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[FalconZero]

Here you go, just check what he says when asked about nirbhay, ITCM, lrlacm.

Goddamn what an amazing informative video, i am like 40mins in and in awe with the amount of information each minute contains. I want everyone of you lads to watch this, it's worth it.

These guys, Dr. SV, Dr. Kota, Dr. Kalam so many of them are real life superheroes, works from Dr. Kalam are literally paying the dividend even in 2014 in our Astra BVR, also the collaborations with Russia has helped us a lot, in our scientists to gain technical know how to.

As DR. SV himself said that he gained more knowledge in aerodynamics and configuration while working at NAL and system design while working on Brahmos.

I didn't know that some of the scientist he has worked with also worked on the Vikas engine which is used on our PSLV rockets, i mean dr. kalam himself was involved in the SLV project.

Maybe i will take a habit of writing down good point of every such interview whenever watching, but for now, some of the key points that i recall,

1. Dr. SV started his work back in 85/86 when Dr. Kalam was the director of DRDO, dr kalam assigned him to the some codes related to missiles which was crucial, he accomplished that in 4years or so and it was also later on exported to the Singapore.
   
   
2. He worked extensively with Brahmos, on brahmos project. The russian company involved in Brahmos project was already working with indian scientist even before that. He narrates how Brahmos was integrated with Flankers and they had to built one of the biggest rocket launcher on an aircraft, etc.
   
   
3. He later on was moved to the struggling Astra BVR project, which is a big success. He narrates how Astra hit a 2m2 banshee drone almost 80km+ during trials, overall missile underwent 40+ trials.
   
   
4. This is going to be his last project before retirement and now he is responsible for ADE, he narrates about how quality and benchmark of ADE scientist is even better than many labs he has worked before, one of the best and rich talent pool of ADE has resulted in many labs like DARE so on (i forgot the names look em up). (This i felt was important because many times ADE gets a lot of shit from people on the forum or sm)
   
   
5. Tapas was supposed to be tested with the highest service ceiling as desired for QR that is 33,000ft with an endurance of 18hrs (will be pushed to 24hrs later on), it has been made lighter too. And this test was supposed to happen at the year end. Along with that one of the most major milestone for tapas was Automatic Take off and Landing and use of SATCOM (gagan sats) for that.
   
   
6. Archer is a derivative of Rustom 1 (duh), like WSI version of say dhruv and then i felt some parts were cut from the video i am not sure why, it happened while he was talking about comparison with the turkish drone
   
   
7. Nirbhay was a test bed, it underwent 6 trials, through them it proved its capabilities like sea skimming at 5 to 6meters from the sea level
   
   
8. ITCM carries on the learnings from Nirbhay, underwent two tests but there are some technical issues which he believes can be soon sorted out
   
   
9. LRCM is the next thing after ITCM, little info on it (ITCM, LRCM all will probably use STFE engine but maybe i misheard so others please look it up again if you have time @33:33 mark)
   
   
10. Apart from that he was reluctant, like very reluctant to the point he didn't even name the Ghatak at most talked about whatever happened in SWIFT but nothing technical, he kind confirms that we have got the RAM coating, mentioned about stealth design and carbon composites in various platforms including AMCA.
    

Apart from that, few of the most important that thing that make him different, a true visionary is when he talked about the need to find common platforms sharing common LRUs, subsytems and developing them so that production, maintenance and ease of use is good and also the emphasis on having a goal for an org. Like ADE had great scientists, made great subsystems from Tejas to even other platforms but it was not until 2011 when it got a main goto project and still they didn't have the vision to classify and group common platforms, like now Tapas and Archer are almost same at avionics, LRUs only a software is different so just swtich the software on your platform and you can use archer or tapas so it increases the ease of use for armed forces. (DRDO is now utilizing this philosophy very well, like astra missile, rudram, vr-srsam so on).

Similarly, he emphasized the need to work with private industries, harness their talent and ability and combine with DRDO's own work to produce better products which is what we are now seeing, drdo has been working with private orgs very closely, giving them TOTs, increased production be it MMG (multi mode grenades, pinaka or so on) even astra maybe? So atleast he not only understands it but is actively ensuring that government takes into the consideration of private industries capacity.

1 hr long.... time bata do :/

Watch the whole video, jk, 33:33 mins, a bit before you will get more info on nirbhay, itcm, their engine and lrcm.

 

[Lonewolf]

weird thing written about suffren , its written among its armament that it can lauch vl mica ng

how ?

 

[Vamsi]

weird thing written about suffren , its written among its armament that it can lauch vl mica ng

how ?

It may be used when surfaced

 

[arnabmit]

Just to clear some confusion,

Nirbhay was the TD project to demonstrate various CM technologies.
ITCM is the TD project to prove STFE.
LRLACM will be the final product.

LFRJ-LRCM was a proposal which later got cancelled once MTCR was signed, instead, Brahmos will get 400km and 600km versions.

 

[Kalkioftoday]

weird thing written about suffren , its written among its armament that it can lauch vl mica ng

how ?

It'll be the next hot trendy technology for submarines in the coming years

 

[Kalkioftoday]

Just to clear some confusion,

Nirbhay was the TD project to demonstrate various CM technologies.
ITCM is the TD project to prove STFE.
LRLACM will be the final product.

LFRJ-LRCM was a proposal which later got cancelled once MTCR was signed, instead, Brahmos will get 400km and 600km versions.

LFRJ-LRCM was a proposal which later got cancelled once MTCR was signed, instead, Brahmos will get 400km and 600km versions.

Where did he mentioned that? Timestamp please?

 

[arnabmit]

Where did he mentioned that? Timestamp please?

This specific information is not from the video. It came to public domain about two to three years back.

 

[Karthi]

Oshocorp is an Indian private company which works in various fields including Aerospace.

They developed an advanced drone killer system.

HARPYA / EREVOS DRONE KILLER SYSTEM.

------------------------------------------------------------

HARPYA is a “fire and forget" type semi-autonomous system designed to destroy hostile UAVs within a certain volume of air space.

The system comprises of two elements:
[1] the unmanned, high speed aircraft- missile HARPYA and
[2] the ground based EREVOS station.

The EREVOS is a portable field deployable detector, operational even squad and above tactical level, equipped with an array of sensors which assist an operator to locate an incoming threat target.

The HARPYA is a semi-autonomous high-speed ground-to-air unmanned aircraft missile which uses advanced AI and image processing technology to home-in to target UAV and destroy it by means of either proximity sensor activated explosion or by direct impact and explosion.

OPERATION
-------+-----------
Target Approach Steps

In order a target to be reached by aircraft the following steps should be followed:

User is taking off the aircraft using its radio control and FPV camera.

Aircraft maintains a steady pace and direction.

User wearing goggles tries to locate target in his field of view. Via goggles user may see camera’s image. The camera is located on a gimbal at the aircraft. Gimbal is driven by user’s head moves.

User identifies the target and press the target identification button (TIB).

Visit their website.

http://www.oshocorp.com/

BEL to export 3D naval radar internationally, says official

Officials of the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) have said that international clients are on its roster for the export of L-Band 3D Air Surveillance Radar RAWL-03 manufactured by the defence public sector undertaking.

“This is a cost effective Long Range Air Surveillance Radar perfect for early detection and tracking of air and surface targets, thereby enabling engagement of fire control systems to neutralise the targets. We want to market this to foriegn countries as well and the talks are on. The RAWL-03 comes in both ship and land-based configurations. We have showcased this to the Indian Navy and the process of induction is on. In 2018 we co-developed the radar with Swedish aerospace and defence company Saab,” a senior official from the BEL said.

Though it is not revealed which countries have exhibited interest in the radar, the official stated that the international clients include France, Germany, the UK, Canada, Sweden and developing markets in Africa and South America.

The radar has an instrumentation range of 400 kilometers. “We can detect all sorts of air targets including missiles, helicopters and aircraft upto 400 kilometers. The radar provides three dimensional target data along with doppler data. The advantage of the 3D radar over 2D radar is its estimation of height of the target in addition to direction and range. We started working on this radar in 2015 and it took almost two years to realise its completion. It weighs around 4 tons and incorporates the latest Signal Processing techniques,” he added.

RAWL-03 antenna is compact and can be accommodated on wheeled vehicles and ships.

The Indian Express

 

[Karthi]

 

[flanker99]

Hamra FUFA aisa dikhe to maja a jaiga biru!

 

[Aditya Ballal]

Oshocorp is an Indian private company which works in various fields including Aerospace.

They developed an advanced drone killer system.

HARPYA / EREVOS DRONE KILLER SYSTEM.

------------------------------------------------------------

HARPYA is a “fire and forget" type semi-autonomous system designed to destroy hostile UAVs within a certain volume of air space.

The system comprises of two elements:
[1] the unmanned, high speed aircraft- missile HARPYA and
[2] the ground based EREVOS station.

The EREVOS is a portable field deployable detector, operational even squad and above tactical level, equipped with an array of sensors which assist an operator to locate an incoming threat target.

The HARPYA is a semi-autonomous high-speed ground-to-air unmanned aircraft missile which uses advanced AI and image processing technology to home-in to target UAV and destroy it by means of either proximity sensor activated explosion or by direct impact and explosion.

OPERATION
-------+-----------
Target Approach Steps

In order a target to be reached by aircraft the following steps should be followed:

User is taking off the aircraft using its radio control and FPV camera.

Aircraft maintains a steady pace and direction.

User wearing goggles tries to locate target in his field of view. Via goggles user may see camera’s image. The camera is located on a gimbal at the aircraft. Gimbal is driven by user’s head moves.

User identifies the target and press the target identification button (TIB).

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Visit their website.

http://www.oshocorp.com/

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BEL to export 3D naval radar internationally, says official

Officials of the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) have said that international clients are on its roster for the export of L-Band 3D Air Surveillance Radar RAWL-03 manufactured by the defence public sector undertaking.

“This is a cost effective Long Range Air Surveillance Radar perfect for early detection and tracking of air and surface targets, thereby enabling engagement of fire control systems to neutralise the targets. We want to market this to foriegn countries as well and the talks are on. The RAWL-03 comes in both ship and land-based configurations. We have showcased this to the Indian Navy and the process of induction is on. In 2018 we co-developed the radar with Swedish aerospace and defence company Saab,” a senior official from the BEL said.

Though it is not revealed which countries have exhibited interest in the radar, the official stated that the international clients include France, Germany, the UK, Canada, Sweden and developing markets in Africa and South America.

The radar has an instrumentation range of 400 kilometers. “We can detect all sorts of air targets including missiles, helicopters and aircraft upto 400 kilometers. The radar provides three dimensional target data along with doppler data. The advantage of the 3D radar over 2D radar is its estimation of height of the target in addition to direction and range. We started working on this radar in 2015 and it took almost two years to realise its completion. It weighs around 4 tons and incorporates the latest Signal Processing techniques,” he added.

RAWL-03 antenna is compact and can be accommodated on wheeled vehicles and ships.

The Indian Express

Can this RAWL-03 Radar be used to replace the BEL-Thales LW-08 Radars of the 1980s present on the Delhi, Kolkata and Vishakhapatnam Class Destroyers? Almost all the other users of this particular radar have shifted to the Thales SMART-L Radar

 

[THESIS THORON]

hehe boi

 

[SavageKing456]

Hamra FUFA aisa dikhe to maja a jaiga biru!

Wait for more details about FUFA ji.

 

[fire starter]

 

[fire starter]

My guess cavitating torpedo.

 

[not so dravidian]

My guess cavitating torpedo.

So not hybrid mizzlie??

 

[THESIS THORON]

My guess cavitating torpedo.

but nose seems too sharp ??

 

[kurup]

hehe boi

How is the range of AAM calculated ?? What is the criteria ?? Never understood it .

Especially Front ON v/s Tail Chase mode.

 

[fire starter]

Indigenous SDR will soon starts its trials on FTB.

 

[THESIS THORON]

How is the range of AAM calculated ?? What is the criteria ?? Never understood it .

Especially Front ON v/s Tail Chase mode.

Idk, but ask experts