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Army’s drone formation sees massive changes as tensions with China mount at LAC
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https://twitter.com/Sandeep_Mave/status ... 5707710471 ------>
Here comes chupa Rustom-II in it's latest Avtar....

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I can see so many variant out of this. MALD type decoy, air & land launched 200-300 KM hovering drone with passive seeker to hunt down radar etc.

Hope we are on it..

Edit: it will be used to simulate various RCS & IR signature. So it is not a random kit. It is a MALD type decoy. The key here is the compact engine..wonder if we have the spec anywhere :D

https://defenceforumindia.com/attachmen ... eg.115830/

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Bunkums at Teetar have outed the Swift

https://twitter.com/DefenceReach/status ... 7567666183 --->
More details on the much awaited SWiFT program. Last known update is taxi trials now stand complete. A closer picture now revealed. @alpha_defense, more interesting update coming soon on this.
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https://twitter.com/DefenceReach/status ... 9781755904 --->
Image 2: Taxi Trials for Swift, taken from a video still (displayed in public). Note; all images are released from footage showcased for exhibition.
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https://twitter.com/defence_in/status/1 ... 6311305230 --->
The UCAV Swift. Courtesy: Firestarter-DFI.
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Swift, Ghatak & AMCA together are going to change the aerospace scene in India forever. Stealth is soon going to be a reality in India.
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Hope so, praying to God with folded hands
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https://twitter.com/defence_in/status/1 ... 33795?s=20 ---> The Archer UAV. Courtesy : Firestarter-DFI.

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https://twitter.com/TheWolfpackIN/statu ... 74409?s=20 ---> DRDO led Archer Weaponized UAV project (first flight soon) will be India's counter to any potential acquisition of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones by Pakistan.
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Wonder why ADE went with a 2 engine design, when Rustom 1 was the a single engine design. They could have built a larger Rustom 1.

Also looks like Army Aviation guys are already involved in the Rustom 2 project. Hopefully this should expedite user trails.
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2 engine for power, redundancy. Rustom 2 's endurance is more, ceiling is more, requires decent payload. Electronics are power hungry.

Rustom 2 is ALH of domestic UAV. It took time, but it will do unprecedent numbers.
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Mashallah, the nozzle looks very TFTA. We seems to gone for proper stealth. Wonder if there will similar attempts on AMCA nozzle as well.

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I wonder if the airframe is just stealth shaped or does it have RAM coatings as well. Might just be a prototype to test CLAW and FCS and then having a full scale prototype!
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Currently shaped stealth, engine, intake, exhaust, making the shape fly and develop the avionics is a challenge. Why to add RAM to that?
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do we know (in any open/available sources) the final size this is expected to be? this looks like scaled down model but still looks enough capable to do a few hours of endurance - enough to get us started.
also, this probably could be scaled to multiple sizes - lots of potential in there.
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Unless there is a good reason, demonstrators are almost never stealthy, but stealth representative. The X-47B was not a stealth design (but representative of one) and the same of the X-35 and X-32 demonstrators. Since this is a scaled version of an actual combat aircraft, and not the combat aircraft prototype itself, their main concern would be to test flight control system, and other things that would help them de-risk the full scale demonstrator. They don't need to fly a full up stealth design (that includes everything from shaping, conformal sensors, propulsion signature reduction, RAM and LPI comms) to do that.
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https://twitter.com/Amitraaz/status/145 ... 35877?s=20 ---> UCAV TD Stealth Wing Flying Testbed (#SWiFT)

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India’s secretive stealthy unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator breaks cover
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4 ... eaks-cover
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https://mobile.twitter.com/srinihyd999/ ... 5870830593
Indian Defence at it's pace. Indian indigenous Unmanned Stealth bomber/Combat Vehicle SWIFT Demonstrater Breaks it's cover for the first time.

Intended to Serve the proof of Concept, planned production of Combat Drone GHATHAK, which is primarily developed as Unmanned Drone.
via@srinihyd999 1:21 am · 28 Oct 2021

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thank you chetak-ji for adding the link in the post above.

Going forward...please provide links, to avoid copyright infringements.
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Something that just reaches out and grabs me about this SWIFT is the huge size of the landing-gear wheels, relative to the body of the aircraft. I wonder why that is -- they could have used much smaller and lighter wheels.
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https://twitter.com/DRDO_India/status/1 ... 7946173443
@DRDO_India
Expanding the envelope of indigenous MALE UAV Rustom II, critical technologies of Autonomous Take Off and Landing (ATOL) & also using GAGAN Satellite system successfully proven at Bengaluru. #advancedtechnologies
#atmanirbharbharat
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https://twitter.com/vkthakur/status/1459524175039635457
Vijainder K Thakur: Following ATOL integration, Rustom-2 development will speed up as T/O & landing a large drone is challenging using an external pilot. The drone features a Cassidian MDR-NES MLDRF (Miniature Laser Designator & Range Fighter) for accurate automated glideslope tracking.
I think Auto ATOL is a moment of great joy.
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Ravi rikhye reporting that USAF flew a drone with 16 hellfire missiles...not much details available...but seems like USAF will overwhelm opponents with such drones on the day 1 and in some cases tackle drone swarms like that too..rahter than through some other exotic solutions!
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can the ATOL from one drone be used for others? like say swift..
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ArjunPandit wrote:can the ATOL from one drone be used for others? like say swift..
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If it's modular it can be easily.
But the experience of making it work on one uav will vastly help in another.
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Video in the link below...

https://twitter.com/IndiaToday/status/1 ... 73542?s=20 ---> Biggest drone deal ever! India to order 30 ‘Predator-B’ drones. Drone deal valued at 22,500 crore. Deal for India’s first hunter killer drones.
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And on cue just as the first deliveries of the S-400 have begun India does this :) Everyone is happy.

More firepower for armed forces: After Russian Triumf, India to buy Predator-B drones from the US
By: Huma SiddiquiNovember 15, 2021 7:27 PM

Ahead of the India-US 2+2 Ministerial Level Dialogue in the first week of December, India gets ready to formally place an order for 30 ‘Predator-B’ drones from the US based General Atomics. With these drones the Indian Navy will be able to carry out surveillance of its coastal boundaries with more clarity.

Financial Express Online had reported earlier that the deal is expected to be formalized before 2021 ends. The Indian Navy is the lead service for the Predator (MQ-9) High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Remotely Piloted Vehicles/Aircraft (RPV/RPA). The deal which is around USD 3 billion for 30 Predators from General Atomics – 10 each for the three services.
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https://bharatshakti.in/solar-industrie ... munitions/

Any Detail of these loitering munition : LM-0 (1.5 kg, 15 km), LM-1 (4 kg, 25 km) and LM-2 (10 kg, 100 km). It is going for High altitude trials.
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Rakesh wrote:Video in the link below...

https://twitter.com/IndiaToday/status/1 ... 73542?s=20 ---> Biggest drone deal ever! India to order 30 ‘Predator-B’ drones. Drone deal valued at 22,500 crore. Deal for India’s first hunter killer drones.
https://twitter.com/rajatpTOI/status/14 ... 04960?s=20 ---> Just a reminder that the proposed procurement is yet to even reach the Rajnath Singh-led Defence Acquisitions Council for the “acceptance of necessity” on way to the final nod from the CCS!
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A very nice video on the Predator drones. Please click on the link below.

https://twitter.com/DefenceDecode/statu ... 40355?s=20 ---> Indian MoD to accelerate the procurement of 30 armed variants of MQ9 UAS. India and the US have been negotiating the deal for more than two years and it is now in the final stages of getting cleared by the Govt.
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India's drone-development sector is now extremely vibrant with very large and small players. Here Pallava Bagla speaks to Udayant Malhoutra and others from Dynamatics. Developing everything from scratch is no joke!

https://www.indiascience.in/videos/futu ... in-india-e
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Solar Industries Becomes First Indian Company To Make Fully Indigenous Weaponised Drones And Loitering Munitions.

Solar industries Ltd, a Nagpur-based Explosives and ammunition company today announced that it has successfully demonstrated its prototypes of Weaponised Drones (Hexacopter) and Loitering Munitions and become the first Indian firm to do so.

In a press note issued this afternoon, the company, already a world leader in packaged explosives and accessories, Solar Industries said it is developing an array of drones for ammunition delivery to bring a new capability to Indian armed forces. Solar Industries manufactured drones can be used in both offensive and defensive roles, it claimed. India’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen Bipin Rawat was present at the first demonstration carried out at the company’s Nagpur-based facility, the note added.

The company press statement further added that its offensive drones will be capable of dropping specially designed warheads on specified targets and returning to base. They are used to target enemy troops, bunkers, vehicles and tanks.

Solar Industries and its fully-owned subsidiary, Economic Explosives Ltd (EEL) is working in a mission mode with an aim to start production of these drones as early as in January 2022.

EEL Warheads can also be integrated with drones of other manufacturers. In a parallel development, Solar Industry’s drones in a defensive role (an Anti-Drone System) will be capable of capable of ‘Soft Kill’ using RF and GNSS Jamming system and a ‘Hard Kill’ option using Micro-missiles.

Micro Missile System is the most reliable Hard Kill System, which has been developed in-house by EEL. So far in India, EEL is the sole developer for such a capability.

The company has also embarked on manufacturing Loitering Munitions for use by the Indian armed forces. A loitering munition (also known as a suicide drone or kamikaze drone) is a weapon system category in which the munition loiters around the target area for some time, searches for targets and attacks once a target is located. Loitering munitions enable faster reaction times against concealed or hidden targets that emerge for short periods without risking high-value platforms like aircraft close to the target area, and also allow more selective targeting.

Loitering weapons worldwide have been developed for roles ranging from relatively long-range strikes and fire support down to tactical, very short-range battlefield systems that fit in a backpack. India is so far dependent on this specialized munition only through the import route. Solar Industries will be the first Indian Company to fully indigenize and develop Loitering munitions in-house. It is making several versions of the munition primarily LM-0 (1.5 kg, 15 km), LM-1 (4 kg, 25 km) and LM-2 (10 kg, 100 km).

These Indian made munitions will not only be superior to the imported contemporaries in technical features and specifications but will also be almost 40 per cent cheaper. The timeline set by Solar Industries to complete this challenging task is February 2022. Large infrastructure for production, testing & evaluation of these systems is being set up in Solar Industries based in Nagpur.

It has one of the largest production facilities for HMX & its compositions in the world. So far India was dependent on imports of these products but thanks to Solar industries, these items are now being exported to many countries including the USA, Europe & Israel. In the year 2010, the company forayed into the field of Defence and became the 1st Private Company in India to produce a complete ammunition range. It also entered into the field of testing and became the first to develop a World-Class Facility in the country to determine the shell life of ammunition and energy materials based on Isothermal Micro Calorimetry (IMC) revolutionizing the existing procedure to save crore so f exchequer money and prevent Ammunition related accidents.
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YashG wrote:https://twitter.com/vkthakur/status/1459524175039635457
Vijainder K Thakur: Following ATOL integration, Rustom-2 development will speed up as T/O & landing a large drone is challenging using an external pilot. The drone features a Cassidian MDR-NES MLDRF (Miniature Laser Designator & Range Fighter) for accurate automated glideslope tracking.
I think Auto ATOL is a moment of great joy.
Not nit picking but shouldn't it be Range Finder ?
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It says target designator and range finder.

This is a good news. TAPAS can identify the target looter above it keeping it in sight.

And then the relevant asset can attack it
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A great summary of the wide variety of drones used by our Armed Forces!

https://twitter.com/Sandeep_Mave/status ... 0222769152
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https://twitter.com/TheLegateIN/status/ ... 55460?s=20 ---> India's Tapas MALE UAV to cross 30,000 ft flight ceiling in a few weeks. 25,000+ ft flight ceiling already achieved: DRDO.
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https://twitter.com/Indrani1_Roy/status ... 48001?s=20 ---> Finally! ADE has bit the bullet. It had become evident during the development of Rustom-II that a twin-boom pusher configuration is optimal balance between aerodynamic performance and sensor placement. Two prototypes in build now. Fabrication to finish over next 10 months.

https://twitter.com/SJha1618/status/147 ... 34368?s=20 --->

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HAL bags ADE-DRDO supply order for 'ABHYAS' target platform
Bengaluru: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited on Friday said it has secured an order for manufacturing, assembly, integration, testing and supply of High Speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) System, known as 'ABHYAS', from Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), DRDO.

Post successful completion of this initial order, HAL said in a statement it would be identified as Development-cum-Production Partner (DcPP) for supply of this target system along with a private firm (50 per cent of the volume).
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