Disruptive Military Aviation technologies

[gadeshi]

Additive technologies to 3D print aerial engines:
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/79611/

 

[gadeshi]

Elbrus superscalar processors based clusters FlowVision for high bandwith engineering tasks:
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/79743/

 

[gadeshi]

Phazotron-NIIR (a KRET property) has revealled Zhuk-AM (Zhuk-AME for export) flat LTCC GaN TRMs based AESA radar for MiG-29/35 medium fighters on Zhukhai-2016 air show in China:
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/85807/
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/85633/
Zhuk-AME can detect 3m2 target on the range of 160km, can track up to 30 targets and engage 6 aerial + 4 surface ones simultaneousely.
It will be installed on MiG-35 and also MiG-29K (9-41R) and MiG-29KUB (9-47R) during their overhaul and MLU update.

 

[gadeshi]

Roskosmos has tested World's first real detonative liquid rocket motor!!!

 

[gadeshi]

A new issue of UAC Horizons Magazine:
http://uacrussia-ic.ru/files/15.06.16/GORIZONTY_10.pdf

 

[gadeshi]

Innovative space engines (including detonative and turbodetonative hypersonic ones) by NPO Energomash:
http://www.engine.space/dejatelnost/develop/
http://www.engine.space/dejatelnost/develop/

 

[gadeshi]

Russian hypersonic weapons in progress:
https://defence.ru/article/rossiya-...-dlya-flota-raketnoe-oruzhie-6-go-pokoleniya/
A new fuel for hypersonic missiles - Deciline-M:
https://defence.ru/article/7493/
A Project 1143 Orlan class heavy nuclear powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov to enter service in 2018 after MLU-update armed with 92 3M22 Tsyrkon hypersonic ASMs:
https://defence.ru/article/3941/

Peter The Great will be the next one:
https://defence.ru/article/7592/
As well as Project 949A Antey class AC killer subs:
https://defence.ru/article/10302/

 

[pmaitra]

What could be the fall-back option when a hostile power takes out communication satellites using Anti-Satellite Missile System?

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5257359506001/

 

[gadeshi]

A new T-220 lite weight, small size targetting pod for MiG-29SM/SMT/K/KUB, MiG-35, Su-27SM, Su-30SM, Su-35S revealed:
http://bmpd.livejournal.com/837249.html

 

[pmaitra]

Not new as of now, but was new and pioneering when it first happened. Therefore, posting here, because, I just came to know about it this week.

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Stealth turns 40: Looking back at the first flight of Have Blue
The forerunner of the F-117 Stealth Fighter flew for the first time 40 years ago this month.

SEAN GALLAGHER - 12/16/2017, 6:30 AM

Enlarge / One of the two Have Blue prototypes sits in a hangar at Lockheed's Skunk Works in Burbank, California in this 1978 photo. The aircraft was the first real "stealth" aircraft, designed to have a radar cross section the size of "an eagle's eyeball".
Lockheed Martin
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On December 1, 1977, a truly strange bird took flight for the first time in the skies over a desolate corner of Nevada. Looking more like a giant faceted gemstone than something designed to lift-off, the aircraft (nicknamed the "Hopeless Diamond") had been flown out to Groom Lake in parts aboard a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy cargo plane.

While much of the Hopeless Diamond was a conglomeration of spare parts from other existing aircraft, it was the first of a new breed—the progenitor of Stealth. Hopeless Diamond was the first of two technology demonstrators built for a program called "Have Blue," an initiative program spawned from a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort to create an aircraft that could evade the Soviet Union's increasingly sophisticated integrated air defense systems.

Forty years have passed since the Have Blue project's two demonstrator aircraft—built on a relative shoestring budget by Lockheed's Skunk Works—flew over the Nevada desert and ushered in a new era. Over time, the engineering, physics, and mathematics that created the Have Blue prototypes would be refined to create the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter and serve as the basis for the designs of the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II.

This miltech evolution began because Lockheed was willing to internally fund an effort to win a program from which it had been essentially excluded by DARPA. Using its engineering talent, some sophisticated mathematics, and the best computing technology of the day, Lockheed's Skunk Works rapidly created a prototype on the cheap. That prototype demonstrated what Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Senior Fellow Edward Burnett described to Ars as "our one miracle"—an aircraft shape that had a radar cross section smaller than a bird's.

Ironically, at about the same time, Denys Overholser—a Skunk Works mathematician and radar expert—discovered equations in a nine-year old research paper from Russian scientist Pyotr Ufimtsev. Recently translated by the Air Force's Foreign Technology Division, the paper reworked some of Maxwell's Equations to predict the radar reflectivity of a geometric shape. In his memoir, then-Skunk Works chief Ben Rich called the equations the "Rosetta Stone breakthrough for stealth technology."

The Skunk Works team delivered their models to White Sands in March of 1976. "They put our model up on a pole at the radar return range," Burnett recounts. "People were saying, we see your model. But it turns out they did not see the model—they were seeing a lot of other things, not the actual vehicle model. That original shape was not something that could have been made into an airplane, but it definitely showed the technologies were feasible."

In fact, what the Air Force test team picked up was the pole that they provided to mount the models on, which had bigger radar return than both the models. Lockheed and Northrop each spent hundreds of thousands of dollars from their budgets to build new poles with smaller radar returns—poles with 10 decibels less return than the models themselves.

The "Hopeless Diamond" had, as Rich recounted in his memoir, a radar cross section that was a thousandth of that of the D-21 reconnaissance drone—a small uncrewed supersonic drone that had been designed to fly deep into Chinese airspace to monitor China's nuclear tests. Rich said that Overholser told him the design, implemented as a full fighter-sized aircraft, would have the apparent radar cross section of "an eagle's eyeball." During testing at White Sands, the radar return increased by about 1.5 decibels from the droppings left on it by roosting birds.

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Pictures from article:

 

[pmaitra]

Boeing just revealed an autonomous plane that can refuel fighter jets in midair

Mark Matousek

Boeing's MQ-25 Stingray would be able to carry 15,000 pounds of fuel up to 500 miles.Boeing

• Boeing just revealed its design for an autonomous plane that can refuel fighter jets in midair.
• The design is part of a competition held by the US Navy.
• Boeing's MQ-25 Stingray would be able to extend the range of a fighter jet by up to 400 miles, according to a GeekWire report.
• Boeing is competing with Lockheed Martin and General Atomics for the contract.

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X-254: One of the prototypes.

X-45A: Another prototype.

X-47B: Yet another prototype.

X-47A: Further, yet another prototype.

 

[Armand2REP]

Boeing just revealed an autonomous plane that can refuel fighter jets in midair

Mark Matousek

Boeing's MQ-25 Stingray would be able to carry 15,000 pounds of fuel up to 500 miles.Boeing

• Boeing just revealed its design for an autonomous plane that can refuel fighter jets in midair.
• The design is part of a competition held by the US Navy.
• Boeing's MQ-25 Stingray would be able to extend the range of a fighter jet by up to 400 miles, according to a GeekWire report.
• Boeing is competing with Lockheed Martin and General Atomics for the contract.

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X-254: One of the prototypes.

X-45A: Another prototype.

X-47B: Yet another prototype.

X-47A: Further, yet another prototype.

I still don't know what the point is considering the limited payload aside from the point they are trying to make pilots obsolete.

 

[pmaitra]

I still don't know what the point is considering the limited payload aside from the point they are trying to make pilots obsolete.

That, and increasing stealth.

The point? I don't know for sure. I suppose casualties have an adverse political effect on the ruling regime.

 

[SanjeevM]

The World’s Hugest Jet Engine Is Wider Than a 737’s Fuselage

GE Aviation spent $10 million preparing its Peebles Test Operation in Ohio for the GE9X. Improvements include the largest “bellmouth inlet duct”—the white funnel attached to the front of the engine during testing.GE AVIATION

Can't Indian scientists working on Kaveri take lessons from these big companies and come our with innovative solutions?

I strongly believe only innovation can make us self sufficient in engine technology. Let them make multiple models. Even if they fail, the learn lessons. "Fail fast and move on" should be the motto. One successful engine can make our fighter jets fully indigenous. We should invest on these test facilities.

 

[Screambowl]

And we are 70 years far
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[pmaitra]

Can't Indian scientists working on Kaveri take lessons from these big companies and come our with innovative solutions?

I strongly believe only innovation can make us self sufficient in engine technology. Let them make multiple models. Even if they fail, the learn lessons. "Fail fast and move on" should be the motto. One successful engine can make our fighter jets fully indigenous. We should invest on these test facilities.

We hear a lot about success stories. We don't hear about the multiple failures preceding each success story. Failure is heavily criticized, and the reason cited is taxpayer's money. Frankly, it is hard to argue whether money spent on research that leads to an unsuccessful design is useful expenditure or squandering of money.

I agree with you, we need to fail fast, and even fail multiple times. More the failures, more the chances of success.

A guaranteed way of never failing is to never try. Those that never fail are those that never make any attempt.

 

[SanjeevM]

We hear a lot about success stories. We don't hear about the multiple failures preceding each success story. Failure is heavily criticized, and the reason cited is taxpayer's money. Frankly, it is hard to argue whether money spent on research that leads to an unsuccessful design is useful expenditure or squandering of money.

I agree with you, we need to fail fast, and even fail multiple times. More the failures, more the chances of success.

A guaranteed way of never failing is to never try. Those that never fail are those that never make any attempt.

Well said. Totally agree. We need to dispel the fear of wasting taxpayers money. R&D is the only way forward in self sufficiency.

 

[pmaitra]

Russia’s F-22 and F-35 Killer: 6th Generation Plane Armed with Hypersonic Weapons

Dave Majumdar
December 12, 2017

According to Mikheyev, the new “radio-photonic radar” will operate over a much wider band than conventional radars and should be far more resistant to enemy jamming. Further, the new system is expected to be utilized as an electronic warfare system, datalink and as a communications system. Prototypes of the new radar have already been built.

The Russian defense industry is starting to look at concepts for a sixth-generation fighter that would eventually replace the Sukhoi Su-57 PAK-FA.

Like the United States Air Force and the Navy, the Russians are looking at a wide range of concepts including manned-unmanned teaming, directed energy weapons and hypersonics. The Russians are also looking at novel radar and electro-optical sensor technologies that seem designed to counter stealth.

One system under development for the potential new plane is a so-called radio-photonic radar.

“The radio-photonic radar will be able to see farther than existing radars, in our estimates. And, as we irradiate an enemy in an unprecedentedly wide range of frequencies, we’ll know its position with the highest accuracy and after processing we’ll get an almost photographic image of it - radio vision,” said Vladimir Mikheyev an advisor to the first deputy CEO of the Radio-Electronic Technologies Group (KRET) in an interview with the state-owned TASS news agency.

“This is important for determining the type [of an aircraft]: the plane’s computer will immediately and automatically identify a flying object, for example, an F-18 with specific types of missile armament.”

According to Mikheyev, the new “radio-photonic radar” will operate over a much wider band than conventional radars and should be far more resistant to enemy jamming. Further, the new system is expected to be utilized as an electronic warfare system, datalink and as a communications system.

Prototypes of the new radar have already been built.

“Both the emitter and the receiver have been built on the basis of the experimental prototype as part of the R&D work. All this works and performs the location - we emit an ultra-high frequency signal, it is reflected back and we receive and process it and get the radar picture of an object. We see what we need to do to make it optimal,” Mikheyev said.

“Now a full-fledged mockup of this radio-optical photonic antenna array is being developed as part of the research and development work, which will allow us to test the characteristics of the serial prototype...We will be able to understand what it [the radar] should be, in what geometrical sizes and what its ranges and power should be.”

In addition to its new radar, the Russians expect to field a new electro-optical sensor.

“A powerful multi-spectral optical system operating in various ranges - the laser, infrared, ultraviolet and, actually, in the optical band, which, however, considerably exceeds the spectrum visible to humans,” Mikheyev said.

The aircraft will also be equipped with directed energy weapons—and fly as part of a swarm of drones. Indeed, while two aircraft in a flight might be manned, there might be 20 to 30 unmanned aircraft accompanying those jets.

“One drone in a formation flight will carry microwave weapons, including guided electronic munitions while another drone will carry radio-electronic suppression and destruction means and a third UAV will be armed with a set of standard weaponry,” Mikheyev said.

“Each specific task is solved by different armaments.”

Mikheyev also described a self-defense laser weapon for the future aircraft.

“We already have laser protection systems installed on aircraft and helicopters and now we are talking about developments in the field of powered lasers that will be able to physically destroy attacking missiles’ homing heads,” Mikheyev said.

“Roughly speaking, we’ll be able to burn out ‘the eyes’ of missiles that ‘look at us.’ Naturally, such systems will be installed on sixth-generation aircraft as well.”

Michael Kofman, a research scientist specializing in Russian military affairs at the Center for Naval Analyses, said that while the Kremlin might not have the money to fund such a project, it is important to note that the Russian defense industry is keeping abreast of developments in the tactical aviation field.

“I think the important takeaway is that Russia defense industry recognizes some of the key trends in military science and weapons technology,” Kofman said.

“While they may lack the funding, and some of the defense-industrial base, they’re keeping abreast of what sort of nextgen capabilities might enter the battlefield.”

As in the United States, defense companies have to lobby the Russian government to ensure that they get a piece of the pie.

“It’s unclear how much funding will truly be available in the coming state armament program for 2018-2025 to support these numerous projects, but undoubtedly KRET hopes to secure support for several lines of effort, and is therefore advertising prospective systems that Russia is probably quite a ways off from developing,” Kofman said.

Ultimately, it is unclear if KRET’s vision for a Russian sixth-generation fighter will become a reality, but it is noteworthy that Russia’s industrial base is exploring the possibilities.

Dave Majumdar is the defense editor for the National Interest. You can follow him on Twitter: @davemajumdar.

This first appeared in August.

 

[Suryavanshi]

And we are 70 years far
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Not necessarily it's not like we don't even know the P of propulsion technology, we did create a decent engine of our own without much help.
What we are currently lacking is investment and infrastructure.
The short coming of Kaveri engine can be overcome if goverment is willing to pour more time and money into it.

It's not like Indian can't design plane, tanks guns, vehicles but yes we do lack in increasing the efficiency and reliability of our products.
This is all because of 70 years of mismanagement and corruption
Look at our achievemt

-Pinaka MBRL
-HAL Rudra, LCA, Cheetah
-Nirbhaya
-Dhanush
-INSAS
-Arjun
-NAG ATGM
-howitzer made by Tata
-Armoured Vehicles
-Trucks
-Agni series
-Akaash SAM
- Our Warship like kolkata class and vishakapatnam class are top notch
-Arindaman Submarine
-Astra, Varunastra, glide bomb

Brother we do make products but they aren't the best compared to their rivals, but this all can be overcome with time and investment.

Brother u seem to think that Indians are stupid and low IQ folks, maybe this inferiority complex has something to do with you're Paki Girlfriend. :bounce:

Look brother we have 1.3 billion people compare that or russia which has 120 million people and are still kicking US arse.

And we are not alone either we have our neighbour like Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka that share common culture with us.
If they are moving away from us today it's our own fault otherwise their manpower and resources would have been ours.
If we offer them opportunity, protection and culture exchange they will still supports us.

Compare that to Pakis that have no Achivement other than A nuclear Wepaon and a few rag tag guns.

 

[Indian Sniper.001]

Another wonder from an Indian Private Company Tonbo imaging.

This is BNVD-P is an advanced panoramic night vision goggles (PNVG) with advanced features and performance so pilots and aircrew can accomplish difficult night missions successfully and safely

Night vision goggles offer operators an incredible advantage on the modern battlefield. The ability to observe and engage the enemy without them even being aware of your presence is a formidable weapon.

The purpose of the BNVD-P is to provide the operator more information under goggles, allowing him to more quickly move through the OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act). The most striking feature of the BNVD-P is the presence of four separate image intensifier tubes with four separate objective lenses arrayed in a panoramic orientation.
The two right and two left tubes are housed in merged assemblies and are hung from a bridge, giving operators interpuplliary adjustment options. They can also be easily removed and operated as independent handheld viewers.

BNVD-P uses the standard position and adjustment shelf (PAS) for pupillary distance and tilt adjustment and eye relief (fore/aft). It attaches to any helmet.

Capabilities & Salient Features

• Inbuilt computer to log the use
• Wirelss data management
• Gen III+ tubes
• All metal enclosure for harsh use
• No external battery pack required
• 20hrs + continuous operation on a single battery
• Extremely light weight <800g including the mount and the battery
• Compatible with most ACH / MICH / Aviator helmets
• Reduced SWaP

~ New Generations Weapons Technology​