Bharat Rakshak

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There are quite a few questions that need to be solved. 1. All straits in the East are watched round the clock via surface, subsurface, airborne and space based assets. Past that it's tougher but not impossible. 2. In a conflict, PLAN assets would already be in the IOR. 3. When targeting is required...

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Nothing new there.

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A lease of 6-16 entirely Russian Tus will be a massive drain on IAF revenue expenditure. True...but I think this possibility has been prematurely raised. BUT this is true for ANY new system or aircraft platform. Working out the Realization & Sustainment is (unsexy but essential) work that requi...

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We have progressively MKI-zed all our Russian wares. From T-72s to Mig-29s. A lease of 6-16 entirely Russian Tus will be a massive drain on IAF revenue expenditure.

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That tweet wasn't related to Mk2.

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If you want to hit Tibet-based nodes, why does it need to be air-launched at all? Ground based Nirbhay launchers are good enough. If IOR, why shoot cruise missiles at a flotilla instead of launching BMs from land, cruise missiles from existing sub/surface fleet? Magazine depth & response-time ar...

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IAF will finally get a strategic bomber https://twitter.com/somnath1978/status/1556143398158942208?s=20&t=sLg2g3U7z_69NVCfY9mzCw ---> If this is true, India must be enormously sanguine about CAATSA. Given the near US monopoly in India's advance warning sensors (Phalcon, P-8I, radar satellites, ...

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The US Navy trains pilots first on the Goshawk for carrier operations. And then the Shornet. Even that is going to change with advent of technology.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3 ... n-training

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Initial iterations. Once they're satisfied with controls laws and fight control behaving as expected, the vertical gin awas expected to go. It won't bea permanent fixture

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BEL does the hardware design for the DFCC. Not just the electronics but the housing also. They've done it for the LCA too. So it is a natural progression that Mk2 and AMCA and TEDBF also work this way.

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Delhi Defence Review @delhidefence · 12m BREAKING : Maiden successful test flight of Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator was carried out today at Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) in Chitradurga, KA. The Demonstrator is the first step towards India's own Unmanned Strike Air Vehicle (IUSAV). https://pbs....

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Rakesh wrote:Prasad, I am truly in awe of the excellent work you, Saurav Jha and others do at DDR. Really exceptional.

You're very kind. It is just something anybody here could do.

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That brings us to another research prospect. Composite vanes and shrouds. It took GE nearly 30-35 years to prove composites enough to put them in engines as shrouds for the hot sections. We have programs too but obviously they'll take time. Material, coatings, machinability, fatigue etc will all nee...

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Obviously a lot of detail couldn't be published. We don't have the latest on this and blade related research was only proposed back then.

Besides, cooling is a major focus and was seen as the way to achieve higher TeT. We might actually see both methods combined (if that actually helps).

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csaurabh wrote:Our company received a TDF grant from DRDO. I did a small press release
https://primeinsights.in/vashishtha-res ... e-limited/

Fantastic news. Congrats.

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^^ Excellent. Basically Indranil and Nilesh's DDR article in video form. Makes it a lot more accessible to most people. If anyone knows how to contact the DDR team though, please let them know the audio quality needs a lot of improvement. The quality of the content and the quality of the audio are ...

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I think there is no announcement because a) we don't seem to be asking for a new engine (too expensive? cost & time-wise) and b) subsystems necessary are all under development right now. Perhaps it will be announced when they're closer to reality. And we know they're working on all the subsystem...

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300! GoI and TATA better pitch for local assembly for whatever they buy citing C-295 deal.

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"· About 45% of the defence pension bill still goes to civilian-defence employees."

I would love to see an actual official source for this. Has anyone seen it anywhere?

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And our CAPEX needs are bloody massive. Take any equipment and we need to buy it. Army - guns, tube arty, rocket arty, wheeled apc,tracked ifv, atgm carriers, helicopters for aac, vshorads. iaf - so many planes it is not even funny. just the 114 mrca has a $20bn budget. navy - their needs are more e...

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Please read this concise summation of our defence budgets and spending - https://prsindia.org/budgets/parliament/demand-for-grants-2020-21-analysis-defence 28% of defence spending is Pensions. Defence Expenditure is 15.5% of total central govt expenditure. " over the last 10 years, defence expe...

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There is the unmanned component that is a big ?
Will our UCAV and loyal wingman programs be mature enough for induction by 2030?

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I've read almost everywhere that artillery came into the picture later on during Kargil war. Is that due to an under-appreciation of the threat itself or because we didn't have enough artillery to go around or that the Kargil-Dras sector wasn't seen as a place where artillery was needed at that time...

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Kaveri is for an LCA Class aircraft. We don't have a similar jet-powered UAV to try it out.

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DRDO is doing that exact thing. That is what swift will lead up to. prasad is the plan to test the Kaveri on swift or put in swift once Kaveri has been sufficiently qualified? TIA swift is a scaled demonstrator to learn technologies and uses a smaller engine. Kaveri will need to be flight tested pr...

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DRDO is doing that exact thing. That is what swift will lead up to.

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Let's assume that all resources, however costly or even infrequently used, as it may be, are provided as demanded, along with unlimited funding as also desired. Where are the human resources that can produce these much desired results and when will such an engine be delivered. Govt labs have tried ...

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Here we go again ... GTRE was formed mostly with HAL Engine division folks, back in 1980s etc ... Yes here're some details highlighted from it ... rest of it can be read from here Quoting from AI 2009 Aeroseminar by GTRE director T. Mohan Rao Exactly this post. 13 years ago. Feels like a lifetime a...

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Despite all the hurdles they did get to nearly achieve the requirements. Atleast the dry version. And this when they've never actually built a turbofan engine before that. And they never even got to flight test it after one campaign at Gromov. How do you expect to build a contemporary engine without...

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The question is not what will bring the numbers back up but the costs involved. Buying Mark2 will plough a solid chunk of that money back into indian industry straightaway and thereafter for fleet sustenance. Buying an F16 or Gripen will not. 80 Rafales cost UAE $19bn. MoF will have a heart attack b...

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7.61x39 might be adequate for COIN and perhaps that's driving IA's requirements. Given the need to get out of COIN and fight conventional, especially with PLA, a better round might need to be found. If not the 6.8x51 maybe the 6.8x43 of ARDE might work. But again it needs studies to determine effect...

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People routinely unbuckle immediately after the seat belt sign goes off after takeoff and again the second the landing gear touches the tarmac. Getting bounced during sudden turbulence is hardly surprising.

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Rakesh wrote:Close up shot of the BrahMos exit wound

It hit right below the funnel, where the engines would be placed.

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You don't want to send your slow P8s within 300km of your enemy surface group. The NGARM has a 100km range.

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Drones of these types are getting a lot of attention and orders from IA. Ideaforge's switch drones being ordered is a good example. NewSpace and Alpha have got orders too.

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It is not just increased toll collection but fastag means that toll collectors no longer can avoid showing true collections since it is all digital and 1000x quicker than manual work earlier.

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People seriously expect HVT to post a picture of the LCA while it is flying at treetop heights?

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MAWS is a high priority project. Tejas Mk2 and the AMCA are under prototype production right now and they both will sport them. If they don't get them proven, IAF won't even look at them. And we know both platforms will sport their own versions of a MAWS. So they might not be that far into the futur...

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Oil prices are already at near all-time highs. People are looking forward to the govt reducing fuel prices. Let's not forget that apart from commodities, fuel-induced inflation is also directly impacting millions of poor folks in India. Hook or crook, cheaper fuel is a damn necessity for us. Europea...

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Rustom-II is a surveillance drone. Unlike the bayraktar which is armed. We need a desi vehicle to police our long borders from the air and collect intel along the way. MALE Armed drones will not survive the battle enough given the kind of AD systems PLA will put in place over Tibet. Smaller ones per...

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