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[SwordOfDarkness]

Is it a airburst ammunition like AHEAD

Plain HEI ammo

 

[Rassil Krishnan]

Japanese 1940s yamato beehive round vibes.

 

[Chinmoy]

Plain HEI ammo

You are looking at the wrong round. The said round is HEPF round in the first picture.

 

[Chinmoy]

Is it a airburst ammunition like AHEAD

Yes.

A high explosive pre fragmented round.

 

[NutCracker]

Is it a airburst ammunition like AHEAD

Plain HEI ammo

You can see a hollow black round in first picture.

 

[Aditya Ballal]

https://x.com/duorope/status/1709546098971619765?s=61&t=yuvGwS0cN0KJv4VlBwTZFg

Noida based Johnnette Technologies today demonstrated their JM-1 loitering munition for the Kazakhstan Ministry of Defence.

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

 

[raju1982]

Nope, it’ll be A319s or A320s

Dude, are you same fro peedf? I was there for long time till Balakot.

 

[abingdonboy]

Interesting!! The article seems to be implying that the make of the jet would be the same as the 6 new AEW&C under consideration. Are we going in for an EMBRAER ERJ-145 for our ISTAR requirements too?

A319, product name is SCA

 

[abingdonboy]

Dude, are you same fro peedf? I was there for long time till Balakot.

Gave up giving traffic to inbreds a while ago

 

[Azaad]

A319, product name is SCA

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Is this for ISTAR ? Weren't they hunting for a Gulfstream Jet earlier patterned upon Raytheon's design ?

 

[NeXoft007]

All DFI personnels...
This is not a drill...
Missile test in T - 12 hours...

 

[abingdonboy]

A319, product name is SCA

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https://x.com/livefist/status/1625319523959324672?s=46&t=8QPJecNQmmoeL0BRyMQdjg

DRDO’s special missions planes are very interesting and genuinely game changers in terms of moving up the value chain for India- being able to convert green aircraft into these specialised platforms is a pretty niche and impressive capability

the thing is there’s so little information on all of the projects and the part that doesn’t make sense to me is Airbus has never made a comment on them- DRDO will surely need OEM support to make all of these viable


IF these go well then surely a A319 MPA is the next logical development especially as the IN has cut down their P8I commitments from >20 to 12?

 

[abingdonboy]

Is this for ISTAR ? Weren't they hunting for a Gulfstream Jet earlier patterned upon Raytheon's design ?

ISTAR is a separate project

https://x.com/livefist/status/1625319523959324672?s=46&t=8QPJecNQmmoeL0BRyMQdjg

 

[Azaad]

ISTAR is a separate project

https://x.com/livefist/status/1625319523959324672?s=46&t=8QPJecNQmmoeL0BRyMQdjg

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What exactly are you referring to then ? I'm referring specifically to the new requirement of 6 x Netra Mk-1a to be mounted on used EMBRAER ERJ-145 & the ISTAR project utilizing the same platform

 

[abingdonboy]

What exactly are you referring to then ? I'm referring specifically to the new requirement of 6 x Netra Mk-1a to be mounted on used EMBRAER ERJ-145 & the ISTAR project utilizing the same platform

Read Livefist’s amended tweet on the topic

6xNETRA MK1(A?) (repeat order of 6) will be on ERJ-145s

6x NETRA MK.2 will be on A321s (currently parked up at Hindon but can see a few of them have been flying recently)

3X SCA on A319 platform

3x ISTAR on gulfstreams (this seems like the most long winded as India has lots of airbus platforms laying around)

There will be no ISTAR on the ERJs

 

[Azaad]

Read Livefist’s amended tweet on the topic

6xNETRA MK1(A?) (repeat order of 6) will be on ERJ-145s

6x NETRA MK.2 will be on A321s (currently parked up at Hinon but can see a few of them have been flying recently)

3X SCA on A319 platform

3x ISTAR on gulfstreams (this seems like the most long winded as India has lots of airbus platforms laying around)

There will be no ISTAR on the ERJs

Gulfstream & the Airbus we have are two entirely different class of aircraft. But you know better.

 

[abingdonboy]

Gulfstream & the Airbus we have are two entirely different class of aircraft. But you know better.

Yeah the Gulfstream and Airbus are for 2 different ISR projects- SCA and ISTAR, I believe SCA has emerged because ISTAR is a JV between India and US but these projects are convoluted and may never lead to any tangible system so SCA is a desi system that can overlap with some of the ISTAR mission profiles and the A319 is an ideal platform for it considering the NETRA and FTB are going to be based on A320 family aircraft

if NETRA MK.2, FTB and SCA are successful then I’d hope to see a lot more special missions products based on A320 family aircraft emerging from DRDO, like I said MPA would be an obvious place to go later this decade