IAF and Navy to start getting more Astra Mk1 Beyond Visual Range Air To Air Missiles in 2022
In 2020, Ministry of Defence had placed orders for 250 indigenously designed and developed Astra missiles for the IAF’s fleet of Sukhoi 30MKIs and the Navy’s Migg-29K fighter aircraft. The first tranche of Astra Mk1 Beyond Visual Range Air To Air Missiles will start arriving from Bharat Electronics Limited in the first quarter of year 2022-23 as HAL already has upgraded several units of Sukhoi 30s.
Indian Air Force already has been delivered 50 pre-production
Astra missiles in 2019 and had placed orders for 200 more Limited series
Production Astra Mk1 missiles that are to be largely equipped on the Sukhoi 30MKI
fleet. 50 Astra Missiles will go to the Navy that will be equipped on the deck based
Russian MiG-29K fighter jets for which already work has begun.
IAF’s MiG-29UPG fleet has been designed next to be
operational with the Astra missile after which more orders for 400-500 Astra
Missile will be ordered. Bulk orders for the 110 kilometer range Astra Mk1
Beyond Visual Range missiles might follow once 200 units are delivered by end
of 2022.
Test flight by an Limited Series LCA Tejas aircraft with the Astra
Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missile for the first time will also be carried
out in 2022 but it will only become operational with the Tejas Mk1A fleet.
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6 Rafale fighter jets with India specific enhancement to
arrive in Dec-Jan 2022
India is set to get remaining six Rafale multirole jets with
country specific enhancements including long range air to air missiles,
frequency jammers and advanced communications in the coming two months.
According to IAF officials, first of the three Rafales with India specific
enhancements with arrive from Istres-Ley Tube air base of France in December
while the last three of multirole fighters will be flown into Ambala air base
in January 2022. The Istres air base is equipped with test bed facilities for
manufacturer Dassault Aviation to install India specific enhancements on Rafale
fighters.
It is understood that once the India specific enhancements
are tested to satisfaction in Indian conditions, the existing fleet of 30 Rafales
will be retrofitted with the same enhancements in the coming year. The Indian
Rafales are based in Ambala to handle the two front threat and in Hashimara to
respond to any emergency in the eastern sector.
Apart from the Meteor air to air beyond visual range
missiles, the Rafale has potent weapons like SCALP air to ground laser guided
ammunition to target the enemy from over 300 kilometers range and HAMMER
precision terrain hugging ammunition which hunts and destroy high value enemy
targets from 60 kilometers away.
Limited Series Production LCA Tejas to start Gun Trials Soon
LSP-7 LCA Tejas Mk1 has reached Nasik to commence trials of
the Russian made Gryazev Shipunov (GSh 23) twin barreled 23mm autocannon. LSP-7
will carry out a fresh round of ground trials and calibration trials before it
is cleared for flight testing sometime next year.
HAL had carried out the last round of Gun Trials in 2015 and
IAF had granted FOC exemption due to which FOC Tejas carried 23mm autocannon
guns but were not cleared to operate them since certification was still pending.
Gun trials were aborted in 2015 due to other priorities in
the program which were much more significant and also due to initial estimation
by the Aeronautical Development Agency and IAF Team that it will require nearly
two years for the completion of the Gun trial certification by trial-and-error
method usually associated with onboard guns certification in all fighter
programs.
Pakistan successfully test fires surface to surface ballistic
missile Shaheen 1A
Pakistan on Thursday conducted a successful flight test of
the Shaheen-1A surface to surface ballistic missile.
The test flight was aimed at re-validating certain design and
technical parameters of the weapon system. However, the Pakistani army did not
share any technical detail of the missile.
The flight test was witnessed by Pakistan Army Senior
Officials, Commander Army Strategic Forces Command and the scientists and
engineers of strategic organisations.
Prime Minister Imran Khan and senior army leadership also
congratulated the scientists and engineers on this achievement. In March, the
armed forces had conducted the successful test launch of the nuclear capable
Shaheen-1A medium range ballistic missile. It had a range of 900 kilometers.
British Tempest & Franco German Future Combat Air System aimed at developing next-generation fighter jets Could
Eventually Merge Into One Single European Fighter Jet Program
The two programs are still in their “conceptual phase”, so it
was natural for each government to evaluate technology possibilities during
this time.
Both programs are adhering to identical military requirements
and the production of a next generation fighter is part of a “system of
systems” that combines old and new assets.
Uniting the Tempest and Future Combat Air System the into a
single program would avoid European enterprises from competing with one
another, bolstering their place in the global market and eventually expanding
export opportunities.
