AURA: New Dawn of New Age

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Year 2022 major infiltration is taking place on the Line of Control in Uri Sector of north Kashmir, small pack of 10 to 12 Pakistani Terrorists are trying to sneak into Kashmir. but they have little idea that Two Hunter Killer UCAV developed under India's prestigious AURA (Autonomous Unmanned Research Aircraft) have tracked their movement using infrared and motion sensors and are losing altitude fast, this new breed of Stealthy UCAV hunt in pairs and can be on CAP (Combat Air Patrol) 24 hours a day, powered by a modified Kaveri K10 engine armed with four Air to Surface missiles and 2 Air to Air missiles for their own self protection

UCAV have already alerted movement of intruders to the zonal head quarters and soon go head confirmation comes from Head quarters , both UCAV fire ASM at the intruders and terrorist have no idea what hit them , half of them are killed near loc and others run and hide in a abandoned concrete shelter UCAV is able to track their movement and sends a video feed to the Zonal Army Head quarter for reinforcement , well reinforcement comes in shape of Bomber UCAV again derivative from AURA program , bomber UCAV is able to carry large LGB or joint direct attack munitions ,powered by two modified

Kaveri K10 engine , it is much bigger then Hunter UCAV but is able to carry more payloads .As soon it arrived at the scene of action Hunter UCAV starts moving out area of operation, Terrorist seeing UCAV move have a sign of relief but they have no idea that soon whole complex where they are hiding will be brought to ground in seconds.

This is just a possible scenario where future UCAV of India will operate.

Why a UCAV?

Longer CAP: Fully Autonomous Unmanned Combat aircraft will have longer endurance in war or in conflict zone since everything is controlled by on board computers level of efficiency from take off to landing will be same ,fatigue and stress factors will be negligible since pilot is absent .

Design of UCAV: it has been openly discussed and told by Aviation community that design of aircraft's is limited to "Human endurance " UCAV will always have design advantages over manned aircraft's even if they are stealthy in nature, risk to pilots live in combat zone is also reduced since UCAV will not need one, another major advantage will weight since UCAV will not require any pilot-support systems this will reduce weight in the aircraft and will enable it to better utilizes space for other purpose , which in turn can reduce size of the airframe of the aircraft , with same payload that a manned aircraft might have .

Lower R&D Cost: Why many of the European Countries are engaged in development of UCAV on other hand same countries are cutting down their own defense budgets in time of recession in their Economy? that Simple, development of new 5 Gen Fighter aircraft will be tremendous pressure on already shaky economic of this countries and since many of them will be operating American –European Jointly developed F-35 soon, need for a new manned 5th Gen aircraft have disappeared and many of them have been actively working on UCAV which will have half the cost for development of a stealthy Fighter or Bomber aircraft, but also be cheaper to operate in future since it will also reduce training of pilots and support crew.

Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle Technological Challenges for India?

Well India has taken baby steps for the development of its own Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for surveillance but not to be fooled , almost each and every lab of DRDO and HAL has been working on different types of UAV from Hand held battle field UAV to be operated by foot soldiers to larger MALE ,HALE type of UAV's for Countries armed forces .
sharing of many of the technology or spin offs from this program will help ADA help in development of AURA UCAV's ,other than this following new developments needs to take place for UCAV .

*Reconfigurable control station for multi Situational operations.

*Development and integration off-board/on-board sensors, weapon targeting, and load outs.

*Battle management sensors for better Situation Awareness among similar or other UCAV.

*Full autonomy Mission computers which will enable it to think for its self in the whole assigned missions.


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AURA- India's UCAV To Be A Neuron Clone?



India's indigenous stealth UCAV programme, AURA, could borrow a lot of design from the European Neuron UCAV technology demonstrator. The image above, (snapped helpfully with a cell phone off a doc I hope to see a full version of soon) could be another glimpse into how the programme is thinking, and it sure looks like the Neuron to me. Interestingly, the AURA team has in fact been offered a technology partnership by the Neuron's programme leader Dassault Aviation, though the offer may not have anything directly to do with the Neuron programme itself. Incidentally, the AURA started out as a secret defence project (like India's SSBN programme), though the establishment has not only acknowledged its existence, but begun to talk quite a bit about it. Hope to get some real juice at Aero India though. Maybe a model too? Unlikely, but you never know.

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/02/indias-ucav-to-be-neuron-clone.html
 

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Huh... Way too early to say its nEUROn clone. Are all attempted Stealth designs need to be clone of each other??
Only Shiv can comment something like this....
 
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It's a flying Wing , how does that become a clone of the Neuron.
 

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New AURA pics....





Yet Another Impression Of India's Stealth UCAV Concept This image, of India's Autonomous Unmanned Research Aircraft (AURA), featured in a recent presentation by ADA director PS Subramanyam. This one appears to be a top-shot of the impression here. Design concepts are being generated by ADA's stealth workshop.

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/03/yet-another-impression-of-indias.html
 

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What India's Stealth UCAV 'AURA' May Look Like.

EXCLUSIVE: What India's Stealth UCAV 'AURA' May Look Like,



Commissioned exclusively for Livefist, and unofficially endorsed by a couple of people familiar with the secret programme, these are the first 3D artist's impressions of India's stealth unmanned combat aerial vehicle, AURA, a programme first revealed here on Livefist two years ago. Currently in the preliminary design phase, the AURA is likely to draw design philosophies and technologies from the European flying wing UCAV concepts. Artist Anurag Rana had little to work with apart from the scant impressions that appeared here on Livefist from official documentation. As more details emerge, these impressions will be progressively updated and modified, so stay tuned

Livefist: EXCLUSIVE: What India's Stealth UCAV 'AURA' May Look Like
 

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