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[Super Flanker]

As expected, the AMCA titanium bulkhead is not single-piece. We don't have a large enough hydraulic press forge.
See red circle:-
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Were you expecting something like this?

"In photo : One of the F-35's bulkheads, which are manufactured in a single piece by Arconic. (Arconic)"

 

[Okabe Rintarou]

Were you expecting something like this?

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"In photo : One of the F-35's bulkheads, which are manufactured in a single piece by Arconic. (Arconic)"

Not expecting, because I know we don't got the 50,000 ton heavy. But yeah, this is what I am talking about. Would have been nice to have this. Gonna' need it within next two-three decades if we plan to make our own airliners, strategic transports and bombers.

 

[Suryavanshi]

Were you expecting something like this?

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"In photo : One of the F-35's bulkheads, which are manufactured in a single piece by Arconic. (Arconic)"

Made by casting at once.

 

[Super Flanker]

Made by casting at once.

Not expecting, because I know we don't got the 50,000 ton heavy. But yeah, this is what I am talking about. Would have been nice to have this. Gonna' need it within next two-three decades if we plan to make our own airliners, strategic transports and bombers.

Well I am happy with what progress we have achieved regardless of whether the bulkhead is single piece or multiple piece.

 

[Okabe Rintarou]

Made by casting at once.

Forging as one. Casting is not the issue. We can cast titanium piece that big at Midhani.

 

[Okabe Rintarou]

Well I am happy with what progress we have achieved regardless of whether the bulkhead is single piece or multiple piece.

True. The titanium for this was mined, refined, processed, cast, forged and is now being machined all in India. Was unachievable even 10 years ago.

 

[Blood+]

The issue is also that 155mm M46 upgrade is a field gun, not a howitzer. That may be why they are dithering on upgrading the rest of them.

Nope, the upgraded ones are in fact, howitzers.

I now hate towed guns , extra trucks more fuel etc
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Convert m46 to 155 mm standards. Slap it on a tank chassy,
And you get a respectable 155 mm artillery gun .
Which can move .

Going exclusively for mounted gun systems would not be such a great idea in my humble opinion both from a cost as well as operational perspective, especially for a country with thousands of kilometers of broken mountainous borders to guard.

Just ask yourself this one question - what is the biggest selling point for the SPGs?? The answer is their mobility, which allows them to quickly change reposition after firing a salvo, right?? Now, in the mountains, do you really think the terrain will be conducive for making such extensive maneuvers?? Heck, there are sectors along both LAC and the LoC where often you can't even find enough room to deploy a whole battery worth of towed guns as a single unit and have to place them far from each other!! Under such circumstances, the most significant advantage of an SPG will be completely negated and they will, in fact, become a burden.

Besides, they are a lot heavier; therefore, it'd be a lot more difficult to redeploy them from one sector to another compared to towed pieces.

As for fuel, SPGs will provide no additional benefit whatsoever cause they will burn just as much fuel (much more if we are talking about tracked SPGs) as the towing vehicles.

Convert m46 to 155 mm standards. Slap it on a tank chassy,
And you get a respectable 155 mm artillery gun .
Which can move .

For the plains of Punjab Rajasthan, a great idea indeed. But not for the mountains, except in Ladakh for which the Army is supposed to order an additional 200 K9 Vajras.

 

[WARREN SS]

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[tribendra bisoi..]

Some videos on recent AI event

AI Based Remote Weapon Station & Remote Patrolling System



Artificial Intelligence Converts Vehicle Into Unmanned Vehicle


Artificial Intelligence Based Explosive Detection System

 

[Bhaubai]

 

[ClawReed787]

Myanmar navy ?

 

[karn]

Guys .. Tejas mk2 metal cutting started before AMCA right ?
We get updates from AMCA but none from mk2 .. Are they waiting on the new hangar ? Or is there some other delay.

 

[tribendra bisoi..]

Balidan Micro UAV by Hawking Defence

 

[Cheran]

Hmm. How can a torpedo wash up on a beach like a coconut?

Even if it was a misfire or a target missed should not it have sunk to bottom of sea after travelling beyond it's "range"?

 

[Butter Chicken]

Balidan Micro UAV by Hawking Defence

There is some serious work happening in India wrt. Drones.Soon we will have capacity to produce all types of drones by private firms

 

[porky_kicker]

IMO latest iteration of air launched CATS-ALPHA glide pod for carrying ALPHA-S drones as payload

 

[mokoman]

maybe its a training torpedo , dummy with no warhead

 

[Okabe Rintarou]

Hmm. How can a torpedo wash up on a beach like a coconut?

Even if it was a misfire or a target missed should not it have sunk to bottom of sea after travelling beyond it's "range"?

Maybe it was fired in littorals, lost power and sunk to the continental shelf instead of the seabed. Stormy waters might have washed it ashore after. Doesn't look like it got crushed at all.

Its somewhat like the DRDO Sheyna LWT:-

Its written LWT-XP D&P on the torpedo and similarly TAL-XP is written in a Department of Defence Production document. TAL is Torpedo Advanced Light, which is Sheyna. Don't know what the XP means though. Nor what D&P means either.

 

[ezsasa]

Maybe it was fired in littorals, lost power and sunk to the continental shelf instead of the seabed. Stormy waters might have washed it ashore after. Doesn't look like it got crushed at all.

Its somewhat like the DRDO Sheyna LWT:-

Its written LWT-XP D&P on the torpedo and similarly TAL-XP is written in a Department of Defence Production document. TAL is Torpedo Advanced Light, which is Sheyna. Don't know what the XP means though. Nor what D&P means either.

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Myanmar acquired them in 2019.

India Delivers Initial Batch of Indigenously Built Torpedoes to Myanmar Navy

The first batch of Shyena torpedos has been delivered two years after the initial deal.

thediplomat.com

 

[tribendra bisoi..]

use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the aim of munition carried by small drones . 3D printing of munition in Ukraine war .

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