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[Photon]

Tapas flew with a maritime surveillance radar

Now ships can control the UAV ,

This is the best time to test the maritime UAV, usually June time Arabian sea is so disturbed with unusual weather, along with that now Biparjoy cyclone also there..

 

[Arihant Roy]

Some elements of a flight of a squadron of S-400 is deployed at Bhuj AFS.

There are two engagement radars Gravestone 92N6 in this pic. One is deployed. One is in stowed condition. The other vehicles under yellow tarps may be generators or the 55K6 command post module.There are 2 40V6 MR masts in this pic.

A stowed 92N6 and a low altitude surveillance and target acquisition radar 96L6 Cheeseboard is present in this pic.

There are also two empty 5P85TE2 or 51P6 TEL in this pic.

 

[Zoid Raptor]

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

Bhai vo yaha and Twitter ko dekh ke post karte he aap to ulta kar rahe ho lol

 

[Anandhu Krishna]

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

 

[Corvus Splendens]

Ehh ? The hand sanitizer maker ?

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

Ehh ? The hand sanitizer maker ?
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Whaaaa now any company will do screwdrivegiri?

 

[Hari Sud]

Reassure us that Tapas is really operational. If it is so then 13 years of work has some value. it was in 2010 that Tapas flew first time.

 

[vishnugupt]

Reassure us that Tapas is really operational. If it is so then 13 years of work has some value. it was in 2010 that Tapas flew first time.

2016??

 

[Hari Sud]

Chinese, I believe have A100 multiple rocket launcher system (300mm) at the LAC. My guess is that the Chinese A100 or its close cousin has anywhere from 100 to 160km range. It is equipped with guidance system to improve its accuracy. If you wish to believe a third rate author of the Force magazine publisher then Chinese can flatten Indian defences in the Himalayas in no time. That outsmarts Indian, Russian Supplied Smerch or Indian built Pinaka. Hence what do india has to counter that. What do India retaliate with for the Chinese onslaught.

1. Armed MQ9 can do the job, anywhere between 100 to 150 Km behind the lines in Sinkiang or Tibet.

2. Before MQ9 (the armed version is sent out), a surveillance UAV has to locate the rocket launcher’s exact location. The Indian built Tapas will be very useful. Tapas, if i believe correctly can provide the exact target location than the satellite picture can do.

3. The mobile launcher could be targeted by MQ9 missiles before it launches its salvo.

Hence, the Tapas or its equivalent version development is very important.

Chinese are boasting that India is no threat to them. Let us become a threat to them.

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

That's good but will uavs be benefited with an aesa radar? And does predator has one?

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

Ha bilkul thik he

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

These will be able to mimic are aircrafts signature right? For enemy air defence to lock on to?

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

Luh ka tel dalo gharpe

 

[Tvashtr8202]

Ha bilkul thik he

I think by engine manufacturing capacity she was referring to the newly inaugurated Godrej facility that is going to manufacture the Kaveri Engines.

Once C-295 manufacturing starts. We should not have any lack of skilled professionals in the Aero space for manufacturing RTA. And Indian suppliers for the same.

 

[DumbPilot]

That's good but will uavs be benefited with an aesa radar? And does predator has one?

For something like HALE drones(think something along the lines of Predator/Reaper) which has an air to ground tasking - absolutely.

A SAR(synthetic aperture radar) capability allows it to have precise targeting, which normal radars can't do. An AESA SAR radar will have an even better picture than a PESA radar due to how it works.

From a PESA APG-73(SAR capability) installed in a F-15E:

From a standard radar installed in a F-16:

As you can see SAR mapping makes a world of difference when you can generate real time, really precise maps that you can use. And air to ground attacks are just a subset - imagine fitting this on a drone, having it run a SAR process on the enemy ground, and getting near instantaneous images of enemy personnel, their vehicles, the size of their cigarettes in high resolution. ISR and situational awareness would never be so high.

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

I think by engine manufacturing capacity she was referring to the newly inaugurated Godrej facility that is going to manufacture the Kaveri Engines.

Once C-295 manufacturing starts. We should not have any lack of skilled professionals in the Aero space for manufacturing RTA. And Indian suppliers for the same.

So by end of 2030 it can happen

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

For something like HALE drones(think something along the lines of Predator/Reaper) which has an air to ground tasking - absolutely.

A SAR(synthetic aperture radar) capability allows it to have precise targeting, which normal radars can't do. An AESA SAR radar will have an even better picture than a PESA radar due to how it works.

From a PESA APG-73(SAR capability) installed in a F-15E:
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From a standard radar installed in a F-16:
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As you can see SAR mapping makes a world of difference when you can generate real time, really precise maps that you can use. And air to ground attacks are just a subset - imagine fitting this on a drone, having it run a SAR process on the enemy ground, and getting near instantaneous images of enemy personnel, their vehicles, the size of their cigarettes in high resolution. ISR and situational awareness would never be so high.

Ok that's awesome good post buddy and looking forward to this development then

 

[Tvashtr8202]

So by end of 2030 it can happen

I think by 2030 Saras Mk2 would be ready for induction. And waiting for IAF orders.

And the RTA would be in prototype stage & really for induction by 2035.