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[patriots]

Tejas mk2 is in prototype fabrication stage

IAF plans to order 50 more LCA Mk1A jets - Livefist

LCA Tejas Mk.1 at Aero India this week Battling its notorious and long-spiralling depletion in fighter aircraft squadron strength, the Indian Air Force is is believed to have firmed up plans to order at least 50 more LCA Tejas Mk1A jets from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. These would be in addition…

www.livefistdefence.com

 

[Fatalis]

Project Kusha will have SARH seeker.

For me there can be two possibilities regarding the terminology:
1. ERSAM = Enhanced Range SAM
XRSAM = eXtended Range SAM

2. ERSAM = Extended Range SAM
XRSAM = eXtreme Range SAM .

If we go by this pic, here it is mentioned that the missiles will be having the Active Radar Homing Seeker.

 

[Cheran]

Yes, QC is needed, i am sure some lessons have been learned. This is 2023 not 2008.

 

[Gyyan]

Most plausible answer for the 5+5 S400 and 5 s400 to be made in India info

 

[Aditya Ballal]

The first official flight of Mk1A.

All 18 trainers are of Mk1A standard.

2052 as far as I know.

Source? As per news and many on SM, they’re all Mk1 FOC standards.

 

[Photon]

Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services deploys two more deep sea gliders into Bay of Bengal to study climate change

INCOIS deploys two more deep sea gliders into the Bay of Bengal to study climate change

www.thehindu.com

 

[WolfPack86]

India-made Israeli Tavor X 95 rifles make buzz in African militaries
Punj Lloyd Raksha Systems have manufactured Tavor X 95 rifles , under licence from Israel Weapons Industries (IWI).

New Delhi, Apr 5: India-made Israeli Tavor X 95 rifles are making a buzz in African militaries and opening gates for new international markets for the product. The rifles are made locally in India by Punj Lloyd Raksha Systems.

Punj Lloyd Raksha Systems have manufactured Tavor X 95 rifles, under licence from Israel Weapons Industries (IWI). The Israel Weapons Industries (IWI) is already in service with the Indian Army’s Special Forces, Indian Navy’s MARCOS and IAF’s Garud Commandos and also with the Border Security Force.

According to reports, the India-made Tavor X 95 rifle is getting attention from many African militaries that are keen to conduct local trials of the guns for evaluation purposes. The Tavor X 95 rifles assembled in India are based on 100 per cent transfer of technology from IWI. The Tavor X95 (also referred to as the MTAR-21) is the variant of the Tavor that was selected as the future standard infantry weapon of the IDF in 2009.

India-made Israeli Tavor X 95 rifles make buzz in African militaries

India-made Israeli Tavor X 95 rifles are making a buzz in African militaries and opening gates for new international markets for the product. The rifles are made locally in India by Punj Lloyd Raksha Systems.

www.newsbharati.com

 

[Gyyan]

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

What is it

 

[karn]

What is it

It's a setup to detect gravitational waves.

 

[Delta Squad]

What is it

Next should be Hadron Collider, invaluable setup in high energy particle reasearch.

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

Clearity for anyone who was confused

 

[Gyyan]

I thought so too...he prob meant s400 like system not s400 itself but still only 5 ERADS?

 

[karn]

Is the XR SAM related to the AD 1 ?

 

[Gyyan]

Finally found this tweet.

 

[Lonewarrior]

Is XR SAM related to the AD 1 ?
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Nope; these AD-1 and AD-2 are all Anti-Ballistic Missiles analogous to SM-3 and Aster-30

 

[karn]

Nope; these AD-1 and AD-2 are all Anti-Ballistic Missiles analogous to SM-3 and Aster-30

But won't there be some common elements like the booster etc ..
Besides sm3 and Aster are both used for anti aircraft as well. It's not like they keep em only for ballistic missiles .

 

[flanker99]

But won't there be some common elements like the booster etc ..
Besides sm3 and Aster are both used for anti aircraft as well. It's not like they keep em only for ballistic missiles .

Remains to be seen if there will be commonality

 

[Lonewarrior]

But won't there be some common elements like the booster etc ..

Right now the whole anti-air missile catalogue is an absolute mess.

(1) VSHORADs is coming up, you have very similar performing (2) QRSAM and (3) VLSRSAM. (4) Akash-NG is coming up and no one where I'll fit in between QRSAM and Barak-8. We operate two variants of Barak-8 namely (5) MRSAM and (6) LRSAM where's one's based on 35km Barak-8 and other's on 70km Barak-8ER. Other than that we have this confusion between other forces and Navy because one use the name MRSAM and other use the name LRSAM for the same missile. Then there's the upcoming project of (7) ERSAM {which some also call XR-SAM and some call Kusha} based on 150km Barak-ER. After this we have a 300km ranged missile going by the name (8) XRSAM {which again some also call ERSAM and some Kusha}. We have two ABMs; namely (9) Ashwin {also called AAD and AD-Phase 1-1} and (10) Prithvi {also called PAD and AD-Phase 1-2}. Without completely getting inducted into service these missiles are already getting updated (eventually replaced) by two new missiles; (11) AD-1 {AD-Phase 2-1} which is similar in performance to Aster-30 and (12) AD-2 {AD-Phase 2-2} which is similar to SM-3.

So in short there're some 12 missiles and I quit

 

[karn]

So in short there're some 12 missiles and I quit

Average Indian defense watcher.