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Don't post on stuff you don't understand.Even ISRO does not have this facility. There is none in India. This software is controlled by the govts of the nation as a national secret and subject to govt sanction. What I got done was from a freelancer org and even their RCS measurement is indicative but not true.
Only Americans & British have it and that is subjected to very very strong controls.
I have been quietly reading posts here from members who have claimed various RCS for LCA. Can you recall my last post about LCA thread? What they do not know is that LCA defies the very basics of stealth shaping by having diff angles for its wing itself due to compound delta design. It has a huge tailplane and its nose itself is flat before the intakes with nothing to suppress the bottom fuselage and even nothing to suppress the external attachments. Mark my words, LCA has higher RCS than MIG-29 in intercept profile with AAMs.
I have challanged the NAL & HAL and they went quite on the subject and asked me to go to GOI for security clearance before they can communicate with me further. I sent them my highest security clearance documents and they fell silent.
LCA has allowed two generations to earn their pension and now the third generation also has more than 50% people who are children of these retired pensioners. You do not know how bad it is in DRDO & HAL. EARN PENSION AND ---- INDIA IS THE MOTTO OF HAL.
Even F-22 has two angles in wing shapes and back side of the F-22 wing also has the same shape as that of LCA.
In addition the LCA does not have as the extra two horizontal tail fins as that of F-22
And the huge vertical tail fin of LCA you are referring to provides nil contribution to the frontal RCS of Tejas because viewed from front it presents a shape of knife edge to the enemy radar.
Also the cross section[on a vertical cutting plane] of the tail fin of LCA is not rectangular it is triangular if you see it in the close up photos from behind.
So even for a side on radar illumination most of the radio waves will scatter away from the enemy radar.
And the front fuselage, and air intakes all have subtle angles spread all along.
SO your challenge to HAL and NAL is absurd on this count. The same software is used to design the AMCA as well and recently after the third ASR revision IAF was very happy with the RCS reduction measures on AMCA.
There is nothing top secret about RCS reductions. The US did not invent it either.
Those calculations sere first formulated by the russian technician in the 1970s itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Ufimtsev
And it was based on these equations F-22 was built. There was not enough software simulation tech and manufacturing tech in those days to reproduce the shape of the equations. And the advent of composites makes it more feasible as well.Ufimtsev became interested in describing the reflection of lasers while working in Moscow. He gained permission to do work on it after being advised that work was useless and would curtail his advancement. Because the work was considered of no military or economic value, Ufimtsev was allowed to publish his work internationally.[3]
A stealth engineer at Lockheed, Denys Overholser, had read the publication and realized that Ufimtsev had created the mathematical theory and tools to do finite analysis of radar reflection.[4] This discovery inspired and had a big role in the design of the first true stealth aircraft, the Lockheed F-117. Northrop also used Ufimtsev's work to program super computers to predict the radar reflection of the B-2 bomber.
In the 1960s Ufimtsev began developing a high-frequency asymptotic theory for predicting the scattering of electromagnetic waves from two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects. Among such objects were the finite size bodies of revolution (disk, finite cylinder with flat bases, finite cone, finite paraboloid, spherical segment, finite thin wire). This theory is now well known as the Physical Theory of Diffraction (PTD).
The first results of PTD were collected in the book: P.Ya. Ufimtsev, Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction, Soviet Radio, Moscow, 1962. In 1971 this book was translated into English with the same title by U.S. Air Force, Foreign Technology Division (National Air Intelligence Center ), Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 1971. Technical Report AD 733203, Defense Technical Information Center of USA, Cameron Station, Alexandria, VA, 22304-6145, USA.
According to the following publications, this theory played a critical role in the design of American stealth-aircraft F-117 and B-2.[5][6][7]
See also the Forewords written by K. Mitzner to the books:
Ufimtsev, P.Ya. Theory of Edge Diffraction in Electromagnetics, Tech Science Press, Encino, California, 2003.
Ufimtsev, P.Ya. Fundamentals of the Physical Theory of Diffraction, Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2007.
In these two books, P.Ya. Ufimtsev presented the further development and application of PTD and its validation by the exact mathematical theory. In particular, a new version of PTD, based on the concept of elementary edge waves, is presented in his book Fundamentals of the Physical Theory of Diffraction (2007). With appropriate modifications the modern PTD can be utilized for the solution to many practical problems. Among them are the design of microwave antennas, mobile radio communication, construction of acoustic barriers to decrease a noise level, evaluation of radar cross sections for large objects[8] (tanks, ships, missiles, etc.).
Dr. Ufimtsev has been affiliated with a number of research and academic institutions, including the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Moscow Aviation Institute, the University of California (Los Angeles, Irvine) and most recently, the Moscow State University (Russia, 2007) and the Siena University (Italy, 2008). Currently he is a retiree and a consultant in the field of electromagnetics. Among his honors and awards are the USSR State Prize and the Leroy Randle Grumman Medal.[9]
Ufimtsev taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), which is the same school that Ben Rich, developer of the F-117 "Stealth Fighter", studied for his graduate degree.
Now it is there , that's all. There are enough software skills in India to develop the needed software.It is a child's play these days for huge organizations with monumental super computing power.
When we can develop fly by wire software that is many times more complex than the RCS calculation software your statement that it is a top secret tech is not correct.
What is top secret is the composition of the stealth coatings that further aid in RCS reduction not the equations and software simulations to compute the RCS of different objects which is purely mathematical and can be developed by a team of dedicated technicians of which we have no shortage in numbers.
So any one can program and predict the RCS on a super computer as LM did . You should know that the LCA was initially designed in IIT delhi computer labs and India does have parallel processing super computers .
If it was out of bounds for a freelancer like you it does not mean it is out of bounds for big research organizations like ADA, NAL. HAL played no part in designing the LCA, so if HAL remained silent then there is nothing to be surprised about.
And your comment that LCA has more RCS than the Mig-29 is the joke of the century.
You don't even know the biggest contributor to the frontal RCS are exposed engine blades of the two mighty engines of Mig-29.
In LCA air intake is Y duct shaped and no engine blade is exposed. So don't be so sweeping in making generalized comments.
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