Naval AMCA for IAC-2, BrahMos NG Unit Inaugurated, Improved Sig-Sauer 716, Aerial NOTAM Issued

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 31^st 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.

India China Carrier Airwing Comparison, India China Heading For Another Galwan?, India’s Home Grown Subsonic Cruise Missiles

Should India look at the Private Sector to fix its subsonic cruise missiles program?

India has achieved “complete self reliance” in missile technology and the most advanced missiles can now be developed in the country had declared DRDO chairman G Satheesh Reddy.

Nribhay that is now called ITCM continues to be plagued by technical issues and there is still no clarity from the DRDO when it will enter production even after being in development for the last decade. Private sector companies are keen to tap Research and Development expertise of the DRDO to offer its range of subsonic cruise missile range.

Bengaluru based startup NewSpace Research and Technologies & HAL together is working on the development of a low observable Combat Air Teaming System CATS Hunter subsonic cruise missile designed to hit targets more than 200 kilometers.

Former Vice Chief of Indian Air Force, Air Marshal SB Deo startup JSR Dynamics in collaboration with Bharat Electronics has offered to develop 4 missiles of different types for Indian armed forces. Vel is a 297 kilometer strike range subsonic cruise missile. Khagantak is a long-range standoff weapon with a strike range of 180 kilometers. Waghnak also is a standoff weapon with a strike range of 154 kilometers.

Kalyani Centre for Technology and Innovation (KCTI) is working on the development of 1.2 Kilo Newton and 1.56 Kilo Newton jet engines meant for cruise missiles. KCTI claims to have tested inhouse engine and is ready to enter production.

India and China’s Carrier Air Wing Development

The Indian Navy carrier procurement plan of the late 19 Nineties and early 2000 starts with a plan to develop a carrier based naval variant of the single engine LCA Tejas aircraft that was being pursued by the Indian Air Force at the time. This variant was aptly named the LCA Navy. Two flying prototypes of the LCA Navy were ultimately developed, with the lead prototype making its first flight in early 2012. The LCA Navy was a STOBAR configured aircraft with reinforced landing gear, tailhook, and additional LEVCON surfaces to enable the aircraft to operate from a carrier.

In 2018 Indian Navy opted out for a slightly larger aircraft with rear tails named LCA Navy MK2. In early January 2020, the second LCA Navy prototype made Indian aviation history by being the first domestically produced fixed wing aircraft to land and take off from a carrier, INS Vikramaditya. However, later in April 2020, the Indian Navy formally opted out of the LCA Navy program, instead seeking to pursue a new, larger twin engine deck-based fighter, appropriately named TEDBF, that would benefit from technologies and experience gained in the LCA Navy program.

Not only is the TEDBF equipped with two engines compared to the LCA Navy’s single engine, but the TEDBF also uses more modern and higher thrust F-414 engines compared to the F-404 engine equipped aboard the original LCA Navy. The TEDBF adopts a canard delta configuration, with folding wings, and a maximum take-off weight of between 24 and 26 tons, nearly double that of the original LCA Navy, and will be equipped with various indigenous Indian weapons systems and avionics including a domestic AESA radar.

As a STOBAR fighter, the TED BF is intended to equip the INS Vikramaditya and INS Vikrant (including a folded footprint small enough to fit in the elevators of Vikrant) as replacements to the Indian Navy’s current MiG-29K fleet.

Indian Navy will embark on a program to develop a fifth-generation carrier borne aircraft. On paper, the IAFs twin engine Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) project seems like a viable aircraft to develop into a carrier variant, However, the AMCA is currently not expected to make its first flight before 2025.

On the other hand, China’s Peoples Liberation Army Navy is also awaiting the emergence of new types for its future fighter airwing. The STOBAR J-15 fighter remains in active production for the CV-16 and CV-17 STOBAR carriers, likely to supplement and replace existing J 15 airframes produced during the mid-2010s, which would have gained substantial flight hours by now as part of intensive institutional naval aviation development. As of October 2021, the total J-15 production count is estimated at around 50 airframes and growing.

200 PLA Soldiers Were Detained By Indian Army, China Released Galwan Clash Pics In Retaliation – Military Veteran

Failed military negotiations between arch rivals India and China, Are the Indian Army and Chinese troops headed towards another Galwan like faceoff?

The failed talks at Moldo and some other developments are a fallout of the incident at Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh) in the eastern sector of the India China boundary where a sizable patrol party of Chinese PLA men, somewhere around 200 soldiers were confronted and many were captured by the Indian Army, kept in Indian custody for hours and released after negotiations.

The humiliation at Tawang resulted in the release of some photos of injured Indian men surrounded by Chinese soldiers, probably from the previous year’s Galwan incident.

Exactly after a week of the release of the photographs supposedly from the Galwan incident and a failed talk at Moldo, the Chinese government’s mouthpiece Global times has posted an editorial titled ‘India Military Learned nothing from last year’s clash: Observers containing highly provocative and offensive language which is laughingly based on the strategically released photographs.

TEDBF Vs Naval AMCA: IAF has some suggestions for Navy

IAF Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria who is set to retire by September end, in a meeting with his counterpart, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh recently suggested that the Navy should back the development of Naval AMCA which is the fifth-generation deck based fighter jet variant over the now proposed TEDBF concept.

In 2016 after flexibility studies it was settled that the Navy will instead go for clean slate 4.5 generation TEDBF program instead of going for the development of deck based variant of the AMCA.

Lack of mature technologies were the reasons why TEDBF was proposed. Navy also had cited a highly compromised payload capacity of the jet that in order to maintain its low radar cross section and low clearance of the internal carriage as one of the few reasons why plans to develop a AMCA variant for Navy was dropped.

But Now Navy has decided to back the development of the LCA Mk2 and AMCA Mk1 and Mk2 Program to replace major chuck of the present 4.5 Generation fighter jets of its fleet from 2030 onwards.

India Issues RFI For The Procurement Of Four LPD Amphibious Vessels

The Indian Ministry of Defence issued a request for information intending to procure four Landing Platform Docks LPDs for the Indian Navy.

The LPDs will feature a crew of 540 sailors with a capacity to embark 900 troops. Ships should be up to 200 meters long, and a cruising speed of 14 to 16 knots. The range should reach 10,000 nautical miles at economical speed. The ships are to be provided with an Electric Propulsion System.

In terms of weapons, the LPDs should be equipped with 32 Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile and 16 anti-ship missiles. In terms of guns, the RFI calls for the capacity to embark 4 x AK 630 CIWS with electro optical fire control system, 6 HMGs with stabilized gun control stations, directed energy weapon and 8 medium machine guns. The sensor suite will consist in one E/F Band combined air and surface surveillance one EO/IRST.

The ship should have a deck and be capable of accommodating at least two heavy lift helicopters, 12 Special Operations Helicopters and Naval Ship born Unmanned Aerial System.

Rosoboronexport invited to bid in Indian submarine tender

Rosoboron export has received a request for proposal in the context of the P75i project for the supply of submarines to the Indian Navy.

A tender for the construction of six Project 75i submarines with the air independent propulsion AIP plant was announced on 20 July 2021. The tender is held in the Strategic Partnership format. Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders and Larsen & Toubro participate in it as strategic partners from the Indian side.

Rosoboronexport has received the relevant requests for proposal from these companies, which are now considered, the total project cost is estimated at about $7 billion. Foreign manufacturers will collaborate with Indian partners within the framework of the Make in India Program and on technology transfer conditions.

India seeks clarity from US on price, technology transfer before finalising $3 billion Predator drone deal

India has sought “more clarity” from the United States about the armed MQ-9B Predator drones before finalising the deal. India plans to buy 30 armed drones, which are designed for long range precision strikes against hostile targets on land and sea, from the US.

New Delhi has now sought to know more about the price fixation, maintenance and transfer of technology in the proposed $3 billion around Rs 22,000 crore deal to acquire these drones.

The Indian government finalised the plan to acquire these 30 drones, also known as SeaGuardian or SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft systems to strengthen its long range unmanned lethal capabilities. The Army, Navy and Indian Air Force are to get 10 drones each, with different payloads to hunt and destroy targets over land and sea.

Japan’s F-X ‘Godzilla’ fighter is taking shape

Godzilla is coming. No, we’re not kidding. Godzilla is indeed coming to Japan. It is, in fact, the nickname for the homegrown Mitsubishi F-X sixth generation fighter jet being domestically developed at a projected cost of around 5 trillion yen (about US $48 billion).

F-X will come with electronically actuated control surfaces. To maintain a low radar profile, space will be tight inside the airframe, Advanced technologies include remote drone control capabilities, a VR style helmet mounted display, a radar that can double as a microwave weapon to fry enemy missiles and serpentine air intakes to help further reduce its radar cross section and heat signature.

The F-X will likely also come with heat shields and likely be made of composite materials and will have an advanced Fx 9-1 engine.