Bharat Rakshak

sankum

Noob Pooch ---> If Empty Weight is 7,040 kg and Take-Off Clean Weight is 9,800 kg...the maximum internal fuel carried will be 2,760 kg? Right now page 1 says maximum internal fuel is 2,400 kg. Please advise Roughly 6500kg empty + 2500 kg internal fuel+ 300kg 2 CCM with launchers and + 500kg misc( 1...

sankum

Rakesh correction in Page 1 Tejas mk1 specifications from excellent indranil article.
MTOW - 14100 kg instead of 13500 kg
Clean TOW- 9800 Kg
Payload- 4300 kg
Airframe life- 9000 hours

sankum

Each carrier will carry 4 Ka31 and 10 Talwar class frigates will carry one Ka31 for total 18 nos deployment. Hence 20 Ka32 requirement.

sankum

The NUH should go to ALH navalised version and 16 to 24 ASW versions of it can be bought to add to 16 ASW naval ALH already ordered so that along with 24 Seahawks the naval requirement of ASW helps can be fullfilled till 2030 when HAL IMRH can be ordered for 123 NMRH.

Total swadeshi solution.

sankum

Estimated 14nos to 19nos Darin 2 trainers of 1985-2006 vintage will remain in service.

sankum

These twin seater will remain darin 2 while 56 nos single seater post 1985 will get darin 3 upgrade along with elta 2052. They will serve till 2035-38.

By 2025 only the above aircraft vesions will remain in IAF to form 4 squadrons. While 2 sq of pre 1985 jaguars wil retire after 40 years in service.

sankum

Its on separate pylon on right side front fuselage.
Centreline pylon is free to carry 2 dumb 450 kg bombs or one LGB.

sankum

My est for Su30 mki is 0.25crash/10000hrs
150 hours / year 40 year life 6000hours

sankum

Crash rates of fighters Mirage 2000- 0.4/10000hr Mig 29 & Jaguar- 0.8 /10000hrs Mig 29 flies 90hrs/year 4000hr life 45 year life Mirage 2000/ Jaguar 150hrs/year 50 year life Mig 29 -18 crashes of 80 Jaguar -55 crashes of 168 Mirage 2000 -11 crashes of 59 Mig 29 k could have same crash rate of Mi...

sankum

.
Harsh Vardhan Thakur on Twitter: "Thanks Tweeple. Moving forward ...

He retired.

sankum

Mig 29 crash pilot safe initial report

sankum

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/sto ... 2020-05-08

sankum

Partial infoboard in defexpo 2020 posted in this forum by shobhits.
Its the weight of jamming pod carried by Tejas mk1a.

sankum

Exclusive AMRAAM launcher weighs only 28 kg as it does not carry nitrogen cooling bottle for IR seeker of CCM in which case it weighs 40kg.
Astra launcher is being developed. Don't know if it dual for CCM or only for Radar guided BVR.

sankum

Clean take off weight of Tejas mk1 with 2 CCM is 9800 kg and Tejas mk1a is 9900kg. 4 Derby ER with 40 Kg Nato standard launcher will be 4*(118kg+40kg)=632kg 4 Astra mk1 with R 77 launcher weighing 60 kg will be 4*(154kg+60kg)=856kg 725 litre centre EFT will weigh 725*0.8/0.9~ 640kg. Tejas mk1a with ...

sankum

When alto EV for $6000(₹4.5lakh) with minimum 250 km range comes then the era of EV will take over. Maybe by 2030. And self driving cars maybe by 2035 may reduce the number of personal cars to 10% as personal ownership of cars will become redundant and presently 90 % of cars remain parked in any cit...

sankum

Indranil wrote:Who did the integration? Who got paid?

Israel?

sankum

Can python 5 CCM be carried on wingtip stations of MWF?
We have a stockpile of it in Spyder AD system and can also be used for air to air.

sankum

$2 billion was paid for Indian specific enhancement for Rafale. Should include Astra integration otherwise on first air dominance combat mission on opening day of war the Rafale will empty it's stockpile of 4 Meteor missile and will be left without any spare missile.

sankum

For mirage 2000 fleet 450 mica were purchased @9 missile/ fighter. Qatar purchased 160 Meteor missile@4.5 missile/ fighter for 36 Rafale. IAF also can be expected to purchase 160 Meteor plus 160 Mica missile for its fleet of 36 Rafale. Standardization on Astra SFDR and Asraam will result in large st...

sankum

Anyone can correct me if I am wrong. While marketing I derby ER the maker is saying that you are getting 80% of Meteor performance for one third the price. Now Meteor for $3m /missile gives NEZ of 60km. That means I derby ER for $1m/missile gives NEZ of 48km. Astra mk2 with dual pulse will give a ra...

sankum

Delighted to hear that. For $750m a new engine.

sankum

I will hazard a guess estimate of 8 T class drone intercepter powered by HTFE 40 from the illustration and article.

Empty weight: 3200 kg
Internal fuel: 2100kg
Internal weapons : 2*250kg BVR + 2 CCM=700kg
CTOW: 6000kg
External payload: 4"500kg PGM=2000kg
MTOW: 8000kg

sankum

https://mobile.twitter.com/hvtiaf/status/1251737882261360641 . We're certainly working actively on 6th Gen operations. These articles were published last year. Optionally manned fighters and unmanned-wingmen are the new paradigm in the nearest future for us. 8 T class unmanned fighter drone with AI ...

sankum

You do not have AAM in unlimited number. Only 450 Mica were bought for 50 upgraded Mirage 2000 i.e, 9 AAM/ fighter. For Jaguar upgrade of 4 sq ( around 72 fighters) only 384nos ASRAAM were bought i.e, 5 CCM /fighter. AAM are costly and used for 20 to 30 years with relifing. For any Airforce inventor...

sankum

There will have to be space to carry as many dual racks as possible . See the MWF diagram when large PGM with large wings is carried on inner wing hardpoint the middile wing hard point carries only single BVR. Dual rack BVR is carried only with EFT on inner wing hardpoint . Similarly with dual rack ...

sankum

Harsh Vardhan Thakur @hvtiaf 1. Hawk's skin is paper-thin to keep weight low. Highly optimised for training role. Can't take gun fire, ricochet, shrapnel etc. 2. #Tejas is a flying tank. Totally different league. 3. Instantaneous & Sustained Turn Rates are not influenced by Max structural-G limi...

sankum

I don't know. IAF knows the best. I take what HVT Sir said as the operational requirement.

sankum

Even Rafale in deep penetration strike role will carry 2 Meteor+ 2 CCM + 6 standoff PGM along with 3 EFT+ CFT.

AMCA will carry only 4 internal BVR .

You empty the missile load you exit the Battle ,land ,reload, refuel and join the Battle again .

sankum

MWF with 4 BVR+ 4 CCM with 3 EFT for heavily loaded CAP or strike with PGM. For QR interception 6 sq Tejas mk1/a with 2 BVR + 2 CCM is the operational requirement of IAF They have simulated the war with different tactics and arrived at the optimum configuration of required AAM payload of different f...

sankum

I am talking of fighters flying at 40000 feet altitude used to launch BVR which would have been taken care by the SAM system. For the rest sufficient number of Migs were Airborne .

sankum

In future they will be. The operational flexibility for fighters is there.

sankum

For the post Balakot scenario of 4 fighters vs 24 enemy fighters should have been taken care by S400 and Barak8 ideally and not by defensive fighters flying at lower altitude. Not a single BVR could be fired. What is the statistical probability of such a scenario in all out war and a top cover by Su...

sankum

There was result of a study in Eurofighter website where the ideal payload was 6 BVR AAM and 2 CCM. IN tender for 57 Fighter it is 4 BVR + 2 CCM. Tejas mk1 is 2 BVR+ 2 CCM. Tejas mk2 it is 4 BVR + 4 CCM AMCA is 4 internal BVR. Rafale 8 AAM.( 4 Meteor + 4 Mica) In India case Tejas mk2 load may be the...

sankum

They are taking it on government direction.

sankum

No definite data yet. Anecdotally, not doing so well, at least in NY metro area. BCG is irrelevant so far, although the numbers are small. The two people - both desi docs - who got hospitalized are immigrants, so must have had BCG in India. According to my desi PA (who had fever and such for about ...

sankum

Yes. In multiple configs. How is it broken down? 6500kg empty weight + 2450kg internal fuel + 3900kg external payload (EFT's and weapons) gives us around 12,850 kg. That leaves 950 kg for the pilot, oxygen tanks plus other miscellaneous stuff. Is that much necessary or can we perhaps increase paylo...

sankum

As a ballpark roughly 10 % of the total weight is that of tank. Composite tanks used in Tejas will be lighter. 1360 litre* 0.791= 1075 kg fuel + 125 kg empty tank weight= 1200kg . The designed weight carrying capacity of inner wing weapon station which is increased to 1500 kg to carry Brahmos ng. Fo...

sankum

2*1360 litres EFT on inner wing pylons+ 900kg PGM on fuselage centre station + LDP+ 2 BVR AAM on mid wing stations = 3900kg external payload.

sankum

Till FY 2021-22 remaining 23 nos Tejas mk1 is expected.

Tejas mk1a is only from FY 2022-23.

Search found 764 matches