Search results

No new investment in that was required if the objective was to get a private entity to do the job, especially seeing as we are forging it in pieces. The contract for forging could have simply been given to that Belgaum SEZ firm, Aequs aerospace, that has a 10,000 ton press:- The private SPV...

That model seems to work for the Navy though.

Leaked picture of ADA team answering Finance Ministry babus' question of why smol plane Tejas can't be "enlarged" and another pipe be inserted in it for the second engine and why they want funds meant for MSP to be diverted to fund AMCA.

So waveguides are like pipes for the radar waves, and when implemented along with structures like a Jaumann absorber lead to absorption of the waves as they are passing through the waveguides?

Sounds like a type of radar absorbent structure. I don't know much about waveguides, but sounds like they implement it on a microstrip which they embed in some composite structure.

Yes. ACM Bhadauria said they are looking at 6th Gen concepts. Which is exactly what is needed. This time, it shouldn't be the same old "ASQR" crap. They need a dedicated team that shuttles between TACDE, ADA and College of Air Warfare. They need to develop the concept of a 6th Gen system of...

We must realize that in trying to catch up with Western military technology, we are trying to hit a fast moving target. Its clear that China and USA will field a 6th Gen in the early 2040s. I am talking with 2050 as the service date for our 6th Gen. This should be our goal if we aim to be a...

For our own sake, I hope there isn't any substantial difference and the differences are limited to the engine and unmanned capability. AMCA has a modular cockpit, so maybe a module to swap out the cockpit with an unmanned cockpit module that turns AMCA into optionally manned. Other than that...

I am talking in terms of MTOW. We can't go from AMCA size to F-22 or J-20 size. Heck, its better to design a new plane at that point. And we'll need to design a 6th gen either way by 2050. The design effort for that should begin in 2030 itself, with FSED starting after AMCA Mk2 is done by late...

That isn't what I am saying. @Bleh suggested that after AMCA Mk1, they could do what they did with Tejas and make a bigger AMCA Mk2. An AMCA Mk2 in the Su-30MKI category maybe. Just like Tejas Mk2 is now in the medium category. Similar thing also happened in the case of the Hornet which grew up...

Be better to go for a 6th gen Heavy Air Dominance Fighter design post-2030. FSED for that can begin by 2040. Service entry by 2050. Other than that, churn out TEDBFs and AMCAs like sausages (as much as OPEX allows) to get through 2040s unscathed.

They can't pull a Hornet-> SuperHornet or an LCA->MWF conversion of AMCA now, can they?

Link?

Its superior in RAM performance no doubt. But structurally and by ease of manufacturing its inferior. F-35's RAM is a CFRP. It doesn't get more robust than that.

For anyone interested, the F-35's RAM is a Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) where the carbon fiber has carbon nanotubes bonded with it. This material, they claim, is effective against everything. From 0.1 MHz to 60 GHz. That is almost every radar band from HF, VHF, UHF, L, S, C, X, Ku, K...

True. Which is why we likely won't know which ones will get selected. But looking at all this R&D should at least give us some confidence that we even have options to chose from. As I understand it, for longer wavelength bands like L band, you can't really do anything because L band wavelengths...

Yes, they'll probably do that. Most 5th gen fighters do that.

The numbers are great. This material seems nice in application to some select areas maybe, but its manufacturing process is very difficult. Very difficult to scale this up for mass production. But they me be actually trying to use this because I recently read in some document that they are...

Nice find. This one is new, hasn't been posted before:-

Send me the link. I think its been posted before, I remember seeing a broadband absorber based on some metamaterial here before. And I vaguely remember thinking that it isn't developed enough. But lets see.