
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According to a report in The Indian Expres, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL) proposed SARAS Mk II twin turboprop aircraft program has entered the critical design stage as an open-air engine test bed and real-time flight simulator has been set up at its facility for testing of various systems and subsystems.
CSIR-NAL has selected Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67A turboprop engines to power SARAS Mk II that can be used under the Government of India’s regional connectivity scheme UDAN. IAF has shown interest in procuring VVIP Configuration SARAS Mk II to ferry Senior ranked officials of the Military and government.
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Developer and manufacturer of electric aircraft tugs for aircraft and helicopters based out of Germany ” Mototok” has sent its electrically powered towing tugs for product demonstration onboard India’s Aircraft carrier where it was seen moving deck-based Mig-29K fighter jet to its position by a Radio remotely controlled operator.
Mototok LB Series can move aircraft weighing 50 tons with the nose wheel of the aircraft that’s not weighing more than 7.5-tons. LB-series comes with a Full electric drive, Radio remotely controlled operation using only one operator that can park aircraft in congested spaces like the deck of an aircraft carrier much more tiddly without wasting space.
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What started as an offshoot of the Astra Mk1 program now has turned into a full-fledged program that will see an extensive redesign of the current Astra Mk1 while maintaining the same airframe and aerodynamics for the development of new air-to-air missile system that will feature an infrared and radio frequency seeker in a single missile casing.
Infra-red homing missile tentatively classified as Astra-IR by the local media started as a variant but now has turned into a full-fledged engineering program that will see new technology incorporated into the missile for the development of a medium-range air-to-air missile that can even be fielded on 5th gen platforms.
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A Promo video of the Indian Navy showcased a graphical rendition of what could be a possible concept of the upcoming Next-Generation Destroyer (NGD) class warships that featured a canister-based universal Vertical Launch System with 144 missiles placed in three 6×4 VLS 2 configuration that is placed at the bow and aft. NGD can also be seen with 8 slant launchers behind the main radar possibly for the BrahMos-2.
Next-Generation Destroyer (NGD) class warships are a clean slate design that is still under the design phase and will be the successor to the Visakhapatnam-class destroyers. NGD configuration is likely to be finalized sometime in 2024 with construction starting in 2025-26 with induction happening in 2031.
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