AMCA - Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (HAL)

[fire starter]

hmm.

 

[Steven Rogers]

hmm.

Watched the episode on the YouTube shiv aroor channel.

 

[WolfPack86]

EXCLUSIVE: India’s 5th Gen AMCA Jet To Be Public-Private Program
India’s fifth generation fighter program, the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) will be a corporate public-private program, a massive break from the traditional ‘goverment-only’ shape of all military aviation projects thus far. Livefist can confirm that India’s HAL and the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) are in the process of laying the contours for a joint venture company to execute the AMCA program. The joint venture company will be a three-way partnership between HAL, DRDO (via ADA) and an Indian private sector firm.


Speaking to Livefist’s Shiv Aroor as part of an exclusive interview, HAL chairman and managing director R. Madhavan said, “HAL and ADA are together in the design of AMCA. We are also looking at productionisation already — we want to create a special vehicle, a joint venture company between HAL, DRDO and a private partner.”


It is not yet clear how the private partner in the AMCA project will be chosen, though it is clear that HAL and DRDO are keen to progress the proposed structure and create a special purpose vehicle (SPV) as quickly as possible. The decision to include a private partner as an equal stakeholder in a joint venture is groundbreaking in Indian aerospace projects, with private firms so far confined to being tier-level suppliers of systems and subsystems. If the proposal goes through, it will be the first time a private firm will be on equal financial and work terms with HAL and DRDO on a military armament project.

Adding detail to timelines on the AMCA, Madhavan said, “It’s on the drawing board. Preliminary design is completed. First prototype will be out (flying) by 2026-27. Secondly, as far as 4th Generation and 5th generation fighters, the latter loses out in terms of aerodynamics owing to stealth requirements, so not a good idea to put everything in one aircraft. With LCA Mk.2 and AMCA, we will be having both varieties — 4+ generation and 5th generation. One doesn’t replace the other. If you look at the US, they too are buying fourth generation jets in addition to the F-35.”

India pulled out of the Su-57 fifth generation fighter program with Russia in 2018 after a committee warned that the IAF and HAL were headed the ‘Su-30’ way with the crucial FGFA, and would likely end up as bankrollers to the program in the short term, and nothing more than license-builders in the long term. A concerted view was taken with the IAF to walk away from the Indo-Russian project, despite moneys already sunk.

In related remarks that make for the most ambitious promise in Indian military aviation, Madhavan also said that the first prototypes of three separate new Indian fighter concepts, including the AMCA, will be rolled out in four years. He said that HAL and its partner, the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) are working to unveil prototypes of the Light Combat Aircraft Mk.2, a new twin-engine LCA derived deck based fighter and the AMCA, in the next 3-4 years.


Answering a question on the twin-engine deck based fighter that HAL & DRDO have embarked on with government clearance earlier this month, Madhavan said, “So first the LCA Mk.2 will come out, and then the TEDBF and then AMCA. Prototypes of all three within 3-4 years. So 7-8 years is what we’re looking at for each of these aircraft getting airborne, which is a very short time in terms of aeronautical design.”

BIG: India's 5th Gen AMCA Jet To Be Public-Private Program

HAL's chairman has declared that the prototypes of 3 proposed Indian fighters, the LCA Mk.2, twin-engine deck based fighter & AMCA, will be out in 4 years.

www.livefistdefence.com

 

[fire starter]

l&t front runner.

 

[WolfPack86]

Bid To Choose Pvt Partner In India’s 5th Gen Fighter JV Begins
Never before has an Indian private sector company been offered the opportunity to be an equal partner in a military aviation project. Military aircraft development and manufacture has so far strictly been the preserve of the state-owned DRDO and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). Now, in one of the biggest shifts in India’s government-monopolised military industrial complex, that’s about to change.


Seen as the most meaningful and substantial involvement of the Indian private sector in a military aviation project, all eyes are now on which privately-held company will be chosen to be an equal joint venture partner for India’s fifth generation fighter effort, the AMCA project. In a major newsbreak Sunday night, Livefist revealed that the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) program, is to be executed by a public-private joint venture — a first in Indian military industrial history.


Livefist can now confirm that the selection process is all set to begin to choose the private sector partner in the proposed corporate joint venture. A special purpose vehicle (SPV) is to be created in the interim, followed by a full-fledged joint venture that will administer and execute the development, manufacture and testing of the fifth generation AMCA.


Livefist has learnt that companies that include Larsen & Toubro, Lakshmi Machine Works (LMW) Advanced Technology Centre, Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL) and at least three other private sector defence firms are in the fray. While Livefist understands that L&T is being seen as a frontrunner, given its existing deep involvement and experience in India’s strategic military programs, including the nuclear submarine build program, a final decision on the AMCA JV will only be taken once the selection process is complete.

Workshare, financials and other terms of reference are to be drawn up this year ahead of decision on the private sector company that will be — for the first time — an equal player in India’s most crucial aviation project. The AMCA JV thrust is separate from the existing supplier and developer base the project already has in the private sector. Companies like VEM Technologies, Dynamatics and others are already involved in the prototyping stage, and will remain tier-level partners for the duration of the project.


The AMCA joint venture company will be based in Coimbatore, where an AMCA ‘site’ has been ready for nearly two years now at the IAF’s Sulur base in Tamil Nadu. According top priority to the program, the IAF has already earmarked 20 acres of land for the JV in Sulur for the final assembly and checkout facility. Testing of the jet will take place at the peninsular base which also houses the IAF’s LCA Tejas squadrons.

While the original plan was for the AMCA JV to be directly between the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and a chosen private sector company, HAL’s involvement in the design of the jet has meant that the state-owned company will be part of AMCA corporate entity. The fact that the AMCA JV is to come up in Sulur in Tamil Nadu, and not HAL’s home turf of Bengaluru, is indicative of this original impulse. Once things get moving, the AMCA will be, by far, Tamil Nadu’s most significant military industrial project.


Given how crucial the AMCA project is to future military planning, one of the biggest questions is just who will call the shots in the proposed joint venture. With HAL and the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) both involved in the preliminary design studies on the stealth jet, the Indian Air Force has expressed concern over the pace of work. Top IAF sources tell Livefist that the air force is hoping that the private sector company chosen for the JV should call equal shots in the new arrangement, if not taking a full lead.


Then there’s the question of the proposed jet’s engine.

The twin-engine AMCA is planned to be powered by an in-development 110 KN turbofan being developed by HAL, DRDO’s Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE — the lead agency) and a foreign engine major (France’s Safran). HAL chairman R. Madhavan told Livefist in an interview last week that the new engine would be ab initio but draw learnings from the erstwhile Kaveri turbofan project. Prototypes of the AMCA, though, will be powered by GE F414 engines. The HAL chairman has said work has speeded up to roll out an AMCA prototype by 2025, with flight test to begin in 2027-28, which confirms earlier timelines set by the DRDO.


In April 2019, Livefist spoke to the director of the AMCA program, Dr A.K. Ghosh.

Which Indian Pvt Sector Firm Will Be JV Partner In AMCA?

L&T seen as frontrunner, but selection process set to choose from at least 6 companies in the fray for the pathbreaking military aircraft JV.

www.livefistdefence.com

 

[Suryavanshi]

l&t front runner.

Mah nigga L&T

 

[patriots]

Tender issued.....

supply of light weight model development and real time visualization in augmented reality environment for advanced fighter aircraft

 

[Suhaan]

Tender issued.....

supply of light weight model development and real time visualization in augmented reality environment for advanced fighter aircraft

Means?a prototype or yet another miniature model?
Can you describe?

 

[IndianHawk]

l&t front runner.

I have said this before l&t will become Lockheed Martin of India. They are building everything from nuke submarine to thermonuclear reactor components to space related stuff to fighter jets components to opv.

 

[IndianHawk]

Tender issued.....

supply of light weight model development and real time visualization in augmented reality environment for advanced fighter aircraft

Sound like a model dedicated for 3d visualisation only. The kind you see in rafale advertising.

 

[patriots]

Sound like a model dedicated for 3d visualisation only. The kind you see in rafale advertising.

May be ... recently a tender was issued for an aesa radar model....

 

[fire starter]

here is the cockpit of AMCA.

 

[ARVION]

here is the cockpit of AMCA.

Developed by simtronics and elbit's?

 

[fire starter]

Developed by simtronics and elbit's?

BY ADA.

 

[Concard]

I hope the prototype or for that matter production AMCA doesn't look like the mock up. The way the engines are exposed doesn't look stealthy to me. Even if we don't have the stealth signature as much as F-22, we still must strive towards <0.1m2 RCS. Otherwise what's the point of building a stealth aircraft. We might as well build a 4.5++ generation jet.

 

[Chandragupt Maurya]

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I hope the prototype or for that matter production AMCA doesn't look like the mock up. The way the engines are exposed doesn't look stealthy to me. Even if we don't have the stealth signature as much as F-22, we still must strive towards <0.1m2 RCS. Otherwise what's the point of building a stealth aircraft. We might as well build a 4.5++ generation jet.

I wish if we had our own engines it would have been much easier to modify them

 

[ARVION]

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I hope the prototype or for that matter production AMCA doesn't look like the mock up. The way the engines are exposed doesn't look stealthy to me. Even if we don't have the stealth signature as much as F-22, we still must strive towards <0.1m2 RCS. Otherwise what's the point of building a stealth aircraft. We might as well build a 4.5++ generation jet.

But for making a stealth nozzle will reduce the thrust by 15 to 20 percentsge's and it will affect the aircrafts perfomance, the f 22 has stealth nozzole's due to powerful engines but the other aircraft's also not use the the stealth nozzole's like Su 57's and J 20's and are unable to use the 3 D's TVC's

 

[Chandragupt Maurya]

India should try to get F35 technology covertly or overtly and use it in AMCA we will save time

 

[shuvo@y2k10]

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I hope the prototype or for that matter production AMCA doesn't look like the mock up. The way the engines are exposed doesn't look stealthy to me. Even if we don't have the stealth signature as much as F-22, we still must strive towards <0.1m2 RCS. Otherwise what's the point of building a stealth aircraft. We might as well build a 4.5++ generation jet.

This is not AMCA. This was a mockup of HAL FGFA, which was eventually abandoned.

 

[ARVION]

This is not AMCA. This was a mockup of HAL FGFA, which was eventually abandoned.

But the real AMCA's will not also have a stealth nozzle's