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by rrao
17 Jun 2009 20:02
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Military Aviation
Replies: 388
Views: 60030

Re: Indian Military Aviation

[quote="tsarkar"]Two press releases on the Jaguar - http://www.prdomain.com/companies/R/Rolls-Royce/newsreleases/200961772763.htm Sir, Its high time the Engines of jags to be replaced.! Hope the new Engines are equipped with FADEC. The older engines have vintage analog Engine control ampli...
by rrao
17 Jun 2009 19:50
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: LCA news and discussion
Replies: 437
Views: 63711

Re: LCA news and discussion

Altitude data from Radio Altimeter ,which is an FMCW radar is used to compute CCIP! The same is true for jags and mig-27!
by rrao
11 Feb 2009 18:52
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Military Acquisitions, Partnerships & Developments
Replies: 397
Views: 52563

Re: Military Acquisitions, Partnerships & Developments

[quote="JaiS"] Honeywell to bid for IAF’s Jaguar upgrades Jai Guruji! its good that you have posted this. I think Jaguar needs an urgent engine upgrade! without going into that see-saw battle dilemma of choosing GE414 or Ej200 for LCA, HAL should go in for a performing and reliable Engine ...
by rrao
31 Oct 2008 18:23
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Missile Technology Discussion
Replies: 518
Views: 86038

Re: Indian Missile Technology Discussion - 27 March 2008

Rahul M wrote:avinash chander IIRC or some other DRDO honcho.
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Rahul Ji, please address properly while refering to eminent people who have done pioneering work. Its a disrespect to such eminent personalities are addressed like that. i have personally seen the contributions of Shri Avinash Chanderji!
by rrao
26 Sep 2008 20:42
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's R&D in Defence DRDO, PSUs and Private Sector
Replies: 4208
Views: 1129353

Re: India's R&D in Defence DRDO, PSUs and Private Sector

‘Lakshya’ test successful Balasore (Orissa): ‘Lakshya,’ the indigenously developed micro-light pilotless target aircraft, was successfully test flown on Thursday to check the validity of its engine and duration enhancement.— PTI Why does my RWR start howling whenever i hear the sentence "Laksh...
by rrao
12 Sep 2008 20:10
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program Discussion
Replies: 518
Views: 61528

Re: Indian Space Program Discussion - 23 April 2008

Avinash, thank you for the info. regards.
by rrao
12 Sep 2008 18:40
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program Discussion
Replies: 479
Views: 402864

Re: Indian Space Program Discussion - 23 April 2008

Salem College students develop motors and components for ISRO rockets and satellites 12 September 2008 Its great to note that college students have developed BLDC. Nitesh, can you give the address of prof kannan,SSPEED. For one specific system of LCA, BLDC motors are being imported. The motor no lo...
by rrao
03 Sep 2008 11:53
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program Discussion
Replies: 479
Views: 402864

radome

nitesh ,this has reference to your post on radomes. Any idea who built the radomes for Jaguars. If it is NAL, why ADA has gone to ASL composites facility ?. Because ,the radomes apart from aerodynamics should exhibit predictable and consistant Electomagnetic performance with low transmission loss,no...
by rrao
13 Aug 2008 18:54
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Missile Technology Discussion
Replies: 518
Views: 86038

Re: Indian Missile Technology Discussion - 27 March 2008

vick! its good to hear that Mr.satish reddy has become sc'G' and technology director at a very young age. He was with Agni under Mr. Avinash Chander, when we were with prithvi INS development and Engineering team. Great going!
by rrao
03 Aug 2008 11:27
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Military Aviation
Replies: 518
Views: 576135

Re: Indian Military Aviation

A new HAL division will be coming up in the state of Kerala, obviously a gift to the keralites by RM. The place is near Mangalore.
by rrao
15 Jul 2008 19:03
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Book Announcement : Sukhoi Su-30 in Indian Service
Replies: 72
Views: 22917

Re: Book Announcement : Sukhoi Su-30 in Indian Service

Jagan saar! where in hyd this book will be available?
by rrao
06 Jul 2008 15:46
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Military Aviation
Replies: 518
Views: 576135

Re: Indian Military Aviation

G-550 or even a A-320 would have been a better platform. With respect, may I ask what you know that the designers of the system do not know? Shiv saab! i am also of the same opinion of Ghosh ! why cant it be A320 kind of aircraft.Aircraft is a like a pet dog . Any foreign object externall mounted o...
by rrao
06 Jul 2008 14:58
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: BR Forums Feedback
Replies: 1566
Views: 350643

Re: Site Suggestions & Forum Feedback

i request the admin to change " NEW POST" button to" CREATE NEW POST " and "POST REPLY" to " POST REPLY TO EXISTING POST" . These two buttons are like panic buttons to new comers. New BAKARAS can save themselves from embarrassing bombardment of IB4TLs, incase ...
by rrao
15 Jun 2008 11:27
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's R&D in Defence DRDO, PSUs and Private Sector
Replies: 4208
Views: 1129353

Re:

Army to try its hands on Nishant before induction The state-owned aviation major, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), too, has developed another indigenous UAV, Lakshya, which is now in production lines. Lakshya is not basically a UAV. its a pilot less target aircraft used for missile target pract...
by rrao
10 Jun 2008 19:32
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program Discussion
Replies: 479
Views: 402864

Re: Indian Space Program Discussion - 23 April 2008

Arun saar! The ser/des is generally used for point to point communication between 2 units using either coax,copper wires(shielded twisted pair) with LVDS drivers and singlemode fiber optic cables(for long haul). the protocol followed is similar to oc-48 and /or custom made. The speeds can go up to 2...
by rrao
22 May 2008 21:41
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Military Aviation
Replies: 518
Views: 576135

even drdo had planned trim down version of the lca ,i think ADA could have done a better job then Hal ,since Hal as been working on so many projects of late a new 39 will effect the lca project u can already see how Slow the work is on Lca front by Hal !!! single LSP in a year and still no new LSP ...
by rrao
13 May 2008 18:55
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Hawk crashes
Replies: 130
Views: 93681

Meenaji,


you have mixed up HPT-32 crash and Hawk crash together! You too want to "FIX" HAL?
by rrao
12 May 2008 21:27
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Long range Agni missile & test launch
Replies: 187
Views: 124066

Seems govt has announced cash awards for AGNI-3 team members! They have realized the importance of what expertise means! good show!
by rrao
09 May 2008 20:02
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Hawk crashes
Replies: 130
Views: 93681

Arun Saar! HAL korwa div has developed soild state FDRs for use in Jags, LCA etc... These FDRs store data and voice on heavily ruggedized flash memory sticks!
by rrao
28 Apr 2008 11:17
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program Discussion
Replies: 479
Views: 402864

Great job ISRO! keep it up!
by rrao
19 Apr 2008 15:38
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Arjun thread
Replies: 354
Views: 146207

The never ending saga of ARJUN

BRF Tank Gurus! Russia has a new gen tank " Black Eagle or Chyorny Oryol". Googling is giving lot of info. Is our IA eyeing this, junking " ARJUN"?
by rrao
07 Mar 2008 01:15
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: ATV and K15 missile - News & Discussion
Replies: 325
Views: 183055

biju, as per your advice i have edited all my posts, just not to cause any further inconvenience.Thank you.admin, please bear with me. my intention is not to derail the topic.
by rrao
06 Mar 2008 21:56
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: ATV and K15 missile - News & Discussion
Replies: 325
Views: 183055

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by rrao
06 Mar 2008 20:08
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: ATV and K15 missile - News & Discussion
Replies: 325
Views: 183055

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by rrao
06 Mar 2008 18:41
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: ATV and K15 missile - News & Discussion
Replies: 325
Views: 183055

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by rrao
19 Feb 2008 23:20
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: The Indo Russian PAK-FA Project
Replies: 1200
Views: 552858

JCage wrote:Thing is that HAL is not exactly majorly into R&D at the system level.
JC sir,

you have hit the bull's eye. That is the crux of the problem with HAL.
by rrao
30 Jan 2008 17:04
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Radar - Specs & Discussions
Replies: 1148
Views: 435406

The unwinding of AESA

JC ji,

Thank you for the info and the links. You have given enough gyan to keep me busy for some time. Actually the guys behind bars are a few yards away from my work spot. At the moment the technology is screw driver type and its a blind man's alley.

best regards.
by rrao
27 Jan 2008 16:03
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Radar - Specs & Discussions
Replies: 1148
Views: 435406

JC -if you can please give a short write up on TX/RX module excitation method which which lead to generation of different frequencies for search and track and also how the software controls which section of the array is scanning and which tracking JC sir, In addition to the above ,if you can give m...
by rrao
24 Dec 2007 19:54
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: BR Forums Feedback
Replies: 1566
Views: 350643

iranian military industry

Dear admin,

My intention was to give only a suggestion to admin to start a new thread on " iranian military industry" and not to start a fresh thread all by myself.
i apologize for that.i pressed the wrong buttons.

bye and regards.
by rrao
01 Mar 2007 19:48
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Radar - Specs & Discussions
Replies: 1148
Views: 435406

Re: NO-11 bars

krishnan,as much as u know! :shock:
by rrao
28 Feb 2007 21:59
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Radar - Specs & Discussions
Replies: 1148
Views: 435406

NO-11 bars

i was hoping against hope that at least IRBIS will be an AESA and not a PESA. As i undrstand that the servo bandwidth of the azimuth gimbal is higher in IRBIS ,making it to steer the azimuth much faster compared to BARS. but one thing remains the same...one needs either bulldozers or elephants to ph...
by rrao
21 Feb 2007 18:09
Forum: Military Expositions Archive
Topic: Aero India 2007 - Info Thread
Replies: 347
Views: 174171

IJT crash

hello what is the real reason behind thecrash? is it due the rear wheel shock absorber break up during the take off run as reported in deccan chronicle? or the careless closure of the canopy by the HAL CTP? or due to the tyre burst ?The canopy opens up side ways ,with a hinged kind of support. even ...
by rrao
19 Feb 2007 20:48
Forum: Military Expositions Archive
Topic: Aero India 2007 - Info Thread
Replies: 347
Views: 174171

phazo catalog

hi rakall ! i read ur posting rather late. i got the entire phazotron cat on AESA and other radars from phaz scanned. it has taken some 48 pages.conceptually the russian,american and european AESA antenna block designs, especially the radiating elements seems to be different. Whats eye catching is t...
by rrao
16 Feb 2007 19:46
Forum: Military Expositions Archive
Topic: Aero India 2007 - Info Thread
Replies: 347
Views: 174171

Re: Dekh te Raho Dare Ojhayega bhayya!

hi! dont bracket me with others on whose views you have been debating. i am working in the defence R&D for the past 20 years or so. i am involved in one project on which you people so animatedly discuss.its past,present and future course. i am a mute witness to the non cooperation of some of the...
by rrao
16 Feb 2007 13:48
Forum: Military Expositions Archive
Topic: Aero India 2007 - Photo Thread
Replies: 345
Views: 168088

Brahmos Ground systems developed by a private company i thin

hi joey,

most probably , the groubd checkout sytem was developed by data patterns,chennai...
by rrao
15 Feb 2007 23:05
Forum: Military Expositions Archive
Topic: Aero India 2007 - Info Thread
Replies: 347
Views: 174171

Dekh te Raho Dare Ojhayega bhayya!

DRDO means to me Dekh te Raho Dare Ojhayega bhayya! Any praise on DRDO sounds bombastic. Sure ,there are only a handfull of all time greats who have run the programmes of IGMDP. How long will they continue? If the news reports are true, none other than the defence minister has stated that DRDO must ...