Why Naval AMCA will Actually be a Different Warplane then Air
Force Variant
Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and Indian Navy have agreed to disagree that the whole rational idea of building a Carrier based Naval next-generation stealth fighter. Indian Navy in 2016, had approached ADA to develop a carrier deck version of the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) and soon flexibility studies were commissioned in 2017 to see if it is viable to convert Airforce-AMCA design into Carrier based 5th generation fighter aircraft.
While ADA is tight-lipped on proposed changes which AMCA will
have to go through to be converted into a Carrier based 5th generation fighter
aircraft, Industrial sources have said that ADA is well aware of challenges
that it will face in the program and is counting on Navy Mark-2 program to
provide necessary experience that it believes will act as a stepping stone
towards the development of N-AMCA program.
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Adapting an Airforce variant into a Naval Variant or vice
versa have worked perfectly well in the past because to convert a basic 4th
Generation design required changes to the wing and strengthen fuselage but
doing that involving Stealth technology complicates the design process it is
simply not easy to achieve performance requirements set by each branch.
Naval-AMCA will also need to make space for structural
reinforcements and have the ability to carry additional fuel and not to forget
reinforced landing gears, tail hooks, and larger wings to for increased
low-speed control for carrier landings. Naval-AMCA will also weigh more due to
the strengthening of the air frame which might result in additional thrust
requirements required by the Naval-AMCA to make carrier takeoffs with
reasonable weapons load and fuel.
Navy is ready to deploy its own team to help ADA develop
Naval AMCA independently customised as per Navy requirements. Indian Navy and
ADA are likely to discuss funding and design feasibility this year. Naval AMCA
will require hardening of the fuselage, reinforced undercarriage and new
landing gear system for carrier-based operations.
Of late, it is heard that Indian Navy has downgraded its
requirements (specifications) of AMCA aircraft as compared to what IAF has
demanded.
“This is since it is typically difficult to match land based
aircraft’s performance requirements for a heavier carrier based plane (due
heavier undercarriage etc),” the navy officer quoted above says. “But we have
sought better over the nose visibility required for a tail-hook aircraft on
approach for landing and capability to operate on both CATOBAR and STOBAR
carriers (since we expect both our STOBAR carriers to be still around when the
new CATOBAR, IAC-2 is envisaged to get commissioned).”
Indigenous Fifth-generation fighter jet project is very
crucial to country’s sovereignty and integrity. Far too many times hopes of the
countrymen in seeing timely development of quality indigenous systems, have
been belied. One more time we hope against hope that powers that be are
listening.
BrahMos NG : New Plant can manufacture 80-100 missiles per
year
India wants to manufacture BrahMos missiles not to attack any
country but so that no other country has the audacity to cast an evil eye on
it, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday, while stressing the need for
maintaining nuclear deterrents. The BrahMos missile and other weapons and
defence equipment we are manufacturing are not to attack any other country. It
has never been the character of India to attack any other country or grab even
an inch of land of any country,” Singh said.
We want to manufacture BrahMos on Indian soil so that no
country has the audacity to cast an evil eye on India, he said, referring to
the missile that is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The defence minister
laid the foundation stone of the Defence Technologies and Test Centre and the
BrahMos Manufacturing Centre here, along with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath, during the day.
This is the new India, which does not provoke first, but also
does not spare anyone who provokes it.
Indian Jawan to get improved night fighting capabilities
For the frontline Indian soldier, there is a high quality
assault rifle, the German American SIG Sauer 716G2. Now, to help the Indian
soldier fight at night will come a high quality image intensifier for locating
the enemy. And the image intensifier, as just cleared by the Defence
Procurement Board will be designed and made in India as part of the Atmanirbhar
or self-reliance process.
The Defence Procurement Board has cleared the purchase of
29,760 image intensifiers to go with the Sig Sauer’s for the jawan on the line
of control, fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir or even in Ladakh on the
line of actual control. The image intensifier deal will be worth Rs 1410 crore.
To replace the Insas rifle and the still effective AK-47
Kalashnikovs, India had initially purchased 72,400 SIG Sauer assault rifles for
frontline troops. Thereafter, an additional 72,000 were bought. The image
intensifiers are likely to be very useful for night fighting.
India issues last NOTAM for 2021
India has issued what could be this year’s last Notice to
Airmen NOTAM for a launch of an experimental flight vehicle in the Bay of
Bengal for the period from 27 to 31st December 2021 as per information.
The designated area perimeter is 477km, indicating that it
won’t be any of the big missiles launches and probably is a smaller missile
that could be tested. Area notified could be for an air-to-air missile test or
test of an air to surface missiles system.
BrahMos-A could be ruled out so can Pinaka Rockets since it
doesn’t match their previous designated area perimeters.
