Will New Engines Take China's J-20 Fighter To The Next Level?
China appears to have both the intent and the industrial capacity to significantly increase the number of J-20s it produces. Will new, domestically produced engines improve the performance and mission scope of the Chinese J-20 5th generation stealth fighter?
The New WS-10 engines improve the operational performance of
the jet in extreme environments such as high altitudes, cold weather, and humid
climates.
A Chinese aviation engineer quoted in the paper said that the
domestic engines unleashed the potential of the J-20, since the old engines
were not customized for the aircraft, and it had to make compromises in its
performance.
The improvements to the J-20 also included redesigns of the airframe, structure, pipelines, electric circuits, and subsystems. The switch to domestically made WS-10 engines from imported ones has made mass production possible.
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After Boeing betrayal, DRDO to built its own High Altitude
Engine Test Facility
Boeing was to establish a High Altitude Engine Test Facility
as well as a Trisonic Wind Tunnel Facility at India’s DRDO as part of its
offset obligation for the ten C-17 Globemaster 3 heavy lift aircraft. The
projects were High Altitude Engine Test Facility for $315 million and Trisonic
Wind Tunnel worth $195 million, US government is yet to grant an export license
due to which Boeing failed to meet offset obligations which now DRDO has cancelled.
Boeing knew that technologies required export license from US
Government at the time of submission of the offset proposal and kept DRDO and
the Indian government in the dark.
DRDO now has decided to build both High Altitude Engine Test
Facility and Trisonic Wind Tunnel Facilities for testing engine with 130 kilo
newton class of thrust using local expertise from private sector companies and
has cancelled Boeing’s proposals. DRDO says that the facility will be ready in
3-4 years.
Aircraft Carriers For Indian Navy ‘Unavoidable Requirement’
To Meet Any Eventuality
Even as India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier — an
engineering marvel that reflects the technological prowess of a resurgent
nation — completed its third set of sea trials in January this year, several navies
around the globe are looking to either acquire these powerful platforms or
upgrade their existing carrier aviation capabilities.
Given the evidently uncertain and unpredictable nature of
challenges to India’s maritime security, the parliamentary standing committee
has only reaffirmed what the Navy’s top brass, professionals in the field and
security experts have been pointing out – that aircraft carriers are
inalienable from India’s maritime security. The Committee has itself noted that
India’s vast coastline, expansive maritime zones and distant island territories
require at least one operational carrier on each seaboard.
The Committee has thus envisaged a “standard scenario” in
which two aircraft carriers are deployed at all times “while one would undergo
repairs and maintenance”. Secondly, aircraft carriers can project the nation’s
military might far beyond its shores thus offering the first line of defence
against any threat at or from the sea.
HAL to start work on Amphibious Dornier-228 aircraft
State run aerospace giant Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
management has allowed Transport Aircraft Division, Kanpur, HAL to develop a
Dornier-228 seaplane based on the Dornier 228 aircraft 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. Civil aviation and
waterways ministries plan to develop 14 water aerodromes by the end of 2024.
Government has plans to develop at least 28 routes that have been awarded so
far under the UDAN scheme.
