Development of IAF’s Truck Mounted VL-SRSAM gets underway
Vertically Launched Short Range Surface to Air Missile ( VL-SRSAM ) that was tested only at the start of this year for the first time to be mounted on the future Indian Navy warships to provide point air defense to the ship and its crew and replace aging Barak-1 Point Air Defense Missiles acquired from Israel will see Indian Air Force variant that will be Truck mounted on the 4 into 4 light utility Military truck for easy mobility.
Trial of the IAF variant of the VL-SRSAM from a 4
Canisterised Mobile launcher system that will enable a 360° Vertical launch
system has been fabricated and mounted on a Truck. VL-SRSAM can provide air
defense coverage against a wide spectrum of threats such as attack aircraft,
helicopters, UAVs, Subsonic cruise missiles, and standoff weapons.
VL-SRSAM is an Astra MK1 Beyond Visual range air to air
missile that has been modified to be adapted for air defense roles and has a
range of 40 kilometers. VL-SRSAM will compliment LRSAM in Naval Warships and
complement Spyder and Akash Mk1 Air defense systems in the Indian Air Force.
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India formally to be offered S500 missile system?
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India next month
for an annual summit and is expected to coincide with the delivery of the first
S400 system that has started to arrive in the country but Russians are likely
to also make a formal offer to India on the export of S500 system that the
country already has developed and shown interest in supplying it to both China
and India.
The S500 system is not seen as a step up over the S400 system
but rather interesting addition to its capabilities that boost of its
capabilities to tackle Hypersonic glide and cruise missiles that the S400
system can’t tackle.
Present S400 customers will be interested in the capabilities
of S500 that only arguments capabilities of the air defense system that they
already possess said Russian media recently and India and China are first to be
offered since both countries have brought this system. China might be the first
to grab this offer but Russians are keen that India makes the first move.
Chinese Made UAVs take world by Storm but they keep crashing
Chinese drones have proven cost effective alternatives to
American UAVs, others have pointed out the drones high crash rates and
reliability issues when compared to their Israeli, US and Turkish counterparts.
Trading in reliability for a low acquisition price could
ultimately prove more expensive than acquiring a reliable unmanned aerial
platform from the get go. If the reliability of the Wing Loong II and TB2 were
exactly the same, then a Wing Loong II costs around three times as much as a TB2.
But if we assume, for the sake of argument, that the reliability
of the Wing Loong II is only half that of the TB2, then it becomes six times as
expensive considering the costs of replacing losses. The crash rate of the TB2
is reported to be one every 30000 flight hours, which ultimately translates to
some 166 dollars per operating hour. while crash rate of the Wing Loong II is
double of this figure (one in every 15000 flight hours)
Air Force To Start Upgrading Rafale Fighter Fleet From
January 2022
Having already received around 30 Rafale combat aircraft from
France, the Indian Air Force would start upgrading its fleet of French origin
fighters from January 2022, with India specific enhancements. A high level team
of Indian Air Force officers is in France to evaluate the performance of the
testbed aircraft with tail number RB-008 at the Istres airbase there. The
aircraft has been equipped with all the India Specific Enhancements agreed upon
between the two sides in the 2016 contract.
Once the enhancements are approved and accepted by the IAF,
the upgrade is planned to be started from January next year onwards making the
Indian planes more capable. The India specific enhancements would include
integration of highly capable missiles, low band jammers and satellite
communication systems as per Indian requirements.
The upgrade of the aircraft would be carried out at the
Ambala Air Force Station which is the first base of the plane in the country.
India’s Most Powerful Destroyer Commissioned To Secure Indo-Pacific
On Sunday morning Indian Navy formally commissioned the INS Viakhapatnam
in Mumbai. INS Visakhapatnam is the first stealth guided missile destroyer ship
of Project 15B. INS Visakhapatnam has been constructed using indigenous steel
DMR 249A and is amongst the largest destroyers constructed in India with an
overall length of 163 meter and displacement of over 7,400 tons.
The ship has a significant indigenous content of approximately
75 percent contributing towards Atmanirbhar Bharat. The ship is a potent
platform capable of undertaking multifarious tasks and missions spanning the
full spectrum of maritime warfare.
Visakhapatnam is equipped with an array of weapons and
sensors, which include supersonic surface to surface and surface to air
missiles, medium and short range guns, anti-submarine rockets and advanced
electronic warfare and communication suits.
