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The Ishapore Rifle Factory on Friday handed over the first batch of indigenously-developed 7.62x51mm assault rifles to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Ishapore Assault Rifle 7.62x51mm automatic rifle has a firing range of 500m and was developed in 2016 after which the Board of Officers from the Ministry of Home Affairs conducted extensive trials of the assault rifle and termed it a reliable weapon that can be introduced with the paramilitary forces too.
CRPF already has procured 500 indigenously-developed 7.62 x 39 mm Tiruchi-Assault Rifle (TAR). Ishapore Rifle Factory is trying to sell its 7.62x51mm automatic rifle to State Police and Indian Army.
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India’s premier defense research agency, Defence Research, and Development Organisation (DRDO) developed Naval Anti-Ship Missile Short Range that was to be tested last year will carry out its first developmental trial likely by mid of this year said well-informed sources close to idrw.org.
Unveiled at the DefExpo 2020, Work on the development of the missile system started in 2017 with funding of 434.6 crores. NASM-SR is a 380 kg Air launched Naval Anti-Ship Missile that has an IIR seeker and has a 100kg warhead that can be launched from Naval Helicopters against small to a medium class of ships and patrol boats.
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In response to Request for Information (RFI) for the MGS was floated by the Indian Army in April last year to identify probable Indian vendors for the manufacture of the 155mm/ 52 caliber MGS under the Buy (Indian-IDDM), Buy (Indian) or Buy & Make (Indian) clauses. Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS) 155 mm/52 caliber howitzer on 8×8 truck bed has been offered by DRDO along with its Private sector partners in the program.
Indian Army has a requirement of 814 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 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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The defense services have recorded an unusually slow pace of expenditure of their capital budgets so far with the Indian Army being the worst hit that has only spent approximately 40% of its capital budget for the ongoing financial year with barely over a month before the financial year is over, its race against time to place orders or else return the money to the Ministry of Finance.
One of the reasons for the delay in capital spending was the capping of capital budgets for domestic procurements as the Army wanted to procure more imports. This year’s budget will only increase Army’s headache as 68% of the defense capital procurement budget will be earmarked for the domestic industry in 2022-23, up from 58% in the last fiscal.
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Defence Research and Development Organisation has finalized the development of Desi variant of Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM) ER (Extended Range) surface-to-air interceptor that will incorporate a 150 km range to complement the XRSAM (eXtra-long Range Surface to Air Missile) that will have a range of 350km.
Desi Barak-ER like XRSAM will be a vertical-launch, all-weather, advanced active radar-guided, 50 g maneuvering interceptor capable of 360° intercepts at altitudes up to 30 km. Both Interceptor missiles will be powered by a solid fuel dual-pulse rocket motor, that already has been developed for the Indo-Israeli MRSAM Interceptor missile but with an additional solid-propellant booster it can achieve the 150 km intercept range.
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GTRE also recently revealed that is also working to develop a small turbojet engine of 1kN thrust class that can be used for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), target drones, light sport aircraft, and gliders with an additional engine. According to GTRE components have been developed for internal evaluation and based on the reviews a version-2 was later designed with major improvements.
GTRE also is working on developing a small turbojet engine of 2.7kN thrust class for which detailed design of the engine is completed and soon work on the prototype engine will start. this 2.7kN thrust class turbojet engine will be used on an air-launched air to surface missile system that is under development.
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State-run aerospace behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) management has allowed Transport Aircraft Division, Kanpur, HAL to develop a Dornier 228 seaplane based on the Dornier 228 aircraft that was so far being manufactured under license from RUAG for Indian defense forces and European markets.
Transport Aircraft Division already has developed floats for the program that has been tested intensively to replace its traditional landing gear system for taking off and landings at the sea. Conversion of Dornier 228 aircraft into seaplane was first proposed at Aero India 2021 as HAL believes there exists a small market for both civilian and military usage of such seaplanes.
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Boeing was to establish a High Altitude Engine Test Facility as well as a Trisonic Wind Tunnel Facility at India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) as part of its offset obligation for the ten C-17 Globemaster III heavy-lift aircraft that were ordered by the Indian Air Force for USD 4.116 billion way back in 2011.
DRDO was one of the major IOP and was to discharge 47 percent of the offsets with two major projects. The projects were High Altitude Engine Test Facility (HAETF) for $315 million and Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWT) worth $195 million. Boeing claimed that delays been mainly on account of export restrictions by the US Government and DRDO claimed that Boeing had not indicated how long it would take for export license approval from their (USA) government due to which even after 10 years of the C-17 deal, Boeing failed to meet offset obligations which now DRDO has canceled.
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The U.S. Navy has largely kept mum about how it will raise the wreckage of a high-tech F-35C Lightning II jet that crashed onto an aircraft carrier and fell into the South China Sea last week, but a maritime navigation alert released by the Japanese government suggests where the salvage operation may take place.
On Saturday, the Japanese Coast Guard issued a navigation warning indicating that a salvage operation was going on in a northern portion of the South China Sea, roughly 185 miles west of the Philippines and 350 miles east of Woody Island in the Paracels, a group of man-made islands on which Beijing has built an airbase and other military infrastructure.
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Boeing P-8i Neptune, a maritime patrol and anti-submarine aircraft is one of the game-changing platforms being operated by the Indian Navy. P-8i aircraft currently gives India a distinct advantage over China in the Indian Ocean region as this aircraft is the best in its class. China operates Harbin Sh-5 and Shaanxi Y series aircraft’s[1], which are turboprop or propeller aircraft as compared to P-8i which is turbofan or jet-powered (Jet powered gives speed and range over propeller aircraft).
P-8i has excellent electronic capabilities and apart from maritime warfare, it is also used in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions. It was deployed during the 2017 Doklam standoff although it’s a naval aircraft[2], such are the advantages of these aircraft that our neighbor Pakistan has started to acquire these kinds of aircraft[3].
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First Annual Webinar on the ” Aero Gas-Turbine Engine Development in India”, where DRDO-GTRE revealed plans to develop a new high thrust engine for the AMCA program and gave out some of the details of the new proposed engine. The new engine will have a Dry thrust of 72.5kN and a Wet thrust of 110kN class that will have a supercruise thrust of Mach 1.3 at 39,000 ft.
In the webinar, DRDO also talked about spinoff programs that can be developed from the 110kN thrust class engine that includes a Futuristic Dry engine, Uprated 130kN Class engine for future, Marine Gas Turbine engine, Turbo-shaft engine, Turbo Fan engine, and Turbo Prop engine.
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Last year Request for Information (RFI) for Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) issued by the Indian Army has received the expression of interest (EoI) from Larsen and Toubro that was followed by submission of the detailed project report (DPR), Larsen and Toubro will be given a grant under the `Make’ category, to build the prototype for the Army for evaluation and trials.
The RFI looks for three versions, 55% Gun, 20% Command, and 25% Command & Surveillance, with design modularity and induction by 2026-27. Indian Army is looking to procure 1750 tracked FICV’s within two years of the contract being inked, with at least 75-100 “fully-formed vehicles” per year.
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With the first aircraft rollout planned later this year, State-owned HAL and ADA have started groundwork to begin preparation for assembly of the first aircraft for which tenders have been allocated and the first aircraft on the assembly jig of the MkII should start by mid of April and should be completed by mid of December, just in time for the official rollout of the aircraft said officials familiar with the matter to idrw.org.
Most of the components and critical systems will start arriving by early March and some in later months but HAL will have enough to put the first aircraft on the assembly jig after the arrival of the mid and rear fuselage in April.
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The modernization plan of the Indian Army to procure 3,000-3,600 howitzers by 2025-27 doesn’t revolve around Dhanush and ATAGS (Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System) as expected but around Israeli Elbit’s Autonomous Towed Howitzer Ordnance System (ATHOS) 155mm x 52 calibers towed artillery gun which Army is so hard lobbying for in past few years.
If Army has its say, deal for the supply of 400 guns and indigenous production of the remainder 1,180 guns by Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), under a full Transfer of Technology (TOT) process might have been cleared by now over the indigenous ATAGS gun which Army claims is still not ready.
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A Promotional video of the No.15 Squadron Flying Lances that are equipped with the Su-30MKI type was seen with patches of ” Astra Pioneers” suggesting that the missile now has become operational with the squadron and are now part of the combat air patrol (CAPS) sorties.
Flying Lances are not only early adopters of the first Indian made beyond visual range air to air missiles but also has been tasked to prepare optimum firing protocols of the missiles and its standard operating procedure that will be later followed by all other Su-30 squadrons that will later adopt Astra Mk1.
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