DRDO, PSU and Private Defence Sector News

[fire starter]

Good news.

 

[Okabe Rintarou]

Good news.

Hope this washes away the ghost of Ecuador. Hopefully the deal is for MkIII. BTW, when did we offer Philippines an LoC?

 

[Sir pe tapla]

What is the holdup with LCH? Is it because of Helina missile? Why are army and airforce not releasing funds?

 

[AMCA]

 

[Covfefe]

The details in the public domain stated that the trials on Uttam were to be completed by 2020. Any updates on that?

 

[AMCA]

The details in the public domain stated that the trials on Uttam were to be completed by 2020. Any updates on that?

AFAIK, Uttam is still under trial.

 

[FalconSlayers]

HAL Annual Report 2021 is finally out.


•Two Light Combat Helicopters (LCH) were deployed for
operations at high altitude at short notice to support IAF
missions on August 12, 2020.
•Three Light Combat Helicopters (LCH) have been produced
and signalled out against the Letter of Intent of IAF.

+Successfully demonstrated the tail boom folding operation
on ALH Mk-III helicopter in November, 2020.

The Company has indigenously designed and developed
a 60kW Gas Turbine Electrical Generator (GTEG-60),
the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) for the Military Transport
aircraft AN-32, which has attained operational clearance on May 28, 2020.
+Successfully integrated and conducted trial of NGARM
(New Generation Anti-Radiation Missile) and Precision
Guidance Kit for High-Speed Low Drag 500 kg bomb on Su-30MKI aircraft

HAL's New initiatives (spicy)
+ Design and development of
CATS with TEJAS–MAX cockpit as the mother-ship
platform with the embedded air teaming intelligence
concepts to demonstrate the fully integrated as well as

autonomous wingman platforms and swarming of drones

+ Design and development of Amphibian / Seaplane variant of HAL Do-228 aircraft

+ MoU signed between HAL and DRDO for Transfer of
Technology for Production and Designated HAL as Lead
System Integrator of UTTAM Radar, an Active Electronically
Scanned Array (AESA) Radar, designed & developed by
DRDO for LCA Mk1 & Mk1A aircraft

+Towards the progress of the
R&D efforts, HAL has incurred a total expenditure of
1,687 Crore for the year 2020-21 which is 8% of the Turnover. HAL has transferred a sum of ` 296 Crore (10% of Operating PAT) to R&D reserve for contribution to R&D corpus during the year 2020 -21.
The 1200kW Turbo shaft engine would be used as power plant for 3 -6ton category helicopters. One technology
demonstrator of HTSE-1200 engine was built and it is
presently under testing.100% speed run achieved on
core engine. Sea level trials of core engine completed
successfully.

Global response
i. Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), Tejas was shortlisted by RMAF and RFI issued to HAL. The RFI response was re-validated in June 2020.
ii. Offered Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) as Lead in Fighter Trainer (LIFT) configuration to Australian DoD in July 2020.

iii. Offered LCA(Naval Twin seat
Trainer) to US Navy in July 2020.
iv. Offered Do-228 to US Navy in July 2020, in
response to their Global RFI for Multi Engine Trainer
Aircraft program.
v. Received interest from Philippines CG for
procurement of 7 ALH and 8 Do-228
seems this is it. will post anything else if I find something spicy enough
During the year, LUH successfully demonstrated Two
Segment Blade Folding and completed user trial such as
engine relight trials, Slope landing, Night Flying test and
Hot & High Altitude User evaluation Flight trials at Leh.
HAL has successfully achieved IOC
for LUH Army in Feb 21

 

[Anandhu Krishna]

Good news.

If they do get a contract, they should be very careful. Any hostile parties can mess with it and create a reputation.

 

[gslv markIII]

CSL- built DRDO TDV

Probably the most advanced Naval Auxiliary vessel in Asia, lol.

 

[Abdus Salem killed]

CSL- built DRDO TDV

View attachment 108838

Probably the most advanced Naval Auxiliary vessel in Asia, lol.

What is it source for the image

How did sit compare to china pak @gslv markIII

 

[flanker99]

CSL- built DRDO TDV

View attachment 108838

Probably the most advanced Naval Auxiliary vessel in Asia, lol.

from worst possible angle ...whichever publication this is from did it have any other details?

 

[Nationalist Manasvi Papa]

CSL- built DRDO TDV

View attachment 108838

Probably the most advanced Naval Auxiliary vessel in Asia, lol.

What's the difference between this and INS Dhruv?

 

[gearedcombustor]

Just some notes:

1. Can't make heads or tails of what Astra Mk1 UT is from all the tenders in it's catgeory. Is it just a project code to track further improvements and testing of the original Astra? Or is it a new project? It feels like a new one because it still seems to be in integration testing and HILS testing stage.

2. From tenders : Some new torpedo from NSTL/NPOL is going to have a pumpjet propulsor with two fibre props.

3. Astra Mk-II is under final pre-testing integration

4. ADA/HAL are working on single titanium block milling for AMCA similar to F-35. Midhani annual report states that they delivered test blocks in February. (also posted in AMCA thread)

5. Next VL-SRSAM tests will be in the final canisterised configuration, the earlier ones weren't. The radar is still a mystery though but BEL confirmed delivery of few prototypes in their Annual Report. But why? Weren't they supposed to integrate it with MF-STAR? Is this new radar for the Kamorta like vessels? Does that mean Revathi will be replaced with the new one? What will be the future of Fregat vessels then?

6. My opinion/theory: Brahmos-NG and Brahmos-II have neither been funded nor being worked on. They are just proposals from Brahmos corp to keep themselves relevant. MoD and Russia doesn't seem to have signed any agreement for these two. Neither DRDL or NPO Mashinostreynia seem to be working on them. I feel, these projects will disappear as STAR gets tested and HSTDV confidence grows. Both will get full desi projects without involving Russia

I will post such notes just to get wider inputs on some observerations and thought process I am going through.

-A newbie on this forum

 

[flanker99]

What's the difference between this and INS Dhruv?

that one only tracks and maybe guids but this one will be used to test naval radars and maybe missiles as well .U can spot the LRMFR housing on the mid but shamefully cant see the arrays

 

[gearedcombustor]

Also to add:

Some updates I noticed:

1. DRDO's lab that works on Airborne Jammers, Airborne EW and RWR's etc. DARE (Defence Avionics Research Establishment) has been renamed as CASDIC (Combat Aircraft Systems Development and Integration Centre) as of July 2021.

Someone was probably not happy with the weird name

2. As of Jan 2021, DRDO's lab that did dedicated work on Lasers LASTEC (Laser Science and Technology Centre) has been shutdown and resources and capabilities diverted to other labs.

 

[Tuco]

What's the difference between this and INS Dhruv?

This will be our test bed for various new gen naval technologies from sonars to radars.

 

[gslv markIII]

What is it source for the image

from worst possible angle ...whichever publication this is from did it have any other details?

CSL annual report. No other important details.

How did sit compare to china pak @gslv markIII

Compare with what exactly.

What's the difference between this and INS Dhruv?

This is a floating testbed.

 

[gearedcombustor]

What's the difference between this and INS Dhruv?

This TDV has two BMD missile launchers in the rear to act as a BMD launcher testbed and a rear looking two panel LMFR to guide the missiles acting as fire control.

INS Dhruv is only a tracking ship for both intelligence, Space Situational Awareness and BMD purposes.

 

[gslv markIII]

4. ADA/HAL are working on single titanium block milling for AMCA similar to F-35. Midhani annual report states that they delivered test blocks in February. (also posted in AMCA thread)

 

[gearedcombustor]

View attachment 108842

Interesting says it is 1.2mx1.3m and 12cm thick. They compromised on width and height but retained the thickness. This compromise means they will require more fasteners and more structural material and will have to compromise on internal space which F-35 couldn't on because they had weird requirements.
Thick enough as F-35.
Size is smaller than the F-35 variants which are 19.6ft x 6.5 ft
F-35 pic:

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