HAL looks
to the future with lethal new warfighting system
Air power theorists have for some years broadly agreed that the days of manned aircraft are over, since too much planning, equipment and survival systems are needed to protect human crew members. Even the current fifth generation of manned fighters – America’s F-35, the Russian Sukhoi-35, Chinese J-31 and F-20 and India’s AMCA would be followed by unmanned drones that would be remotely directed to their targets, where their weapon loads would be autonomously released.
In the Aero India 2021 air show last February HAL’s stall
highlighted the Combat Air Teaming System CATS, a combination of manned and
unmanned systems that will operate in tandem in wartime.
Burned by the shooting down of a MiG-21 aircraft and the
capture of its pilot after a dogfight over the India Pakistan border in
February 2019, CATS eliminates the need to send pilots into enemy air space.
This eliminates the risk of their being shot down, captured and held hostage.
CATS concept of operations involves manned aircraft with unmanned
kill vehicles that swarm in numbers into enemy air space and hostile defences.
It has four components - Mothership
Cats Max, For Striking more than 1000 kilometers deep inside enemy territory - Cats
Warriors and Cats Hunter. The fourth component of CATS are swarming drones
called CATS ALFA.
HAL is developing the ALFAs in partnership with a small,
startup firm New Space Research and Technologies. The concept also visualises
the CATS INFINITY, a high altitude, pseudo satellite that can be launched as a
control vehicle and stay aloft for up to six months. It is powered by solar
energy and has huge wings to accommodate the solar panels.
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Indian army new uniform: Indian Army to get new combat
uniform with a digital disruptive pattern
The Indian Army's new combat uniform will feature a mix of
colours including olive and earthen. It will be light, more durable and
comfortable to wear in both summers and winters.
The new uniform is expected to be showcased at the Indian
Army Day parade on January 15, 2022. Indian Army's new uniform has reportedly
been finalised after wide ranging discussions and analysis of military uniforms
of several countries.
The new uniform has been designed taking into considerations
aspects such as areas of deployment of the troops and climatic conditions in
which they operate.
The decision to bring out a new combat dress for the Indian
Army was taken at the Army Commanders' Conference held recently. The camouflage
uniforms will be totally different from the existing dress. The Indian Navy had
also similarly unveiled a new camouflage uniform last year.
India’s working on a stealthy, Futuristic Unmanned Fighter
Aircraft FUFA Program?
India’s Aeronautical Development Establishment has floated a
tender for vendors who can supply wind tunnel model that can be tested at
National Tunnel Test Facility at IIT Kanpur, wind tunnel model is of Futuristic
Unmanned Fighter Aircraft (FUFA) program that seems to be new Stealth Wing
Flying concept in works over Indian Unmanned Strike Air Vehicle.
Tender documents hint why it is not Unmanned Strike Air
Vehicle, for starters, it has split rudder control surface deflection that is
not seen in the Unmanned Strike Air Vehicle design, and second is its ability
to demonstrate low supersonic speeds that are usually not found in subsonic
Unmanned Strike aircraft.
Since it is a very initial stage, not much information has
been known but it could possibly be a new autonomous jet fighter aircraft
intended to accompany manned combat jets into battle.
Many countries are working to develop Unmanned Fighter
Aircraft that can be used to conduct a multitude of military actions, such as
strategic offensive, close air support (CAS), missile offensive, suppression of
enemy air defenses (SEAD), and destruction of enemy air defenses (DEAD) &
India’s Cats Warrior.
BEL offers its RAWL-03 Radar for Export
Bharat Electronics Limited has offered to export its RAWL-03,
L Band 3D Air Surveillance Radar with an instrumentation range of 400km has
been offered to the export market. RAWL-03 developed by BEL and Swedish Saab
has exhibited an interest from international clients include France, Germany,
UK, Canada, Sweden, and developing markets in Africa and South America.
RAWL-03 can be used to detect air targets that include
missiles, helicopters, and aircraft and primarily can be used on warships and
also can be accommodated on wheeled vehicles for detection and tracking of Sea
Surface and air targets.
RAWL-03 weighs 4 tons and uses GAn-TR Module technology and
incorporates the latest Signal Processing techniques. Work on RAWL-03 begin in
2015 and it took two years to develop the radar. BEL has developed 3 subsystems
for the program.
Deployment of first S400 regiment to be completed next month
The Indian Air Force is likely to complete the deployment of
the first regiment of the S400 Triumf missile systems at an airbase in Punjab
by February. They said the process of deployment of the missile system has
begun and it will take at least six more weeks to complete the deployment.
The first regiment of the missile system is being deployed in
such a way that it can cover parts of the border with China in the northern
sector as well as the frontier with Pakistan.
The transportation of various critical components of the
missile systems as well as its peripheral equipment to the site of the
deployment is going on. In total, India will get five units of the S400 air
defence missile systems from Russia.
