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CATS OMCA & CATS HALE : HAL’s futuristic Air Combat System, Is Avro AWACS Back?

CATS OMCA & CATS HALE : Two new components in HAL’s futuristic Air combat system

CATS Omca (Optionally manned combat aircraft) and CATS Hale (High altitude long endurance) seem to be two new components in the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited proposed Combat Air Teaming System CATS that the company is developing with Bengaluru based startup, Newspace Research and Technologies to give IAF a robust and futuristic deep penetration attack system.

CATS Omca seems to be a project of converting obsolete fighter jets into drones. Mig-21, Mig-27, and Kiran IJT seems to have been selected as a viable candidates to be converted into Optionally manned combat aircraft that could be used as decoys or to carry out their combat missions. HAL is carrying out the conversion of Kiran IJT into an unmanned drone but not much is known about its current status. CATS OMCA will be the first to enter hostile airspace either to be used as a decoy to overwhelm adversary air defenses by their sheer numbers or as a rudimentary unmanned combat aircraft to draw out hidden Air defense system positioning of the enemy.

CATS Hale seems to be a jet powered high speed, multi mission, Remotely Piloted Aircraft system that can perform wide area surveillance, time sensitive strike missions over land or sea over an altitude of over 50,000 feet, with 20+ hours of endurance. CATS HALE seems to be a single HTFE-25 engine powered stealthy HALE Class UAV designed to increase its survivability in higher threat environments that will have an internal weapons bay to house precision munitions.

CATS HALE seems to be in the same league as the Chinese WZ-7 high altitude reconnaissance drone or the American Avenger Drone. CATS HALE program is not to be confused with DRDO’s Ghatak Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle program, CATS HALE is only 1/3 of Ghatak in terms of All up takeoff weight but larger than CATS Warrior.

Other Five important components of the Combat Air Teaming System project are CATS Hunter (air launched cruise missile), CATS Warrior (Loyal Wingman), Alpha-S (precision guided loitering munition ), CATS Infinity (high altitude pseudo satellite), and CATS Max Fighter (Tejas Trainer Mothership).

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited is looking at a 2024-25 deadline to develop some of the components (Alpha S, CATS Hunter, CATS Warrior) of the Combat Air Teaming System and is seeking funds for the development of CATS Infinity, details of CATS Omca and CATS Hale are not much in the public domain but it seems it won’t happen before 2025 since IAF will start retiring Mig-21 fighter jets only from 2024.

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Is Avro AWACS Back?

Former fighter pilot Sameer Joshi on Twitter posted the image of what seems to be an HS-748 Avro aircraft platform fitted with a rotodome on its fuselage. if you compare the rotodome with the old images of the flying prototype of the HS-748 Avro AWACS, this rotodome looks smaller and has more support structure in it. it’s not clear if the aircraft was intended to be used as a rotodome testing flying prototype or as a ground testing specimen for the AWACS India Program.

In 1999, HS-748 Avro AWACS aircraft was used as a testbed for DRDO’s Airborne Surveillance Platform program when it crashed in the dense forest of north Tamil Nadu killing 8. Airborne Surveillance Platform program at the time of the crash had completed most of the critical trials of the radar and the crash is believed to have happened to structural failure of the rotodome. It was rumoured at that period that the second prototype was readied for testing of a near production ready radar at the time before the program was closed and the picture may be of that of the second surviving prototype, but since details are in the public domain is vague about this, we shall wait for official confirmation.

After a gap of five years, in 2004, a program known as Airborne Early Warning and Control System was sanctioned by DRDO that led to the development of Netra Mk1.

AWACS India was planned to be based on the Airbus A330 aircraft fitted with a Fixed Aesa Radar inside its rotodome on its fuselage, but due to cost and also due to longer research and developmental duration required for the program to mature it was decided that Netra Mk2 instead will be developed for which Six Ex-Air India A319 aircraft will be fitted with an upgraded AAAU mounted on the dorsal side of the aircraft fuselage in addition to the frontal AESA Radar for better coverage.

 

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